which includes the land lost by Germany. Germany lost vast amounts of land which included permanent loss of Alsace-Lorraine‚ Eupen-Malmedy and Schleswig-Holstein. Germany also received temporary loss of the Saar Basin‚ the Polish corridor and Upper Silesia. The loss of this land had quite a large economic impact on Germany which could be looked as quite harsh and unreasonable on Germany. Germany lost 10% of it’s resources including people‚ agricultural land and raw materials. Although this may seem
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A ABSOLUTISM VS CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY (THE STATE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE‚ 1450-1750) 1. The Dynastic Territorial State (DTS) in Early Modern Europe: Absolutism vs. Constitutional Monarchy. Early modern Europe – defined approximately as the period between 1450 and 1750 – was a revolutionary era during which political‚ economic‚ social‚ and intellectual upheavals abounded. The late medieval period witnessed political struggles between monarchs and nobles and between church and state. Renaissance
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Achievements Of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was a king of Macedonia who conquered an empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. Alexander was the son of Philip II and Olympias (one of Philip’s seven or eight wives). He was brought up with the belief that he was of divine birth. “From his earliest days‚ Olympias had encouraged him to believe that he was a descendent of heroes and gods. Nothing he had accomplished would have discouraged this belief‚” writes Wellesley
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approximately 78 800 km2 population 10 million people geographic position – country located in central Europe Head of state: President Capital: Prague Official language: Czech Czech Republic is divided in three parts: Bohemia‚ Moravia and Silesia‚ collectively often called the Czech Lands. Czech Republic is landlocked country. The country is bordered by Poland to the north and northeast‚ Slovakia to the east‚ Austria to the south‚ and Germany to the west and northwest. Surface: 1/3 mountainous;
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camps‚ all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow‚ near the prewar German-Polish border in Upper Silesia‚ an area that Nazi Germany annexed in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. The SS authorities established three main camps near the Polish city of Oswiecim: Auschwitz I in May 1940; Auschwitz II (also called Auschwitz-Birkenau) in early 1942;
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Successes * Aaland Islands * Sweden and Finland wanted control and threatening to fight for it. * The islands were between both countries. * League said the islands should go to Finland‚ Sweden accepted and war avoided. * Upper Silesia *
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Industrialisation was a slow transformation that took place in Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century. It affected many people and countries. Lots of areas of society and the economy improved during this time for example banking‚ transportation and communication all changed for the better. ’Western Europe underwent a period of rapid urbanization’ (Merriman‚ 1996‚ p.669). The population grew so the manufacturing industry had to change and improve in order to keep up with demand. Before
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Modern History Account for the different goals of the Big Three Allied leaders at the Paris Peace Conference The Paris Peace Conference took place in 1919 to set the peace terms for the defeated Central powers. Three men took charge called ‘The Big Three’ and they were President Woodrow Wilson of the United States‚ Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain and George Clemenceau of France. The Conference was initially planned as a pre-meeting to set the terms of what they were going
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a problem immediately. The League of Nations had to deal with many disputes during the 1920’s. A few of these disputes were settled successfully while some were failures. Some successes were the dispute between Poland and Germany regarding Upper Silesia. The League sent British and French Troops to maintain order. There the League organised a successful plebiscite‚ but the voting turned out equal and the area was split. The industrial area went to Germany‚ and the rural area stayed to Poland. The
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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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