Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) made large gains in the 1912 German election. German government at the time was still dominated by the Prussian Junkers who feared the rise of these left wing parties. Fritz Fischer famously argued that they deliberately sought an external war to distract the population and whip up patriotic support for the government. National unity was at its peak by the time of the outbreak of the war was portrayed to the German public as been a defence campaign against Slav aggression
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the many awe-inspiring empires in the classical era‚ each realm was renowned for its individual characteristics and quirks that made each empire so remarkable. Regardless‚ these empires all share some intrinsic qualities that define an empire. Without the features of a strong leadership‚ diverse culture‚ prominent religion and philosophy‚ innovative technology and architecture‚ organized trade and commerce‚ and spirited patriotism amongst the citizens‚ the classical empires would be negligible establishments
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fronts. With France bordering the west and the Russia bordering the east‚ Germany drafted the Schlieffen Plan to solve this issue. In the Schlieffen plan‚ German forces would begin battles it’s French border as other German forces traveled through Belgium and attacked French soldiers from behind‚ driving them further west. The majority of the German forces would then travel to its Russian border in the east. While Germany had a very complex plan for invading France‚ it had little planning
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Kaiser was almost a dictator. Ludendorff realised that Germany was going to be defeated in 1918. He told the Kaiser that the war must end. In October‚ the Germans asked President Woodrow Wilson to organise an end to the fighting. He agreed but demanded that the Kaiser must go. Starvation and riots spread though Germany and on 30th October‚ the German Navy refused to launch a desperate attack on the British Navy. The Kaiser finally agreed to abdicate and on the 11th November an armistice was signed. This
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From the German perspective‚ World War 1 was fought on two fronts; the Western Front and Eastern Front. The fronts were significantly different when it came to warfare‚ namely the tactics employed to deal with the French and British in the West‚ and the Russians in the East. What was supposed to be a quick victory became a complete failure in military movement and intelligence‚ and an underestimation of military mobilization. On the Western Front‚ Germans ran up against the British and French for
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The political scope of the 1910s also defined the growth of German nationalism and military power‚ which began to become realized in potential invasions of Belgium and the Austria-Hungary territorial disputes. Of course‚ the rise of German industrialization had allowed the formation of a world-class naval fleet‚ and the continued threat of military power in Germany throughout Europe. By this time‚ Wilhelm II was able to act as a more aggressive political figure in the quest to gain territorial expansion
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in April and the resulting French Army Mutiny on May 3‚ Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig convinced a reluctant British War Cabinet‚ which still remembered the appalling losses from the Somme campaign of 1916‚ that an offensive was necessary to divert German attention from the French and prevent a collapse on the Western Front. From a strategic level‚ Haig’s offensive was based on flawed reasoning in almost every respect. By the time Third Ypres opened on July 31‚ French Field Marshal Henri Philippe
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Perhaps no other empire has risen as successfully as the Mongol Empire. Prior to the empire’s rise‚ multiple tribes lived at the Mongolian steppes‚ these tribes will later unify to establish the powerful Mongol Empire by Temujin (Genghis Khan). The tribes consisted of Turkic and Mongol-Tungusic tribes‚ around 1103 B.C a dominant tribe emerged from the steppes known as the Mongols. The Mongols defeated neighboring nomads and unified the tribes before setting on their conquest of Eurasia and Iran.
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Han and Roman Empires The Roman Empire existed between 31 B.C.E to 476 C.E. and the Han Dynasty occurred 202 B.C.E. to 220 C.E. They existed at same times but were on opposite ends of Eurasia. They both had regions that were ruled by either kings‚ viceroys or governors in the name of the emperor. They were both similar in slavery‚ government‚ and their downfall. They also had their differences in religion‚ military‚ and center of power. Both civilizations had very strong central governments
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Roman Empire declined and fell because of politics. However‚ the empire was strong at a point until the third century crisis happened. The last emperor before the crisis began was Marcus Aurelius‚ and the empire went from peaceful and Pax Romana to catastrophe and they called it “the anarchy.” There were both internal and external conflicts throughout the empire. The external problems were the violations of the borders by the Germanic tribes and‚ “full-scale war with Sassanian Persian Empire on eastern
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