Before World War 1 many countries used the Gold standard because, although each country had a limited amount of gold, it stopped inflation. ... Moreover Europe was disintegrating economically after World War 1 but as the big three were politicians, there was very little attention in the economic part of the treaties. ... This was therefore a missed opportunity to rebuild Europe after World War 1 and create economic stability. During World War 1 the U.S did not sent many troops, but it actually borrowed Britain, France and Italy over $9 Billion dollars. ... Therefore the Treaties caused politic...

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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. ... While the outbreak of war was triggered by Germany's invasion of Poland, the causes of the world war are much more complicated. Due to unresolved anger with the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of dictatorship in Europe, and United States isolation countries around the world took part in history's bloodiest and most widespread war, World War II. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles was one of six treaties that ended World War I. ... The harsh terms...

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Hitler's views of the world were shaped by his experiences on the streets of Vienna, and this is where his violent anti-Semitism derived from. ... He was in Munich at the break out of the First World War and although not a German citizen, he served in the German Army throughout the war. For most of the war he served as a runner, and served at the front line in Flanders (Belgium) and in France. ... In the last months of the war Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross First Class "For bravery and general merit", an honour for a corporal. ... Hitler's rise to power After the end of Worl...

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From their neutrality they have become excellent diplomats and help solve many conflicts including the Second World War. In World War II they deferred a little from their concept of neutrality. ... "Spain acquired more than $138 million in gold during the war and that little more than $1 million was recovered by1946" (Newsday, pg. 1). ... That is how the Swiss helped the two major powers in World War II economically, financially, and militarily. ... They did not act like a neutral nation would act during a war, but history books and encyclopedias still say that they were a neutral nation du...

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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. ... He also blamed the loss of World War 1 on the politicians and that the Jews had everything to do with Germany's problems and ...

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Thematically, good will conquer evil, as Jack Carson's actions symbolically represent the United States and the Allied powers as he battles the the evil Colonel Helmut Von Toth, who represents Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers as a reflection of the events of World War II. ... World War II began, On September 1, 1939. ... World War II had begun" ("World War II and the Holocaust" 1). ... "The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945" ("World War II, America at War" 1). World War II ended with over sixty milli...

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After World War 1, when Germany was required to pay reparations to the Allies, Hitler used this fact to try and prove to potential followers that the "true- Germans were being abused by other nations and races, and the abuse had to stop. ... By the end of his rise to power and the very beginning of the events that led up to World War 2, Hitler started a program that granted marriage licenses only to people who were able to prove that they had a "clean- background, that is, an ancestry that stood up to the Nazi party's idea of "good-. ... Fate seemed to smile on him after World War 1, whe...

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To what extent can Hitler be held responsible for the outbreak of world war two? ... On 1 September 1939 Germany attacked Poland. The outbreak of world war two started on 3 September when Britain and France declared war on Germany. ... Although Hitler did not intend to start the Second World War with his invasion of Poland, he willingly took a risk and he was prepared to fight if necessary. ... But some would say that the outbreak of world war two was due to other factors also; eg. ...

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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. ... 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. Germany was left devastated and vulnerable at the end of the war. ... The Allies did not make any effort to help Germany during this time and left Germany to fend for itself (they seemed to be aware that this had been a mistake by the end World War II when th...

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One of the widely recognized holocaust deniers is David Irving, a controversial World War 2 chronicler, he insists that that individual testimonies from survivors are irrelevant and untrue. ... ( Anti Defamation League 1). ... (Anti- Defamation League 1). ... Going against Irvings view the Nuremberg trials proved the opposite, this famous trial incriminated Nazi officers for war crimes during World War 2. ... (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1). ...

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The American financiers were the most powerful in the world because the Entente countries depended on loans from the USA to fund their war effort. ... In addition many countries were yet to recover from the First World War. ... Another problem caused by the First World War was that of inflation. ... The situation in Germany was made worse because of the reparations they had to pay as a consequence for having started World War I. ... At the height of the crisis the US$1 was worth $4.2 trillion marks. ...

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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. ... 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 Germany from the depression and turn it in to a world superpower that almost won world w...

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In the post war years Nazi's had give women the vote and the feminist elite including the likes of Rosa Luxembourg helped in their own way to shape the political scene. ... Minister for Propaganda, Goebbels described the women's place in society by saying, Woman has the task of being beautiful and bringing children into the world," his defence was derived from the animal kingdom, likening women to female birds which preen themselves for their mates and hatches her eggs for him. ... Despite the stupidity of this idea Hitler still managed to put succinctly, " Women has her battlefield ...

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"(1) In the spring of 1913 Hitler left for Munich, Germany at the age of 24. ... The First World War in 1914 was Hitler's chance to let go of his frustrating childhood. ... It also allowed Hitler to launch the second world war. ... Without any warning they killed 1,400 passengers, 120 of whom were Americans, in cold blood and World War II began. ... This is the part of the war he caused that might have affected the world the most. ...

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The most influential event in world history after the 1900's is the great depression because of the decline in international commerce and stock markets around the world, the rise of Hitler, and Franklin D. ... The war had left Europe in shambles. ... This feeling of revenge felt by Germany, in addition with the social atmosphere of Europe, led to a second World War in the September of 1939, just 11 years after the First World War. ... Germany had no choice but to sign the unfair "diktat"1 and there was only a matter of time before things turned for the worse. ... After its defeat in World...

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Hitler stated in Mein Kampf: " It is precisely our German people, that today broken down, lies defenseless against the kicks of the rest of the world who need that suggestive force that lies in self-confidence.But this self-confidence has to be instilled into the young fellow-citizen from childhood on. ... However at this time youth groups were very popular in the Republic and the Hitler Youth represented only 1 percent of all organized youth. ... Boys were trained to be physically strong and have military skills necessary for war while girls were prepared for their lives as mothers. ... Hitle...

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Prior to World War II, both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler rose to power in their respective countries and brought about great change during their ensuing reigns. ... Although, Germany eventually lost World War II, Hitler did much more with much less in Germany when compared to Stalin. ... After World War I, Germany was the country that was most heavily affected by the global economic collapse that followed the war. ... By 1933, Hitler had turned Germany into a war machine and the phrase, "Today Germany, tomorrow the whole world "3. ... He rose to power in a Germany that had a floundering ec...

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They wanted the preservation of peace at any cost-- a war would have meant the destruction of civilization and the world as they knew it. They felt that risking a war to protect Czechoslovakia was not worth it. ... Response to the conference by the rest of the world, however, was mixed. ... As far as the public was concerned war had been averted, meanwhile war was exactly what was on the forefront of Hitler's mind, and the Munich Agreement didn't change that. ... On 1 October 1938, The Times reported enthusiastically about Chamberlain's return from the successful Munich Con...

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Adolf Hitler's determination to dominate the human race sparked the beginnings of the Second World War. ... By 1938 he had amassed the best-equipped, best-trained army in the world. ... After this defeat, Italy joined Germany in the war against Britain and France. ... Even though Hitler made mistakes, his military strategies were some of the best the world has ever seen. ... Jews were in control of many things in the society. 1. ...

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Committee (1) Conspiracy to commit crimes alleged in other counts (United States) Committee (2) Crimes agents peace (England) Committee (3) War Crimes (France) Committee (4) Crimes agents humanity (Russia) The United States alleged that the Nazi party as a whole committed conspiracy to start an aggressive war, to commit crimes agents humanity (slave labor and the stealing of resources) and to cleanse the world of various ethnic groups. After the Nazi party acquired governmental control over Germany they conspired to:(a compressed version of the indictment as a whole by all four countries) Cons...

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One of those butterfly effect scenarios in some ways, starting with, "the shot heard around the world". ... (lecture) After the resulting war was the string of events to cause the rise of Nazism. ... All of Europe faced economic hardship after a costly war, the germans were not alone. In fact they came out of the war in better shape economically than the winners. ... They could not compete agriculturally, Industrial production output went to 38% of pre World War 1 levels and foreign trade was halted. ...

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This led to the United States declaring war on Japan and therefore Germany, an ally of Japan. Shortly thereafter the horrible media image of fascist Germany swept across the United States, and the country's participations in the European theater of World War II heated up. ... The incredibly cheap and effective V-1 and V-2s were created, amongst other things. The German Fieseler FZG-76 (V-1) flying bomb had a range of 150 miles, traveling at a speed of 410 mph carrying 1,870 lbs of high explosives. ... Ten months of hard war lie ahead for the soldiers. ...

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HOLOCAUST During World War II, Nazi Germany, under the rule of Adolf Hitler, rule almost every part of Europe. ... "On March 1, 1941, the prison population was 10,900 most of it still Polish". ... ( Rogasky ) The number of Jews murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz II must be up to 1 million and a half people that included women and baby. And a great number of Jewish were killed during the World War II as well. ...

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World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. ... Hitler made each insignificant, poverty stricken, jobless youth of the slums feel like they were the best in the world. ... Throughout World War Two Hitler worked from one of several field headquarters, in contrast to other heads of state, who remained in their capital cities. ... After the war, the picture emerged of Hitler as a megalomaniac who refused to listen to his military experts and who, as a consequence, lost the war for Germany. ... He began by accepting war against t...

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Propaganda in Nazi Germany Pegah Ghassemi English 1 12/11/00 Propaganda in Nazi Germany In the period of time around the Second World War, the German people's heads were infiltered with Nazi Propaganda.. ... Propaganda played a very big role in controlling and dictating the German population during the Second World War. ... Hitler's Party started their propaganda schemes several years before World War Two even started because they needed that much time to slowly control the population. ... "By the outbreak of the Second World War, Goebbels" Propaganda Ministry had compl...

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