The congress was called in order to the restore balance of power in Europe and to ensure France could never expand out side of its original pre-war boundaries. ... Land that was part of the French Empire was doled out to each major power to ensure no power became too large. ... Bismarck ensured Austria was diplomatically isolated and could not receive help from Russia, France, Britain or Italy. ... Bismarck then sent a letter to the French king saying he was willing to trade German land for France's neutrality if Austria declared war on Prussia. Prussia then drafted an agreement basical...

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Rassinier was a French concentration camp survivor and a former socialist anarchist. ... Duke believes that photographs of gas chamber victims were fakes, he claims that there wasn't a Holocaust and he continues saying that the Jews deserve one (Stern). One other denier is a French professor Robert Faurisson. ... Faurisson continues saying that Zyklon is a very explosive and that there was Ruiz 3 no special equipment used in the gas chambers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Historians are quoted as saying that although World War I was not inevitable; World War II was due to the unresolved tension between nations. ... It was written by the Allied powers, including Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, and Germany. ... In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France, after occupying it for 40 years. ... In 1921, Germany was unable to pay its debts; French and Belgian soldiers invaded and occupied the Ruhr taking any and all goods and raw materials. 2 Germany was also ordered by the Allies, primarily Britain and France, to sign the Guilt Claus...

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So to satisfy the public who wanted to "Make Germany pay" or another saying of that time, "hang the Kaiser" the leaders at taht time had to come up with a plan taht would punish the Germans enough to satisfy the public. Another reason that the treaty came out to be so harsh was that the Big Four as they were know which were the leaders of USA, France, Italy, and England set the treaty up so early. ... First of all Germany had to cease Alsace-Lorraine to France, Schlieswig-Holstein to Dennmark, Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium and Czechoslavakia but these losses could be justified as all of these ...

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Even his own words provide some direct evidence to attest; "Hitler placed in Mein Kampf a classic passage, one that explained how and why he constantly wove together[]French, Marxism, the Berlin government, and Jews" (Flood 592). ... He goes on to verbally trash everything which Jews have accomplished, saying that "there has never been a Jewish art and accordingly there is none today either; that[]architecture and music, owe nothing original to the Jews" (Hitler 303). ... Not only were Jews evil, they were also the reason behind which Germany was attacked and defeated by the English and Fren...

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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. ... Calvin Coolidge epitomized the time when he was quoted saying, "The business of America is business,". ... 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. ...

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He finished his victories with the defeat of France in 1940. ... In the west, General Eisenhower's armies took France and then headed toward the German border. ... After hearing this horrible news Hitler became a nervous wreck and began saying he was going to destroy the land he had led to a catastrophe. ...

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But they [the Jews] cried out the more, saying, 'Let him be crucified.' When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, 'I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.' ... A conference was called with the Czechoslovakian leaders as well as the Prime Ministers of France and England, and in the end Czechoslovakia was persuaded to let Hitler take Sudetenland. ...

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The French had come to collect their reparations, even amid widespread German poverty and squalor. ... Hitler was against democracy, and was quoted as saying, "A vote for the Nazis is one for dictatorship."" ...

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The Germans disliked the Treaty of Versailles because it made them pay for some of the things that happened during World War One that wasn't their fault (EG: the War guilt Clause) and passive resistance in the Ruhr was an example of this because the French had occupied it and so the workers went on strike. ... Lots of people went to watch the opera, theatre, film and then they started to believe what the actors were saying. ...

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