The Nationalists controlled the ideology of Fascism and the Republicans controlled the ideology of communism. As these major groups quarreled over military and revolutionary policy they caused a social revolution and severe internal confusion. ... Franco supported the army including a large party of Moroccan troops and parts of the Spanish Foreign policy. ... The Republicans controlled the ideology of Communism in Spain. ... Franco needed foreign aid from neighboring countries in order to continue ruling with power in Spain, in order to retrieve this he changed his mind and distinctively bec...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Bismarck was a Machiavellian and immoral power politician-. (1) He used skill and opportunities to achieve his goals in the foreign and domestic policy. ... The relationship with Bismarck and the liberals was one of compromise; he would have never let them control his policies. ... Bismarck used his power to help the decreasing liberal power in these years to control Germany. ... Bismarck also was a genius in foreign policy; he always worked for peace in Europe and to isolate France. After his dead, his foreign policy got worthless. ...

• Word Count: 765
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A major factor was the Stalin's foreign policy. He wanted to build up Russian control of the Eastern Europe that was seen by the west as an act of aggression. In 1946 Churchill, who had been the UK wartime Prime Minister spoke of an "Iron Curtain" falling across the Eastern Europe in which Russians now controlled many states. ... However, the main issue at Potsdam was who would control Europe. ... The Soviet Union has seen America as a state with the desire for an Empire, who was interfering with their home policies; the US has seen a direct threat in the foreign policies of the USSR and ...

• Word Count: 1778
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Therefore the British government sought to follow a policy of appeasement. However, everyone did not share the acceptance of the policy of appeasement. ... That the policy of appeasement was deemed to fail from the onset. ... She was also to lose European territory including Alsace-Lorraine, Eupen, Malmedy, North Schleswig, West Prussia, Poznania, and parts of Upper Silesia and Memel, and all her non-European colonies were to be placed under the control of the League of Nations. The Saar coalmining region was to be placed under the leagues control until 1935 and all foreign currency and go...

• Word Count: 4208
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fourthly, Joll examined the importance of domestic policies, which, according to several historians, could have influenced foreign policy decisions. ... Nevertheless, Joll points out that domestic policies played a part, but not a big one as to lead to war. ... He indicated that "not all imperialistic policies were inspired by direct economic interests." ... First he described foreign policy and concluded that Britain was "hesitant", whereas Germany was "rash and aggressive." ... With regards to the domestic-foreign policy link, Gor...

• Word Count: 4114
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and the failure of the Duma to control Nicholas" inefficient rule both created misery amongst the Russian people. ... There are several factors which isolated the Tsar and ignited the revolution: the Tsar's role is commander in Chief linked the failure of the army with the monarchy; the role of Nicholas's wife, a German and Rasputin, a suspected German agent, created much hatred as they took control while the Tsar was at war; the state of the army, trained inefficiently and affected by lack of food and supplies, deteriorated; the failure of the Du...

• Word Count: 770
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and the failure of the Duma to control Nicholas" inefficient rule both created misery amongst the Russian people. ... There are several factors which isolated the Tsar and ignited the revolution: the Tsar's role is commander in Chief linked the failure of the army with the monarchy; the role of Nicholas's wife, a German and Rasputin, a suspected German agent, created much hatred as they took control while the Tsar was at war; the state of the army, trained inefficiently and affected by lack of food and supplies, deteriorated; the failure of the Du...

• Word Count: 766
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many people believed that Rasputin had sexual relationships with the tsarina which allowed him to put a strong control over the tsar (Fuhrman T). It is believed that the tsar became a toy king and the actual administrative matters were controlled by his wife, with the help of Rasputin. ... Alexandra sought his opinion on a variety of policy matters. ... The increasing influence of Rasputin in administration resulted in the creation of unpopular social policies and the people started to protest against the administration. ... Rasputin's crazy life styles and administrative policies were ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These new leaders preached communism which changed the societal culture throughout Russia; however, many Russian peasants were hesitant toward the new government ideas and policies. ... During these times, the USSR lacked funding and therefore had an immense control over the subject and distribution of films domestically and internationally. ... The Russian government used their control over the film industry to slowly apply the new socialistic ideals across Russian grounds. ... In 1921 Russia passed the New Economic Policy (NEP) which allowed economic competition so the Russians would start...

• Word Count: 2028
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At this time the United States was beginning to transform itself from having an isolationist foreign policy to beginning to influence many nations around the world. ... The US basically aided the Panamanian nationalists in their revolt in 1903 in order to further America's financial status by controlling the canal that was to be later built. ... Not only did the US acquire control of these countries, they also watched over the Cubans during the construction of their constitution, and the US ended up owning a naval base called Guantanamo Bay that was situated in Cuba. ... Forced ideals,...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The war really started with Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princep assassinating the archduke in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1914 which was a part of Austro-Hungary in protest of Austro-Hungary having control of Bosnia. ... Once Wilhelm II was elected as Chancellor of Germany, he was able to implement the policies that he desired, including uplifting German national pride, but those were in direct conflict with the interests of Germany's European neighbors and undermined the alliance system that Otto von Bismarck, Germany's first Chancellor, created in order to isolate France and ensure Germa...

• Word Count: 956
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The progressive movement backed by Wilson called for some government control of industry and for regulation of railroad and public utilities. ... Amendments also provided for exclusive governmental control of the Federal Reserve Board and for short-term agricultural credit through the reserve banks. ... Determined to accept big business as an inevitable, but to control its abuses and to maintain an open door of opportunity for the genius which springs up from the ranks of unknown men, one Wilson's hoped to curb big business. He thought that government should intervene in the regulation of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Allowing Germany to control the atlantic would also negatively affected all of our foreign trade in the area, in turn forcing us to impose more totalitarian trade practices. ... In this speech he outlined the United States national policy in which he had two main points. ...

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This wave of national pride became a major problem for the Austro-Hungarian Empire as they attempted to maintain a form of order and control within the annexed area of Bosnia. ... The numerous conflicts raging within the confines of the Balkans since March 1912 had many historians, such as Remak, believing that the First World War was simply the Balkan War that had raged out of control and spread across Europe. ... After its embarrassment at the hands of Bismarck and the Germans in 1871, France had held a bitter grudge and looked to gain control of the Balkans simply to frustrate and achieve r...

• Word Count: 1859
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The problem of trying to take over Palestine was that Palestine was under control of the Ottoman Empire and the Arabs did not want to hand over land in Palestine to Zionists from Europe. ... By the end of the war, nonetheless, the League of Nations gave Palestine to the British to control. ... "In accordance with their prewar promises, the British turned over control of inland Bilad al-Sham to a puppet state led by Faysal in 1918. ... However, unlike the perceptions Hussein and the British government had regarding this agreement, the Balfour declaration became a policy through Jewish acti...

• Word Count: 1892
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Kaiser Wilhelm II came to power in 1888, however, the idea held by many in his country, which involved a Germany destined to be a world power, was finally embodied in their king: We want to be a World Power and pursue colonial policy in the grand manner. ... We can pursue this policy with England or without England. ...

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It is possible that Mussolini came to power ten years before Hitler because the Weimar government was in control and the Nazi party hadn't been organizationally formed yet; only a small group of men which included Hitler were inspired by Mussolini's rise and motivated to achieve the same. ... The Nazi leaders under Hitler made up policies themselves, simply attaching onto ideas from Hitler while never receiving direct orders or directions from Hitler himself. ...

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This led to a continuation of the massacres that took place over a decade prior, and in 1909 the new rulers of Turkey called for the extermination of 30,000 Armenians in the city of Adana.8 Four years later in 1913, an extremist branch of the Young Turks, the Committee of Union and Progress seized control of the government. They introduced a policy of Turkification, encouraging non-Turkish citizens to convert to Islam and become more Turkish. Christian Armenians were particularly targeted by this policy. ...

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The Rise of Germany to a Fascist State During the 1920's and early 1930's Germany was unstable socially economically and politically. The governments were more often in a state of disarray than not, the populace was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock market crash of 1923 s...

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The laissez faire policies of the early nineteenth centuries gave capitalist owners the freedom to determine how long work days would be and how much they would pay their workers. ... And so to benefit society, all individuals must band together and build on socialism by means of extension of social control and application of cooperation between all individuals. ...

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The shifting balance in power in Europe and the thought that all the countries believed they would benefit from war was key in the outbreak of war in 1914. World War One was a war intended to end all wars and as a consequence became a 'Total War'. A war that not only involved soldiers and a battlefi...

• Word Count: 2025
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