In 2003‚ the people of Liechtenstein voted on whether or not to expand the powers of the monarchy. Prior to the referendum‚ Crown Prince Hans Adam II had the right of a princely veto‚ the right to dissolve parliament and call early elections. Laws could not be passed without his consent‚ and as such‚ he was already one of the most powerful monarchs in Europe. The Crown Prince wanted these powers to be further consolidated even though political critics said that such a change would transform the country
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‘Blitzkrieg’ succeeded in Poland not because of it being a superior tactic‚ but because the Polish were unprepared. To what extent is this statement an accurate assessment of the success of ‘Blitzkrieg’ in Poland in WW2? Introduction Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (18889-1945)‚ the National Socialist German Workers Party‚ or Nazi Party‚ grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarianism‚ from 1933-1945. It was founded in 1919 as the German workers party‚ the party promoted
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It is through the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth that the reader can recognize everything nature has to offer. Wordsworth opens this poem by claiming that he is a cloud observing the nature underneath him. From here he sees a large field of daffodils‚ then further describes the deeper meaning of these flowers using a series of poetic devices. In the second and third stanzas‚ Wordsworth glorifies the image of the daffodils. He describes them as endless and “continuous
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Weimar: Destined for Failure by a Weak Constitution and Poor Popular Support? A thread that runs throughout many analyses of the legacy of theWeimar Republic contains the idea that the fledgling German democracy was somehow doomed from the start. With a constitution that contained items such as Article 48 – a constitutional provision that permitted the Weimar President to rule by decree without the consent of the Reichstag – and a clause that allowed the Reichskanzler to assume office in the event
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Ranks viii. Achieving Secular Control of the Church 7. The Ottoman Empire a. Religious Toleration and Ottoman Government i. The Role of Ulama b. The End of Ottoman Expansion 1. The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline i. Seven provinces that became the United Provinces of the Netherlands emerged as a new state recognized by European powers in the 1580s ii. Netherlands won formal independence in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) iii. Warfare forged identity of the Nlands: independence wars from Spain
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Assignment: 1 • Critically examine the main features of Enlightened Despotism in 18th century Prussia. The Enlightenment refers to an important cultural and intellectual movement of the 18th century‚ whose goal was to establish knowledge based on an enlightened rationality. Enlightened Absolutism or Enlightened Despotism as it is more often called can be defined as a form of government strongly influenced by the wide propagation of ideas and the political philosophy of the Enlightenment. It is
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The seven years war is a very historical event for many reasons‚ and should be studied at schools around the world. The seven years war was basically the first world war. In the early 1750s‚ French explorers claimed what they called new France. Although the French already had a huge amount of land they still expanded into the Ohio River valley. The Seven Year’s War had many land changes between Britain‚ France‚ Spain‚ and the natives in North America. French colonist started to move farther and
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forced labour camps. The remaining people are gassed and cremated within a few hours. Levi and twenty-nine other men are loaded onto a truck and transported to the Monowitz-Buna forced labour camp of about 10‚000 prisoners‚ near Auschwitz in Upper Silesia. They enter the gates under the sign Arbeit Macht Frei. They are held for hours in a cold room‚ filled ankle deep with freezing water. They are ordered to completely undress and remain naked‚ without shoes‚ for many hours. Then barbers enter the
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placed under the power of the League of Nations for 15 years. Denmark received Northern Schleswig. Finally‚ the Rhineland was demilitarized; that is‚ no German military forces were allowed there. In the east‚ Poland received parts of West Prussia and Silesia from Germany. In addition‚ Czechoslovakia received the Hultschin district from Germany; the largely German city of Danzig became a free city under the protection of the League of Nations; and Memel‚ a small strip of territory in East Prussia along
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favour of a republic before the signing of the Versailles Treaty. The Versailles Treaty was one of the many documents written up to ensure that Germany would never come to full power again. The terms of the Versailles Treaty included the loss of the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine‚ Eupen-Malmedy‚ Memel‚ the Hultschin district‚ Poznania‚
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