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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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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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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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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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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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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Prior to the Second World War the situation was similar. ... Whilst many similarities can be observed in the outbreaks of both of the World Wars, this in itself does not preclude any differences. One of these can be found in the economic state, indeed, of the world, prior to either of the wars. ... In contrast, before WWII Europe was still recovering from the greatest economic depression the world had ever experienced. ... Therefore, here a difference can be observed in that in WWII the state of the global economy was a factor in the outbreak of war whereas in WWI it was inconsequential. ...

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Between 1922 and 1945, fascist parties arose throughout the world. ... Even Mussolini's and Hitler's fascist states - allied Axis forces in World War II - were far from identical. Up to and including the year 2002 fascist states and groups continue to exist all over the world. ... Fascist economic programs supported the wealthy, and until he instituted a war economy, Mussolini provided minimum interference to industrialists, cut taxes on business and decreed wage reduction (RoSo, 2002). ... He advocated "true democracy" through state ownership of key economy sectors, strict adhere...

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Unemployment has been a prominent feature of British society throughout the Twentieth Century; however, it is between the end of the First World War (1918) and the beginning of the Second World War (1939) that it reaches its peak. This time period from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War is defined today as the interwar period. ... This was mainly due to the fact that Britain was going through some major transitions at that time, for example: there were changes taking place in the economy, there was increasing foreign competition with regards to trade, t...

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Economy The Russian war effort was a "tremendous economic and organizational achievement." ... On August 3 1941 the "Council of Evacuation" ordered the exodus of 16 million workers and 2,593 factories to the east so they did not fall into the Germans hands, whilst allowing Russia to rapidly rebuild its armaments economy. ... This "economic miracle" was down to Russia's creation of a "Total War" economy; Soviet industry abandoned almost all civilian production and turned into a "war camp." 76% of the Soviet Union's Net National Product went to the war, a higher proportion than any oth...

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From humiliating defeat in World War 1 they had risen to become masters of Europe. ... Dependent on Allied loans, Germanys economy collapsed as depression struck the western powers. ... Hitler promised a resurrection of the German economy and of German national pride. ...

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This hatred was at boiling point and only needed the events, which triggered World War 1 to confirm his patriotism. ... "Germany had high hopes of defeating enemies in World War 1, with their Kaiser promising European supremacy" (source 3). ... However it was during time in World War 1 that all Germans, Jews and non-Jews alike shared the spread of patriotism. "World War I Jews served along with non-Jews, fighting and dying in the armies of Germany. ... With an improving economy, Hitler claimed credit for Germanys rise in the world and soon after made himself Fuhrer of Germany with...

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On June 28th 1919 the German Government signed the Treaty of Versailles, admitting Germany's defeat in World War One. ... Many investors world-wide, felt the devastating, long-lasting effects of the falling prices at the New York stock exchange, which led to the depression. ... When the economy took another turn for the worse, Germany was desperate, therefore many Germans felt that it was the right time to vote for a different party. ... The economy now started to pick up again and the Nazis started to lose some votes. ...

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These were the comforting words by world-renowned rabbi and concentration camp survivor at Theresienstadt, Leo Baeck, who was known as "The Pope of German Jews." ... In Germany post WWI the economy was in ruins. ... He did reestablish the German economy and give the unemployed people a job. ...

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In Islamic world, Gypsies were considered as Christian because of their different religion believes and culture; but their dark skin and foreign-looking faces made them "Islam" in Christian society. ... This label of "Christ-killers" marked the "immorality" for the Jewish people in the Christian world, and became a symbol of against law and order. ... But that was not the case in the aftermath of world war one. German Economy was close to a complete collapse; the nation was full of poverty and dissatisfaction; the concerns in German society about moral decay and the spread of crime grew rapidl...

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The concept of the Volksgemeinschaft was taken from the trenches of world war one where a sense of national unity replaced class division. ... The Nazis introduced polices to increase the number of births of racially pure Germans as the birth rate had been declining since world war one. ... Initially he left control of the economy to bankers, civil servants and businessmen. ... The memory of the blockades in world war one were still fresh and Hitler wanted to Germany's reliance on overseas nations as not to make the same mistake as Germany did in world war one. ... They were able to pull...

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The Treaty of Versailles was proposed to be a peace settlement between the victorious Allies and the defeated Germans at the outcome of World War I. ... World War I came to an end on November 11, 1918. ... When World War I began in August, 1914, the United States was certain that it would remain neutral. ... David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, held office during the latter part of World War I and through early years following the war. ... The German economy suffered immensely, as a result of the treaty. ...

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We can explore how Democracy had failed in Nazi, Germany and relate it to the events, which surround our world even until this very day. After World War I in 1918, Germany was a nation with political and social problems. ... This upset many Germans who felt humiliated in front of the whole world for their defeat. ... With a strong economy, low inflation and people with jobs, all Hitler could do was step back and wait for his time to take control. ... During the world wide Depression, it was the people of Germany's responsibility to choose a leader by participating in the voting process...

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While Hitler was in Vienna, he learned things which he later used to destroy the world. ... The First World War in 1914 was Hitler's chance to let go of his frustrating childhood. ... During the German depression the economy of West Germany wasn't getting any better, but Hitler's chance to gain political power was. ... It also allowed Hitler to launch the second world war. ... This is the part of the war he caused that might have affected the world the most. ...

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He went on to fight in World War One for Germany, after the war ended he joined the German Workers" Party in 1919. ... Both Adolf Hitler and Louis XIV went on to impact their respective countries and the rest of the world in a way that is unimaginable by most leaders in modern society. ... To support so much magnificence a sound fiscal system and a good economy were necessary. ...

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