The destruction was evident; entire families were separated or destroyed, food was scarce, towns and cities lay in ruins, the economy had plummeted and unemployment was at an all-time high. ... Such problems were the disarmament and peace treaty, the fixing of the boundaries and the conditions for the economic unification. ... It did not only make the two states visible but also the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, which separated Europe. ... Nowhere else did the Cold War have a bigger impact on families and friends, who were suddenly separated, than in Berlin. ... The iron curtain around Easter...

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• Grade Level: High School

The peace treaty offered by Prussia was generous and demanded that Austria no longer has any part to play in German politics " Bismarck had found a way to both eliminate Austria as a threat to unification under Prussia and mitigated Austrian outrage with gentle peace terms " Austria was no longer involved. ... What was necessary now was to bring in the south German states under Prussia's sphere of influence, Bismarck dealt with this in an eloquent manner; he signed separate treaties, asking each to pay indemnities and form protective alliances with Prussia " if attacked ...

• Word Count: 1378
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It separates actors and audience, victims and voyeurs, but then reunites them for its own political benefits and aims (Apter1996, 5). ... What is ironic is that even though the words "politics" and "violence" seems logical when banded, actually they are so contrary to each other when separately analyzed. ... So it is really hard to separate violence completely from institutional politics. ... He said that the integrity of their quarrels were one of the major institutions that has been unchanged by anything which altered the world (Finn,1991,47) However, in recent years, the IRA ( Irish Re...

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Examine the influence of Bismarck on the German Empire between 1866 and 1890. Germany in the period 1871 - 1890 (since it was unified) has been called "Bismarck's Germany-, and Bismarck has been credited with creating the modern Germany - but how much influence over this state did he really hav...

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Adolf Hitler's life is separated into two completely different spectrums. ... Hitler was not only a substitute for their lost Kaiser that a large part of the nation was longing for "the one man-, but also because of bitterness over the lost war and impotent anger against what was felt to be an insulting dictated peace treaty. ...

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Imagine finally arriving at a camp, after being stripped of everything that we have that makes us "cultured" individuals, being separated from our mother and sister, as Wiesel was, and our first experience of our new "home", is seeing babies, children, men, and women being burned alive. ... Instead of being a victim for the rest of his life, he has chosen to tell the world of his experience and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. ...

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The Guns of August In her novel, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman reviews the strategic planning, misfortune, and pure luck that shaped the opening days of World War I. Most historians trace the origins of World War I to January 18, 1871. On that date, at the palace of Versailles#, diplomats...

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Anti-Semitism goes at least as far back as the day Jesus Christ was sentenced to crucifixion. Followers of Christ blamed the Jewish for the death of their messiah, and so despised them. The Romans kicked the Jews out of Rome for failing to worship the Roman gods, and, when Rome converted to Christ...

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• Grade Level: High School