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...

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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...

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The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. ... This policy also had another name "Containment". ... The Warsaw Pact of the Eastern European Mutual Assistance Treaty overseen by the USSR, kept strict control over other countries in the pact. ... While, back in the 1950's NATO was a good way in keeping the Soviets at Bay, NATO today is a good way of ensuring that the status quo in Europe does not get out of control. ... To look at from another perspective, the U.S realized that a policy of "isolationism" would only result in t...

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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. ... Hitler did have a foreign policy program that he laid down, however sickening it was, in 1925 with the writing of Mein Kampf.(4) In this book Hitler described to all the world his three main foreign policy intentions. ... This foreign policy program fit nicely with his racial dogma that was based on a vulgarized view of social darwinism. ... Hitl...

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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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Fearing the danger of Spanish control of Cuba, Teddy strongly advocated war against Spain; but McKinley was doubtful of starting the war, waiting for public opinion to lead him what to do. ... Senator Platt thought that he could control Roosevelt, since he did help him keep the Democrats from wining office. ... For the sake of national stability, Roosevelt continued McKinley's conservative policies until early 1902, when he began a campaign to regulate corporate interests and protect the interest of the average citizen. ... Then when Japan went to war with Russia over control of Manchuria...

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Fearing the danger of Spanish control of Cuba, Teddy strongly advocated war against Spain; but McKinley was doubtful of starting the war, waiting for public opinion to lead him what to do. ... Senator Platt thought that he could control Roosevelt, since he did help him keep the Democrats from wining office. ... For the sake of national stability, Roosevelt continued McKinley's conservative policies until early 1902, when he began a campaign to regulate corporate interests and protect the interest of the average citizen. ... Then when Japan went to war with Russia over control of Manchuria...

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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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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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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. Pinpointing exactly the political origins of the war is a still discordant issue even after all these years, however no one can deny that the facts are still there. While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. Many new politica...

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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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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

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The German Nazi or National Socialist political party was the platform used by Adolf Hitler to create a dictatorship that would, in one decade cause the German people enormous misery and shame. This fanatical political system was to gain popularity in the Old German Empire that was defeated in World War One and later by the great world economic depression. The polices of the National Socialists were offered to deprived and hopeless people for solutions to their economic woes. Also through some very crude tactics the Nazi party showed its readiness to end the turmoil in the streets and br...

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Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President," he said, "seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country"(Internet 1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed American's entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." Wilson had seen the difficulties of war. ...

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