What was the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on Hitler’s rise to power? The signing of The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 marked a dark day in German politics. The treaty left the country crippled and powerless‚ which in turn led to the rise of Adolf Hitler. Reparations and the great depression were contributing factors to Hitler’s rise to power‚ however one must also consider his warming charisma and Germany’s desire for a strong leader as important reasons. One clause of the treaty of Versailles
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Midterm Exam Questions What was the Progressive Movement? The progressive movement was from 1890-1920. This time period was an era of social activism and political improvement in the United States.The movement focused on political organizations and their chief executive. During this period many pivotal events took place‚ these events include; cleansing of the government‚ focus on family and education‚ the peak of the women’s suffrage movement‚ prohibition‚ modernization. Many people‚ called progressives
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What Was the Exact Cause Of The Great Depression? The United States Great Depression leads many people to believe different stories about what actually caused it. The Stock Market Crash in October of 1929 is often referred to as the beginning of the Great Depression‚ but did it actually cause it? The answer is that it was the spark that lit the flame of the Great Depression. The Great depression was a financial decline that started in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s. Its pinpoint was
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Western Civilization Final The revival of trade and commerce during the middle ages impacted European Society in many ways but it is important to know how and what caused the revival of trade and commerce and then how it really changed the future European Society. First the rise of Christianity start brought a new phase of history. The end of the ancient world which was the beginning of the Middle ages. Three religions emerged from the fall of the ancient world‚ these were Latin Christendom‚ Byzantium
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financial legacy to James was very poor as she had been involved in a multitude of wars‚ suffered from extreme inflation towards the end of her reign which was compounded by her struggles with monopolies. This in turn partially led to James’ tenuous relationship with parliament over royal expenditure‚ parliamentary insecurity‚ corruption and scandal‚ and his own dealings with finances. Whereas source 12 suggests that Elizabeth’s financial difficulties was indeed the true reason for James’ parliamentary
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What is a Presidential doctrine: it indicates a program that a president uses to implement a policy towards either a country or region to attain foreign policy aspirations for the United States. The term "doctrine" denotes "A declaration of certified government policy‚ particularly in foreign affairs and military strategy" ("Doctrine‚" n.d.). Presidents like Jimmy Carter‚ James Polk‚ and George W. Bush put together their doctrines‚ but amid these the doctrine of President Ronald Reagan is most notably
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PERIOD 1‚ US HISTORY ACC. Question: To what extent was the Reconstruction a failure? Reconstruction was the period directly after the end of the Civil War (1865-1877). This era was a necessary time for the United States to restore the divided nation. The eleven rebel states that had been defeated leaving the government unsure weather to punish or pardon them. In Reconstruction era‚ the three goals emerged from the federal government: rebuild the South‚ provide and protect freedman’s
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The Peloponnesian War was a war fought in two different stages between Athens and Sparta. It follows the creation a truce in 451 BCE that stated 30 years of peace between the city states. The first stage of the battle lasted about a decade ending in about 423 BCE due to plague. Not too long after‚ about 420 BCE‚ war was on the horizon and this battle would end in 404 BCE with the downfall of Athens and the rise of Sparta. Although the war ravaged both sides Sparta‚ along with help from the Persians
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revolutionary discoveries in the history of physics was Albert Einstein’s resolution of the inconsistencies in the current model of mechanics and electromagnetism with special relativity. Rather than attempting to remold Maxwell’s equations‚ Einstein‚ in 1905‚ rejected prevailing assumptions about the nature of time and space in the reference frames of observers with different velocities: instead of forcing the time and spatial position of an object to be invariant‚
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The Bubonic Plague (or as it is more famously known‚ the Black Plague) is one of the first documented plagues in history to have such a high mortality rate. Over 20 million people died in the outbreak of the Black Plague from 1347 to 1351. It not only devastated the United Kingdom but also reached down into Africa and even originated from Asia. In Asia‚ this epidemic was used as a weapon during a war‚ spreading the horrible death even further. The Black Death still holds major significance today
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