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- 121: Yalta
- ... Stalin the admission of Soviet Ukrainian and Belorussian republics in the UN. Another very important matter on the table of discussions at Yalta was Poland. Since Poland was a very large country and situated between Germany and Russia. It was also a very will strategically placed country. So, at the Yalta conference it was discussed whether Poland would be allowed to have free elections. Stalin was greatly opposed to having supervised (by the Americans, British and Soviets) election in Poland and so. Another matter of great importance and Crimea was the reparations to be received from Germany. The Russians wanted a set amount of $$50 million. They also wanted 50% of this money. However, a historian close to Roosevelt, advised him that this would be a bad idea. He believe that “it ... arguing with great energy that France be given both and occupation zone and a seat of the ACC. The British prime minister was understandable anxious to engage France in the task of occupying and controlling Germany in the general to rebuild French power with a view to help offset the Soviet military presence in Central Europe. After much behind the scenes talks and debates, FDR was finally convinced to give ...
- 122: Adolf Hitler
- Who was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was the Führer (Leader) of Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War II and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise known as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria ... to enter the Academy for Art in Vienna, but was rejected both times. Between 1909 and 1913, he lived in Vienna. There is controversy as to whether he was destitute there. He moved to Munich (Germany) in 1913, and was still there when World War I broke out in August 1914. Hitler enlisted in the German army and saw four years of front-line service during which he was wounded several ... Hitler was Convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve power legally, and after a series of events too numerous to detail here, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933. Over the next 6 ...
- 123: Educational System
- ... teaching strategies, and promotes interaction among their peers. In 1998, a television program called 60 Minutes , aired a special investigation of the United States educational system when compared to the educational system of China and Germany. The results of this investigation surprised many citizens of the U.S., including myself. According to 60 minutes, the United States system of education is failing tremendously when compared to other to Germany and China. They found a direct connection between the failure of U.S. students and the teaching methods the U.S. imposes on them. Also, the success of the student s of China and Germany shared a similar philosophy. China and Germany greatly promotes interaction between the students at a very young age. In America, the students are more interested in individual success. American students learn to become a ...
- 124: Diarmement
- ... opposed positions on the entire issue.In some ways it could be argued that disarmament was and still isa logically impossible. The first step in disarmament after the war was the treatment meted out to Germany in the Treaty of Versailles.It was hoped that this would begin a general move towards disarmament.Article 8 of the League Covenant saw disarmament as a specific goal: The members of the League recognise ... impossible to do so over disarmament. Britain saw disarmament as a means of achieving security.France believed that it was necessary to first achieve security before the process of disarmament could begin. *The French viewed Germany as a potentially powerful nation of 70 million. France,a nation of 4 million,would always be at Germany`s mercy unless it could be sure of an ally,so it aimed at keeping Germany weak and could not move on disarmament until its security had been established. *The major divergence of opinion ...
- 125: Causes Of World War I 2
- ... military, control over aggression and mass production of weaponry and any other military supplies. The conflicts caused by this philosophy seem very childish to me. The first conflict started when Kaiser William II (leader of Germany) started to be jealous of Great Britain’s Navy and their increased naval production. “Germany’s challenge to Britain’s supremacy as the world’s leading trading and maritime nation and the reaction of Britain and other powers to this economic-military-psychological threat were among the major causes of ... over. Some fought because another colony invaded them, some fought to take over a colony and some fought just because their countries are on conflict due to militarism and other issues. In example, France and Germany started to have conflicts of their colonies in Morocco because Germany started to kick out all the French colonies out of their own homes. Oddly enough, Germany did that to hog the raw materials ...
- 126: Adolf Hitler 2
- Who was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was the Führer (Leader) of Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War II and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise known as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria ... to enter the Academy for Art in Vienna, but was rejected both times. Between 1909 and 1913, he lived in Vienna. There is controversy as to whether he was destitute there. He moved to Munich (Germany) in 1913, and was still there when World War I broke out in August 1914. Hitler enlisted in the German army and saw four years of front-line service during which he was wounded several ... Hitler was Convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve power legally, and after a series of events too numerous to detail here, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933. Over the next 6 ...
- 127: Who was Adolf Hitler?
- Who was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was the Führer (Leader) of Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War II and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise known as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria ... to enter the Academy for Art in Vienna, but was rejected both times. Between 1909 and 1913, he lived in Vienna. There is controversy as to whether he was destitute there. He moved to Munich (Germany) in 1913, and was still there when World War I broke out in August 1914. Hitler enlisted in the German army and saw four years of front-line service during which he was wounded several ... Hitler was Convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve power legally, and after a series of events too numerous to detail here, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933. Over the next 6 ...
- 128: The End of the First World War
- ... In 1917 the United States of America went to help the allies in the First World War. Many British and French historians say that if the United States did not go to help the allies, Germany would have possibly won the war. All of this happened shortly after the Russian collapse, better known as the Bolshevik Revolution. During the winter of 1917/1918 the allies wanted a comforting type of moral ... Woodrow Wilson along with the house devised the Fourteen Points on January 8,1918. But as all know that only one of the fourteen passed. The German front finally failed in July of 1918. Then Germany appealed to the United States on the grounds of the Fourteen Points. On January 12, 1919, 27 nations met in Paris, which later became known as the Paris Peace Conference. Up until this time, there ... The treaty was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The United States did not ratify this agreement but did sign a separate treaty with Germany in June of 1921. By the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was required to abolish all military service. Germany also had to reduce her military army to 100,000 people, which are not very many ...
- 129: The Significance of the Franco-Prussian War on Europe
- ... War was that its results effected the entire group of European Countries. This started a domino effect which culminated in World War I. The nation that benefited the most from the Franco-Prussian War was Germany. The main objective of the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War was to unite the southern and northern states into one unified Germany. The unification of Germany increased nationalism, and together with the development of industry and commerce resulted in a powerful nation that now had the ability and the power to play a key role in world events. Once Germany ...
- 130: A Short History Of Anti-semiti
- ... impossible to grasp, these horrors were the culmination of generations of anti-Semitism, brought to the boiling point by the decision of one power-crazed man. Dating back several centuries, anti-Semitism was prevalent throughout Germany barring rare instances where communities were tolerant religiously or socially of Jewish inhabitants. However, the belief that Jews were selfish, manipulative, ignorant heretics bound only for hell was still a popular one, even in communities ... and blasphemy and cursing, we cannot tolerate them (Craig, 128) Therefore, The Reformation did nothing for the Jews except create another organized faction that officially detested them. These hatreds became the demonic roots imbedded in Germany, and were inescapably destined to touch even the most divine of the country s richly gifted artists. Centuries later, one of Germany s most respected and admired composers would emerge from the same soil-Richard Wagner. The composer openly voiced his dislike of the Jewish people, and according to Gordon Craig, (Wagner) prided himself on his ...
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