standing and unspoken alliances and tensions that dated back to 1880. The first main alliance was the Triple alliance composed of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and Italy. The second association was made up by France‚ Great Britain‚ and Russia and were known as the Triple entente. These alliances may have been one cause of the outbreak of WW1. Therefore the underlying causes of WW1 were militarism‚ alliances‚ and imperialism. Militarism is defined as “a belief or desire that a government or people should
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------------------------------------------------- Notes & Analysis Event Analysis | Quote Analysis | Character Analysis | Questions to think of Summary | Analysis | Pg. 1 – 32Two scenarios are described‚ taking place in the same ‘dark ground’ where children seem to have been lost. Cam‚ Zak‚ etc: large group of people staying near a ravine. Robert: Was in a plane with family‚ went to bathroom to brush teeth‚ weird stuff going on with reflection‚ and randomly wakes up in a kind of forest‚ naked and alone. After making arrangements
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empires and dependencies. Numerous other states joined these allies‚ most notably Italy in April 1915‚ and the United States in April 1917. The Central Powers‚ so named because of their central location on the European continent‚ initially consisted of Germany and Austria-Hungary and their associated empires. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in October 1914‚ followed a year later by Bulgaria. By the conclusion of the war‚ only The Netherlands‚ Switzerland‚ Spain and the Scandinavian nations
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There were few valid reasons for the start of WW1. The reasons I am about to explain to you are IMPERIALISM‚ MILITARISM and ALLIANCES. WW1 started because the greed of other countries. Imperialism started to be a big factor in 1848 because a new‚ very big and very strong country called Germany was made. It was made up of Prussia‚ Oldenburg‚ Schaunburg-Lippe‚ Mecklenburg-sterhitz‚ Hessen‚ Hohenzollern and Waldeck. A few days after they became Germany‚ they attacked France and conquered some
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Between June and December in 1941‚ German judgement inhibited achievement in Operational Barbarossa. Strategic indecision in a wider and more specific context was exacerbated by climatic conditions and a widening rift between the reality and the theory of the battle. The Blitzkrieg strategy that had defined German military capacity was inapplicable to the Russian situation in several contexts. Blitzkrieg was intended to avoid stagnant trench and linear warfare‚ it was intended to prevent enemy
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strategic concept for conducting the war against Sparta and its allies. All of these reasons contributed to the downfall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War; however‚ this paper will focus only on the failure of Athens to execute Pericles’s strategy. Athens lost the Peloponnesian War because of a failure to follow the strategy of Pericles‚ which ultimately led to reckless expeditions‚ ill-advised war decisions and loss of allies. Pericles was an Athenian politician and general during the time when tensions
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too much power and by having entire system with absolute proportional representation. Which indirectly assisted to raise the power of Hitler’s legitimate. 2) The verdict of the treaty of Versailles is not harsh stead of quiet kindness to Germany‚ because Germany deserved something bad in return‚ they should realize this was going to happen to them when they killed and wounded hundred and thousand innocent people‚ and Jewish’s desire might be the fuse of all the matters‚ but they don’t deserve to
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World War 1. Some background information: -Fought from 1914-1918 and between Germany and England/France/Belgium and other Allied countries. -World War 1 saw a complete change in the way wars were fought and the attitudes towards them. More advanced technology saw death on a huge scale and there were nearly a million British casualties. This in turn created a new breed of poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon‚ who wrote in protest of the war and its dire conditions. They argued that
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Why was Germany unhappy with the Treaty of Versailles? The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that made peace between the countries involved in World War 1. These countries included Austria-Hungary‚ Britain‚ France‚ Germany and United States of America. In the treaty‚ Germany lost a lot of land‚ which made a big blow on their empire. Germany’s ambry was limited to 100‚000 troops‚ as the French were scared of being invaded from the border. Also the Rhineland zone‚ where the Rhine River flows
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Contributors Acknowledgments page ix xi xiii 1 World Wars: Definition and Causes Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig 2 The European Wars: 1815–1914 Richard F. Hamilton 3 Serbia Richard C. Hall 4 Austria-Hungary Graydon A. Tunstall‚ Jr. 5 Germany Holger H. Herwig 6 Russia David Alan Rich 7 France Eugenia C. Kiesling 8 Great Britain J.
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