Imagine being in a position where your home and entire life is being taken over by someone that wanted everyone with your specific religion out of the country or dead. This was the situation affecting Jewish people in Germany because of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi. To make things more safe for the children‚ a program known as Kindertransport came into play to take as many children out of Nazi Germany and transport them to the United Kingdom. The mothers and fathers of families had to make the heart
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the immediate defeat of France was needed. Schlieffen thought that it would much easier to become victorious over France by attacking at its rear‚ rather than pushing through the heavily fortified France-German border. In order for them to do this quickly they would have to go through another country. Switzerland has its high mountains and tight passages was essentially invasion-proof‚ so the only other option for Germany was to go through Belgium. Schlieffen was knew that Belgium would be easy
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The Georgia colony was founded the for the poor people in England. Living in the colony helped poor people stay out of prison in England. Georgia does not allow slaves bed cause it is a free colony. It does also allow freedom of religion. The colony was found by James Oglethorpe. Georgia was founded in 1732. People from Georgia came from England. Georgia’s specialty was agriculture. They could grow indigo‚ rice‚ and sugar. In 1732‚ England found the the last of the American colonies. After Oglethorpe
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The purpose of slavery was to get free labor so that they didn’t need to pay workers.This is why it was often used in the South‚ because of farms and things like that. But‚ the actual % of slave owners around Civil War time was very low.They wanted the slaves to work in tobacco plantations and they did not pay them for their work. These Slaves had no life.The salves were there only to work giving their bosses free labor.The slaves were not treated like normal people they lived in huts.Their bed
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advanced writing and math‚ insane pyramids‚ excellent stone and jade tools‚ gender equality‚ great road systems‚ and dedication to religion. Met its end after more than 3‚000 years. Archaeologist show through studies that the ending of this empire was caused by a uniformed/unstable government‚ droughts‚ deforestation‚ debates‚ diseases‚ decreased trust in leaders‚ and abandonment of cities. The Mayan empire started in 2000 B.C.E. originating in Mexico but rapidly expanding to parts of Guatemala‚
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000. Rwanda was occupied by Germans during the colonial era‚ it was also a part of German east Africa up until world war 1. Rwanda was occupied by three main tribes called the twa‚ Hutu‚ and the Tutsi. The twa were known as the original tribe to settle in Rwanda. They were forest dwellers/ hunters around the Virunga mountain range‚ in the west of Africa. Their tribe numbers started decreasing immensely during the 5th century‚ when bantu-speaking Hutu started appearing. The Hutu tribe was based around
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they claimed to deserve‚ “He issued the rebellious cry: “Who would be for liberty‚ and free from bondage” join the revolt…Together they would “go through the Country and kill those that made any opposition” (Takaki 58). Immediately Isaac Friend’s plan was put to a stop by the Virginia authorizers because they knew that having a group rebel would bring chaos and influence other indentured workers and servants to join the fight too. The more that the giddy multitude gained power‚ the more threat they became
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“weltpolitik” was aimed to establish Germany as global power. Germany’s attempts to play a greater role in Europe and not be isolated in Germany‚ ultimately failed and led to a World War . The juxtaposition of the actions as result of “weltpolitick” of Kaiser Wilhelm II and alliances support Germany’s responsibility for causing the First World War. In 1890‚ Germany shifted from Otto Van Bismarck’s foreign policy of “realpolitik” to Kaiser Wilhelm’s II “weltpolitik.” The goal of weltpolitik was to expand
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its dominate control over the league‚ Athens converted the league into the Athenian Empire. “When Athens concluded an alliance with Corcyra in 433‚ and started to besiege Potidaea‚ it threatened the position of Corinth. Sparta also feared that Athens was becoming too powerful but tried to prevent war.” (Peloponnesian War - Livius. (2018)) Sparta initial intentions were to avoid war with the possibility of peace‚ if Athens would have revoked the measures against Megara‚ one of Sparta’s allies‚ by
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could not serve in the senate. That was the province of the patricians. In effect‚ they had paid dearly for a freedom that simply turned out to be an aristocracy. Since they had nothing‚ they became reliant on loans from the patrician class in order to try and rebuild their farms and lives. But the debtor’s laws were written in favor of the patricians (by the patricians‚ of course) and if a debtor fell behind he could be imprisoned and enslaved. The public land was also limited to be used by patricians
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