Adding to these treaties, aiming for a Balance of Power, where the secret ententes between England and France, and England and Russia. ... Every Great Power was "passing through a political and social crisis in 1914." ... Britain had an Empire to defend; Russia was pushing in the Middle East and was already present in Persia; Italy wanted to live up to its glorious past and Germany wanted to create its own sea power, or Weltpolitik. ... An agreement would have been achieved if "the Germans had been prepared to abate their claims to naval hegemony and world power." ... Mommsen criticizes the wo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This war is depicted in several movies such as Gettysburg and Glory. Glory is a great movie about the 54th Regiment, which is composed of free black men. These men from Massachusetts fight for the freedom of their enslaved brothers in the South (Glory). ...

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Only four year later, in 1924, Mussolini had risen to power to become Prime Minister of Italy and then in 1925 he had become Italy's new dictator. ... The Roman Empire had been (and still is) a major source of pride for any Italian and the thought of having such glory again within the country immediately began to turn heads. ... One he had established physical power within the weakened Italy he quickly began to work on the minds of the people as well, and in doing this began to publish his own newspaper called "Il Popolo d"Italia" which means "The People of Italy". ... As his power was ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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