The question was how to deal with Germany. ... They were to convince the German people they have been defeated and that they now must be held responsible for the actions of their government (Dept of State pg 49). ... Also, local self-government will be restored and no central government shall be put in place for the time being (Dept of State pg 49). ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... This democratic government is going to be a very conservative one because of all the restrictions that were placed on the German people and German industries. ...

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Britain wanted Germany to recover. ... The main issues discussed were the frontiers of a postwar Poland and its future government. ... As the Russians pushed the Germans out of Poland they backed the establishment of a communist government in Lublin, even though there was a Polish government-in-exile in London. ... This new government should then be called the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity- (15). ... It was agreed that countries occupied by Germany, including her allies, were to be free to elect their own governments. ...

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Therefore the British government sought to follow a policy of appeasement. ... Looking on with hindsight many historians have condemned the actions of Chamberlain and his government. ... This was highlighted in the event of 7th March 1936 when Germany Remilitarised the Rhineland. ... It was essentially a divided nation fascism v democracy The Spanish civil war was initially the result of an army revolt, which broke out against the Spanish left-wing republican government. ... The French leader Leon Blum was sympathetic towards the republican government, but was fearful of a right wing ba...

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The treaty was neither severe enough to keep Germany from once again being a significant power, nor was it lenient enough for the German people to meet its terms and move on. ... Clemenceau totally blamed Germany for the war, he wanted revenge and the only thing that would do it for him was a totally crippled Germany. ... Denmark got the Northern Schlewig, and Germany got the south. ... In 1918 the German Government had only $577,089,500 dollars, and they were ordered to pay out $5,000,000,000 over the next two years. ... These demand crushed the German economy, and many experts predicted ...

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Nietzsche's idea of the "ubermensch" gave rise to a number of notions concerning the superiority of certain races over others and strengthened the argument for eugenics, where society or the government should intervene to assure the procreation of the strong in order to produce the "superman." ... The fundamental motive behind this Pan-Slavism was to unite all the Serb peoples under one government. ... Germany was affected by the idea of Pan-Germanism in a slightly different manner than Serbia was by Pan-Slavism. Germany, under Otto von Bismarck, was not interested in gaining new territor...

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For example, Germany under their dictator Hitler attacked Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria and other small countries around Germany early in the war. ... Germany alone was in debt for 33 billion dollars. ... As a result, Germans joined and supported the Nazi party. ... Those countries had non-democratic governments, they were rearming, and they were not being peaceful. ... He means that other forms of government and Nazism could not stand togethe...

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To start with, it is vital to know that Enver Pasha and the German ambassador meet secretly on July 27 to talk about a Turko-German alliance and after a few days the secret Turko-German alliance is signed. ... There were some reasons for Germany to make such an alliance and get Turkey into the war and these reasons and the general strategy that was followed by Germans were illustrated in the text "The intentions of Germans in the Gallipoli War- by Assist. ... The text "The intentions of Germans in the Gallipoli War- by Assist. ... Heyningen talks about the reasons of French government to join ...

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Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier vividly portrays the carnage of World War II: "We have become wild beasts . ... Thus total war led to the establishment of history's first totalitarian society, with Germany leading the way in this enterprise.17 Many steps had to be taken in order to accomplish this goal. ... Government planning boards were created in order to prioritize and decide what was to be produced and consumed.18 In his annual message to the Congress in 1942, president Franklin D. ... Germany sped up production of submarines in an effort to control the bottom of the sea. ...

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Since the German government suffered badly in the depression, the existing Weimar government, put in place by the victorious allies, was blamed (John). Throughout the depression the government became more and more disliked since it was indecisive and no central power, but is not where Hitler entered the picture. ... At what is known as The Beer Hall Putsch a man by the name of Kahr was giving a speech in front of some 3,000 supporters of the Bavarian government. ... Hitler knew this was the right time to take over the government. ... It was the second highest position in the German government...

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Germany was not invited. The Weimar Republic was the political system that replaced the old imperial German Government after world War One. ... Already in the June of 1922 the German government had asked the allies to grant a delay on the reparation payments, but the allies bluntly refused. ... The workers of the Ruhr, (which was the industrial heart of Germany) declared a general strike and received financial support from the government in Berlin, which called for a campaign of passive resistance. ... German currency had become! ...

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In May of 1940 Germany invaded France. ... The Germans had one great advantage: they had many more aircraft. ... In late August 1940 the RAF organized a bombing of German territory which resulted in an enraged Furher and a new German policy of bombing British cities, particularly London. ... After he was not included in the new War Cabinet, Churchill resigned from the government and joined the fighting in France during the November of 1915. ... (Gilbert 66) His speeches helped him return to the British government. ...

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Roosevelt, fascist Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. ... The federal controlled access highway system in Germany, the Autobahn, and the reclamation of the Pontine marshes during the battle of Anzio are other examples of showcase projects that promoted a certain image the of the nation. ... Garraty compares the response to the Depression between the industrial nations most profoundly affected by the crisis: the United States and Germany from 1933 to 1937. ... Hitler's Four Year Plan in 1936 geared Germany's economy toward large scale preparation for war....

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On July 18, 1941, Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin requested that the allies create a second front by invading German-occupied France. ... The Germans demolished 31,850 industrial enterprises. ... The Soviet power industry was also severely wounded, as the Germans destroyed 10,000 power stations and ruined 1,135 coal mines and 3,000 oil wells, carrying back to Germany 14,000 steam boilers, 1,400 turbines and 11,300 electric generators. ... The Germans were no kinder to Soviet cultural institutions. ... The Nazi government had bankrupted Germany in an attempt to exterminate the Slavic people...

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Meanwhile, in Germany the support of the people for the ruling regime crumbled. ... At whatever time the Germans had a victory it would lead to any democratic ideals to be snuffed out. ... The governments within Italy were not only giving the appearance of being weak but they were actually weak within themselves. ... This led to an overall indecisiveness of the government and a quickly vulnerable ideology that was extremely unpopular with the common citizen. ... When a man cannot earn a living simply because there is nothing he can do no matter how willing he quickly turns on the governme...

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Together with other hybrid of international agencies, national governments and voluntary international nongovernmental organizations, the UNHCR has positioned itself to fulfil its mandate and obligations to refugees in spite of all odds. ... But these religious persecutions gradually faded as most people in Europe became more politically sensitive with strong political affiliations and tenacious resistance to their new revolutionary style governments. These revolutionary style governments were seen in countries like France, Germany, Poland and Russia. ... State sovereignty became for the fir...

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The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. ... In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich in southern Germany. ... His goal was to overthrow the government, but he had to compete with numerous other right-winged groups and his friend Ernst Roehm, a Bavarian staff officer. ... The putsch was aimed at capturing first the government, then the nation. Consequently, the Bavarian government was able to suppress it and jail sentences were issued to Hitler and other leaders of the movement. ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. ... Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... The earlier sources provoke Victor...

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Like many other great rulers like the Austrian born German Hitler and the Corsican born French leader Napoleon, Stalin was an outsider in the empire he came to rule. ... The intellectuals of the time opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. The most appealing of these ideas was Marxism, named for Karl Marx who was a 19th- century German thinker. ... Lenin worked most closely with Leon Trotsky in the Bolshevik take over of the government. Within a few months, opposition to the new government develo...

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This contorts their perception of what a stable, autonomous government looks like. ... The current government is seen by many Iraqis as little more than puppet government controlled by the United States and its allies. According to Day (2006), the primary difficulty in achieving national unity is finding the balance between local governmental power in the hands of tribal and religious groups and the central government. ... Therefore, they have little expectation of a fair and successful democratic government. ... This will make the transition to a democratic government difficult because firs...

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The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... Stalin argued strongly for the continuation of the war and for cooperation with the Provisional Government. ... On November 7, 1917 (October 25 on the Soviet calendar), the Bolsheviks seized power in a relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution ...

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For example: Part of the sanctions placed on Germany were that of military sanctions. ... Hitler capitalized on this and using his eloquent speech promised exactly this to the German people. ... To illustrate this the military expenditures for Germany in 1932 were a mere 1% of the nation's GNP. ... The first step was to separate the Jewish children from the German children in the schools. ... Beginning in 1939 it was mandated by the German government that any Jews age ten and older must wear an armband bearing the symbol of the Star of David. ...

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In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. From March until November of that year, Russia was ruled by a Provisional Government, which made plans for a democratically elected assembly. ... The new government, led by Lenin, made peace with the Germans and undertook a bloody, three-year civil war, in which Stalin commanded on several fronts. ... Central to his program was the collectivization of agriculture, in which the government would redistribute the land by taking over the estates of the "kulaks", the wealthiest peasants. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops ...

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In 1914 when the Great War started the British government wanted men to fight Germany; at the same time it wanted neutral countries to stay friendly to Britain. ... In 1916 the government introduced conscription, this is when every fit and able man had to go to war if he was called up. ... To instil this fear and hate of the Germans in the British public various campaigns were used. ... The Germans were usually described as ape like "sub human" to be able to do such a thing. ... Firstly it was felt that the government needed to promote an attitude of cheerful British courage. ...

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", not only shows Uncle Sam as a heroic Greek figure with the strength to hold up the world, but also shows that there was an unwillingness from the American government, or at least the people, to engage in more international warfare. ... They state that differences in the Constitution "have led many to conclude that there is something different about Americans and their vision of government that is reflected in their very different Constitution.... Contained within this unique document defined the conditions for free people with free rights, not from the government but from their cr...

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From the German point of view the treaty was incredibly harsh and devastating for Germany. ... The treaty contained five major points that would be Germany's demise. ... Even though he was Austrian, he loved Germany more than anything. ... He had very strong views on Germany being the Master race and thought that Germany was far superior to any other country. Hitler wanted Germany to stand up and be strong once more. ...

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