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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The League of Nations 1. The body that was formed out of Wilson’s 14 Points was called the League of Nations. (a) The League’s aims and objectives were set in 26 articles known as the Covenant. (b) President Wilson was hoping that the League would unite against any future international wars. (c) The League of Nations offered the idea of collective security. This meant those countries would act together if any member were threatened by any hostile state. 2. In the beginning the League did have
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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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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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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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happened in Prussia‚ Russia and Austria changing the quality of life for the people for the better. However‚ even Enlighted Absolutism has its limits as we with the persecution of the Jewish people. In Prussia Frederick II acquired the province of Silesia‚ but
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