Peace Treaties Peace Treaties Versailles Aim: punish Germany‚ prevent war and allow self-determination Territorial Aim: to weaken Germany by taking away territories‚ to get compensation for cost of war by gaining land‚ and to allow for self-determination -Germany lost 13.5% of land‚ 12.5% of population‚ 15% of farm production‚ 48% iron production and 16% coal production Alsace-Lorraine | France | Eupen‚ Moresnet‚ Malmedy | Belgium | North Schleswig | Denmark (through plebiscite) self-determination
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Modern Day Witch hunt The First Red Scare began after the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the First World War (1914–18). Anarchist and left-wing political violence and social agitation aggravated extant national social and political tensions. Historian L.B. Murray reports that the “Red Scare” was “a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent — a revolution that would destroy [private] property‚ Church
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Russia. He was replaced by a very short term government that only lasted from February 1917 through October 1917. During the second revolution in the same year as the first one‚ the provisional government was substituted in favor of the Bolshevik government. The Bolshevik government was a communist government in every sense of the word. It
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Ben Jacob Temple 16th May 2013 2nd Block The Danger of Ignorance “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Mandela) Mandela says that education is a best weapon but I also believe that it is the best defense. In George Orwell’s novella “Animal Farm”‚ a pig named Napoleon takes over and does as he pleases. There are so many animals that they could easily overthrow him if they were educated and united. Orwell warns his readers of the danger of ignorance and
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the European country‚ Georgia. Georgia at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Stalin was born into poverty‚ and committed crimes when he grew older. Stalin rose to power after Lenin’s death in 1924. Lenin was a revolutionary who founded the Bolshevik Party. Lenin was also the first leader
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World War I was triggered by several philosophies including nationalism‚ militarism‚ and secret alliances. On the eve of World War I‚ many European countries and nations of people without a state held nationalistic beliefs in the supremacy and superiority of their own nation. This‚ combined with the belief that a strong country had a strong military‚ led to deep tensions throughout Europe that were only intensified by the many secret alliances and treaties formed to ensure mutual support if attacked
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movement against the Russian monarchy. In 1904‚ he met Lenin at the first national Bolshevik conference in Finland before becoming the delegate to the Social Democratic Party. His job was to gather support for the Bolshevik cause among poorer workers. In the period after the revolution of 1905‚ Stalin led fighting squads in bank robberies to raise funds for the Bolshevik Party. Stalin was appointed a member of the Bolshevik Central Committee in 1913. He then received the post of editor for Pravada‚ the
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To what extent did Soviet culture perform a political role in the USSR in the years 1924-1953? By Seb Monson 12MW Soviet culture performed a political role in the USSR in the years 1924 to 1953 as it was seen by Stalin as an expression of society’s values and it needed to be shaped and directed in the same way that agriculture and industry had been to fit into the totalitarian state. However between 1924-1929 culture was fairly uncontrolled because of the relaxed policies of the New Economic Policy
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An Analysis of the Moscow Show Trials and Stalin’s Soviet Union The soviet show trials were the manifestation of totalitarianism. Show trials are a public display of many key features typically found in a totalitarian dictatorship. Unlike a court room trial where debate and the introduction of evidence is definitive in a case’s outcome‚ the defendant is already considered guilty of a crime by the state‚ has no legal rights and is purposely humiliated and ridiculed in order to undermine their
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Joseph Stalin’s Genocide: 50 Million Deaths From 1919 to 1953 when Stalin died about 50 million lives were taken in the Gulags of Russia (“Videofact”). In total there were 53 Gulags and 423 labor camps (“Gulag”). Stalin was considered one of the most feared dictators because of his secret police and the Gulags. During a series of interviews in 1996‚ a Soviet veteran who lived in Minsk claimed to have seen a U.S. POW in May or June 1953. The POW was a Korean War F-86D pilot whose plane had been
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