alliance promised to help its allies if they were attacked by another country. Each nation supported the others in its alliance to create a more balanced and powerful force. For example if one nation had a weak navy but a strong army then it could ally with a nation that had a strong navy but a weak army; the two would balance out. This led to the outbreak of war because it created it atmosphere of fear‚ suspicion and mistrust. Many secret arrangements were made between allies‚ which resulted in small-scale
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this period of time‚ both public opinion and Parliamentary opinion would lean towards the opposing side‚ based a series of factors that had changed in this 3 year span of time. A poorly-prepped military and defense services‚ a lack of trustworthy allies‚ Hitler’s legitimate claims and a change in public opinion all contributed towards a shift in beliefs. Opposition to the policy of appeasing militaristic powers began to grow after Hitler took power in Germany and it became clear to many in Britain
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Remilitarisation of the Rhineland‚ Munich Conference and The Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Britain and France could have also lowered reparations for Germany as Germany was bankrupt and with extremist parties taking power such as The Nazis would dislike the Allies and The Treaty of Versailles. The major causes of WW2 were not the weaknesses of Britain and France as Czechoslovakia was too far away from Britain and France to help if the German Army invaded but Czechoslovakia would have been a very
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In 1914 World War I began. There were several causes of this war‚ and they could be divided into long and short term causes. The long term causes were imperialism‚ alliances‚ nationalism and militarism. The short term cause‚ which acted as a trigger to the Great War was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. (Humanities Alive 4‚ pp 4-5) All the long term causes of the Great War were significant but perhaps the most noteworthy was militarism‚ which is the development of large and powerful military
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|1914 | | |VIENNA |AFTER RECEIVING A WARNING THAT RUSSIA WOULD NOT DEFEND ITS BALKAN ALLY‚ SERBIA SUBMITS TO NEARLY ALL OF | | |THE HUMILIATING DEMANDS OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. WITH GERMAN ENCOURAGEMENT‚ THE DUAL MONARCHY REJECTS THIS | | |OFFER.[PASTE DESCRIPTION HERE]
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Mississippi River‚ Spain got New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ and all land west of the Mississippi River‚ and France lost all of its land. 10. Braddock and his army along with George Washington tried to make a surprise attack to the French and Native American allies at Fort Duquesne. Washington suggest that the army should move behind the trees to fight. Braddock did not listen and doing so resulted in the consequence of the loss of the British and the death of 1000 men and Braddock. 11. The British started to
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that I offer this plan. Britain must immediately end its rule of India. This is the only way to turn the bad feelings toward Great Britain into good ones. It will allow millions of Indians to help the Allies in this war.” meaning that Gandhi was offering a deal in which they offered to join them as allies in the war‚ but they could not do so because they were under British rule‚ in
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“Asses the significance of the Treaty of Versailles” The Treaty of Versailles did not dismantle Germany from its ability to wage war; it neither made the people grateful towards the allies. As the Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli of the 1500’s stated “___________”. The Treaty imposed many demands of the war weary country‚ these demands did not have an immediate effect on the country‚ and it instead gave a long-term legacy of bitterness and humiliation. The defeat of the German
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Hitler Research Paper By Gage Hogan Have you ever wanted to know who started the Holocaust? What about why he or she started it? Well you are about to learn who did it and why the person did it. The person who started it all was Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a powerful dictator in Germany. Adolf Hitler started the Holocaust because he was racist against Jewish people. As a dictator Hitler was an insane man that rule Germany. So within this paper you will learn about Hitler’s childhood‚ campaign‚ and
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“arguments” with Serbia ‚ this gave Austria-Hungary the excuse to go to war. July 28‚ 1914‚ Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia ‚ as a first attack Austria-Hungary invaded Bosnia-Herzegovina in reaction to this Russia got involved o back-up its ally Serbia and as a result
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