constitutional developments that caused a revolution during this time frame‚ had to do with the South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession‚ which is stated in Document A. The southerners felt that it was their constitutional right to own slaves and did not see a time when they should be required to give up that right. However‚ upon the election of Lincoln as President‚ the southerners felt threatened‚ and felt their slave holding rights were being threatened‚ and in an effort to protect these rights
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To what extent did Russia undergo economic and political reform in the years 1906-14? After the 1905 revolution Russia was in need of reforms both economically and politically‚ to allow it maintain its role of a great power and to prevent another revolution occurring the answer to this was the October Manifesto. However‚ due to the stubbornness of the Tsar who was determined not to relinquish his autocratic powers‚ what may have appeared as reforms were largely superficial making little change in
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To what extent did the Soviet leadership have a choice in Hungary during the uprising of 1956? Based on the Soviet Union’s perspective‚ they first had‚ and made the choice to not militarily interfere with the Hungarian uprising. Of course‚ this soon changed‚ and the Soviets based on minutes document‚ had found themselves in a position in which they had no other choice but to send tanks into Hungary‚ to surpass the uprising. There were multiple reasons why the Soviet Union felt the need to interfere
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To what extent was the League of Nations a success? In 1914 war broke out in Europe. The war ended in 1918 and Germany solely blamed. The end of the war was signed with the treaty of Versailles. From the war was born the League of Nations; who helped nations resolve disputes peacefully without going to war. When the League was formed‚ the defeated nations were not invited to join. The League originally had forty-two members. All forty-two members made up the assembly‚ who met once a year. As incidents
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To What Extent Should Nation be the Foundation of Identity I believe that nation is the foundation of identity to a certain extent . For example‚ if I asked people from the school what shapes their individual identities they might say things like; religion‚ ethnicity‚ language‚ or birth place. These are all examples of nations that we identify with; a nation doesn’t have to be defined by physical boundaries‚a nation can be as simple as people coming together or being united by a common history
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and Stalin‚ both members of the Politburo‚ the top section within the party. However‚ looking back from today we can see that Trotsky never really opposed a real threat to Stalin who would become the new leader of Russia officially in 1929. Stalin became the new communist leader after he successfully had won over both Trotsky‚ the right group of the party and the left group. In 1922 Stalin had been given the position as General Secretary of the Bolshevik party. Silently but effectively Stalin began
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would try to destroy and get rid of other people’s cultures Alexander would study and learn from them. He did this to such an extent in Egypt that they even referred to him as a god and pharaoh. In other places he would study their beliefs‚ and try to understand them as a people‚ and he may have been doing this to learn how to control them‚ but based on his character it is more likely that he did it so learn how to respect them. The next reason he was great is he had a tremendous respect for knowledge
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To what extent did the events of 1945-1946 turn war-time allies into Cold War enemies? During the Second World War‚ the United States and Russia had been allied in order to defeat Nazi Germany. However‚ following the end of the war and the victory over Germany‚ relations between America and the Soviet Union began to decline‚ culminating in the Cold War. Whilst the orthodox view of the Cold War‚ as held by historians such as Thomas Bailey‚ is that Stalin and the USSR were responsible for the start
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To what extent did Bismarck’s successors change his policy in the decade 1890-1900? The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 acted as a watershed in European history with the formation of the German Empire. No power alone‚ (perhaps with the exception of Russia) could defeat the new German Empire‚ and all the European powers with the exception of France were willing to allow Bismarck to consolidate German gains provided there was no further expansion. Bismarck having successfully won the Franco-Prussian
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Q- To what extent did Alexander lll reverse the reforms of his predecessor‚ Alexander ll. Alexander lll did reverse many of the reforms his predecessor Alexander ll made in Russia‚ but he did not reverse them all. He did not reverse the reforms that where aimed at improving the economy. One reform that Alexander lll didn’t reverse was the freedom of the serfs. Alexander ll emancipated the serfs during his reign in 1861‚ he did this so Russia’s economy can grow‚ and become more like a western country
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