The Crusades From the year 1096 to 1270, thousands of devoted Christians joined in the Crusades to free the Holy Land from the Turks. Only two out of all eight actually succeeded, the first and third. The reason for these Crusades was that in Jerusalem lived the Sacrens, and the Seljk Turks. ...
With Austria no longer involved in German matters, Prussia could turn to the French, the second empire lacked legitimacy - Napoleon III knew glory would establish his power. ... He produced a diplomatic crisis over the succession to the Spanish throne, Napoleon III would never allow this but Bismarck, the quick man he was, spotted an opportunity to ensure the French declare war; altered a telegram and released it to the French press " to fuel the demand for war in France. Napoleon III was seeking glory at home, desperate to live up to Bonaparte's empire and the expansion of French p...
By overhearing an innocent conversation between the King and a French diplomat he changed the words of the conversation and made it sound as if the King of France, Napoleon III, wanted to harm Germany. ... When the news got to Napoleon III he declared war in 1870. ...
Otto von Bismarck remains one of the most significant political figures of modern Germany. He is often referred to as the founder of the German Empire and today his legacy still remains embedded in the German Nation. This paper will briefly encompass his political career and achievements while del...
In the years between 1850 and 1870, nationalism was evolving from the ideals of earlier decades to realities of power politics. No political force was stronger than nationalism after 1850. Threatening to destroy the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. Also pushing people toward national unity in Italy and...
Charlemagne is arguably one of the most influential leaders of the eighth and ninth centuries. He called himself King David, as David had united Israel in earlier years. Also known as Charles the Great, he used the great wealth and strong military power that he inherited from his father to grow his ...
SUBJECT: Recruitment for expansion in Germany I. INTRODUCTION: In preparing for the upcoming staff development/training sessions to recruit successful candidates for the new operation in Germany, I have focused on Germany's social structure. This report will discuss some highlights from...
The early 1300s saw a scientific and technological revolution that changed forever not only the Medieval view of time, but the artistic representation of it. The invention of the escapement mechanism, a bit of machinery that allowed more accurate clocks to be built, caused a profusion of publicly av...
1. What do sources A and B suggest about German attitudes to the Treaty of Versailles? Source A was informing the German people that the Treaty of Versailles was being signed and swears to get vengeance on the Allies. "Vengeance!" implies that the Germans were very angry and unhappy about the treaty...
Gothic Cathedrals "Throughout the earlier half of this millennium, one of the grandest stories in European history was written primarily in stone,"" (Gothic Dreams 1). The Gothic age was a time of overwhelming change in the area of architecture. The origin of intellectual and religious life...
THE MYSTERIOUS BOG PEOPLE INTRODUCTION On May 8th, 1950, two Danish men were cutting peat at Tollund Fen in Denmark when suddenly they saw a human face bulge from the peat. Horrified, they had first thought it to be the buried remains of a murder victim but it turned out to be something totally different and the local police called for archaeologist Peter Glob. The bog body became known as the Tollund man, he was lying naked except for a leather cap and belt, with his legs drawn up in the fetal position. When the peat around his neck was removed, archaeologists discovered the rop...
Hitler's Rise To Power Who or what was responsible for Hitler's rise to power? Many believe that there was only one factor for his rise to power. Some state that Hitler could not have risen to power in any other than Germany, implying that he was nothing more than a product of German culture. Others...
They shared a common belief in violence, hatred for communism, and disgust at the weakness of the parliamentary government.11 Right before the PNF was meant to have a protest in Rome, King Victor Emmanuel III asked Benito Mussolini to become prime minister of Italy. ...
The balance of power is the idea that the national security of a nation is expanded through military conquest and it's distributed so that one state won't be able to dominate all others. That if one nation gains that power to dominate other nations, it will use that power to attack weaker nations an...
A leader is someone who uses his or her intellect to guide others. Some leaders change the lives of people drastically and go down in history, whereas other leaders cause little change and fade into history and are forgotten forever. Adolf Hitler started out as an ordinary solider in World War I. ...
The tension and interdependence of the concepts of the empire and nation state in 19th century Europe was founded on the basis of the power struggle and division of ideas, being both nationalistic and imperial, over what Europe represents and what it should aspire to become. Differences in ideology ...
Bismarck's Domestic Policy 1871-1890. Along with getting an IB Paper 3 question about Biz's foreign policy, you might also (instead?) encounter a question about the domestic policy that Biz pursued as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890. So let's deal with that now. OK? ...
