Jan. 1923: Invasion of the Ruhr The Ruhr is one of Germany’s most valuable industrial and mining area. End 1922: Germany failed to pay reparations to France as part of TOV In response‚ the French occupied the Ruhr. Campaign of ‘passive resistance’ was Germany’s response and resulted in a decline in industrial productivity ‘Passive resistance’ affected Germany economy Weimar government still dedicated to maintain commitment to TOV o Reparation bill: US $32 billion Instead
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never forget The Holocaust because it was a time in their lives that they lost everything they loved. To this day The Holocaust survivors tell stories about The Holocaust and how it changed them in person and their faith. Survivors resources to survive To begin with‚ the survivors back then were mistreated‚ left without food‚ and without shelter for being Jewish and choosing not to follow Hitler’s beliefs. His hate toward Jews was so big that he decided to kill and try to make Jews extinct. He
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Slide one The Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was born in the aftermath of the defeat of Germany in World War I. After Germany lost the First World War‚ the Kaiser fled and a new democratic government of Germany was declared in February 1919 at the small town of Weimar. It was too dangerous to make a declaration in Berlin where there had just been a revolt by a Communist group called the Spartacists. The Weimar Republic was a genuine attempt to create a perfect democratic country. Slide two All
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goes without saying that the most efficient way deal with poverty is to create more jobs and reduce the rate of unemployment. Society should help fight poverty with a big government because big governments can help people in absolute poverty and it can help create jobs. History has already given us examples of how big governments have dealt with absolute poverty. In this case Hitler and Stalin come to mind‚ both Hitler and Stalin have helped their countries get out poverty. After Germany lost
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In the early 1920’s‚ hyperinflation and £6600m worth of war reparation payments sent Weimar Germany into deep finiancial decline and a economic slump. It was in 1924‚ shortly after Gustav Stresemann introduced the Rentenmark when the situation started to improve‚ started by implementation of the American ’Dawes plan’ in August. The key factors of this plan were the agreement that the reparations should paid over a lengthened period of time‚ and the £100m worth of gold given to Germany to strengthen
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It’s a political perfect storm: The pairing of a government shutdown with the rollout of a big chunk of the health care law is illustrating all sorts of partisan and cultural tensions that are roiling America. Big government vs. small. The Republican Party’s identity crisis. Sharpening political divisions among Americans. And plenty more. Dueling images of the government powering itself down just as Americans for the first time are logging on to Obamacare’s new health-insurance exchanges bring into
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In the early months of 1810‚ the British government began to conceive of a plan to rescue the king of Spain from Valençay. A Baron Kolli was chosen for the task because of his knowledge of French and France as well as his great discretion. The plan was for him to gain access to the chateau under
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The Ottoman Empire lived longer than many states in the past because its lifetime was about six hundred. So‚ how did the Ottoman Empire survive so long? In my opinion‚ it was because of the diversity and religious tolerance in the Empire‚ a good administration‚ and military talents and techniques‚ so I can pick some of them to show them as the major historical legacies of the Ottoman Empire‚ such as the diversity and religious tolerance‚ and military talents and techniques. In addition to this‚ I
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Ottoman Empire and conquered. However‚ before this collapsed‚ one might wonder how this civilization survive for this long and what were they most important achievements? In this paper I will try my best to answer these questions and shed a brighter light on this civilization known as the “Byzantium”. First‚ I will answer the most intriguing part of the question on how this civilization managed to survive for so long. We have to remember that the Byzantine Empire was a direct derivative of the old Roman
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To what extent did the Treaty of Versailles weaken Germany Democratically‚ between 1919 to 1929? The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on the twenty second of June in 1919‚ would forever psychologically be associated with the long term bitterness and humiliation of the German public towards the German democracy. The civilian government who agreed to the terms of the treaty‚ which saw German suffer a deduction in their army‚ forced to pay high reparations‚ deduction of land and population were
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