To begin with‚ one significant aspect is the “Women’s March on Versailles”. This march eventually started one morning when the women in the marketplaces of Paris decided to protest on the high price of bread. Their protest soon began to grow with thousands of allies uniting them together‚ soon after these women robbed the cities armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles on October 5‚ 1789. The next day on October 6 ‚1789 the women escorted the royal family
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improve their lot.”1 Known as the Sun King‚ Louis XIV was the supreme figure of the 17th century and was notable mainly for sustaining a supreme monarchy‚ building France as the strongest country in the world and increasing the size of the chateau Versailles to be the greatest palace and court the world had ever known. Louis XIV could be classified as a “miracle baby.” His parents‚ Louis XIII and Anne of Austria‚ married when they were both 14 years of age but quickly grew to hate each other.2
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the Allies and was blamed for the destruction to the countries involving during the war. The sequence of events‚ from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to the Fall of Weimar Republic in 1933‚ led to the rise of a powerful force to be reckoned with‚ Adolf Hitler‚ the future Führer of Germany. This paper will focus on the overall importance of the Treaty of Versailles and the Wall Street crash of October 1929 in Hitler’s rise of power
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wasn’t happy that I was placed in the parks and gardens group‚ until of course I thought about Versailles! We had a whole day to visit Versailles and we needed it. We walked so much that I was literally limping at the end of the day. I guess sometimes you have to make sacrifices to see beautiful things. Everyone who visits Versailles walks through the castle. Most people also walk around in the Versailles gardens‚ where the most famous fountains are. But not everyone visits the Grand Trianon and the
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long-term factors which help to explain why war broke out in 1939. One factor was the Versailles Treaty. It was important because the treaty contributed to the tensions between the countries. The Treaty of Versailles made war in Europe inevitable. Hitler hated the Treaty of Versailles for it reminded the Germans of their defeat in WW1. He believed it was unjust and he hated the Germans who signed it. The Treaty of Versailles had taken away their territory‚ for example‚ the Polish Corridor‚ limited their
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The Middle Ages or “The Dark Ages”‚ has quite a negative connotation‚ but is not quite as dark as you would think. The Dark Ages are referred to as the period of time during the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Specifically‚ The 16th century was a very pivotal time in history that began in the year of 1501 AD and had changed the world from that point on. Many important events from within the century have shaped our world to be the way it is. One being in 1531 when the Church of England broke free
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ability to rise up as a dictator and take control of Germany can be linked back to long term causes. These long term causes allowed Hitler certain advantages which he would then go on to exploit and manipulate such as The Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles would contribute to Hitler’s plan to rule. The Treaty had left Germany as an economy and country as a whole undoubtedly weak and vulnerable. Not only had it affected the economy and country‚ it had also affected the people of Germany
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before the actual outbreak of the World War. There were many opportunities of prevention that could have taken place against Germany to stop the outbreak. It was a lead up from ending of World War I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. If the Treaty of Versailles wasn’t so harsh on Germany‚ the League of Nations was failure and if Britain and France responded earlier to Germany breaking the treaty‚ stopping Germany before the situation was too big and it was too late could have prevented
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back’ which I will explain later in this essay. There was then a peach group that was formed called The Treaty of Versailles but this Treaty didn’t look favourably on Germany and made German pay huge reparations which were around £6600 million pounds as well as taking 13% of their land away from the Germans. I think the largest problem the Weimar Republic faced was The Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty was received very badly within Germany because the Germans felt like they were being unfairly treated
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The treaty of Versailles had a large impact against Germany. It significantly slowed down the economy‚ colonies were lost to the Allies‚ industrial areas were taken over‚ German soil was lost to other countries. War reparations were created to lock down Germany’s economy so it could never recover‚ which in turn lead to the great depression. Because the Treaty of Versailles caused the great depression‚ it allowed Hitler and the Nazis to take advantage of The War Guilt Clause was a significant political
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