The word terrorism was first used in France to describe a new system of government adopted during the French Revolution (1789-1799). The regime de la terreur (Reign of Terror) was intended to promote democracy and popular rule by ridding the revolution of its enemies and thereby purifying it. ... Just before the end, the remaining Zealots, except for two women and five children, committed mass suicide. ... Until the French Revolution (1789-1799), religion provided the main justification for the use of terrorism. ...

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The Failure of the Weimar Republic The German Weimar Republic was born amidst the defeat of the imperial army, the revolution of 1918 against the Hohenzollerns, and the hopes of German Liberals and Social Democrats. ... The failure of the Weimar Republic can be blamed on Constitutional Flaws, Lack of Broad Popular Support, and the French Invasion of the Ruhr. ... No social revolution had accompanied the new political structure. ... The French invasion of the Ruhr in early 1923 and the German response of economic passive resistance produced cataclysmic inflation. ... By the end of 1923,...

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Reparations affected many different countries in Europe mainly Germany, France, Britain and Russia. ... France wanted the most money from Germany and wanted to destroy her. ... The treaty resulted in Russia claming reparations from Germany and Germany claming compensation from Russia from the time of the revolution. ... As a result of this France occupied the Rhur. ... At the end of 1928 the Dawes plan was due to end it was replaced by the Young plan. ...

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At the outbreak of "the war to end all wars--World War I- Hitler volunteered into the Bohemian Army (Bohemia is in the south west part of Germany) and served diligently as a Corporal for four years earning him many medals including the distinguished Iron Cross award for bravery in battle. ... Hitler like many other Germans were bitter and disgusted by the mere thought or concept that their arch-rival for years and years, the French, have beaten the mighty German war machine under the command of the majestic Kaiser Wilhelm. Hitler was more than upset that the French, American, British, Ru...

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A formal agreement to end the war was made and called the Treaty of Versailles. ... These fallen empires had to be divided up and America's President Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and David Lloyd George of Great Britain, were the main deciders of this deal. During 1918, Russia was knocked out of the war due to military defeats and the Bolshevik Revolution. ... The Allied, who captured Germany, wanted to make a peace treaty to end the fighting. ... Germany got the blunt end of the war and was desperate to find a new leader to get out of th...

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France of all countries should know the true horror of an evil dictator after experiencing the wrath of Nazi occupation in the Second World War. ... Following the end of the First World War, Germany signed the Treat of Versailles bringing an end to hostilities while agreeing to a number of military and economic sanctions in an effort to avert any further conflict. ... As the United States and her allies continue to fight the War on Terrorism and fight for the freedom of people everywhere in the world, we will not soon forget the actions of France of the past year. We have historically been fri...

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Austria-Hungary signed war pact with Germany while Serbia with Russia (U.S.S.R) France and Britain (The Alliance). The Great War ended with the Germans signing the treaty of Versailles to the Alliance on the 28th of June 1919, which was exactly five years after the death of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. ... The countries that had powers then were Britain, France, America and Russia. World War one was the beginning of a new revolution; it was also one of the reasons World War two occurred. ... But World War 2 was not necessary, if it hadn't been for how World War 1 had ended, World War 2 w...

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At the end of World War One, Germany had many problems. ... Hitler shot his pistol in the middle of Kahr's speech and shouted, "The national revolution has begun." The "revolution" began when Hitler lied to the people saying the Bavarian Trumimvirate, Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser had joined forces with him. ... Speaking to his Generals in October 1939, Hitler said, "If it becomes clear that Britain and under its leadership France also, are not prepared to end the war I am determined to go on the offensive without delay." ... After the French surrender, Hitler attempted to end the war with Br...

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Nazism, or National Socialism, was born at the end of World War One. The war had ended on the 11th of November 1918, when Germany had signed an armistice. ... The French had come to collect their reparations, even amid widespread German poverty and squalor. ... By the end of the 1920s, Germany was impoverished again. ... However, the revolution had already begun for the Nazis. ...

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Louis XIV and Adolf Hitler are two leaders that had the greatest impacts on France and Germany, respectively. ... He went on to fight in World War One for Germany, after the war ended he joined the German Workers" Party in 1919. ... Louis finally tamed the French nobility, but in doing so he became their captive. ... Their alliance led to their mutual destruction in the revolution. ... "The boycott of Jewish stores in April 1933 marked the beginning of a downward spiral for Jews that would eventually end in the gas chambers at Auschwitz." ...

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Many of these stick in my mind, such as the Rationalist's (John Locke, Voltaire, Montesqiue, and Rousseau) in France, or the Revolutionary War led by the Continental Army and George Washington, or General Napolean Bonaparte and his rise to power and dramatic downfall in Russia, or the two great World Wars, or Hitler and his racial hierarchy which was centered around the Aryan race, Anti-Semitism, and the extermination of the Jewish race and culture. ... Hitler's Anti-Semitic ideas of having the pure Aryans (Germans) ruling over the non-pure Aryans (British, Dutch, and Scandinavia...

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Hitler saw this party as a vehicle to reach his political ends. ... In January 1923, French and Belgian troops marched into Germany to settle a dispute. ... Hitler held a rally at a Munich beer hall and proclaimed a revolution. ... Invading Poland pushed France and England to declare war on Germany. ... In 1944 the Allies invaded Europe at Normandy Beach on the French coast; German cities were destroyed by bombs. ...

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While Britain and France were constantly in quest of expanding their empires at the cost of their adversaries, the United States was not in the war for Empirical gains. ... Some liberties were not even introduced until after the war such as all women being able to vote in Britain; or in France the discontinuation of the constant persecution of pacifists. ... One difference was the remobilization of the French and British people to war by using democratic ideals to rally support for the war. ... Out of these collapses rose many new social movements that were shadowed by the aftermath of the Fir...

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The Swiss couple in The Boat is Full who aided them were a sample of the general population, and went through several revolutions of mind before the end of the film. ... In the end, however, it is the Swiss husband who pays for his association. ... It seems that most French people at the time were more afraid for themselves and the fate of the Jews. ... While it was a necessity for survival in detention, the French attitude of Laize" Faire was chosen, not mandated. ... In the end, this method backfires. ...

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The Swiss couple in The Boat is Full who aided them were a sample of the general population, and went through several revolutions of mind before the end of the film. ... In the end, however, it is the Swiss husband who pays for his association. ... It seems that most French people at the time were more afraid for themselves and the fate of the Jews. ... While it was a necessity for survival in detention, the French attitude of Laize" Faire was chosen, not mandated. ... In the end, this method backfires. ...

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Second, France and Belgium had sent troops to occupy the Rhur valley of Germany. ... On November 8, 1923, at a rally in a Munich beer hall, Hitler proclaimed a Nazi revolution. ... As a result the revolution failed. ... He and his Nazi party still have followers today, hopefully not to the same end....

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With the return of his sight ended the depression and mental instability Professor Edmond Foster believed was caused by the blindness. ... A short while later on November 9, an elderly pastor announced the news of an all out revolution broken out in Munich. " It became impossible for me to sit still one minute longer. ... The end of the war and Germany's defeat disappointed and frustrated Hitler greatly. Thus , he turned against the revolution in Germany and the Weimar Republic that he blamed for his misfortune. ... When the French occupied the Ruhr in January 1923, Germany natio...

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Then would come the subjugation of France in the west, to protect its rear. ... In 1920 Hitler's greatest enemy was France, but Germany in its miserable position, was in no way able to tackle the strongest military power on the continent. ... And on August 1st of the same year "we must use everything we can, especially the differences between France and Italy, in order to win Italy over to our side." ... First, Hitler still considered France Germany's primary opponent, realizing that its position on the continent meant immediate danger. ...

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Also through some very crude tactics the Nazi party showed its readiness to end the turmoil in the streets and bring about an ordered social and political system. ... If we protest against them with every means in our power, then we find ourselves on the path of revolution." ... The French wanted reparations for damage in World War 1 and wanted Germany also to be stripped of wealth. The French also didn't want to pay tax and believed it should come out of the Germans pocket. On 11 January the French forced their way into the Rurh to get the reparations. ...

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The destruction didn't end there however as the pre-war political system also was destroyed. ... With the end of the war these loans had to be repaid. ... Britain and France owed large sums to the USA this made them seek reparations from Germany crippling her further. At the end of the war there was large scale unemployment due to the shutting down of arms plants and disbanding of army. ... THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM There was an anti communist hysteria in post war Europe following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. ...

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WWI ended on November 11, 1918, leaving millions of European soldiers dead and even more injured. Large areas of Belgium and France had been devastated and two of Europe's most powerful countries, Germany and Austria-Hungary, were defeated and exhausted. ... America never ratified the treaty but Britain and France still enforced it. ... When Germany refused to pay all that was demanded, France and Belgium occupied the coalmines in the Ruhr industrial area. ... Hitler felt it was the right time to start a revolution. ...

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In December 1918, he volunteered for guard duty in a prisoner-of-war camp containing Russian and French soldiers. By the end of January the prisoners were sent home and the camp closed. ... At the end of 1922, the Germans asked France for a break of the payments they were required to pay according to the Treaty of Versailles. The French Government refused the proposal and occupied the Ruhr Valley and the Saar coalfields. ... The French believed their action would make the Germans restart payments. ...

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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 Allies did not make any effort to help Germany during this time and left Germany to fend for itself (they seemed to be aware that this had been a mistake by the end World War II when they helped Japan out of its economic cr! ... The French Revolution was a prime example that without a participant culture, there is no stability. ... His political party opposed all t...

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One day, whilst rummaging through his father's book collection, Hitler discovered a picture book on the War of 1870-1871 between the Germans and the French. ... But when the war ended in defeat the German people, searching for someone to blame, looked back to those they had hated in the past, the Jews." ... "Hitler jumped onto a table, fired two shots in the air and told the audience that the Munich Putschwas taking place and the National Revolution had began." ...

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On the 8th November 1923 Hitler and the Nazi party held the "Munich Beer-Hall Putsch" in an attempt to stage a National revolution, and seize power to rule the nation. ... Due to economic fragility, Germany didn't keep up with its reparation payments, and the French were determined to make them pay. Legally, under the Treaty of Versailles, in January 1923 French and Belgium troops marched into the Ruhr valley to seize coal and raw materials for themselves as a form of reparation. ...

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