She was a relatively new country but one that was rapidly growing financially, militarily and industrially; this threatened to disrupt the delicate balance of power achieved in Europe after centuries of conflict. ... This along with his militaristic alliances, plans made on a war footing and aggressive foreign policy convinced Europe that a war was inevitable. ... For, with Hitler's rise to power there was a dramatic change in the foreign policy of Germany. ... It was these feelings that can be seen as one of the reasons for their aggressive foreign policy; the Kaiser wanted to gain for G...

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Von Ribbentrop was the German foreign minister in theory, but in reality he was just a messenger of Hitler s will with no real power. ... The once powerful man who made foreign policy decisions that cost millions there lives could not even decide if he felt remorse or if he was correct in his actions. ... He stated that he did help rearm Germany but that was hardly a crime because the allied military inspectors watched as we broke the treaty of Versailles. ... Von Ribbentrop was charged with all four counts, using his power as foreign minister to encouraged aggressive war on the countries of E...

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Germany was a country built upon its proud military history. Parades, marches, displays of pageantry, and military bands were common sites throughout cities in Germany long before the Prussian Empire. ... By 1919, streets were no longer filled with military marches. ... To complicate matters even more, Germany relied heavily on foreign trade. When other nations raised their tariffs and slowed foreign trade, Germany suffered. ...

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This colossal conflict played a decisive role in destroying the Nazi regime: the German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. ... On the eve of the German invasion, the Soviet Union had 14 million men with basic military training. ... "Soviet military effectiveness" was aided by the reintroduction unitary command as Political Commissars were reduced in status to deputies. ... His repeated military blunders "assured Germany's loss of the war." ... Outside of the military, Russian citizens displayed outstanding resilience, enduring a 66-hour-week with one...

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Mussolini capitalized on the uninspired leadership, weak government and economic chaos that fell on Italy during this time to glorify authoritarian and military virtues, and he successfully took power on his October 28th, 1922 "March on Rome" (RoSo, 2002). ... The specifics of any given fascist state's foreign policy can be unpredictable, but there are always things that one can rely on a fascist to do. Anti-Semitism was officially rejected in Italy until 1938, when Mussolini enacted anti-Semitic policy to solidify his military alliance with Hitler (RoSo, 2002). ... Although military r...

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Germans were victims of vast conspiracies mounted by foreign powers, capitalists, Marxists, Freemasons, and (above all) Jews - the gutter anti-Semitism Hitler had absorbed in Vienna. ... He held briefings with his senior military advisors, often in the company of Party officials and other hangers-on, each afternoon and late each night. ... These revolved around his personality, the depth of his knowledge, and his military experience, and Hitler's faults worsened problems in the German command system. After the war, the picture emerged of Hitler as a megalomaniac who refused to listen to h...

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Hitler put on such a display of military grandeur that Mussolini became convinced that Germany was rising in both power and prestige throughout Europe. ... How could the Nazis ever fail, with their efficient military skills and professional organization? ... Galleazo Ciano, foreign minister to Italy, and Mussolini's son-in-law, argued that Italy should hesitate until the end of the Spanish Civil War; there was no need to start another war now. ... Mussolini, however, was more concerned with impressing Hitler with the power of his military and did his best to keep up the fazade and avoid a...

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Reading his book entitled "Mein Kampf- (My Struggle), was like listening to him saying "if there is a supreme form of human being, then there must be others less than supreme-; moreover, he shows his hate for Jews and refers to them as liars, parasites, dirty, repulsive, unscrupulous, monsters, foreign menace, bloodthirsty, avaricious and that they were trying to destroy the Aryan race. ... According to Mussolini's oratory all aspects of life had to be systematically directed by the military. ... In foreign policy, Mussolini soon shifted from pacifist-imperialism to an extreme form of a...

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The Conflict included ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia by Serb military and police. ... Finally, China is heavily overpopulated and has many foreign problems because of it. ... "Those fortunate enough to obtain a visa to a foreign country left at the first opportunity. ...

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This was because the military generals who saw the need to sue for peace, did not want to take the blame for calling it quits. ... The Weimar Republic was formed in 1918 with some great achievements in political, cultural, foreign policies and economy, (Bergan,44-45) but it was still seen as imposed on to the German people and it was rejected. ... They could not compete agriculturally, Industrial production output went to 38% of pre World War 1 levels and foreign trade was halted. ...

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He learned that the finest thing for man to do was to conquer foreign countries, and that peace is a bad thing because it makes man weak. ... He left Vienna to get away from the mixture of races and to escape the military that he had to serve in with Jews. ... It wasn't bad enough that Hitler was conquering foreign countries and trying to rule the world, but he also began showing his hatred toward the different races. ... "(2) Seven and one-half million foreign civilians were forced to work as slave labor workers in Germany. ...

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He aimed to make Russia militarily and industrially self sufficient, build a foundation for a worker's society, and expel the stereotype of Russia as being "backward ". ... Through this process of rapid industrialization, along with the absence of more foreign loans, the USSR built up capital wealth. ... Due to the ceasing of foreign loans and halting of factories, Germany unemployment rose to 6 million people while the Germany middle class was financially crippled by the inflation crisis of 1923. Also, the stipulations in the Treaty of Versailles, such as the German loss of its internati...

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This was not done because it would take military away from needed elsewhere. ... No ships could be spared for non-military reasons. ... As Rabbi Israel Goldstein said, "the job of the Bermuda Conference apparently was not to rescue victims of Nazi terror, but to rescue our State Department and the British Foreign Office."" ...

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Germany was greatly affected by this because under the treaty, they were to follow some major changes financially, politically, militarily and territorially. ... He believed in Autarky so foreign imports were banned so that Germans would be forced to patronize their own products. ... Although he was successful in achieving his goals politically, economically, socially and militarily, his actions were not justified. ...

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The reparations demands and other features of the Versailles Treaty, as well as the fear of a revived Germany, prevented normal foreign relationships from developing. ... This was also reinforced by the propaganda of the German military, which continued to suggest that the German military defeat was caused by treason at home. ...

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In terms of American's military history, World War Two was America's only unambiguously good war, a war where an unquestionable evil was defeated (p.1099). ... The film focussed around an Italian family during the Holocaust and succeeded where so many foreign language films had failed by becoming commercially viable and successful in the United States. ...

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"In Auschwitz we see a genocide in which racial hatred was virtually the one and only motive carried out in disregard of any economic, political or military consideration."... China soon came under threat from counter-revolutionaries backed by a foreign nation. ...

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A hatred of socialists and liberals: socialists as opponents of national self-assertion (and as potential betrayers of the people to slavery under a foreign Russian elite); liberals as unwilling to take the steps necessary to fight socialists, as self-absorbed individualists who weakened the nation, and as parliamentarians who did not recognize that the nation, not the individual, held rights. ... For the purpose of bolstering governments, their respective military and corporations at the (literal) expense of ordinary citizens, the defined "Error! ...

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The Jews were banned from teaching, receiving a university education, working in the civil service, the media, and military and from owning businesses. ... Article 4 in the Enabling Act gave the power to Hitler's cabinet to form treaties with other foreign countries without the involvement of other people. ...

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This essay will attempt to prove that by the end of 1934 Adolf Hitler's Nazi party had begun a campaign, which could have ultimately turned Germany into a totalitarian state. Hitler became Fuhrer in 1934 and from there he continued his policy of Gleischaltung or co-ordination, which had begun, with the co-ordination of German political parties in 1933. Gleischaltung was the policy of turning Germany into a totalitarian state, where all aspects of life where controlled/manipulated by the Fuhrer. Gleischaltung was in essence: "the elimination of those institution and structures of th...

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During WWII the "RSHA- consisted of Personnel Administration Home SD Foreign SD Gestapo Kripo Ideological Research Leaders And Participants Of The Gestapo Their existed many potent, callous and brutal leaders which exemplified the headstrong nature of the Gestapo. ... Joined a Para-military, nationalist organization and participated in the Munich Beer-Hall putsch of November 1923. ...

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