TOPIC 1: PEACE MAKING 1.1 Wilson and the fourteen points The United States: * Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to Congress in January 1918 in which he presented his aims for a peace settlement. These aims became known as Wilson’s 14 points. * The aims were idealistic. Wilson wanted to create world peace by eliminating what he thought had caused the war. * Freedom of navigation * Democracy and national self-determination * Free trade * Stop treaties that were being
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of its own armed force. Its previous failure to stop Japanese invasion of Manchuria had encouraged Hitler to undo the Treaty of Versailles by resizing its army‚ occupying the Rhineland‚ annexing Austria‚ and invading the Sudetenland‚ an area in Czechoslovakia. (Hill‚
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simultaneously communism expanded in the Country. With the country under his power he began to expand. He promised that Anschluss was the end of his plans of expanding. He said that he did not want to begin another War. He though lied and invaded Czechoslovakia by 1939. After this‚ in the same year‚ Hitler invaded Poland. This causing great tension within Europe as he conquered Eastern Europe with much force by ignoring many policies. He rearmed‚ which ment that the only way of stopping Hitler‚ was war
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The most important cause of the Second World War was the weakness of Britain and France. Do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. There were many causes of the Second World War such as Treaty of Versailles‚ failure of the League of Nation and Nazi-Soviet Pact. All those causes played important roles in causing the World War Two. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles were too harsh. It asked too much reparation‚ reduction in army and territory. This certainly made Germany upset
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Throughout the history of human existence‚ there have been numerous leaders who have rose above the rest to follow their beliefs. Some of these individuals include Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Nelson Mandela‚ and Gandhi. Although these people were fighting different issues and had their own beliefs‚ they all shared the same traits that made them great leaders. Some of these traits include communication skills‚ motivation‚ passion‚ and integrity. However‚ the most important trait that these leaders all
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would only take a concentrated effort of those involved; perhaps they could come together for the greater good. In the final act of British appeasement policy‚ Hitler had asked for the annexation of the Sudetenland‚ which currently belonged to Czechoslovakia. The Scandinavian and Baltic states were a very touchy issue for the west to deal with. There was a good deal of pro-German feeling within that area; between 1933-1938‚ part of the Western Alliance was given very minor roles lest the growing Nazi
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WWII RESEARCH Vincent Kwok Alexine Yap Amy Nguyen Linh Dan Tran Question: Was the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 the main reason for WWII starting in September 1939? a. Identify parameters of question >>>”The main reason”? Obviously‚ we know that there are several other reasons to have started WWII. We will‚ however‚ still inspect to what extent the Wall Street Crash had on subsequent events leading up to WWII‚ and attempt to link the other causes to each other in order to gain a holistic
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Since World War II‚ America has been defined and shaped by the atomic bomb. In the documentary film Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States‚ the atomic bomb‚ it’s history‚ role‚ and it’s place in shaping the history of the United States is explained. But to understand the atomic bomb’s history and role in America‚ morally and policitally‚ World War II must be known‚ because it all really began with the start of World War II. Although a slow start of war‚ and with many historians disagreed
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Adolf Hitler‚ Benito Mussolini‚ French Premier Edouard Daladier‚ and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact‚ which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia‚ virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace.” The Munich Pact was signed because Hitler believed that most of the people in the border of Czechoslovakia are
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Hitler was born in Austria in 1889‚ his father died when he was 14 and when he became 18 his mother died because of cancer. He lived alone homeless in the streets of Vienna and Vienna was a strong center of anti-Semitism which Hitler totally believed in; so by the age of 24 he left Vienna and went to Germany to escape from doing the military service in the Austrian army‚ however he was arrested and sent back to Austria where he was found weak and unfit to be armed. When the WWI started he decided
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