The Act covered unemployment and sickness and was revolutionary when introduced. ... "The war years which thus transformed social attitudes and social expectations also witnessed, further evidence that this war was not to be fought on the battlefield alone." ... However, it took until the end of World War 2 for any immediate changes to be implemented. ... "A people's war had to produce a people's peace." ... The effects of World War 2 on housing are colossal. ...

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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 battlefield but one that took over countries socially and domestically everyone became part of the war effort, everything at home was targeting towards war in 1914. ... Many believe that the Alliance system of World war one was a major reason of why world war one surfaced. ... This competition cam...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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History books choose to focus on the massacres that took place from 1915 through 1917 during the Great War; what is often overlooked is the suffering the Armenians endured forty years prior to the war. The aim of this essay is to understand the history prior to the genocide, the reasons for it and the massacres against the Armenians during the war. ... "2 In reference to the revolutionary ambitions Hamid spoke of, in the mid-1880s new generations of Armenian youth began returning to Turkey after receiving European university educations. ... These reforms included the Armenian right to vo...

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This presented a problem to the autocracy in that it was dangerous (from a revolutionary point of view) to have so many discontent people (around 3 million) so close to the centers of power. Any revolutionary sentiment that arose was crushed and society was kept under the thumb of the autocracy through harsh oppression. ... Like in the 1904-5 war against Japan, Russia's army was again poorly equipped. Nearly a million men started the war with no rifles and many more had no boots. ... During the course of the war, the Duma was also in turmoil. ...

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There were seven main opposition groups with 3 predominant ones, - the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks, and the Social Revolutionaries. These three groups all wanted to get rid of the Tsar, but the Mensheviks weren't prepared to use force, whereas the Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries were. ... As the First World War continued into 1917, ordinary Russian people too were becoming downhearted, as their situation was getting worse. The army had been badly defeated in the war with more than two million killed, 2 million injured and a further 4 million taken prisoner. As the Tsar was the head o...

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Several crises almost led to general European war in the decade before 1914. ... Austria declared war on Serbia and immediately began to bombard Belgrade on 28 July 1914. Austria wished an excuse for a war with Serbia, because had interests in the Balkans where the nationalism sentiment, headed by Russian Emperor, has been risen prior the war. ... Consequently, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August and on 3 August on France. ... When Poincare' (President of France) refused to withdraw support for Russia, Germany also declared war on France (3 August) and privately expressed his re...

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The impact of total war on the home fronts of both Germany and Britain required each of the governments to implement controls that would enable an effective conduct of war while maintaining social and economic order. The ineffectiveness of the controls regarding economic life that were implemented by the German government resulted in the influence of total war being much more detrimental to the war effort than was the case in Britain. ... Additionally, other special state corporations were established, such as the Supreme War Office. ... This was effective in suppressing dissent and anti war ...

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At the time, Russia lagged economically behind European countries as a direct result of World War I from 1914-1918 and the Russian Civil War from 1917-1922. ... World War I and the Russian Civil War led to the establishment of a Communist government in Russia, which leveraged its tight control on the film industry in order to forge unity amongst all social classes. ... The Russian Civil War was fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the Anti-Bolshevik White Army. ... Vertov made Man with Movie Camera so Russia as a whole could apply the revolutionary communistic ideals and work together as ...

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"It is history that provides a stimulating new approach to an understanding of pre-Revolutionary Russia." ... Alexandra began to trust his opinion on an ever-widening range of issues, to the point where he was advising her, while Nikolai was at war, on the hiring and firing of government ministers. ... Another event that troubled Nicholas" reign was a humiliating war with Japan. ... Even greater losses, however, were suffered in World War I (the second war during Nicholas" reign), which Russia entered on the Allied side in 1914. ... His reign was one of continual trouble: Witte's reforms ...

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Before the First World War, rising living standards, increased education, and general progress, gave people an extremely optimistic view of their future and the world around them. ... Yet the cataclysmic destructiveness of World War One, in conjunction with continually changing ways of modern thought, seemed to not only mask all of this optimism, but also shatter it in a way that was, and still is completely unparalleled by any other time in history. ... The works of a man by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche, who lived from 1844 until 1900, were later discovered and revived by many radic...

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War Plans (1905-1910) Summary By 1910, European leaders expected war. ... A World War (1915-1917) Summary Though the major battle lines had been drawn in Europe, the war was not confined to the Continent. ... In 1915, Italy entered the war on the side of Allies, encouraged by the promise of control of the Adriatic Sea after the war was over. ... In April 1917, the United States Congress declared war on Germany, bringing the United States army into the war. ... When World War I began, Russia was the least prepared of all belligerents. ...

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War was greeted by immense jubilation by both sides, as no great wars had been fought since Napoleon's era. ... prepared or the inevitable war with Germany. ... Russia was suffering revolutionary movements and rebellions. ... It was the first real month of the war. ... A one-front war would have been an easier war for Germany. ...

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A revolutionary party of modernized militants called Young Turks. ... As the WWI started, the Young Turkish government started a war with Russia. ... The authorities claimed that the population was moved to a new location to be safer from the war, but that was an excuse. ...

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World War I had left the country in shambles and, as if that weren't enough, the people of Germany had been humiliated and stripped of their pride and dignity by the Allies. ... In order to understand why exactly Hitler was able to make Germany a fascist state, we must study the effects that the end of World War I had on the country. Germany was left devastated and vulnerable at the end of the war. ... The "humiliation imposed by the victors in the World War I, coupled with the hardship of the stagnant economy," created bitterness and anger in Germany (Berlet 1). ... His political party o...

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Moreover, the tsar was forced to concentrate more on military matters because of the increased threats from Germans and the evolution of the First World War. ... The revolutionary Bolsheviks used this opportunity and seized the power with the help of a revolution (Fuhrman T)....

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