What is historical context? Why is it significant in the rise of a single party states? Historical context: * refers to the moods‚ attitudes and conditions that exist at a certain time. * context is the setting for an event that occurs and it will have an impact of the relevance of the event. * helps to understand something in history we must look at its context those things which surround it in time and place‚ which gives it its meaning. * pursuing deeper meaning of any event.
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Gillian Clarke- The Field Mouse In the first verse‚ the hay cutting is depicted in a positive light: the hay is cut "Down at the end of the meadow‚ / far from the radio’s terrible news". The distance from the "terrible news" leads us to expect a peaceful description of a harmless farming activity exempt from the violence happening in the outside world. The opening line of the poem sets up this expectation: "Summer‚ and the long grass is a snare drum". There are some images inserted into the scene
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Pre-1933: Locarno Conference 1925 ∙ Italy hoped it would guarantee Austria as its frontier but it did not Comintern ∙ Communists International aimed to create the vision Marx had had of an international communist power ruling the world ∙ Headed by Stalin 1933: Rise of Hitler‚ wanted to: destroy the Versailles settlement build up the army recover lost territory Lebensraum (living space for the German people) Hitler withdrew Germany from World Disarmament
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total war‚ which resulted in enormous social change. World war one had devastating effects on Europe. The Great War demolished the Austria-Hungary Empire and the Russian Empire. New states were established out of these former empires including Yugoslavia‚ Czechoslovakia‚ Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania and Poland. Communism arose in Eastern Europe‚ and France and Britain gained many new territories from the defeated nations‚ as Germany‚ Austria‚ and Turkey lost most of their land and resources. Death
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Military intervention is almost always used solely as a last resort when diplomacy fails and military intervention can be justified. Not all acts of military intervention occur between massive nations and nations that cannot defend themselves. Although sovereignty and non-intervention in the domestic affairs of states are fundamental principles of the international system‚ intervention by external powers in the affairs of other states occur frequently during civil wars. Many civil wars have prompted
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Although we cannot compare the horrors of the Nazi Concentration camps to the American "Relocation Centers"‚ there are many similarities. Both of the groups of victims were of the minorities‚ and these cultures were somewhat of an enemy to the leader of their country. These groups (the Japanese in America nearly two thirds of which were American citizens‚ and the Jews‚ Gypsies‚ the Poles‚ Slovaks‚ Communists and other enemies of the state in Germany and Poland‚ many of which had served the very countries
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Throughout time‚ a unifying force amongst all people has been an affiliation or association to something that they make up and played a part in‚ something that is bigger than themselves. This consolidating power is known a nationalism‚ and it played a significant role in Europe throughout the 18th‚ 19th and 20th centuries. Nationalism brought together people into nation-states‚ overthrew empires composed of many minority groups and played a large role in the outbreak of wars in the 19th century.
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we have to do is show some love towards them that they would normally never get. Mother Teresa is one of the most kind people on the planet and goes around spreading the love and affection. She was born in Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje‚ Yugoslavia. Her parents were Albanians who settled in Skopje near the beginning of the century. He father was a owner of a major construction company so Mother Teresa grew up in a very comfortable environment. In 1928 she suddenly decided to become a nun and
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immigration of guest workers. What two ancient civilizations shaped modern Europe? Greece & Rome. European nations have more social programs than does the U. S. Where is some of the worst fighting in Europe occurring since WWII? Former lands of Yugoslavia (Bosnia‚ Kosovo‚ Croatia‚ Serbia‚ etc.) How many people live in Europe today? 583 million What did the Good Friday Peace Agreement introduce? Sharing of power in Northern Ireland Constantinople was the capital of which empire? Byzantine Empire
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Marina returned to making solo works as well as with artistic collaborators. In this period‚ she worked increasingly with video and she began making a number of sculptural works‚ Transitory Objects for Human and Non-Human Use‚ which comprise objects meant to incite audience interaction and participation. During the 1990s as a respectable performance artist Marina Abramovic taught at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris‚ the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin‚ as well as Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste
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