‘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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rights of the Nobility over their people‚ ending feudalism. On 26 August‚ the National Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen‚ which was written by the nobleman‚ Marquis de Lafayette. The National Assembly began to decide how it would be under the new constitution. Many members‚ especially the nobles‚ wanted a senate or a second upper house. However‚ more people voted to keep having just one assembly. The King was given a suspensive veto over law which meant he would
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Americans supported slavery because slavery was legal‚ technology has changed‚ and slavery going on today. Many of the American supported because they need to work their farms and other labor jobs. ¨England’s southern colonies in North America developed a farm economy that could not survive without slave labor.¨ ¨Early in the seventeenth century‚ a Dutch ship loaded with African slaves introduced a solution—and a new problem—to the New World.¨(Civil War Trust). ¨Slaves were most economical on large
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news from my brothers‚ Martín Alonso Pinzón and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón‚ that Christopher Columbus will be leading a voyage to find a faster route to the East and that he will be recruiting sailors to help him on the voyage. My brothers volunteered for job; with the long years of experience Martín became the captain of the Pinta‚ and Vicente captained the Niña. These two ships is out of three ships and my brothers had the honor to captain them; the last ship is the Santa María who was captained by Columbus
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The plan then was to completely knock France out of the war in a little over a month‚ and return back to Germany to face Russia. This plan was ridiculously risky‚ yet the German officials decided to revolve their entire war schedule around this Schlieffen Plan. They invaded neutral Belgium without taking enough consideration into the alliance treaty between Britain and Belgium. This poor decision caused Britain to enter the war on the Allies side. The German officials stubbornly
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situation where there were multiple city-states in a relatively small area that all had different political ideologies. These City States had highly regarded philosophers that wrote great lengths about them. This gives us a great foundation to try to understand the different systems and how they were based. The goal is to analyze some of the different ideologies and find why they were thought to be so good‚ and what made them good. To begin there is Pericles’ Funeral Oration written by Thucydides
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and Islam are one of the main world religions that were created from one god and developed into two separate religions overtime. Christianity now is the world’s largest religion with over 2 billion followers and was founded after the death of Jesus. Islam comes in as the second largest religion in the world with over 1.8 billion muslims which is roughly about one fifth of the world’s population. These two religion were spreaded across the globe by their followers and missionaries‚ who are the people
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future generations. That’s how I am about to talk what Mr. John Muir did for our country. Mr. Muir was one of the pioneer of the idea of preserve some land. As America grew‚ Americans were destroying its NATURAL RESOURCES. Farmers were depleting the nutrients of the overworked soil. Miners removed layer after layer of valuable topsoil‚ leading to catastrophic
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Do the strengths outweigh the weaknesses? Sparta was the strongest military force in the ancient greek times‚ with the battle strategy the phalanx no one could take the vicious spartans down. They trained the soldiers at a young age so‚ they knew the battle strategies like the back of their hand. The strengths of Sparta outweighs the weaknesses. The strengths of Sparta are that they had an advanced military‚ they respected and trained the women‚ and they trained the soldiers when the soldiers
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there are many buildings that have the same type of construction. Two examples being The White House and the Washington Capitol Building‚ two buildings represent power much like the Colosseum‚ both buildings consisting of the similar style columns and arches. You could sit here and try and convince yourself that there are differences between these buildings and the Colosseum‚ like it not being a similar shape but its not about that‚ the main importance would be how the structure is being held up and
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