Was the outbreak of general war in 1914 inevitable after the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand? Various different factors led to the outbreak of the first World War- a war which incorporated all human‚ economic and military resources available to achieve total victory over the enemy. Roughly‚ the causes can be classified into long term (Franco-Prussian War‚ Imperialism‚ Alliance System‚ Anglo- German Naval Arms Race‚ etc.)‚ short term (Morrocan Crisis‚ Agadir Crisis‚ Bosnian Crisis‚ Balkan
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In That Was Then‚ This Is Now by S.E. Hinton‚ there are two main female characters‚ Angela Shepard and Cathy Carlson. They both play big parts in the book‚ but they are two totally different characters with barely anything in common. Bryon compares the two girls a few times throughout the book. Cathy was sweet‚ but she didn’t take people’s nonsense. She came from a good family with lots of siblings and loving parents. Angela was bitter‚ and she didn’t have a good home life or family. There
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Why Antigone is Much More Important Than Creon The Tragedy of Antigone is not called Creon because Antigone is more important than Creon‚ she is more controversial‚ and she is more admirable. Antigone played a bigger role than Creon in that she defied the law and started the whole play’s chain of events‚ eventually leading to nearly everyone’s death. When the play starts‚ it starts with Antigone talking with her sister‚ Ismene. She talks about burying her brother‚ Polynices. Even though Ismene
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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War? The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable‚ and therefore no one’s fault‚ due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World War. Yet many of the tensions that existed
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‘In the years before WW1 Germany was progressing towards an effective democracy’ how far do you agree? Germany before WW1 had a climate that possible could have led them to follow democracy. After all the biggest party in Reichstag was a democratic party and there was a constitution. Along with this the voting system was fairly progressed giving votes to most men and turnouts for these elections had increased showing political participation to be increasing along with general interest in politics
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your own knowledge. “Germany aggression was responsible for the outbreak of a general European War in August 1914”. How far do you agree with this judgement? The debate of Germanys responsibility for the outbreak of war first began with the charge of war guilt given in Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty. Germany rejected Article 231 and successfully campaigned against it as by 1950 it had become widely accepted that Germany where not solely responsible for the outbreak of war in 1914. The first
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within our own culture. I’ve also seen that no matter how much I wish otherwise‚ language has undeniably been an impediment to respecting those who are different. I researched the years of Chairman Mao Ze Dong with an English Source The Unknown Story of Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday‚ in which countless paragraphs described Mao’s actions during the Cultural Revolution similar to this: “[Mao] had intended the Great Purge to install much more merciless enforcers” (Chang‚ pg. 537). The authors paralleled
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Which was more important in developing the Cold War‚ the Berlin Crisis or the Korean War? The Berlin Blockade and airlift were important for the development of the Cold war because it was one of the first crises which happened during the Cold War. The Berlin Blockade changed many people’s lives in West Berlin as the Soviets had blocked food supplies‚ energy supplies and gas to West Berlin by closing all roads and railways. This lead to the USA and Britain having to supply West Berlin by sending
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world war one was caused by a single country‚ Germany. Evidence of this comes from the fact that Germany believed that war was inevitable‚ they were in the process of designing military strategies for a war prior to Austria-Hungary having any hostility towards Serbia‚ and tried to pressure countries into unwanted treaties. There is information to suggest that Germany anticipated a war ever since they themselves became a country. In 1871 “following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War‚ Germany
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"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think." Language is an essential tool to people for communicating messages and expressing feelings. Civilizations‚ and an understanding of the world around have been built with language‚ but as there is no doubt that words are powerful‚ they have also destroyed lives and relations to prove their potentiality. Now the question is‚ how does this relate to the areas of knowing? The most obvious effect of language is in the human sciences since psychology
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