The balance of power of European states changed from 1848 to 1914 because of revolutions and certain unifications. ... Also certain the Crimean War, which caused the end of conservatism and alliances with European nations. ... Bismarck was eventually pressed by France as he knew that a patriotic war with France would drive the southern states into German owned land. But France declared war on Prussia to teach Germany a lesson. ... France took parts of West and Central Africa. ...

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As Erica Benner (2013) mentions in Nationalism: Intellectual Origins, a German reaction to the revolutions in America and France, which "claimed to found new national forms of legitimacy on universal, republican principles" (Benner 2013, p. 45), which was when the confederation of German states in 1800, or the Holy Roman Empire, were collapsing due to the pressure of the revolutionary wars. ... Fichte did support the French revolution initially, by even promoting the belief of using force to intervene in other countries and expand an ideology, and it illustrates the significant ideas of the ra...

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The restored large central rose window (circular stained-glass window) became standard in French-Gothic architecture. ... Proclaiming the majesty and power of Christ, these sculptures was destroyed from the western fazade during the French Revolution. During the reign of Napoleon III, the French Gothic structures were threatened with extermination by Imperial order. ... Rising above the town, has interior height of one-hundred twenty-one feet, and six inches, two towers at the west end, and a spire over the south tower, completed in 1160 is on of the earliest true spires in Europe. ... Goth...

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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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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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However, although German nationalism had been around for so long, nothing had ever come of it, as the Revolution' of 1848 showed. ... Then, determined to exert Prussian dominance over German area, including Austria, and foreseeing war, Bismarck set up important alliances with Italy, who eventually provoked Austria into war, and France, who thought they would gain territory and power at the end of what Napoleon thought must surely be a long power struggle between them, and so were to remain neutral. However the Austro-Prussian war ended quickly in a decisive victory for Austria, leav...

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In revolution, there is a rapid and fundamental change of both the state and class structure (Danziger, 2001,269). ... Humanity witnessed this in the English, French, and American revolutions. ... Sederberg mentions the tragic choices and tragic outcomes, whether the violence occurs for a revolution or not. He is more skeptical about the issue of the American Revolution. ... By the end of the nineteenth century, the nation-state doctrine had become enshrined in a general principle that all nations would have the right to self determination. ...

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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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The early 1300s saw a scientific and technological revolution that changed forever not only the Medieval view of time, but the artistic representation of it. ... This tends to blend the past, present and future into a cyclical view, which regards the future as naught but the End of Times, even the distant past as relatively recent, and the present as everything in the eyes of God (Camille 74-94). ... A 15th century French translation of Suso's manuscript contains this illuminated miniature (Fig 1, Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, Ms. ... This image was illuminated on parchment amongst thirt...

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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 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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