The city states that were characteristic of ancient Greece, the feudal principalities that defined Europe in the Middle Ages, and the empires that have existed throughout recorded history (both Eastern and Western) have largely been replaced by the nation-states as the dominant actors within the international arena. ... Charles V(Charles I of Spain) 1516-1556 abdicates and divided his possessions between his son Philip II, 1556 - 1598, who got Spain, Spanish colonies, and the Netherlands while his brother Ferdinand I, 1556 - 1564, who got Austria and also the nominal title of Holy Roman Emp...

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The Spanish had colonies in South America ( Mexico) and they supplied the Hapsburg Empire with gold and silver. ... The Pope was the head of the Church and he was suppose to be " advisor" to the Holy Roman Emperor. The Pope was very well skilled at "flaming the fires of Catholic intolerance" towards The Holy Roman Emperor who in turn would lead religious and political wars against Protestants. ... In 1519 the Pope declared Charles the 5th as Holy Roman Emperor therefore the French could no longer fight the Spanish. ... The Hapsburg Empire was defeated at the end of the day as it exha...

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Also if you go back to the time of the Romans, in the last 200 years of the Roman Empire, many battles were fought on the outskirts of the Roman Empire with tribes of people who congregated in the area now known as Germany. ...

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Europe would be a mess. Communism would be rampant. There would be no stand still cold war that developed later on because at that point we would be the inferior nation. The fear of not being number one in military tactics, army regime, and just plain old power, was a slap in the face to our co...

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World War II broke out in September of 1939 when Germany marched into Poland. At the time, no one thought that World War II would bring so many horrors to the world. Nazi death camps, atomic bombs, Pearl Harbor, interment camps and a huge number of causalities were just some of the horrors witnessed...

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World war one caused destruction to human life and property on such a scale that never had been witnessed before. The destruction didn't end there however as the pre-war political system also was destroyed. Thus the post war Europe saw differing political beliefs fighting for control. While the vict...

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When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. ... Also in this poem Wilfred Owen challenges a line from Odes by Roman poet Horace - "Dulce et decorum Est pro patria mori", which translated means "It is sweet and proper to die for ones country". ...

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The region of Southeast Asia was chocked full of natural resources. Some of these natural resources included coffee, tea and spices. These resources are what originally brought western countries to the area. Many of the top countries in Europe and Asia wanted to conquer parts of this region. Lockard...

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But with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and the unanticipated decline of the Japanese and German economies, the United States has inherited a degree of unipolarity not seen since the high point of the Roman Empire. ...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...

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