They both possessed great amount of military knowledge‚ and expanded their empire into important territories‚ the warm water port that will open European trade and commerce for peter‚ and Silesia that can connect Prussia territories for Frederick. Both countries also improved its infrastructure by modernizing with Enlightenment ideas. But there are also many differences. While Frederick expand its power mostly on military conquest with its
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and later Polish army artillery barracks. It was first suggested as a site for a concentration camp for Polish prisoners by SS-Oberführer Arpad Wigand‚ an aide to Higher SS and Police Leader for Silesia‚ Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. Bach-Zelewski had been searching for a site to house prisoners in the Silesia region as the local prisons were filled to capacity. Construction on Auschwitz II-Birkenau‚ the extermination camp‚ began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. It was larger than
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In 2003‚ the people of Liechtenstein voted on whether or not to expand the powers of the monarchy. Prior to the referendum‚ Crown Prince Hans Adam II had the right of a princely veto‚ the right to dissolve parliament and call early elections. Laws could not be passed without his consent‚ and as such‚ he was already one of the most powerful monarchs in Europe. The Crown Prince wanted these powers to be further consolidated even though political critics said that such a change would transform the country
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HOLLYWOOD IN THE TWENTIES (CONTD...) *HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS AND THE CREATION OF MPPDA *CECILE B. DEMILLE *”THE CONTINETAL TOUCH” LUBITSCH AND OTHERS *IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN *ERICH VON STROHEIM HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS AND THE CREATION OF MPPDA Since the earliest days of the Nickelodeon‚ moralists and reformers were very much disturbed by the corrupting nature of the movies and their effects upon the American youth. Powerful pressure groups were created to protect the American audiences from the
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would cripple the economy and would keep their citizens starving. The war had already damaged Germany. The people were on rations and them having to pay this much would be more damaging than ever. In addition to that Germany lost Alsace-Lorraine and Silesia making it harder to generate money. The Treaty took away all of the colonies that Germany had. Germany was enraged at losing her empire but also at the fact that only the losers lost their colonies. Wilson had wanted all countries to lose their
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‘Blitzkrieg’ succeeded in Poland not because of it being a superior tactic‚ but because the Polish were unprepared. To what extent is this statement an accurate assessment of the success of ‘Blitzkrieg’ in Poland in WW2? Introduction Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (18889-1945)‚ the National Socialist German Workers Party‚ or Nazi Party‚ grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarianism‚ from 1933-1945. It was founded in 1919 as the German workers party‚ the party promoted
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It is through the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth that the reader can recognize everything nature has to offer. Wordsworth opens this poem by claiming that he is a cloud observing the nature underneath him. From here he sees a large field of daffodils‚ then further describes the deeper meaning of these flowers using a series of poetic devices. In the second and third stanzas‚ Wordsworth glorifies the image of the daffodils. He describes them as endless and “continuous
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Weimar: Destined for Failure by a Weak Constitution and Poor Popular Support? A thread that runs throughout many analyses of the legacy of theWeimar Republic contains the idea that the fledgling German democracy was somehow doomed from the start. With a constitution that contained items such as Article 48 – a constitutional provision that permitted the Weimar President to rule by decree without the consent of the Reichstag – and a clause that allowed the Reichskanzler to assume office in the event
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Ranks viii. Achieving Secular Control of the Church 7. The Ottoman Empire a. Religious Toleration and Ottoman Government i. The Role of Ulama b. The End of Ottoman Expansion 1. The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline i. Seven provinces that became the United Provinces of the Netherlands emerged as a new state recognized by European powers in the 1580s ii. Netherlands won formal independence in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) iii. Warfare forged identity of the Nlands: independence wars from Spain
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Assignment: 1 • Critically examine the main features of Enlightened Despotism in 18th century Prussia. The Enlightenment refers to an important cultural and intellectual movement of the 18th century‚ whose goal was to establish knowledge based on an enlightened rationality. Enlightened Absolutism or Enlightened Despotism as it is more often called can be defined as a form of government strongly influenced by the wide propagation of ideas and the political philosophy of the Enlightenment. It is
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