Essay Topic I: Ethnicity‚ Race and Culture: Austria Austria is not a big country; it’s ranked on 115th place in total area and 92nd in total population. But not so long ago the Austrian-Hungarian Empire was one of the “big players” by the end of the 19th century in Europe. That Empire has been a mixture of many different and strongly varying cultures and ethnicities‚ which remains as one of the reasons why it probably fell apart and got divided into different nations. So what is it now‚ that
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Vienna Austria Introduction to the city Vienna is located in the Northeast corner of Österreich‚ or Austria. Austria is landlocked and bordered by eight countries: Germany‚ the Czech Republic‚ Slovakia‚ Hungary‚ Slovenia‚ Italy‚ Switzerland‚ and Liechtenstein. Austria has nine states with Vienna being one of them. Of Austria’s 8.3 million people‚ 1.7 million of them live in Vienna. It is the country’s largest city and capital. Because the city lies on the Danube River‚ it is a major shipping
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nuclear war and perhaps its end. Through all of this many debates emerged on the events that transpired. Perhaps the most debated subject and the subject of this essay is who or what events were the main causes of the failure of diplomacy that lead to WWI. Diplomatic failure in 1914 did not happen all the suddenly‚ for Europe was not merely thrown into a “Great War.” This was a result of building tensions which were a direct result of events that had occured over a long period of time prior to 1914
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many wars have followed. Yet‚ many aspects of warfare were changed during this time. WWI was one of the bloodiest wars that the world has ever seen. Events taking place over a long period of time‚ such as imperialism‚ militarism‚ alliances and nationalism‚ as well as more immediate effects such as the assassination of Ferdinand‚ new countries involvements due to alliances‚ led to tension‚ and soon the outbreak of WWI. The most important of the long term effects leading to the outbreak of war was
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The United States entered WWI late causing it to not be as heavily effected by casualties as other countries but there were many other effects of the war. I would like to highlight three effects of the war which are soldiers going through shell shock‚ change in racial distribution‚ and women gaining rights. First‚ many soldiers came back from the war not fully together literally and figuratively because of shell shock. Millions of veterans arrived home missing limbs‚ blind‚ deaf‚ or mentally broken
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The Effects on Hungary as a New Member Nation in the European Union Team 5 Paul Davis Gulizar Halis Kristin Hanlon Alyson Heller Overview/History of Hungary and the European Union The nation of Hungary is a country that has come a long way in a short period of time. In the years since the fall of communism in 1989 in this country‚ Hungary has managed to establish an extremely prosperous economy and population. Because of this‚ Hungary has developed into one of Eastern Europe¡¯s most
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soldier’s deaths. It was very hard for soldier’s to get the type of medical care and technology that we have today‚ and difficult to be cured. In this case‚ during World War I diseases were very common and were spread thoroughly. Fighting in the WWI meant being high at risk of death. Soldiers were constantly doing life threatening duties. Deaths numbers were so intense that “after a year and a half of fighting‚ more than 53‚000 Americans died from combat related injuries” (Kinder). If a soldier
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<center><b>The main cause of WWI was the European alliances. To what extent do you agree with this statement</b></center> <br> <br>Before 1914 the five Great Powers‚ Great Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and Russia controlled Europe. In 1914 World War One broke out in Europe. Historians have debated the causes ever since. As a historian it will be difficult to conclusively establish a single cause a number of significant causes is a far more helpful outcome. Although the European Alliances
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Germany‚ in particular‚ bore the most afterwar consequence; the Treaty of Versailles placed full blame for causing World War I (WWI) on Germany’s shoulders. However‚ it was unjust to force Germany to assume sole responsibility for triggering World War I. Other powers in Europe played roles equally significant to that of Germany in giving rise to the four factors leading to WWI: imperialism‚ militarism‚ nationalism‚ and alliances (Plante‚Yvette‚ Miller‚ & Falk‚ pp.41). Imperialism‚ the
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threatening Europe’s balance of power. The same disputes between ethnic groups were occurring in Austro-Hungarian‚ Russian‚ and Ottoman empires. Clashes between Austria-Hungary and Serbia significantly affected the outbreak of the war. In the 1800s‚ the Ottoman Empire began to weaken and lost control of many territories. Austria-Hungary and Russia took advantage of the Ottoman’s weakness and took control of some of those territories‚ while others became independent nations. This further threatened
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