The French Republic is currently allied to the Triple Entente. France entered the Great War in 1914 and its association with the Great War was inevitable due to its promised alliance to Russia in case of war with Germany. The casualties faced by the French economy in this process are massive. Having started with a population of about 40 million people‚ France has lost 1.3 million people directly to the war‚ twice as many are wounded and about 400‚000 people have fallen prey to the Spanish Influenza
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Labrador retriever vs. German shepherd By: Amy Loudermilk The German shepherd and Labrador retriever both share similarities and differences. I’ve always wondered why the k-9 police force use German Shepherds most of the time and not Labrador retrievers. So Today I’m going to take you through the differences between a German shepherd and Labrador retriever to see why German Shepherds are used more commonly than a Labrador retriever. The similarities between a German shepherd and a Labrador retriever
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religion. The greatest accomplishments of the two had to be the successes of their military. The reason for military action by both Napoleon and Bismarck was coherently to unify their countries. Bismarck however was trying to bring Prussia and the German states together as a whole. France was already one nation. Napoleon found that by military success through victories against Austria‚ Prussia‚ Russia‚ and Spain he strengthened France as a nation‚ which was not the case during the French Revolutions
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Germany to victory. Ludendorff- Appointed Chief-of-Staff to Hindenburg in 1914 Soldier of considerable ability‚ energy and enthusiasm. By the end of the war‚ Ludendorff was in effect‚ the wartime dictator of Germany and directed German military and political affairs. 4) No doubt that by the end of the war Ludendorff and Hindenburg became the ‘Silent dictator of Germany’ with power of the Emperor and Chancellor so weakened‚ the two main props of Bismarck’s constitution had been
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Balance of Power Bismarck’s systematic engineering of a German State. (Sometimes called Balance of Power) During Germany’s unification‚ the industrialization turns it into a major power. Class relations change because of the industrialization‚ which also created the New Money‚ the middle class and working class. Both are ambitious and want to play a part in politics. This eventually causes political instability. Nationalism also becomes a major theme‚ first emerged during the French Revolution
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years; Wilhelm II wished to have weak chancellors that he could easily control. Kulturkampf‚ was an attempt by Bismarck‚ to suppress the Catholic Church‚ he feared that because the German Empire established in 1871 had a substantial minority of Catholics that their loyalty to Rome would conflict with their loyalty to the empire. Consequently he conducted a struggle with the Catholics‚ by the May laws of 1873-5 education was bought under state control and state approval was required for the licensing of
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Possibly one of the most asked questions in military history is how was the German Army able to decisively defeat a numerically equivalent Allied Army in France during May and June 1940? One of the primary reasons for Germany’s success was their innovation in armored warfare‚ particularly at the tactical and operational levels during the interwar period. The study of the German Army during a period of prolonged peace and constrained resources reveals that one of the most important qualities that
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Nationalism occurs when a race of group of people create an indentity in which they have a love and a loyalty for. This group will have a common factor of race‚ language‚ culture or religion. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand‚ the Austrian Archduke during the time of 1914‚ sparked off an already existing conflict between Austria and Serbia. The force of Nationalism influenced this conflict between Serbia and Austria due to the nationalistic views of the Serbian people. The conflict that occurred
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How far did the new German constitution of 1871 establish a democratic form of government in Germany? 1871 marked the start of the new German Empire with Wilhelm I as Kaiser and Otto von Bismarck as chancellor. The National Liberals wanted a democratic constitution‚ which would limit the power of the Kaiser and give more power to the people of Germany by allowing them to vote. Despite his traditional conservative views‚ Bismarck joined the National Liberals in order to fulfil his wish for a strong
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FRQ 16 After World War II‚ the continent of Europe was left in socioeconomic and political disarray. A devastated Europe was divided between Eastern and Western nations with distinct differences until the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Social and political differences polarized Europe from 1945 to 2001 whilst the desire for economic prosperity united the countries of Europe. Social Differences Preserving the unique history and cultural differences of European nations presented itself as a
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