the European counterparts of the Allied forces sought only to punish the German Empire to the harshest degree. With their determination to substantially debilitate Germany‚ The Treaty of Versaille decimated its army to an almost humiliating number‚ decreased the size of Germany‚ and forced the empire to pay an insurmountable amount in reparations for damages from the war. Basically‚ The Treaty of Versaille pummeled the German military and economy‚ and left Germany boiling with discontent‚ and pursuing
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behavior and expectations might differ from those of consumers in new market. Wal-Mart due to its name failed to do business in Germany as it became for Germans to pronounce the name. Wal-Mart should have gone for a German name for their store. Language barriers also act a s hurdle in building its name in Germany. Wal-Mart entered the German market with a degree of cultural arrogance that undermined its chances for success. Having conquered the world’s largest consumer market‚ Wal-Mart seemed to
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Italian unification l Background l After Napoleon‚ the Italian states were controlled by France. l Effect: l 1. They experienced the unity under the rule of an efficient government. l 2. They felt that they disliked being ruled by foreign countries‚ therefore nationalist feeling was aroused. l After the Congress of Vienna in 1815-16‚ they were divided into 8 states and the northern part of Italy was controlled by Austria-Hungary. l Again‚ they disliked the alien rule and
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familial background. I simply thought that‚ culturally wise‚ I was just a German/American; my mom was a first generation from German and my father was a many generation from who knows where. I have fondness for both the German flag‚ as well as the American flag‚ though growing up I was careful who I told about my half German ethnicity after being asked if I was a Nazi one too many times. It was nice knowing information about German beyond that of World War II and the Nazi’s‚ to be able to understand that
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Caligari to Hitler was the first film of it’s kind‚ introducing the world to German Expressionism. This film set the stage for men like Fritz Lang to come along and make iconic movies. Fritz Lang made the German Expressionism style popular with M and some of his other great films. In two of the opening scenes and the penultimate scene of M‚ Lang is able to prove his legacy and the film noir style is prevalent. As seen in an interview between Gero Gandert and Fritz Lang‚ Lang tried to emulate the
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plan. Ideally the plan was to have the German forces outnumber the French and win their battle. Then have them use the train tracks to quickly move over to the eastern front and fight Russia. The original plan was to have most of the German troops march through Belgium and the Netherlands to Northern France. They knew this would cause Britain enter the war because that would be invading a neutral zone‚ being Belgium. Aside from the British part‚ the German troops were
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linguistics. I was to work with the pupils who studied in the eighth class‚ I had to lead the lessons of German. The first acute problem that I was confronted with is an awkward age of my students. Being teenagers‚ they tended to be immensely emotional and even strongly impulsive at times‚ that is why I had to find the way to provide an incentive for their inquisitiveness‚ to get them interested in the German language and not to fail to establish discipline at the same time. Trying to be a nobly tolerant
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hypnotic and symbolic settings which were the inspirational source for the upcoming German Expressionist cinema. Many of the films made in Sweden had a significant impact on German directors of this time largely because Germany was cut off from French‚ British‚ and American influences through World War I. Near the end of the war with the creation of Universum Film AG‚ or UFA a film production company created by the German government with the purpose of producing propaganda films to counter those created
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to Henig (2002)‚ another cause of the first World War was the Franco-Prussian War. The war between France and Prussia (the future German Empire) that lasted from 1870 to 1871 ended with a humiliating defeat for France. It lost the regions of Alsace and Lorraine‚ and was forced to pay a huge indemnity to Prussia. The Franco-Prussian War led to creation of a powerful German
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von Bismarck and Bismarckian Germany has undergone extensive transformation‚ as historians have had access to a wider variety of sources and evidence‚ and have held differing social and political presuppositions influencing their portrayal of the German unifier. The changing historical interpretations can be seen over time‚ as differing contexts and sources influence the portrayal‚ as early interpretations of Bismarck from the 1870s to the 1920s portrayed Bismarck as a man in charge and as a necessity
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