The preliminaries ended with the publication of Steele's Crisis on January 19, and from that point on the fight proceeded at a rapid pace.

In answer to The Crisis, Swift produced The Publick Spirit Of The Whigs, his most extensive and bitter attack on his old friend.

Steele first answers briefly the charges which his `` dear old Friend '' has made about his pamphlet on Dunkirk and his Crisis.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

Almost forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in the Autumn of 1962, in which the United States blockaded a Soviet attempt to put nuclear missiles on Cuba, created some anxiety about the possibility of imminent nuclear war and CND organised demonstrations on the issue.

A US Navy P-2 Neptune | P-2H Neptune of VP-18 flying over a Soviet cargo ship with crated Ilyushin Il-28 | Il-28s on deck during the Cuban Crisis.

Ill-advised actions by Belgian officers led to an enlisted ranks ' rebellion on 5 July 1960, which helped spark the Congo Crisis.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

** The Post Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2011, soaring food prices, especially for grains, led to calls for the government to provide more immediate assistance to the population of more than 40 % in the " poverty tunnel " and to strike a " new deal " on agriculture policy and reform.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, whose MPs gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.

His influence was perhaps most keenly felt when, on the Whigs ’ dismissal from office in 1834, he issued a pamphlet entitled A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Crisis.

Under the initiative, FAO contributed to the work of the UN High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis, which produced the Comprehensive Framework for Action.

The aid package falls under the EU ’ s € 1 billion Food Facility, set up with the UN Secretary-General ’ s High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis and FAO to focus on programmes that will have a quick but lasting impact on food security.

He was too conservative for the Chamber of Deputies and Simon was forced to resign on 16 May 1877, setting the stage for the " Crisis of the Sixteenth of May.

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

* Arndt, Karl J. R. Economy on the Ohio, 1826 – 1834: The Harmony Society During the Period of its Greatest Power and Influence and its Messianic Crisis ; George Rapp's Third Harmony: A Documentary History.

In the late 1990s, however, Indonesia was the country hardest hit by the East Asian Financial Crisis which led to popular protests and Suharto's resignation on 21 May 1998.

Upon the John Byrne reboot of the Superman mythos after Crisis on Infinite Earths, kryptonite was made much rarer in the DC Universe and many of the multicolored varieties were eliminated.

Following the 1985 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, the character was re-imagined as a Machiavellian industrialist and white-collar criminal, even briefly serving as President of the United States.

In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Alexei Luthor is killed by Brainiac, and is subsequently erased from history with the rest of the DC multiverse.

Recent changes to DC Comics continuity were revealed to have been a result of the 2005 Infinite Crisis mini-series.

During the 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, Luthor allies himself with fellow Superman foe Brainiac to recruit an army of supervillains spanning the DC multiverse, intending to take advantage of the confusion caused by the Crisis.

It has reappeared in recent continuity, most notably during Infinite Crisis.

Alexander Luthor, Jr. ( the son of Earth-Three's version of Luthor ) returned to the DC Universe along with other survivors from Crisis on Infinite Earths as part of a scheme to create a perfect Earth, under the pretense of restoring Earth-Two.

Luthor confronts his impostor in Infinite Crisis # 3, but is intercepted by Superboy-Prime ( a teenage version of Superman from Earth-Prime ), who is allied with Alexander.

At the end of Infinite Crisis # 7, Luthor oversees Alexander's execution at the hands of the Joker.

One year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Luthor has been cleared of over 120 criminal counts ranging from malfeasance to first-degree murder relating to the New Year's Eve massacre from 52.

However, following the events of the Infinite Crisis, Luthor's history was again altered, re-introducing Lena as his sister.

After Conner's death at the conclusion of the Infinite Crisis, Luthor is shown visiting a memorial statue of Conner in Metropolis and placing flowers there.

Before the 1985-86 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, Central and Keystone are presented as located in the same space but on different parallel Earths.

Studios, teaming up with Negaduck ( who she had saved from the Crimebots from " The Duck Knight Returns ") in the story " Crisis on Infinite Darkwings ".

After the 1985 mini-series Crisis on Infinite Earths, this version of Krypton was soon replaced by a newer version.

Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, which rebooted the history of the DC Universe and retro-actively eliminated the existence of the Golden and Silver Age versions of Krypton, writer / artist John Byrne was given the task of recreating the entire Superman mythos.

Beginning with Infinite Crisis, Geoff Johns began laying subtle hints to a new origin for Superman.

Whether this further revision of continuity has an in-universe rationale is as yet unknown, but it may stem from continuity changes wrought by the reality-fracturing conclusion of Infinite Crisis.

After Infinite Crisis, this was taken out of Kryptonian culture.

( 1994 ), Identity Crisis ( 2004 ), Infinite Crisis ( 2005 – 2006 ), and Final Crisis ( 2008 ).

Chris Noth portrays the Lex Luthor of a parallel universe ( where the character is a superhero ) in the animated DVD release Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

The title of the series was inspired by earlier crossover stories involving the multiple parallel Earths of the Multiverse, such as " Crisis on Earth-Two " and " Crisis on Earth-Three ", but instead of lasting two to five issues and involving members from many superhero teams from many parallel worlds, it involved virtually every significant character from every parallel universe in DC's history.

Prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC publications were notorious for continuity problems.

Cover to Crisis on Infinite Earths # 12.

Because of the extensive and substantial changes that Crisis on Infinite Earths implemented on many titles published by DC Comics, the series became a defining and critical moment in DC Comics ' long-standing continuity.

The terms " post-CIE ," referring to Crisis on Infinite Earths, and " post-IC ," referring to Infinite Crisis, have also been used to avoid confusion between the two storylines.

Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with Batman: Year One, George Pérez's relaunching of Wonder Woman in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Steel all took place shortly following Crisis on Infinite Earths, and changed substantial elements of the characters ' backstories.

Since Crisis on Infinite Earths created a new, singular universe with a new back-history, the Crisis event itself ( as told in the limited series ) is obviously not part of it.

Although the characters who were present at the epic battle at the dawn of time ( Crisis on Infinite Earths # 10, " Death at the Dawn of Time ") — Psycho-Pirate, Lady Quark, Harbinger, and Pariah — were initially treated as exceptions, this idea did not stick.

The following DC characters were explicitly shown to have died during Crisis on Infinite Earths: