The advent of Nationalism in late 19th century Europe formed a perilous situation for the citizens of every great power in the world. ... Italy and Germany, newly consolidated nation-states at the time, soon joined in the contest to claim every plot of known land - and spread the glory and superiority of their respective cultures. These mixed levels of Imperial success resulted in unequal territorial and financial gains, disrupting the balance of power and creating tension and uncertainty. ... Kantorek, the teacher who filled his students' heads with passionate rhetoric about duty and ...

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Although the Weimar Republic had strived to be a progressive democracy, the president carried an inordinate amount of power. ... However, the president had enough vetoing power to override even the calls of the Reichstag Legislature. ... They were still looked up to by many and, along with the support of the far right, reminded everyone of the glory days of Bismarck's imperialism. ... The problems of the present were clear and the glory of the past was romanticized. ... Through people power and some underhanded means, Hitler gained President Hindenburg's support to get the position o...

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Adding to these treaties, aiming for a Balance of Power, where the secret ententes between England and France, and England and Russia. ... Every Great Power was "passing through a political and social crisis in 1914." ... Britain had an Empire to defend; Russia was pushing in the Middle East and was already present in Persia; Italy wanted to live up to its glorious past and Germany wanted to create its own sea power, or Weltpolitik. ... An agreement would have been achieved if "the Germans had been prepared to abate their claims to naval hegemony and world power." ... Mommsen criticizes the wo...

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These ideologies were Hitler's plans for Germany from the first moment he came to power and an overriding ambition for his German foreign policy. ... However when hitler came to power, his foreign policy had aims of eradicting the treaty and to rearm Germany as this would aid in restoring german national pride and prestige. ... German Foreign Policy was influenced by the Nazi ideology of Autarky as Hitler and the Nazi's believed it would play a crucial part in returning Germany to it's economic, political and military glory. ...

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By the middle of the war, women were already regarded as a force to be proud of, also were part of the glory of the United States. ... As a summarize, all of these posters tend to magnify women's potential/power, by either creating a heroic feature, or presenting a successful revolution, to convince that women's role was completely being changed during the World War I, with men's role somehow remained the same, even till nowadays. ... The role of gender may change all the time due to society needs, so the message would never be outdated, as people could still pick out a poster f...

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This could also be said to represent the power the enemy has on their own mortality as the bright flares would light up the battle-field exposing everything to their view, this indicates that the enemy always seem to have power upon the soldiers, almost godly. ... Through reading this poem several times I decided that the message from the poem is that war is full of horror and there is little or no glory. ...

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From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. ... The rise of the imperialistic attitude in the middle ages led England to flourish as a global power for centuries and became one of the most influential national powers the world has ever seen. ... The feeling of respite which England held towards the US did not last forever however, as the US would soon rise to a place of glory taking her seat in the annals of history alongside world powers such as England before her...

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Only four year later, in 1924, Mussolini had risen to power to become Prime Minister of Italy and then in 1925 he had become Italy's new dictator. ... The Roman Empire had been (and still is) a major source of pride for any Italian and the thought of having such glory again within the country immediately began to turn heads. ... One he had established physical power within the weakened Italy he quickly began to work on the minds of the people as well, and in doing this began to publish his own newspaper called "Il Popolo d"Italia" which means "The People of Italy". ... As his power was ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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