1) Irish Potato Famine. 1845-1849. Called the Great Famine. In the early 19th century‚ Ireland’s tenant farmers struggled to provide for themselves and to supply the British market with cereal crops. By the early 1840s half the Irish population‚ mostly the rural poor‚ became to depend almost exclusively on the potato for their diet. The rest of the population also consumed it in large quantities. A heavy reliance on just one or two high-yielding types of potato greatly reduced the
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had been an explosion and the archduke’s car had been diverted toward Franz Josef Street. On every street there were members of the Black Hand group carrying pistols and bombs. The assassination was the trigger for war breaking out. On 6th July the German government announced their full support of Austria-Hungary if they decide to go to war with Serbia. On 24th July‚ Serbia asks Russia for help against an attack from Austro-Hungary‚ two days later‚ Russia promise to help Serbia. Because of the alliances
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In the story‚ “Adventure of the German Student” by Washington Irving‚ the main character Gottfried Wolfgang had a mental malady‚ and claimed that there was an evil influence hanging over him. He said that an evil spirit seeked to ensure his perdition. Wolfgang was an educated man‚ and he read books more than anything else‚ which could also contribute to his mental condition. Since he has a lot of knowledge‚ the evil could lie within himself‚ since as a result of his dementia‚ he brought what he imagined
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stretched from Switzerland to Belgium. Some of the dictators of the war were Stalin who oversaw the Soviet Union and Hitler who oversaw the German Army. Germany offered the Soviet Union part of Poland that way Germany wouldn’t have to worry about starting
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Moreover‚ I will explain in detail how a GmbH is liquidated and which reasons there might be to do so‚ while putting emphasis on the laws concerning the act of liquidation. This term paper is meant to serve as an overview about the liquidation of german GmbH´s. Chapter 1: Liquidation of a GmbH The type of company you will find most often in Germany is the GmbH‚ which is governed by the Law Concerning the Private Limited Companies (Gesetz betreffend die Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung
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cogency. On October 28 a naval mutiny occurred at Kiel‚ and on the next day Emperor hurried from Berlin to military headquarters at Spa‚ imagining that the army would safeguard alike his person and his throne. Within a week almost every city in the German Empire witnessed Socialist rioting and the formation of revolutionary “workers councils.” On November 8‚ amid disorders at Munich‚ Bavaria was proclaimed a “democratic and socialist republic‚” with Kurt Eisner‚ a left-wing Socialist‚ and president
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Second French Empire and a number of German states. These included the North German Confederation (made up of Prussia and many other northern German states). Bavaria‚ Baden‚ Wurttemburg‚ Hesse-Darnstadt. The war began due to a number of reasons: ranging from the fact that France worried that Prussia would expand too far and simply because Prussia wished to bring an end to France. Another crucial reason was the fact that Prussia had already annexed many northern German states and Prussia had a chance of
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especially with the dominance of the bluff that overlooks the beach used this situation of the Omaha beach. There is a concave shape of the shoreline that would permit the delivery of direct fire from three directions. There were concrete remains of the German defense with its numerous fighting positions along the bluff. The allies also considered the existence of the cliffs that flank the coast from which observers would deliver indirect fire to any location of the beach. The allies were determined to
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Conner Nichols 440920 cmnnq6 German 2320 Lesson 1: The 1848 Revolution‚ the Second Reich‚ and the First World War Under the leadership of Bismarck‚ Germany experienced a time of great division between classes and some financial crashes‚ such as “the Gründerzeit burst in 1873‚ when a collapse of confidence brought an inevitable economic crash” (Fulbrook 131) from 1871 to 1890. In a time when the greater population was beginning to play a greater role in politics‚ Bismarck’s authoritarian style
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I agree Germany were aggressive but their actions were not completely responsible for the outbreak of war‚ there were other causes for the war which Germany were not responsible for‚ such as the Triple of Entente where Germany felt isolated and insecure. However‚ the Schlieffen Plan of 1905 referred to in sources 1 and 2 is frequently seen as an act of aggression. In source 1 Corrigan says that “Germany had in place a plan for an aggressive war” because they were concerned of having to fight Russia
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