German politicians had signed a document on November 11, 1918, which made Germany a republic, a form of Democracy. ... Even though Democracy is always changing, it still equals freedom in most cases. ... Democracy sees freedom as a process and the Nazis saw it as an achievement. ... However, many Americans are feeling that same frustration after the September 11th attack, that the German's felt during the Depression. Many people's frustration was resulting in hatred and discrimination toward those who were American citizens but yet came from a different background. ...

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America and the Great War Why did Wilson take America into the Great War? ... One of the main arguments used is that America was acting "to make the world safe for democracy" (Hugh Brogan). ... Some American citizens felt that they should defend democracy and some people formed groups, such as the National Security League. ... It was at this point Wilson realised that even if America did come to the war then America had to be better prepared. ... Wilson believed he was going into an ideological war to "make the world safe for democracy" (freedom and liberty) and to help reshape peace. ...

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To the dismay of others, the United States constantly dwells in the plights of warring nations in an attempt to spread the ideas of democracy. ... Bernays proved incredibly skillful in promoting this idea that America would fight, not to restore the old empires, but to bring democracy to all of Europe. ... " Since the end of the 19th century, America had been a mass industrial society. ... We must shape a new mentality in America. ... The social construct of reality for the average American began to make a major shift. ...

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This meant that Britain and her allies could receive American supplies but American supplies were unable to reach Germany and Austria-Hungary. ... While some Americans complained about these restrictions on America's ability to trade with Germany and Austria-Hungary, most Americans and the American government tolerated the restrictions because Allied purchases alone from the United States were enough to promote prosperity. ... Americans also incorrectly believed that America itself was the sole determinant of its actions. ... The war was portrayed as a battle between democracy and autocra...

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Mien Kamph was a blueprint to Hitler's actions that were to come, his plan to knock down democracy. ... Hitler learned to master this art of propaganda from the pamphlets that America and Great Britain used during World War I. ... He had decided that if he wanted to break down democracy in German that he would have to do it the legal way, getting voted into power. ... Once the democracy ended the Nazi party would be ready to take over and run smoothly. ... The Nazi party had ended democracy and they did it legally. ...

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During the 1920s most sectors of the American economy grew. ... Therefore because of this dependency the world economy was extensively intertwined with America's economy. ... People lost confidence in democracy, socialism and capitalism. ... The countries that were affected severely by the crash were those that relied on American loans. ... In America under the New Deal program, The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was set up. ...

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Others supported the revisionist view and would claim that it was not an aggression but a self - defence policy and that the American involvement in the South America and therefore its Imperialism resulted in the Cold War. ... However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. ... An angry Khrushchev said in Los Angeles in 1959: "Never have any of our soldiers been on American soil, but your soldiers were on Russian soil." ... Consider...

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Germany was in need of a strong leader, because the democracy of Weimar did not seem to be working. ... The economy slumped as America asked for its loans to be repaid. ... Hitler was against democracy, and was quoted as saying, "A vote for the Nazis is one for dictatorship."" ...

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However, this redefined American image was launched by dramatic changes initiated by the conclusion of World War I, as well as the consumer ideology that began to dominate American culture. ... Economic prosperity continued after the war as more Americans had jobs and work wages increased. ... The post-war period saw the increase in anti-immigration sentiment within American society. ... However, by the 1920s, there were growing fears by the American public that these new immigrants were a threat to their American values because they were taking away jobs from American citizens since they were...

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This however soon outraged American public opinion (Danzer 584), when a German submarine sank the British liner Lusitania which also carried Americans. ... For sure there would have been a greater loss of lives of American soldiers but all in all maybe fewer people would have died. ... Watching a movie out of the German perspective shows the war in a whole different view than it would have through American eyes. For one thing, the Germans fought way longer in the war than the Americans and they lost a lot of men in this war. It showed that the Germans were already eager to end the war in compa...

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The "New League" Platform was criticized by all participating nations, the Americans and British wanted the new League to be a force to encourage change, the smaller states involved were antagonistic due to the minimal power they would receive, the French wanted more emphasis with regards to keeping Germany from regaining any type of military power. ... The United Nations officially came into existence on October 24, 1945 when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. ... the environment and consolidation of new democ...

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One major concern of the Americans during World War I was the communist influence. ... They were put on trial in front of the House Committee of Un-American Activities to review the effects of Communism in America. ... He was then put back into the "Writers Guild of America." ... In the introduction Dalton explains how Americans were cheering from sidewalks and having festivals while our soldiers marched through the streets. ... Dalton expresses what the men were thinking by saying, "And all the guys who died all the five million or seven million or ten million who went out and died to make th...

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War Plans (1905-1910) Summary By 1910, European leaders expected war. Though they expected battle that was fast and localized, most forward-thinking policymakers planned for war in the near future. Alfred von Schlieffen, the Prussian general and Chief of the German General Staff, developed the German plans for war. Aiming to make Germany the Continent's dominant power, the Schlieffen Plan, as proposed in 1905, provided the framework for Germany's offensive. In the likely event of war with Russia, the Schlieffen Plan, expecting French support for Russia, called on Germany to lau...

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Eventually, the fall of the Soviet Union left the United States in a unipolar system and we were able to start leading the world in the way that we wanted to with the spread of democracy. ... At the end of Britain's hegemonic cycle, the United States passed them as the largest economy in the world, and in 1895 we had disagreements with Britain over borders in South America (Nye and Welch 82). ... The "normalcy" that Americans in the 1900's were looking for by avoiding their hegemonic role might have actually been achieved by taking on that role and reforming the world the...

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Although it was designed to make the state a liberal parliamentary democracy in constitution, it was, however, not in the mainstream of German politics since it primarily represented the working class. ... These facts were used as a tool by the German people who hated the new democracy and preferred the autocratic rule of the Kaiser as an excuse to hate the entire republic. ...

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For a short time after this the Government started to improve again, in 1924 The Dawes Plan was introduced, which gave Germany a loan from America and stated that the reparations could be paid over a longer period of time than was stated in Treaty of Versailles. ... So with an unstable parliamentary government, the people of Germany, who were not very democratic and did not have much tradition or history of democracy for them to look back on, started to vote for anti-democratic parties, such as the Nazis. ...

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This was the theory that the socialist party and various agents like American spies, the Bolsheviks and the Jews, turned against the war effort. ... This basically eliminates the power of the Reichstag and democracy. ...

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