In the year 1914 there was a great war which was centered in Europe. This war was World War One; it lasted for four years and involved all the major powers of the world during that period. According to Britannica ready reference (2003) the first world last from 1914 to 1918 and it was an International conflict between the Central Powers-Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and Turkey and the Allied Powers mainly France‚ Britain‚ Russia‚ Italy‚ and from 1917 the U.S. The U.S kept out of the war at the begin
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their embarrassment. Heavy compensations had to be paid to countries that suffered the most damage: France‚ Belgium and Britain. The final Figure was decided in 1921 as 6 billion MARKS. They could not afford this and the fact that Saar and Upper Silesia‚ which were valuable industrial areas‚ were lost did not help the case. Other economically important places such as Alsace- Lorraine and a number of overseas territories were also lost. The fifth term of the treaty was a League of Nations‚ designed
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Paper 1 exam notes Aims of the different participants USA Believed that no country should benefit from such a catastrophe as the Great War. The 14 points of Woodrow Wilson Basis of German surrender but also a general description of what had to be done to make long lasting international world peace 1. No secret treaties 2. Free access to the sea 3. Free trade between all nations 4. Disarmament to lowest possible limit for each country 5. Colonial issues resolved with the cooperation of the natives
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League’s organisation did involve a lot of countries‚ had strong mandates from the Versailles Settlement‚ had a strong secretariat in Geneva‚ and had a clear set of rules. The League was not very good at keeping the peace either. It did split Upper Silesia successfully between the Germans and the Poles‚ settle the dispute of the Aaland Islands‚ prevent war between Greece and Bulgaria‚ and managed to hold off another major war (but only until 1939). On the other hand‚ the League did nothing to stop the
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border area between france and germany. a)In what ways did the treaty weaken the german economy? Germany was to accept the full blame of starting the war and therefore had to pay 6600 million pounds in reparations. Furthermore‚ the Saar and Upper Silesia wre lost‚ these were important industrial areas. Germany lost a large section of their territory and found themselves with no incomes and having to pay a great amount of money. The goverment went bankrupt and this lead to hyperinflation. The reduction
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MAUS I/II The Holocaust was the most heinous tragedy of all time. In Art Spiegelman’s Maus I and Maus II‚ it is been explain this massacre through (of all platforms) a comic book. In Spiegelman’s book‚ his portrait of The Jews as mice and The Nazi as cats is precisely how the Jews were treated‚ like animals whose lives were without much value. Using the Maus I/II‚ I will identify five of the Nazi Holocaust Stages. 1. Life Before the Nazi’s: • Vladek born in Poland on October 11‚ 1906. And as
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both in Europe and Africa. In Europe‚ Germany lost territory in the north to set up new states in Poland‚ Lithuania‚ Estonia‚ and Latvia. Germany had annexed these states from Russia just a year earlier. German land in East Prussia‚ Posten and Upper Silesia was also taken away and given to Poland‚ giving the Poles access to the sea. The Rhineland was demilitarised as a buffer zone to stop the Germans from attacking France‚ and disputed land in Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France. The Saarlands and
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The French and British constantly came into conflict as they began to establish global empires in the 1600s and 1700s. This was not the beginning of the two nations’ feud with each other. Not only was it not the beginning‚ but it was not the only thing the French and British fought over. The French and the British have had over hundreds of battles with each other. These deadly battles ranging from the year 1066 to the year 1815 and it is what the French and British are well known for. The disputes
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IT’S INTERESTING to see how history is distorted in the act of grasping it: how it bends to fit the mind of the person who takes it in. You can investigate a historical epoch and watch as others‚ arriving at disparate conclusions‚ paint a portrait with a selection of colors chosen to fulfill their needs. A man is bound to feel that in the careless approach of others‚ he himself stands accused: is he not guilty of the same crime‚ of distorting history to his own ends‚ lacking merely the person with
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in the 1920s‚ the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1930s. In May 1933‚ Franz Bernheim‚ a Jew‚ complained that his rights as a minority were being violated by the German administration of Upper Silesia‚ which induced the Germans to defer enforcement of the anti-Jewish laws in the region for several years until the relevant treaty expired in 1937‚
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