Aims of the countries Total war: Mobilization of a whole society and its resources for a war effort with objective of a total victory over the opponent -With the enormous war effort peace settlement was virtually impossible‚ letting the different countries no other choice than fighting for a total victory‚ no matter what the costs were. -France wanted to regain Alsace-Lorraine -France and Britain: wanted to crush ‘Prussian militarism’ Used their worldwide empire to have a war of attrition
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My German Vacation There was a cool‚ refreshing breeze blowing as I looked up at the clear‚ midsummer night sky. I had just arrived in Germany and my mind was filled with thousands of ideas of what I thought I was going to see there. Any minute‚ I expected to see a man in lederhosen‚ Alpine mountain clothes‚ drive by in a Volkswagen‚ yodeling and eating Wiener schnitzel. However‚ as time passed‚ I began to notice that these stereotypes were simply American humbug. The luscious vineyards and towering
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Rome was such a big city in 250 CE. After that were just going down hill quickly. That’s when they fell due to many reasons but there were three main reasons. Government‚ military‚ and natural causes. Government was a big reason why Rome collapsed. They did not have any good leaders or rules that will keep a big city together. The government would worry too much about building and not enough on keeping their city under control. Then the country had to many people and were not even close to
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Analysis of Allied military strategy in World War II illustrates Dale C. Eikmeier’s concept of operational approach‚ the importance of the Arcadia Conference‚ and the influence of classical military theorists. The operational approach in “Plan Dog” and the “Victory Plan” addressed one of Eikmeier’s design questions. The approval of the Germany First strategy made the Arcadia Conference the most important conference between Allied strategists. The adherence to Clausewitz and Sun Tzu by the United
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Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Communication BCOM/275 January 21‚ 2013 Wayne Brock‚ DM Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Communication Background On August 5‚ 2010 the San Jose mine in Chile reported an accident which trapped 33 miners underground. The San Jose mine is a small copper mine in northern Chile. Owned by Minera San Esteban Primera‚ the mine collapse thrust the situation into a global news event when the 33 miners were discovered alive and well (Weik‚ 2010). Questions have been raised
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Battle of the Bulge (in German‚ Ardennenoffensive or Rundstedt-Offensive‚ English‚ Battle of the Bulge) was a major German offensive‚ launched at the end of World War II (December 16‚ 1944 - January 25 1945); through dense forests and mountains of the Ardennes region of Belgium Wallonia-and more specifically‚ hence its name in French‚ Bataille des ardennes-‚ France and Luxembourg on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht gave the offensive codenamed Operation Wacht am Rhein‚ the German patriotic hymn Die Wacht
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Mazzini centralized the republic and gave more emphasis on the right and the will of the people. Next‚ Gioberti headed the federation of existing states‚ and then Italian nations were built around the aristocratic kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont as german looked towards Prussia. Cavour has played a prominent role in the Sardinina government from the period 1850 to 1861. He was recognized as a dominant figure during that time. In 1852‚ Cavour was elected as a chief minister in the Sardinian monarchy
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H/W Why did Tsarism collapse in March 1917? 18/01/12 In March 1917 (Gregorian calendar) the Russian Tsarist government collapsed and was replaced by a provisional committee of 12 former duma members and a soviet (union) of workers and soldiers councils in a revolution ending over 300 years of Romanov rule‚ which was celebrated in 1913. This was due to a combination of events such as the Putilov factory strike; beliefs such as the views of the duma and what evidence suggests is the most important
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Analyze the causes of WW1 Many historians and politicians have been trying to analyze the causes for the World War I. By the War was over‚ different opinions had already been developed. The english Prime Minister David Lloyd Georg (1863-1945) said: “None of the leading Man had wanted War‚ all of them just slid into it.” Whereas the French Prime Minister George Clemenceau blamed Germany for having the main War Guilt. Since 1961 historians are controversially questioning the War Guilt. In his
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Chilean Copper Mine Collapse Chilean Copper Mine Collapse A small copper mine in San Jose‚ located in north Chile‚ collapsed trapping workers underground. The mine collapsed on August 5th‚ trapping 33 workers in the mine. The coverage of this mine collapse came two long weeks after the traumatic event. Initially the incident did not catch any news worthy attention. Mine collapses are pretty common but the accident finally caught the interest of an editor‚ and then it went viral from
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