After 4 years and an estimated 37 million people dead, 20 million people wounded World War I finally came to an end. World War I ended in November 1918, and the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. How did the Treaty of Versailles help start World War II? ... There were other reasons the Versailles Treaty upset Germany and therefore contributed to World War II. ... However, the three main reasons why the Treaty of Versailles started World War II were because of the economic reparations, war guilt clause, and military restrictions....

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. ... The Rise of the Third Reich With the end of the First World War Germany was left in shambles both physically and economically. ... To illustrate this the military expenditures for Germany in 1932 were a mere 1% of the nation's GNP. ... In the early morning hours of September 1, 1939 Nazi Germany, under the command of Adolf Hitler, would invade Poland and spark the largest conflict in modern history. ... This would lead to the involvement of most nations on the planet...

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Before World War 1 many countries used the Gold standard because, although each country had a limited amount of gold, it stopped inflation. ... Moreover Europe was disintegrating economically after World War 1 but as the big three were politicians, there was very little attention in the economic part of the treaties. ... This was therefore a missed opportunity to rebuild Europe after World War 1 and create economic stability. During World War 1 the U.S did not sent many troops, but it actually borrowed Britain, France and Italy over $9 Billion dollars. ... Therefore the Treaties caused politic...

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During the reign of Nazi Germany between the years of 1942 and 1944 a widespread system of coastal defense and fortifications known as the Atlantic Wall was built beside the shoreline of Scandinavia as well as central Europe as a form of protection against a foreseen attack from the Allies on Nazi-controlled Europe from Britain during the period of the second World War. ... Hitler had announced that 1/12th of both the concrete along with the steel that had been used in the Atlantic Wall should be going to the Channel Islands. ...

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In a speech given by Hitler in 1936, he outlined the need to prepare the economy for war, yet in the wake of the second world war, the German economy was inefficient due to lack of central planning. ... For example, there were 4 different departments that controlled the war economy. ... Furthermore, he prioritised more effectively, halting all post war construction programmes that wasted resources so that all efforts were concentrated towards the war effort. The labour force was utilized more effectively so that women were included and factories ran 3 shifts instead of 1 or 2. ... Ultimately...

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He traces Churchill's personal development and political career and explores how a "politician who had a one time or another offended every party and faction became the embodiment of national unity, an uncrowned king whose charisma threatened to eclipse the monarchy. " (4) Addison develops the theme of "the epic struggle between Churchill and his critics " (1) over the years, declaring that "Churchill won two great victories in the Second World War. ... He became known as a great war correspondent, and was seen as a good strategist who had proven himself in battle. ... The Gallipoli disas...

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Before the war, they had distrusted or even hated the Social Democratic Party, which figured so prominently in the establishment and the politics of the republic. ... Borrowing to finance the war and the continued post-war deficit spending generated an immense rise in prices. Consequently, the value of German currency traded against the American Dollar at a ratio of 64 to 1, compared to a ratio of about 4 to 1 at the beginning of World War I in 1914. ...

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In the post war years Nazi's had give women the vote and the feminist elite including the likes of Rosa Luxembourg helped in their own way to shape the political scene. ... Minister for Propaganda, Goebbels described the women's place in society by saying, Woman has the task of being beautiful and bringing children into the world," his defence was derived from the animal kingdom, likening women to female birds which preen themselves for their mates and hatches her eggs for him. ... Despite the stupidity of this idea Hitler still managed to put succinctly, " Women has her battlefield ...

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Nonetheless there is however a general consensus amongst historians that the frightful events of world war one, distilled a sense of fear and regret amongst British society, and consequently Britain strived to prevent any future war, through whatever means necessary. In the aftermath of World War 1, lay a mutual understanding between the British government and society that never again should a catastrophe such as World War 1 occur, it was described as the war to end all wars reinforcing the view that it was a cataclysmic event which should never be re-enacted upon society. ... World Wa...

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Prior to World War II, both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler rose to power in their respective countries and brought about great change during their ensuing reigns. ... Although, Germany eventually lost World War II, Hitler did much more with much less in Germany when compared to Stalin. ... After World War I, Germany was the country that was most heavily affected by the global economic collapse that followed the war. ... By 1933, Hitler had turned Germany into a war machine and the phrase, "Today Germany, tomorrow the whole world "3. ... He rose to power in a Germany that had a floundering ec...

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1. Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... It also does not prove that they were not anti-Semitic before the war. ... This hatred was a direct result of the men's German heritage and participation in Nazi society for over a decade leading up to W...

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The German people throughout 1923-1934 had experienced a complete disillusionment and loss of faith in their democratic Weimar Government, which ultimately lead to them believing in a system that was promising to restore Germany to the strong and proud country that it was before the devastating effects of World War 1 – the system of Adolf Hitler and the NSDA Party. ... Being forced to accept the blame for the war as a whole (clause 231 – the War Guilt Clause), which in turn provided a justification for the allied forces to put in place the requirement that £6.6 billion in rep...

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Introduction: The Weimar Republic was created after World War I with Germany in a state of near-anarchy. It was created in the aftermath of the war to govern a defeated Germany. ... Germany was the losing state at the end of the First World War, and although the Weimar Republic was born around 1919, the government carried substantial negative baggage from the previous era. ... Article 1 of the constitution states that The German Federation is a republic. ... This suggests that the annual payments were not too harsh and the reason why Germany became so poor was because of the vast sums of...

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Both Italy and Germany were the victims of a series of economic and social problems caused primarily by World War I. ... He then proceeded in stages to establish a dictatorship by 1) forbidding the parliament to initiate legislation, 2) by making himself responsible to the King alone, 3) by ordering parliament to authorize him to issue decrees having the force of the law, 4) by establishing absolute censorship of the press (Hitler did the same), and 5) by 1926 suppressing all opposition parties. Another difference between the two is the most obvious; Mussolini was rising to power ten years bef...

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The teaching of school subjects was changed to brainwash the young people : History was distorted to celebrate the Germans and blame the Jews and the Communists for the disasters, biology taught them that the Aryan race was scientifically superior to the others, and Math was devoted to problems implying the non-Aryans' uselessness, including war statistics and numbers. ... The indoctrination by the control of education and youth is well shown by document 1, which is an extract from a letter written by Dr. ... This censorship resulted in the shutting down of 1 600 newspapers and the disap...

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In the world we live in, vast impersonal forces are making for the centralization of power and a regimented society" (Huxley, Education for Freedom, para. 2). ... Unfortunately, many sources like these go unquestioned by the general public, which leads to a misinformed world. ... Therefore, society must take the responsibility in confirming the authenticity of everything that is distributed through the news in order to prevent the centralization of power and ultimately a misinformed world. ... In Huxley's essay he said, "it would be foolish to suppose that this sort of thing c...

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1.a) Explain how the Nazi Party consolidated its power in Germany in the period 1933-1939. ... Its life spanned only twelve years and three months, which was brief, yet sustained enough for the most savage turmoil the world had ever known. ...

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They felt it was too harsh, that it was a forceful 'dictated' peace, and most importantly, they felt they had not lost the war, and so did not deserve such severe punishment. ... The famous 'stab-in-the-back' legend began to circulate, which denied that the army had never been defeated in W.W.1, but had been betrayed by traitors such as the pacifists, gypsies, Jews, Communists and corrupt politicians. ... The treaty required Germany to pay the Allies reparations for the damage incurred during World War I. ... For many Germans hyperinflation caused more suffering than the wa...

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The question of can music be political has been greatly debated over the past century, however, the works that have been debated the most are those from nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for there links with the social "cleansing" at the time in both societies. "We are paupers. There is no paper. The workers are hungry and cold and have no clothing or shoes. The machines are worn out. ...

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