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    To what extent was the Soviet Union responsible for the division of Germany from 1945 to 1949? Post-war Germany found itself in the middle of international tensions after its division – between the Allied powers of Britain‚ France and the USA and the Soviet Union under Stalin. However‚ the German nation that hoped for a new beginning could not do so due to the distribution of her land between the victors of the Second World War‚ and historians have since debated over who was to blame for this occurring

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    Militarism and Diplomacy Responsible for World War I? I don’t think that German Militarism and Diplomacy was responsible for World War I. I think that every country that was involved played a part in the start of World War I. Although Germany did play a role in the start of World War I‚ you can’t solely blame them. As disagreements occurred‚ countries banned together and formed the great powers. On page 138 it states‚ “Germany and her allies were held accountable for the war and all concomitant damages

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    XVI. It was an expression of discontent from the poor towards the rich‚ and of how they thought France was governed unfairly. The revolution is considered one of the most important events in human history‚ as it has continued to shape societies and the ways we live today (Cody‚ 2008). Through examining political‚ economical‚ social and cultural factors that led up to the French Revolution‚ this essay aims at evaluating the extent King Louis XVI was responsible for the event. Although he was responsible

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    To what extent was the defeat of the Crimean war Alexander’s excuse for change. The defeat in the Crimean war was arguably the main reason why Alexander II made a series of reforms when he came into power. The devastating loss of the war proved the backwardness of Russia in relation to other powers and even though peasant unrest and the criticisms of serfdom were partially responsible for influencing Alexander II‚ the decision to make changes primarily came from the loss of the Crimean war.

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    To What extent can USA and USSR be blamed for the start of the Cold War? After World War II‚ a new world order was created as USSR and USA emerged as the two superpowers. There were already existing tensions between these two before the war and the wartime alliance was more out of the need to destroy the common enemy‚ Germany‚ rather than out of mutual agreements between these two. It has been argued that the cold war was caused mostly by the USSR because of their Marxism- Leninism ideology and their

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    The outbreak of World War II on September 3rd 1939 occurred due to numerous factors. These causes include the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles‚ the failure of the League of Nations linked to the isolation of the US‚ appeasement introduced by the British Prime Minister in the year 1937 and the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed between Hitler and Stalin on the 28th of August 1938 . Hitlers foreign policy had a huge impact on the outbreak of World War II because of its expansionism policy and the fact that

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    To what extent is Macbeth responsible for his own downfall? In Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Macbeth‚ he depicts the rise and downfall of the eponymous protagonist‚ Macbeth. The text illustrates that there is no sole person to blame for Macbeth’s downfall but numerous reasons for Macbeth’s downfall. Macbeth is only partially responsible for his own downfall for his eventual downfall at the hands of Macduff. Macbeth is driven by the prophecies given by the witches and this is perpetuated with the manipulation

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    are the words of General Marshall Foch‚ a French war hero after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The outbreak of the First World War had changed Europe fundamentally‚ disrupting Europe economically‚ politically‚ psychologically‚ and socially‚ especially causing a sense of disillusionment in Europeans that shaped new ideologies‚ deposed empires‚ and destroyed old certainties and beliefs. The interwar period —the period of years‚ that separated the first and second world wars —is an immensely

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    in war and for defense. To modernize ships the recent navy has out fitted ships with weapons to give them more versatility‚ instead of using cannons now the United States Navy uses missiles‚ torpedoes‚ and guns to fulfill their duty to protect the United States of America. Ships used in the United States navy have evolved from wooden sailing ships into steel nuclear or gas powered ships. Some ships that were commissioned before 1900 were destroyers‚ and cruisers. The USS Farragut (TB-11) was a destroyer

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    to blame and what triggered this minor event to lead into the outbreak of World War 1? June 28th 1914: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife by a Serbian nationalist‚ Gavrilo Princip. Austria-Hungary saw this as an opportunity to take hostile actions against Serbia to get rid of the Slavic Nationalist movement. What started off as a minor dispute in the Balkans ended up as one of the most inglorious wars in history including all major European powers. Now

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