Germany was part of the Central Powers during World War One‚ meaning that they were strong in many ways‚ yet they lost. They were the strongest economical force during the 1900s‚ but it all changed as the war went on. There were many reasons as to why they lost‚ some were the tactics that they used‚ meanwhile some were the ones their enemies used against them. Also‚ they didn’t expect a war mostly about attrition but they realized in 1918 that they had been doing that for four years‚ slimming their
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The Germans were dissatisfied in different ways from these three main reasons. For the War guilt and the reparations‚ they were hit badly in the economy‚ and the Germans were not happy about this. The next‚ the Military Restrictions‚ they were dissatisfied because they were vulnerable to attack‚ and felt threatened. The loss of territory hit Germany hard in another way‚ it hit them hard patriotically. This demoralised the German public for they had lost territory‚ they had lost parts of their country
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Germany’s violence early on in the war caused the United States to enter the war on the Allies side. President Wilson had tried to mediate between the two alliances but Germany did not accept this proposal. The Treaty of Versailles was fair to Germany because they ignored Wilson’s Call for Peace and Germany’s violent tactics called a need for the treaty to be made in order to end World War I. President Wilson did not want the United States to enter World War I when it initially started because it
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international relations The Thirty Years’ War was the first Pan-European war of modern times‚ it was a conflict which started in Bohemia (Holy Roman Empire) and took place from 1618 to 1648‚ ending with the well-known Peace of Westphalia. This war started as a religious conflict between the Protestants and the Catholic Church in Germany‚ but latter on it developed into a Franco-Habsburg war involving most of the European continent and having a decisive impact on all the European states and nations
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The Second World War was much bigger and deadlier than the first in every way. It was fought around the world‚ from Norway to New Guinea‚ from Hawaii to Egypt‚ and on every ocean – it was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. Known to have been the most widespread war in history‚ it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. But unlike the First World War‚ the Second World War was fast moving and mobile; the use of technology was more widespread and effective. The
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Some people also believe that dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not just to stop the war between Japan and the U.S but‚ that it was also intimidate Russia. During World War two Russia had not put much thought or really focused on the building of any nuclear weapons up until around 1939. Even then the Russian scientists had not put much effort into it like the Americans had with the Manhattan Project. After the Germans invaded Russia their nuclear program became almost non-existent because
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Germany played a major role in causing World War I and should mostly be blamed for it because German militarism forced other countries to join the war and fight back with full force‚ the Germans introduced new deadly technologies which increased the death toll and lead to further participation of other countries‚ even though the alliance system is what engendered Germany and other countries into the war‚ not Germany itself. Germany should be blamed for World War I because Germany’s militarism and
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World War 2 a devastating event which occurred in 1939‚ from the strong minded politics to the poor economic welfare. Many factors contributed in the Great War‚ one being the Prussian Militarism which made Germany insanely powerful‚ secondly the great dictator Adolf hitter and lastly appeasement. For centuries the region of modern Germany was separated between over 300 small independent speaking German political units‚ which were rude by small princess. The Prussian militarism began with ’Frederick
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a fault to just one country for World War One. The start of the war was in 1914‚ but there was no set date to when the nations to irritate one another. Some say that the feud started at the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria‚ the heir to the Austria-Hungary throne. Others believe that Russia had started the war by dragging in Britain‚ Germany‚ and France when mobilizing on their border. One way or another‚ the Germans were a major factor World War One and should get responsibility
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Declaration of War to the congress he said that “the world must be made safe for democracy”. Now‚ nearly a hundred years later‚ we know the effects of the decision that were made at this time. Knowing what happened I say that the US involvement in World War I was not a fight for more democracy. The roots of the German dictatorship under Hitler were laid during the peace negotiations of Versailles. So the most important point of what Wilson officially wanted‚ to bring peace and democracy to the world‚ to
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