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. ... King Louis XIV of France ruled from 1661 to 1715. ... Year 1776 saw the American Declaration of Independence and in 1789 the Estates General meets in Paris beginning the French Revolution. ... CONGRESS OF VIENNA: (1814-1815) --> It ended the Napoleonic Wars and rightful, legitimate rulers deposed by the French Revolut...

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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 Revolution greatly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of theocracies and ab...

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In the early part of the twentieth century, militarism was as prominent as ever, with the recent industrial revolution being the main factor. ... The other alliance: The Triple Entente, was made up of Great Britain, France and Russia. ... France joined Great Britain in 1904. ... The Russians refused Germany's demand and the Kaiser declared war on Russia and France. ... In the plan, German was to use two arms of their army in order to trap the French forces. ...

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The height of those concerns coincided with the winds of revolution beginning to blow across the Russian nation. ... France, hoping to bring balance to the combined powers of Germany, aligned with Russia, who backed Serbia. ... 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. ...

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Therefore, the only way in which Italy would change politically was in the form of a revolution. ... They had already attempted to take Tunisia years before, but had been beaten to it by France. ... Italians observed Britain, France and Germany becoming the empire they aspired to be. ... Revolution? ... Socialists saw the revolution in Russia and were inspired by it. ...

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During the First World War, Russia had formed an alliance with Great Britain and France known as the Triple Entente, their opponent was the Triple Alliance which consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. In 1917, Russia was going through a revolution which led to the removal of the last Tsar, Nicholas the second. ... The Western leaders despised the idea of communism to the point where they sent troops to help stop the Bolshevik revolution from occurring, but these efforts were to no avail as the Bolsheviks overthrew the government and established Communism . The West's attempt of ...

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" 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. Napoleon, and the French responded by blockading the British coast, through the Continental System. 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 eit...

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They included the Fatherland Front, led by Engelbert Dollfuss in Austria, the Falange founded by Jose Antonio Primo in Spain, the Cross of Fire, renamed the French Social Party led by Colonel Francois de La Rocque, the Gentile National Socialist Movement and the South Africa Fascists, both in South Africa, the Ku Klux Klan in the United States, and the military dictatorship of Admiral Tojo Hideki in Japan (RoSo, 2002). ... The ideology has been linked by some scholars to the socially radical Jacobins of the French Revolution, but others see it as a reactionary extreme-right conservatism agains...

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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. ... Wilson was aided in his desire to arm merchant ships by one contingent factor, the February Revolution in Russia. This revolution overthrew the Russian autocr...

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I will begin by discussing the first major age of change and development, in this case, the industrial revolution. It now seems that the industrial revolution heralded the beginning of a new system that would concentrate on continuing development and heightening technology, not least when the military could find uses for them. ... France for example strove for nuclear capabilities as a means of strengthening their role as an international actor. ...

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And the Triple Entente (1907) which included Great Britain, France and Russia. ... On January 18, 1919 a conference to establish terms of peace began at the Palace of Versailles. 32 countries attended ,but the major decisions were decided by the Big Four: Woodrow Wilson of the United States, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George of Great Britain and Vittorio Orlando of Italy. ... 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 genera...

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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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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. ...

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The regions that are considered as ethnic strife-prone are: Western Europe- Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Spain; Eastern Europe- Yogoslavia and newly independent countries of former Soviet Union; the Mediterranean and the Middle East- Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel; Africa- virtually every nation; Asia- from Pakistan to the Philippines; and the Americas- from Canada throughout the Caribbean. ... The Russian Revolution of 1917- the Russian civil war, is commonly traced with the ideological warfare of the people stemmed from the influence of Marxism-L...

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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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These men claimed to want only stability; furthermore, they claimed to view revolution with horror, yet they were themselves in a sense, the most ruthless revolutionaries the world had ever seen. ... While fighting with the Russians, many French soldiers died due to starvation and the freezing temperatures, for none of the French were issued any gear for the winter. ...

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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. ... Now, at fifteen, I enroll in the seventh grade, two grades higher than when I lived in Phnom Penh"20 [before the Khmer revolution]. ...

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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, Hungary, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia. ...

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Before the outbreak of WWI the economic state of the countries involved was not major issues, Europe was booming in the post industrial revolution prosperity and reaping the benefits that her many empires granted her. ...

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"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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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. ... The Bolshevik Revolution, headed by Vladimir Lenin, had seized power after Czar Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917 (2). ...

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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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Americans feared that that the Russian Revolution of 1917 would inspire a similar revolution in the United States (Aboukhadijeh). ... Due to the America's isolated geographical location and late entry, the war delivered little economic damage in comparison to France, England, and Germany. ...

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Efforts to leave the Warsaw Pact by member countries were crushed, for instance in the Hungarian revolution of 1956. ... 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. ... Fears that the shift of power from centralized one-party system system to multi-party democracy might turn into bloody revolution proved unfounded owing to the presence on both sides, the Communist Party and the democratic opposition, of ...

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