Like the nationalistic unification of Italy and Germany. ... It stated that each state had its own government but the king was the leader of the confederation. ... The south German states agreed to join the German Empire and William I was declared the emperor of Germany. ... Eventually the conflict calmed down and there were mass political organizations and public participation in government. ... New parliaments were created and eventually there was a working government and Austria ov...

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Destruction was particularly great in Germany. ... To alleviate distress, the American and British Governments had decided immediately after the termination of hostilities to supply their Occupation Zones in Germany with food, seeds, fertilizer, medicines and fuel. ... This program of aid, called the "GARIOA Program" (Government and Relief in Occupied Areas), covered part of the urgent import needs. ... Marshall took part as the new Secretary of State, convinced the American Government of the need to counter the advance of communism. ... Government as a proposal (Hemmling, H D). ...

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Germany and France competed for larger armies. ... Now Germany and Italy decided they wanted a colonial empire too. ... Convinced that the Serbian government had conspired against them. ... Upon being asked by Germany what it would do in the event of a Russo-German War, France responded that it would act in its own interests and mobilized. ... Which prompted Britain to declare war on Germany. ...

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Once a new government was established it was already set to fail. ... It did not help that the government was often in paralyzing standstills and could not get a whole lot done. ... (Bergan, 45) With hyperinflation decimating the German Mark it caused more stress on the populus and further feeded their hatred for their new government. ... With the help of the United States government, the German economy started to stabilize. ... As stated earlier, the judicial system was unchanged during the Weimar Republic's take over of the government. ...

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The liberals were people who wanted a small amount of change in society and government. They wanted more authority in what happened in the government. ... The radicals wanted the government to give them a voice that would not be ignored. ... After the war southern Germany did not want to unite with northern Germany. ... Bismark told the people of southern Germany that France wanted to attack all Germans. ...

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The main leader was Martin Luther and it began in Germany. ... In the late 15th century, the Hapsburgs were just beginning to rise up in Germany. ... But in Germany, nationalistic feelings started to rise against the disliked wealthy Italian papacy. ... But this nationalism resulted in a change of the administration of the government leading up to a more efficient and effective government. ... In Germany with the empire, it was more by indirect means. ...

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German Economy was close to a complete collapse; the nation was full of poverty and dissatisfaction; the concerns in German society about moral decay and the spread of crime grew rapidly. ... In doing so, the Nazi government destroyed the voice of these minority groups to the public. ... The familiar styles of the cartoonist were employed in these works to incite hatred and disgust on the ordinary Germans toward Jews and Gypsies. ... In order to completely annihilate the "Jewish and Gypsies plague," special government agencies were set up to control the population of the minority race groups...

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Soon after, revolutions broke out all over Spain, Italy, Germany, the Austrian Empire and many other places. ... When the German got the news, the up rising in Germany has erupted. People in Germany has already suffered from harvest failures, economic depression and unliberal government, the French Revolution encouraged them to speak up their own opinion, revolutions broke out in Rhineland on March 3rd, then in Berlin. ... The unexpected up rising made the government very nervous, the Emperor at last agreed to some of the demands. ... The serfdom was forever abolished in the Austrian Empir...

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A third crisis, again in Morocco, occurred in 1911 when the German government sent a warship to Agadir in protest against French efforts to secure supremacy in Morocco. ... The Germans threatened war on July 31 if the Russians did not demobilize. Upon being asked by Germany what it would do in the event of a Russo-German War, France responded that it would act in its own interests and mobilized. On August 1, Germany declared war on Russia, and two days later, on France. The German invasion of Belgium to attack France, who violated Belgium's official neutrality, prompted Britain to declar...

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PEOPLE: FDR - President during WWII Truman - President who decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan Churchill - British Prime Minister Eisenhower - Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied troops in D-Day MacArthur - General who returns to Philippians - Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Rommel - General in charge of Afrika Korps Hitler - poorly educated Austrian; joined German workers party, became leader, changed name to Nazi; became Dictator of Germany Mussolini - in Fascist Party; declared himself Dictator of Italy Tojo - Dictator of Japan Stalin - Dictator of USSR F...

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Germany becoming more powerful disrupted all of that. ... After the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Austria gave Serbia an ultimatum before it would declare war: end anti-Austrian feeling in government, punish Serbian officials involved, and allow Austria to participate in the investigation. ... It consisted of Austria-Hungary and Germany. ... Germany needed Austria-Hungary as an ally because if ever Austria-Hungary fell under the control of Russia, the Russians would attack the Germans next. ... Germany renewed The Triple Alliance. ...

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Germany, honoring its pact with Austria, declared war on Russia and her ally, France. When Germany invaded Belgium in early August 1914, Great Britain honored her commitments to Belgium and France and declared war on Germany. ... He is no longer Paul - or even a German, for that matter - he is simply a soldier. ... Paul relates to the reader that even the German parents were quick to use the word "coward- if their children refused to join the infantry. ... Remarque also displays the feelings of confusion and contempt held by the soldiers, who feel as though they have been wronged not by th...

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Further, traditional German nationalism exhibits marked chauvinism. After unification in 1871, German nationalism developed a chauvinistic character with the emergence of groups such as the Pan-German league, which campaigned for closer ties with German speaking Austria and for a German empire, Germany's "place in the sun." Pan-Germanism was expansionist and aggressive due to how it envisaged the creation of a German dominated Europe and the way in which it was done. German chauvinism found its highest expression in the racialist and anti-semitic doctrines developed by the Nazis. ... ...

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As the Serbians denied this request, it is believed by some historians that the young operatives sent to kill Ferdinand were not only nationalistic students but also as scapegoats used by the Serbian government to carry out their dirty work. ... Britain and Germany both developed interest in the area for the same reasons. ... The German Kaiser was extremely envious of Britain for having a larger navy than that of Germany's and ordered the production of new Dreadnought-class battleships. ... The Germans were sticking to a prior plan known as the Shlieffen plan. which involved Germany g...

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A forgery was made by the government called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" which described in detail a plan by Jews o take over the world. This fabrication was designed to deepen the peasantry's hate for their Jewish neighbors and thwart any blame away from the government. After the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was in terrible shape. ... The new democratic Weimar government came to be blamed for being insufficient. Hitler capitalized on this disdain towards the Weimar government and also gave Germans an old enemy to blame for their condition. ...

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This, however, was not enough to cool down the German. ... This forces the US government to conduct a recruitment exercise. With such a high demand for servicemen, the US government had to siphon them from the members of the community to make up civil soldiers. ... In Europe, Germans were trampling on every place they stepped. In 1945, the Soviet Union halted German triumph. ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. ... Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... The earlier sources provoke Victor...

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Document 7 is a letter from Samuel Maherero to another African leader about the Germans in southwest Africa. ... Germans just started firing at us making us retreat to the woods. ... Document 8 is an account of Maji rebellion by a German military officer. ... Document 1 is a commissioned to the Royal Niger Company by the British government to develop the Niger River delta. The British government said they would pay for any portion that was contributed, however they had no plans on giving the true value of their portion.( author pov). ...

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It allowed the people who believed in old Europe to participate/live in the same community and government system with the people who agreed with the newer ways of Europe in the early 19th century. ... Furthermore, during the period 1890 to 1907, the stability had turned heavily against Germany. ... The combination of Germany's fears of its neighbors and hopes for further expansion led to the excitement for battle. ... This is a photograph of German volunteers marching off to fight in the war. ... I mentioned this Thick Fact because Germany bore a heavy responsibility for the outbreak...

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By the 1500's the renaissance was in bloom in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, England, and Germany. ... Then, as the renaissance writers were putting new ideas on paper, a German man figured out how to put them into print. ... The Reformation was lead by Martin Luther, a German monk who declared that the bible not the church was the true authority. During the renaissance, government by local nobles and the church gradually declined. ...

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Within the first month of the war this changed dramatically because 750,000 men had signed up to the armed forces due to government propaganda. ... This resulted in an anti-German feeling settling among the British public. ... This was a significant part of British history because although the anti-German feeling passed over at the end of the war it was brought on again by the start of World War Two. Before World War One, there was not a coalition government in power. ... They were now eligible to work as members of the Civil Service, local government representatives and they had the opportun...

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These alliances made Germany overconfident and they believed the war could be won. ... Britain had entered the race for colonies early and the late arrival of Germany meant that Germany did not have many nations left to colonise. As Germany colonized areas such as Guinea, they alarmed the British colony of Australia who felt the Germans were too close to them. ... The governments began a deliberate glorification of war to encourage the people to take stand for their nation. ... The military ruled over the government and this was allowed because the people all wanted to go to war. ...

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To him, the individual was the most important element of society, even coming before government. In his "Two Treatises of Government," Locke argued that an individual, with the assistance of other individuals, chose for themselves the government that they felt best suited, and that government ironically instead of accepting allegiance from the people, owed it to them instead. Government was a tool designed by individuals to protect the natural rights of an individual. ... It was especially common in Germany in the form of idealism where it stressed the importance of the individual. ... After ...

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Factors including the U.S. government's policy mechanisms, it's bureaucracy and public opinion, coupled with the narrow domestic political mindedness of President Roosevelt, lead us to ask; Why was the American government apathetic to the point of culpability, and isolationist to the point of irresponsibility, with respect to the systematic persecution and annihilation of the Jewish people of Europe during the period between 1938-1945? ... Persecution of the Jews in Germany began officially on April 1st 1933. ... The mistreatment of non-Aryans in Germany was common knowled...

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Germany had always been divided into multiple provinces, but with the war being fought on German soil, the country was shattered into hundreds of smaller territories, consequently leaving the country fragmented with no unified power. ... As a result, the government raised taxes in an attempt to rebuild the country, further crippling the nation financially. Germany remained a fragmented nation for a considerable while after. ... Loss of power for Germany and the Holy Roman Empire led to gains of power for other territories. ... In Germany, the religious wars ended when the northern provinces b...

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