World War II DBQ After the deaths of 37‚508‚686 soldiers by the end of World War I‚ Europe was a mess. Countries had been dissolved and rearranged‚ governments had fallen and been replaced‚ and economies were thriving then crashing‚ all as a result from World War I. One of the main goals at the end of World War I was to prevent another tragedy like World War I from happening again. Clearly that did not happen‚ as World War II still happened‚ causing over 50 million deaths. The repercussions
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ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE 20TH CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS Shreya Ranjan INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: It is very recent‚ youngest discipline to come into existence. For quite a long time INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS or international Politics has been a sub discipline of history or political science. It became an independent entity only after the First World War. Quincy Wright (1940’s and 50’s) said INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS is not only a discipline‚ but
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Chelsea Kim Mr. Brewer AP European History‚ Period 5 4-2-13 Chapter 26 Outline * An Uncertain Peace * The Decline of the West by German writer Oswald Spengler (1880-1936): reflected the idea that something was drastically wrong with Western values when he emphasized the decadence of Western civilization and posited its collapse * The Impact of World War I * As over 10 million people died in the war‚ an immediate response to these deaths was ceremonies to honor the
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The basic causes of World War II were nationalistic tensions‚ unresolved issues‚ and resentments resulting from the First World War and the interwar period in Europe‚ plus the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The culmination of events that led to the outbreak of war are generally understood to be the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the 1937 invasion of the Republic of China by the Empire of Japan. These military aggressions were the decisions made by authoritarian ruling
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CHAPTER 30 The War to End War‚ 1917-1918 IV. SINGLE-ANSWER MULTIPLE CHOICE. Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 1. President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when a. the Zimmermann note was intercepted and made public. b. Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic. c. news was received that a revolutionary movement had overthrown the czarist regime in Russia. d. Germany rejected Wilson’s
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Summary of Chapter 29: World War 2 Conservative authoritarianism: Both conservative and radical dictatorships wept through Europe in the 20s and 30s. Conservative dictatorships were quite old and the new dictatorships were totalitarian. Traditional form of antidemocratic government was conserve. authoritarianism (which prevented major changes that would undermine existing order‚ had limited power). Relied on bureaucracies‚ police‚ and armies. Liberals‚ democrats‚ and socialists were persecuted
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What is historical context? Why is it significant in the rise of a single party states? Historical context: * refers to the moods‚ attitudes and conditions that exist at a certain time. * context is the setting for an event that occurs and it will have an impact of the relevance of the event. * helps to understand something in history we must look at its context those things which surround it in time and place‚ which gives it its meaning. * pursuing deeper meaning of any event.
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Account for the failure/collapse of democracy in Germany in the period 1918-1933. Intro The Weimar Republic was established in the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War One‚ with parliamentary democracy operating from 1919 and introducing an advanced social welfare system. The notion of loyalty to the nation had been particularly influential since Bismark’s wars of unification in the 19th century. The prospect of strengthening their nation by military means‚ and of it achieving greater status
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Discuss the reasons‚ which led to the failure of parliamentary democracy in Germany and Hitler’s rise to power (1920 1934) German history is seen as a painful issue for thousands of Germans and other Europeans’ . However it has interested many historians over the years into inquiring how and why Hitler came to power and how much of this was to do with the failure of parliamentary democracy in Germany. To fully ascertain to what extent these events have in common and what reasons led to the
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1. Weimar Republic Emergence of the Democratic Republic and the impact of the Treaty of Versailles November Revolution • triggered by a mutiny in the navy ( spread to Kiel where sailors were joined by soldiers ( wanted democracy • 9th November ( announced the Kaiser had abdicated and a National Assembly was to be elected‚ to draw up a democratic constitution • the Chancellorship was handed to Ebert‚ head of the SPD ( called for elections for the Assembly 19th Jan 1919 • the National Assembly
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