The Home Front During WWII One very important factor when discussing a nation who is at war is the “home front” or the state that the nation is in not directly pertaining to the war and the daily activities of civilians during war time. While the home front may not have a direct impact on the war itself‚ many things are done behind the scenes in order to provide any assistance necessary. This includes increasing war time production of goods‚ weapons and food in order to adequately provide those
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threaten the railways‚ except for local traffic‚ while aviation was at an embryonic stage. Consequently the main belligerent nations of Europe built their plans for mobilising and supporting their armies in war primarily around railways. Each nation had developed very sophisticated schedules for concentrating troops and equipment at key depots and then despatching the forces rapidly to designated positions on their frontiers. Nowhere was the planning more developed than in Germany and France. Germany’s
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2. To what extent was Germany to blame for starting WWI? After a massive war‚ it easy to see why a lot people would point fingers at the country that lost the war. However‚ is this always correct; or do people jump to conclusions much too quickly? By doing this‚ do they also create a whole new kind of trouble for themselves to come in later years? Some may suggest that it is more productive to look at the events leading up to the war to determine who was at fault. The blame attached to World
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How stable was Russia on the eve of World War 1? There are several arguments concerning Russia’s stability on the eve of World War 1 and many of these arguments have counter arguments which show a different side concerning the same events. The first argument which supports the idea that Russia was indeed stable on the eve of World War 1 is that Tsarism managed to get through the crisis of the 1905 revolution without being overthrown. This was due to the fact that various groups were bought
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like other cities‚ it spread out and became sprawling. (Soja‚ 1996‚ p. 434). The sprawling effect was a result of the white flight and globalization. People were moving out to suburbs which had freeways that would connect them back into the city. Even farther‚ manufacturing jobs in Los Angeles were being spread outside of the country‚ through globalization (Soja‚ 1996‚ p. 435). Los Angeles was one of the most segregated cities because it forced these minority people to be in these impoverish
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HY 357 Essay 2 6 December 2012 Enough Already World War I’s impact on European society would probably come as a shock to society from the prewar era. Rather than revert to old normalcy‚ societal ideals changed. Young people craved a newness that could not be found by returning to prewar customs. They wanted to move on and quickly. Every aspect of society began to transform‚ from political beliefs to literature and morality to clothing style and even architecture. In Modris Eksteins’ Rites
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“I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps” (George Takei). Japanese internment was a result of the Pearl Harbor bombing. The bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred just before 8:00 a.m. on December 7th‚ 1941. The Japanese bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu Hawaii on the island of Oahu. The Japanese bombing left more than 2‚000 American soldiers and sailors dead and 1‚000 wounded. The bombing nearly destroyed 20 naval vessels‚ including eight
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many positive and negative aspects of his reign. The positive side included the strengthening of Russia’s military but the negative side‚ at the expense of his countries people. If we were to look at Stalin’s accomplishment‚ we could see that there was a majority of positive achievements over negative ones. Of the many accomplishments‚ the most prominent one is Stalin’s famous five year plans. These five year plans helped strengthen industrial and agricultural aspects of Russia as explained in Document
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To what extent was the considerable growth of the Nazi party‚ between 1918 and 1933‚ a result of economic factors? The Weimar republic was introduced on the back of Germany’s defeat at WWI‚ the resignation of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the widely despised signature of the Treaty of Versailles. These conditions led to its collapse in 1933‚ and also the great rise in popularity for the Nazi party during this period. There is no doubt that a number of economic factors played a crucial role in the collapse
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➢ When did World war One start? August 1914 ➢ Which country did Britain enter the war for? Belgium ➢ What was the BEF? British Expeditionary Force ➢ Why did the Schlieffen Plan not work? The resistance of the Belgians‚ BEF‚ and French stopped the Germans ➢ Why was it so important for the English to secure the channel ports in November 1914? The British were able to transport troops and supplies to France through these ports ➢ What was stalemate? The war of movement ended. The
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