Another reason that the flu had such a severe impact on the U.S. military is because of the way that the military was structured and arranged during World War I. In her article‚ “The U.S. military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919”‚ Carol Byerly gives information about the organization of the military into camps. Byerly uses the example of Camp Devens in Massachusetts to show how seriously the epidemic affected military camps. According to Byerly‚ the flu spread over the course of only ten
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While German and Irish immigration of the 1840?s and 1850?s was similar in many ways‚ some differences were also evident. German and Irish immigrants‚ native of Europe‚ fled across the Atlantic Ocean to the heartland of the United States for different reasons‚ causing numerous different effects on the people and the land they came to inhabit. The German and Irish immigration of this time period can be compared through their motives‚ distributions‚ and political effects. German and Irish immigrants
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Peacemaking 1918-1919 and the League of Nations Key issue: how did the treaty of Versailles establish peace? a) The Paris peace conference The war against Germany ended with an armistice on 11th November 1918. The war had been a disaster for Europe. Millions of soldiers on both sides had been injured. Large areas of France and Belgium had been destroyed. Even the victorious powers were almost bankrupt from the cost of waging war for four years. The leaders of the victorious countries met in
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As argued by Martin Pugh pre-war campaigns played a significant role in gaining women the vote in 1918. Therefore it is important to consider the (NUWSS) suffragist campaign formed in 1897 by various women’s suffrage societies under the leadership of Millicent Fawcett. These members believed that they could achieve success peacefully within the law and they believed that securing the vote was the main objective to securing reforms benefiting women’s interests overall. The suffragists had gained
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The Rise of Hitler and German Fascism I. The Weakness of Weimar Democracy * Why did Weimar Implode? * The legacy of WW1 tainted the new government with military defeat * The “stab in the back” legend – betrayed by left * Economic Turbulence * Hyperinflation to pay reparations * It lacks a strong popular mandate * The Extreme Left and Right both oppose Weimar – battling each other in armed street battles and attempting
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Military revolution and revolution of military affair The world is continuing to experience changes that are affecting every generation of people in society without regard to race‚ religion‚ age‚ sex‚ political status or geographical location. These changes are certainly important chapters for our history books. For the most part I would say these changes are like evolution which has led to the diversification of all living organisms from a common ancestor‚ known as a scientific development
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around is that there were two "revolutions" in 1917. One in March (called the February Revolution) and one in November (called the October Revolution). However‚ they are collectively known as "the Russian Revolution". The February Revolution started with people rioting over food prices in the capital Petrograd. When the soldiers wouldn’t fire on the demonstrators‚ things got out of hand and it turned into a spontaneous mass uprising. The result of the February Revolution was that Tsar Nicholas II
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People argue that the French Revolution was not as revolutionary as the American Revolution. There may have been many reasons for this; the serial authoritarian regimes‚ the guillotine or the Reign of Terror. This essay will argue how revolutions always fail to change the underlying structures of authority. During the French Revolution the structure of the French society had undergone a momentous transformation but in the end exchanged an authoritarian regime for an authoritarian regime. This idea
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Account for the reasons for the German defeat in WWI. The overall reason of the German defeat in World War I was their inability to sustain a prolonged war of attrition‚ while the Allies could. By the late war 1917-1918‚ the generals of both Allies and Germans knew they had to change their tactics in order to win the war. Ludendorff devised the plan of advancing quickly using specialised fast infantry called storm troopers. This was not a sound long term plan that would win them the war.
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The Nuremberg Laws: Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (September 15‚ 1935) 1. From these laws‚ the Nazis considered marriage between Germans as a decisive factor in the reproduction and preservation of pure German blood. Therefore‚ German women must be protected against the risk of violation of laws and committing the crime racial defilement. For example‚ the laws prohibited Germans from marrying Jews and “female nationals of German or kindred” from being employed in the Jews’household
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