Charles 1st was reasonable to an extent‚ but not fully. Parliament was also to blame‚ but less so than Charles. Charles had a bad relationship with Parliament from the beginning‚ resulting in conflict between them. He believed in Divine Right of King‚ something that his father also believed in. Divine Right of King means that you were chosen to be King by God; therefore‚ God is on your side. Charles also shut down Parliament a number of times‚ and ruled without Parliament for a number of years.
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were in this one empire. To say to what extent was the Austro-Hungarian Empire “ripe for dissolution” we must remember these different viewpoints because they were the main source of problems for the Austro-Hungarian Empire between 1867 and 1914. Based on the events listed in the book I would say that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not ripe for dissolution‚ but they were close. From the outside‚ it did not seem like a nation that was ready to dissolve in 1914‚ but its internal ethnic strife and
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The orthodox school sees the Cold War as the product of the aggressive and expansionist foreign policies of USSR. This view has been presented by historians such as W. H .McNeill‚ H. Feis‚ and A. Schlesinger. After WW2 a power vacuum was left in a large part of central and Eastern Europe. Stalin took the advantage of this in order to strengthen the Soviet Union and spread communism. In the Yalta conference (Feb 1945)‚ Stalin demanded parts of Poland to be given to USSR. Stalin made a communist government
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To what extent was World War II Hitler`s war? The second World War can be considered “Hitler`s war” due to Adolf Hitlers responsibility and actions that caused the war. He had an enormous impact and role on many events such as secretly increasing the size fo the army‚which made World War 2 possible. On the other hand‚ the failure of the League of Nations and defects in the Treaty of Versailles also triggered the outbreak of the war. It gave Hitler many oppurtunities to support his ambitions and
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The Two Front War and Schlieffen Plan At the beginning of World War I‚ Germany had a an issue with the placement of combat on its borders. Germany had very little allies‚ Austria-Hungary being the most notable‚ resulting the country being forced to fight on two fronts. With France bordering the west and the Russia bordering the east‚ Germany drafted the Schlieffen Plan to solve this issue. In the Schlieffen plan‚ German forces would begin battles it’s French border as other German forces traveled
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true to believe that Germany was the sole instigator of the First World War? No topic in the 20th century is more debated about by historians. The causes of the Great War‚ which raged on from 1914 to 1918‚ can be found as far back as the Franco- Prussian war which ended in 1871‚ the political and economic environment of Europe and the web of alliances which divided the empires of Europe into two tense and armed camps. As for Germany’s involvement in the start of the war‚ there are three ways which
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The Civil war was inevitable if the conflict between the south and the north‚ slavery and politics were resolved. After independence‚ the differences and complexity of America sharpened increasing slavery. The complexities in terms of the migration of the whites and black slaves and shift from small scale farming to large scale farming made civil war inevitable. There were many differences between the north and south. The north preferred city life while the south was keen to plantation life. The
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Coursework - The First World War. Explain how the Schlieffen plan was meant to work. The Schlieffen plan was the strategy Germany planned to adopt in the event of a war in 1914. It was intended to bring a fast‚ effective victory for Germany‚ and was devised by Count Alfred von Schlieffen who was the Chief of the General Staff of the German Army. If a war broke out‚ Germany would be faced with a war in the west against France‚ and a war on the east against Russia. German generals knew that they could not
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To What Extent was the Korean War a Part of the Cold War? The Korean War‚ that began on the 25th of June 1950 and lasted until the 27th of July 1953‚ was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). It was initially the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th
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What was the most important reason to the outbreak of World War 1? The Great War (now known as World War 1) took place for 4 years from the 28th July of 1914 to the 11th of November 1918. There were two sides to the war‚ The Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary) and The Allied Powers (The British Empire‚ France‚ The Russian Empire‚ Belgium‚ Italy etc.) There were about 16 million deaths and 21 million casualties. The Allies won the war and forced the end of the German Empire and the Treaty
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