One way that the Treaty of Versailles caused Germany anger was how much territory was taken from her. ... Germany also lost all of her overseas colonies, which were given to the Allies. ... She also was only allowed a small navy with six battleships and no submarines, and also was not to have any air force at all. ... In it, Germany agreed to accept her Western frontier with France and Belgium as final and settled. ... In conclusion, the Treaty of Versailles was an aim at peace which angered Germany, but there were many other measures taken to preserve peace among European countries, and man...

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The Germans had an idea that was quite similar to one that the Americans had in its early days. This idea was manifest destiny, or the idea that Germany should own all land from ocean to ocean and that they were superior people and were able to conquer everyone in their path. ... It was held from July 17 to August 2, 1945. ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... It united the three Western zones of Germany together into one economic zone (Prittie 30). ...

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Quite honestly it all baffles me. ... When Hitler came to power, Germany was populated with more Jews than any other country in Western Europe. Unlike the Jews of Eastern Europe, German Jews considered themselves different from other Germans only in the religion they practiced. ... After the First World War the Jews had been strong supporters of the Weimar Republic, which of course had failed to lift Germany from the economic swamp it had fallen into. ... Those executing the termination process were very different from the people at home. ...

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Third, he wanted one dominant race of all the same kind of people. ... Fifth, he blamed the Jews for the war debt and sentenced them all to die. ... The idea of this gives me quite a scare my self, because I have brown hair, and brown eyes and would I have been killed just because I did not Hitlers physical standards. ... There he answered the call to colors at the outbreak of World War I and Served in the Bavarian Sixteenth Regiment on the Western Front. ... This came partly from his ability to stir street crowds with his speeches. ...

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All allowing for the conquest of Lebensraum or living space in the east for the cramped German folk at the expense of Judeo-Bolshevism. ... Hitler's revisionism did contain special traits from the start that would set him apart from other fringe politicians, and set him down the course to eventually developing his program. ... Hitler wastes no time and on the very first page of his book mentions the "moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory" and continued: "The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread of generations to come." (1) Thi...

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The specifics of communism's demise varied among nations, but similarities in both the causes and the effects of these revolutions were quite similar. As well, all of the nations involved shared the common goals of implementing democratic systems of government and moving to market economies. ... In Europe, on the other hand, the shift from communism was taking place in a different context altogether. The peoples involved were not looking to affect a narrow set of policy reforms; indeed, what was at stake was a hyper-radical shift from the long-held communist ideology to a...

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All the European countries were now bankrupt from the cost of waging a war for four years. ... Since all of the wealthy nations inside Europe had been involved in the war since the beginning, they were all but bankrupt. ... From 1922-1929, the national income was up 40% from $60.7 billion to $87.2 billion, (Cronon 341). ... As the economy was flourishing, many Americans found it a practical investment to put money into the Stock Exchange, as the return could be quite large. ... The Dust Bowl of North America refers to a catastrophe in the early 1930's when vast areas of the Midwestern and...

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