same general time‚ and World War I was classified as just that. The startup of the Two-front war was instigated when Gavrilo Princip‚ a member of a terrorist group aimed at Serbian liberation called the Black Hand‚ shot and killed Austria’s Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia. The Austrian-Hungarian government did not know if the Bosnian government had been directly linked in the assassination and had used the death of Franz and Sophia to blame Serbia and finally defeat them. With the backing of their
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The Night of the Long Knives was extremely significant in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and ultimately Hitler’s power. This night of brutal murder and elimination of the Sturm Abteilung (SA) gave Hitler the support of the army‚ which he need for both the creation of a totalitarian state and his future foreign policy and also relieved the pressures on Hitler. However‚ The Night of the Long Knives was also the continuation of many other events‚ which could be described as equally as important
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But before they did‚ they prepared. Militarism is a policy of maintaining a strong military organization in aggressive preparedness for war. In 1898‚ Germany began to build up it’s navy. Document 8 is a speech to the Reichstag from Prince Bernhard von Bulow on December 11 1899. He states‚ “... we realize that without power‚ without a strong army and a strong navy‚ there can be no welfare for us.” European military spending skyrocketed between 1900 and 1914. In 1870 the combined military spending
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Hindenburg Disaster is the story of how one zeppelin flight changed the world’s air travel forever. Just as it was about to land‚ this 803 feet long zeppelin caught fire and burned to the ground in a little over 30 seconds. There are many theories on this event‚ but somehow we still aren’t sure what exactly caused the bursting ball of flames on this ride. In this article we will talk about the before‚ during‚ and after effects of this gruesome episode. This zeppelin which was named “Hindenburg” was a
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2. SIX factors which underlay the outbreak of the First World War [ANIMAL] 3. TWO rival alliances 4. SEVEN countries 5. EIGHT crises which preceded the war [BiG FaT BABA] 6. The story of the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand 7. FOUR steps by which the murder of Franz Ferdinand led to the outbreak war [ARSE]‚ including. 8. THIRTEEN key dates in the ‘slide to war’. You must do the following written work: • A cloze exercise on the Background to War • FIVE explanations of how the five background
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How WWI started The commonly held notion that it was started out of outrage over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie at the hands of Serbian nationalist secret society known as the “Black Hand” isn’t entirely correct. In fact‚ the Emperor Franz Josef himself expressed relief over the assassination because it rid him of an heir whom he deeply disliked. The Emperor commented that “God will not be mocked. A higher power had put back the order I couldn’t
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1937‚ an explosion occurred at Lakehurst‚ New Jersey‚ one that will be forever known as the Hindenburg disaster and one that would put an end to the Zeppelin era. The Hindenburg was a zeppelin‚ or a large German dirigible airship‚ long and cylindrical in shape and with a rigid framework‚ that exploded killing 35 of the 97 passengers (Grossman). Zeppelins were used in World War Ⅰ for bombing‚ military observation of the enemies and their territories‚ and after the war ended‚ as passenger transporters
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By request of Kaiser Wilhelm II‚ in 1903 Chief of Staff Alfred von Schlieffen created the plan. Since Germany had the alliance with both Russia and France they would be forced to either fight them both or not fight either. Germany decided on just going ahead and fighting them both in a two front war. Schlieffen knew
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were militarism‚ alliances‚ imperialism‚ and nationalism‚ but many more other causes also helped spark the war. The rulers of the countries were all first cousins‚ with a lot of power that was in need of testing. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked rivalry between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. The Schlieffen Plan and growing militarism cause pressure between the countries as each knew the other’s capabilities for war. Nothing really started the first world war‚ but many things lead to
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that is not the root of any integer polynomial‚ meaning that it is not an algebraic number of any degree. Every real transcendental number must also be irrational‚ since a rational number is‚ by definition‚ an algebraic number of degree one. Ferdinand von Lindeman first called pi a transcendental number * Irrational number is a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number. In 1761 Lambert proved that Pi was irrational‚ that it can’t be written as a ratio of integer numbers.
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