At the end of World War II the effects were everywhere. ... From the actions of World War II the Ukrainian nation had to rebuild their economy, population and find a way to still maintain their culture under the influence of the Soviet Union. ... Ukraine suffered the most from World War II and its consequences. ... Not only was their economy left in ruins but also the people were as well. ... Lives are lost for the cause, people are changed forever, and economies are left in tatters. ...

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In a speech given by Hitler in 1936, he outlined the need to prepare the economy for war, yet in the wake of the second world war, the German economy was inefficient due to lack of central planning. Whilst Speer made some improvements to the economy, the allied bombing further impeded production and ensured that the economy would remain unsuccessful. ... Nonetheless, the inability of the government to solely mobilize the economy towards war and the lack of central planning, which sustained an inefficient economy proves that the economy was unsustainable and therefore unsuccessful. ... The...

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World War II was the first global war the world had ever witnessed. ... This caused the German economy to fall. ... The Weimar Republic in Germany was a failing government and they were not able to fix the economy. This caused the citizens to lose faith in the government and democracy and seek out extremist parties, like the Nazi Party.8 One can then conclude that these economic sanctions on Germany, which caused a crumbling economy, assisted Hitler in his rise to power thus creating World War II. ... In summary, World War II could have been prevented. ...

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After taking power he boosted the economy through agricultural and business programs. ... In 1945 the war was finally over and the world was finally at peace. The world had learned from is experiences and tried to prevent any more such wars. ... Today the UN plays a vital role in most world affairs. ... After WWI many countries of the world were left humiliated and poor. ...

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Manfred Von Richtoffen (Red Barren) was the best pilot in World War 1. ... Their Reich mark (their money currency) was worth almost nothing and their economy was doing horrible. ... They were starving because their currency was worth almost nothing now, their economy was doing horrible and they didn't have any way of defending themselves (their army was very small). ...

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Historians are quoted as saying that although World War I was not inevitable; World War II was due to the unresolved tension between nations. ... The 1919 Treaty of Versailles was one of six treaties that ended World War I. ... The reparations completely destroyed the German economy and caused the whole country to fall into a severe depression. ... In order to help the economy the government tried to print more money to pay striking workers. ... By the 1930's, Italy was beginning to be seen as a large world power that would have a large influence in the world. ...

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The world, especially Germany, was ripe for dictatorship following the Great War. The Treaty of Versailles crippled Germany and laid the foundation for another World War. ... When the Second Great War broke out in 1939, Hitler had fulfilled many of his promises while setting the world on a course of death and destruction. ... In 1919, Woodrow Wilson proclaimed his dream that World War I would be "the war to end all wars." ... On October 29, 1929, the United States Stock Market came crashing down and with it, the economies of the world. ...

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In Mein Kampf, Hitler outlined his beliefs that if Germany were to be a strong world power it must be united on the principle of purity. ... He was said to have made early statements in 1939 regarding Jews being completely destroyed if they plunged Germany into another world war. ... Another injustice committed against the Jews by the Nazis was the boycott of their businesses in order to force them out of the economy. ... So barefaced were the horrific inflictions upon the Jews that it seems almost incomprehensible for anyone in Germany and even the world to have been unaware of the horrid cri...

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In Mein Kampf, Hitler outlined his beliefs that if Germany were to be a strong world power it must be united on the principle of purity. ... He was said to have made early statements in 1939 regarding Jews being completely destroyed if they plunged Germany into another world war. ... Another injustice committed against the Jews by the Nazis was the boycott of their businesses in order to force them out of the economy. ... So barefaced were the horrific inflictions upon the Jews that it seems almost incomprehensible for anyone in Germany and even the world to have been unaware of the horrid cri...

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Adolf Hitler was known for being the most hated man in the world, but he had many supporters. ... Without the Enabling Act, World War II would not have happened because Hitler and his Nazi Party would have had no dictatorial powers; the world's view on dictatorship and fascism would be completely different in the 21st Century. ... In short, that brought on WWII and changed the world and politics in Germany. Thirdly, after World War I the German economy lay in shambles. After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the US called in its loans to Germany, and the German economy collapsed. ...

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The German economy was also becoming more stable. ... The German people had confidence in this as it was backed by gold like that of most other currencies throughout the world. ... Germany's economy was getting stronger in the period of 1924-29 but there still some problems that faced it. ... The strengthening economy was built on the back of foreign loans that would also have to be paid back along with the war reparations. ... The economy was beginning to recover with an end to hyperinflation and negotiations with the allies underway to rearrange payments of reparations. ...

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One of those butterfly effect scenarios in some ways, starting with, "the shot heard around the world". ... With the help of the United States government, the German economy started to stabilize. ... They could not compete agriculturally, Industrial production output went to 38% of pre World War 1 levels and foreign trade was halted. ... (Bergan, 49) Once again the bad economy takes its toll, even on those in power. ... (Bergan, 50) It didn't take long for Hitler to take over abusing a decree that was influenced by a bad economy. ...

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The Weimar Republic was working through harsh conditions with the task of stabilizing the economy, rebuilding the country after the First World War and having to cope with the account of the Treaty of Versailles; "underlying economic problems remained, and the relative political stability of Weimar's golden years' rested on shaky foundations - (98 Source 1 Worksheet). ... Even though by 1928 industrial production was high, the economy still faced many weaknesses. The economy was entirely based upon American loans. ... Even though economic stability was acquired by 1929, Germany'...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. ... The Rise of the Third Reich With the end of the First World War Germany was left in shambles both physically and economically. ... Once in power Hitler quickly began to restore the economy and the military in order to strengthen and legitimize his power. ... During this time from 1933-1938 Germany poured massive amounts of money into the industrial war preparation economy. ... This would lead to the involvement of most nations on the planet in this war, which would prove...

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Response Hitler had given the impression to many of the German people that he had saved their economy after the Wall Street Crash and The Depression of 1932. ... Not only was the idea of an economic miracle sold to the people of Germany, the propaganda element also wanted the idea sold to Europe and to the wider world. ... Hitler thought that by getting people off the street and into work made the illusion of economy recovery. ... Another major factor of why the economy wasn't successful was because of World War II, which started in 1939. World War II ruined Germany's economy as it...

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Nazism, or National Socialism, was born at the end of World War One. ... In the mid 1920s, the economy recovered and inflation fell to single figures. ... They spread propaganda claiming world Jewry wanted to gain power and rule the world. ... The economy slumped as America asked for its loans to be repaid. ... He focused on national unity and destroying internal enemies, and the restoration of the German economy. ...

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Regardless of whether the historian accepts Eberhard Jackel's intentionalist account of Nazism, this writer established beyond doubt that Hitler possessed a "programmatic systematic and inherently coherent" world view or Weltanschauung. ... The final concept of the Friedrich and Brzezinski theory is the centralized beurocratic control over the economy with no organizational pluralism. ... This fundamental failure in the German economy led to their consequent reliance of on the self-sufficient Blitzkrieg Economy. This economy was designed to be self-sufficient, and take over resource...

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When war broke out, there was no way the world could possibly know the severity it would have taken on the people of the world. ... The shock of World War one had still not left, and entering a new war, they felt, would be foolish. ... Yet another factor that led to this decision of Neutrality by President Roosevelt was the American Economy. The health of the American economy could not be jeopardized, whatever was happening elsewhere. ... America was steadily regaining the prosperity that had slowly been lost during World War 1. ...

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First, in Stalin's Russia, his Five Year Plans controlled the national economy. ... To administer these economic changes, he created an agency called the Gosplan, which decided upon every detail of the economy. ... Through conscious management, the government took control of the resources and workforce, therefore creating a true communistic economy. ... He rose to power in a Germany that had a floundering economy and many social concerns following their loss in World War II. ... In A History of the Modern World, R.R. ...

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World War I had left the country in shambles and, as if that weren't enough, the people of Germany had been humiliated and stripped of their pride and dignity by the Allies. Germany's dream of becoming one of the strongest nations in the world no longer seemed to be a possibility and this caused resentment among the German people. ... In order to understand why exactly Hitler was able to make Germany a fascist state, we must study the effects that the end of World War I had on the country. ... The "humiliation imposed by the victors in the World War I, coupled with the hardship of th...

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In World War II they deferred a little from their concept of neutrality. ... The Swiss" economy was definitely effected by their neutrality. ... Swiss factories were the largest part of their economy because they do not have very much farming land. ... That is all policies of Switzerland's economy during WWII. ... That is how the Swiss helped the two major powers in World War II economically, financially, and militarily. ...

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After the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles was established. ... Hitler banned trade unions and strikes in order to control the economy. ... Stalin started his plan of turning the Soviet Union into a Communist state started when he implemented the first of many Five-Year Plans and changed their economy to command economy. ... This rejected Economic Freedom, Private Property, Self-Interest and as well as Competition since the state controlled the economy--since it is in Stalin's plan to have a command economy or a system in which the government makes all the decisions involving th...

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Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mass party controlling the economy, the media and the arms of a state controlled through terror and a fixed ideology ; which, according to Carl Friedrich (a political thinker), define the features of a totalitarian state. ...

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The Nazi or the Soviet Economy in the War 9. Soviet women in the Red Army or the Nazi regime's attitude toward women in the war effort the relationship between the Holocaust and World War II 10. ...

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Fascism as a twentieth-century doctrine was the invention of Benito Mussolini, who had been a rising if erratic star in Italy's socialist party before World War I. Mussolini, however, became convinced during World War I of the inadequacy of socialism: it had no place for the enormous outpouring of nationalist enthusiasm that he saw during the war, no place for the struggle between nations, and no recognition of the fact that solidarity was associated with the national community--not with one's international class or with humanity in general.Moreover, socialism had no plan for how a p...

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