The defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) and the loss of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (completed by 1648) mark the end of Spain's greatness. ... The State System in this arena was affected by Industrial Revolution, representative governments, political changes, growth of international law, emergence of international organization, economic interdependence, revolution in the means of transport and communication. ... The war ended with the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763. ... Year 1776 saw the American Declaration of Independence and in 1789 the Estates General meets in Paris be...

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In the likely event of war with Russia, the Schlieffen Plan, expecting French support for Russia, called on Germany to launch a devastating and fast-paced attack on France. ... How, then, was Germany to defeat France in six weeks? ... Revolution in Russia (1917-1918) Summary The Great War dragged on from 1914 through 1917 with little change. ... Though out of chronological order, we will treat the impact of the Russian Revolution on World War I first. ... Seeds of the Russian Revolution, however, had been sown years before. ...

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In the Early Modern Era, The Scientific Revolution changed the way individuals viewed themselves and the world around them. ... Ideals of nationalism and representative government spread throughout Europe, with the first major wave beginning in France in 1789. The French Revolution lasted until 1815, when the European conservative order re-established itself. The French Revolution was an influential period of social and political upheaval inspired by liberal and radical ideas. ... The Post-Colonial Period marked the end of formal empire rule as we had previously known, with approximately...

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The height of those concerns coincided with the winds of revolution beginning to blow across the Russian nation. ... With the Russian military dealing with the rumblings of revolution and the wavering certainty of the Tsar, France could help to keep potential German attacks in check. Likewise, if the Kaiser set his sights on France, Russia could mobilize in retaliation. Due to the circumstances, France simply was forced to pick a side, and went with Russia. ... When it became obvious that Austria-Hungary leaders were looking to use the Serbian tensions as an excuse to finally end the Serbi...

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There were a few American victories at sea early on, but in the end, the U.S. ... " Great Britain and France had been intermittently at war since 1793. ... British did this by blockading the French coast and in 1807 it passed the Orders in Council, which required neutral countries to obtain a license before trading with France. ... American ships caught in these blockades were taken for use by both the British and French navy's and by 1812 Britain had taken a 1000 American ships and the French had taken 500. ... Madison agreed with Congress and believed that it was either; go to war...

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Up until the Pless conference it appeared that America would therefore keep out of the war as far as fighting was concerned, however, America had helped the allies from the start by providing loans in excess of $2 billion to Britain and France whilst only supplying just under $27 million to Germany. This money lending was more of an economical manoeuvre to enable Britain and France to pay for the goods they were buying from the U.S. ... The Germans cause to attack the liner was that it was secretly carrying weapons therefore it was a reasonable target for the Germans to attack, however, their...

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And the Triple Entente (1907) which included Great Britain, France and Russia. ... World War One came to an end. ... At the Paris Peace Conference Britain and France partially agreed with Wilson's vision of peace. ... The French wanted to punish Germany. ... The World War continued to haunt the future generations, it helped ignite one of the most significant events of the 20th century such as the Russian Revolution. ...

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The machine gun, the tank, and the airplane ruled the battlefields of France and Germany. ... The success of Drebbel's submarine paved the way for many inventors to undertake the concept of underwater travel; but it was not until the American Revolution in 1776, that the submarine was used as a weapon of war. ... Nevertheless, the United Sates and France went on with their experiments w! ... The French were building them as fast as they could be ordered. ... They were able to avoid many mistakes that had plagued the French and Americans. ...

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For over one hundred years, until the end of World War II, Cambodia remained a French colony. The French did implement a rudimentary state education system, but only for the well-off. However, the French were much more involved in their more lucrative and well-known colony of Vietnam, and did not spread an educational system to the majority of the Cambodian population. ... During the Khmer Rouge's spectacularly brutal reign, a time in which the "blood of Vietnam" spilled over Cambodia's borders to inspire frenzied revolutionary terror, formal education ended. 18 "My,&q...

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So, by the end of World War Two, all of these countries, including East Germany were under Soviet control. ... After the war ended, tensions grew between the Soviet Union and its former World War Two allies. France, Great Britain, and the U.S. disagreed with the Soviets on topics such as the division of Germany, free elections in Poland, and the reparations paid by Germany. ... This action diminished the revolution and left 25,000 Hungarians dead. ... The Soviets lost control of the Warsaw Pact allies in 1989 to 1990 because the Communist parties were taken over by revolutions in Poland, Hu...

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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 most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. ... By the end of the year there were nearly 200.000 troops ther...

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Introduction Recent history has certainly provided us with many examples of powerful, mutually beneficial alliances: France/England/US in WW I, Germany/Italy/Japan in WW II, just to name a few. These countries conglomerated to not solely for economic or military reasons, but for ideological reasons as well; France/England/US on the virtues of self-determination and democracy, Germany/Italy/Japan on the ideas of fascism and world domination. ... Sino-Soviet History The winds of change were blowing over Eastern Europe and China towards the end of World War I. ... The Bolshevik Revolution...

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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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Ten days after the end of World War II, Birch, who attained the rank of captain in the United States military, was taken as a prisoner of war by Chinese Communists. ... "he found that this conspiratorial band had participated in the French Revolution of 1789, which infamous uprising, as we know, struck out with intense savagery against God and civilization and resulted in the murder of roughly a million human beings. Clearly, the upheavals and atrocities of 1789 served as a model for revolutions to come, especially the Bolshevik Revolution- (Thorton The New American). ...

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The end of World War II was also the end of a wartime alliance between America and Russia, as Truman and Stalin could not agree of the division of Europe (Divine 666). ... Many western European countries including England, Italy, and France were slowly recovering from the devastation of the war (Divine 670). Years of depression, food scarce, and resentment called for the growing interest in communist voting and expansion, especially in France and Italy (Divine 670). ... There was little down time between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Truman administration's next foreign...

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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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Efforts to leave the Warsaw Pact by member countries were crushed, for instance in the Hungarian revolution of 1956. ... Instead, the conflict continued from the end of World War II until the break up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. ... Arguably, the most vivid symbol of the Cold War was the Berlin Wall, isolating West Berlin (the portion controlled by West Germany and allied with France, England and the United States) from East Germany, which completely surrounded it. ... In 2002, Serbia and Montenegro, came to a new agreement regarding continued cooperation, which, among other change...

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The industrial revolution was highlighting the terrible condition of man. ... The movement was founded in Paris in 1924 by Andre Breton, with his Manifeste du surralisme, but its ancestry is traced to the French poets Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and to the Italian painter, Giorgio de Chirico. ... Brecht aimed to give the theatre goer problems to solve and leave the ending of the play open ended, problems unsolved, waiting for the audience to go out into the real world and solve these problems for themselves. ... They have no beginning, end, middle. ...

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Historically, Huntington describes the transition from "the Peace of Westphalia" (Huntington, 1993) to the French Revolution, quoting R. ... Palmer from 1793 along the way, when he said 'The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun', then quickly moved to how the Russian Revolution and World War I "yielded a conflict of ideologies" (Huntington, 1993). ...

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The European Union was originally established in 1950 to bring the six European nations of Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands closer together. ... The industrialisation of both China and Japan owe its revolution to America and Europe, therefore you can find European institutions within South-East Asia, which makes trading not such a foreign experience, or in other words, even our newly found friends have been influenced by Europe in some time in their history. ... It wasn't really until the end of the second world war, when Australia's independence with...

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Just two years before that several thousands miles from Vietnam, on Korean peninsula bloody Korean War ended with July 27, 1953 cease fire agreement between communist North Korea backed by China and US along with UN. ... By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. ... One of the most famous examples would be Che Guevara fighting for communist revolution in Bolivia. ...

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In the end of 1930s, the world's two powers, Axis, headed by Japan, German, and Italy and Allies, headed by the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China, fought in all over the world until the middle of 1940s. ... The idea of Japanese imperialism and their dominance started after the introduction of Meiji Restoration, a reform, renovation, revolution, and renew of the government system, and it brought the practical imperial rule in Japan in 1868. ... However, Hong Kong was captured by Japan in eighteen days, and the capitulation of Hong Kong was signed on December 26, 1941, ...

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The revolution in command is epitomized in the figure of General Zhukov: given greater freedom for decision making, "the man who beat Hitler" proved to be a formidable tactician. ... In Operation Bagration Hitler "senselessly" refused to allow encircled German troops to retreat and demanded they fight until the end, creating "avoidable losses," three times greater than D-Day. ... Swamped mud tracks did not support German trucks designed for French roads. ... By the end of 1942 Germany occupied an area containing 40% of the Russian population, and the majority of its coal manufacturing. ...

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