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- 201: World War 2
- ... Wars simply because they involved most of the big countries of the world. Many people have died in these wars.. especially the second World War. That is my focus for this essay. The leader of Germany at the time of WW2 and the person who most think started WW2 was a man named Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria. By the time that World War 1 started in 1914, he was living in Germany. He served well in the German Army and for that he earned a medal for bravery. At the end of the war Hitler decided to take up politics. By 1921 he was already the founding ... other reasons, he was definitely one of them. Another reason was the Treaty of Versailles. This was the treaty that was signed at the end of World War 1. This treaty outlined the rules that Germany must follow because of their defeat by Britain and France. Many Germans were angered by the treaty, for most of the rules in the treaty were unfair and Germany lost a great amount of ...
- 202: The European Monetary Union and the Euro
- ... instance in 1946 a Pound Sterling bought roughly 12 Deutsche Marks. Today it buys only 23 Marks, yet the growth and unemployment performance of the United Kingdom has not been any better than that of Germany. The reason that this continued devaluation has not brought with it noticeably higher growth and lower unemployment is that virtually all of the devaluation of Sterling against the Deutsche Mark has been associated with a higher rate of inflation in the United Kingdom than Germany. The evidence that changes in the nominal exchange rate can nevertheless have a significant effect on the economy in the short run is somewhat trickier to interpret, but to my mind also reasonably convincing. (The ... German reunification. The need to rebuild the former GDR after reunification meant that German production needed to be redirected away from satisfying foreign markets towards the rebuilding of the East. Associated with this reduction in Germany's net exports there would then need to be a real revaluation in the Mark. This could have been brought about in one of three ways. First, and most easily, there could (and should) ...
- 203: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... of 1938, the purge left Stalin with a new generation of officials loyal to him alone. However, the decimation of the military ranks left the country more vulnerable to the threat from Adolf Hitler’s Germany during World War II. V FOREIGN POLICIES Although Stalin’s policy in the mid-1930s was to support the Communist International (Comintern) in forming a popular front against the rise of fascism in Europe, he gave up the idea of collective security with the West and in August 1939 decided upon an alliance with Nazi Germany. The "Secret Protocols" of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact carved up Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence; the Soviets allowed Germany to invade Poland in exchange for Hitler’s promised nonaggression against Soviet territory. Despite warnings, Stalin was taken by surprise in June 1941 when the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa, a three-pronged attack against ...
- 204: Albert Einstein
- ... Einstein’s General Theory of relativity, but few know about the intriguing life that led this scientist to discover what some have called, "The greatest single achievement of human thought." Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1874. Before his first birthday, his family had moved to Munich where young Albert’s father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have ... 1912 he chose to accept a job placing him in high authority at the Federal Institute of Technology, where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research ! ! director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. World War I had a strong effect on Einstein. While the rest of Germany supported the army, he felt the war was unnecessary, and disgusting. The new weapons of war which attempted to mass slaughter people caused him to devote much of his life toward creating peace. Toward ...
- 205: Albert Einstein
- ... Einstein’s General Theory of relativity, but few know about the intriguing life that led this scientist to discover what some have called, "The greatest single achievement of human thought." Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1874. Before his first birthday, his family had moved to Munich where young Albert’s father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have ... 1912 he chose to accept a job placing him in high authority at the Federal Institute of Technology, where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. World War I had a strong effect on Einstein. While the rest of Germany supported the army, he felt the war was unnecessary, and disgusting. The new weapons of war which attempted to mass slaughter people caused him to devote much of his life toward creating peace. Toward ...
- 206: Propaganda In Film
- ... of the word its use was avoided because it did not seem to be consistent with the ideals of democracy. The democratic governments began associating it with totalitarian states, such as Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany because these governments did not hesitate to use the term. During World War II, Adolph Hitler established the Ministry of Propaganda. Its role was to make up and use incidents to defend his occupation of other European countries. Before each action was taken by Germany against another country, the German press and radio publicized examples of persecution of German minorities in the other country. Art of which the film genre is a part had always been influenced by its patron ... images and it soon became apparent to the elite that cinema would be one of the most effective instruments in this form of persuasion. Fascism was dependent on the technologies of the mass media. In Germany the rallies used public address systems, and were broadcast on radio and screened in theatres. Huge architectural structures and spaces were used based on sports stadiums and sets of Hollywood musicals. "The rallies made ...
- 207: Albert Einstein
- His Childhood Years: Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879, in the small town of Ulm, in Southern Germany. His parents, Hermann and Pauline, were Jewish. His father was an electrician whom also was interested in electrical inventions. However he was very unsuccessful in his business, and as soon as Albert was born, the ... desire was to solve the nature of unsolved and mysterious puzzles. Albert finally decided he needed a university education. But because he had not graduated from high school, he could not enter any university in Germany. However, in Zuncih wich is in the German speaking part of Switzerland, there was the country's famous Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (Eidgenossische Technische Houchschule). Einstein was sixteen at the time when he was ... examination. He failed it, not in mathematics and physics, but in botany and languages. Einstein was advised to complete his secondary education at the high school in Aarau, a small town at the border of Germany and Switzerland. There, among pleasant friends and students, Einstein finished his studies. Einstein received the diploma that opened the doors to ETH. Einstein had become a university student. A University Student: Einstein took his ...
- 208: Weapons of World War 1
- ... in Austria would be effected by this decision. Austria was strongly opposed to this. Austria now decided to use the killing as an excuse to settle it's tension with Serbia. They were backed by Germany. On July 23 Austria presented a war threat to Serbia, allowing only 48 hours for an answer. Serbia suggested that some of Austrias demands be offered to the other European countries. Austria refused and on July 28 declared war on Serbia. All the nations in Europe were expecting war. For many years rival groups of nations had been making alliances. Europe had been divided into two camps. Germany, Austria, and Italy were members of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Central Powers. Russia, France, and England formed the rival Triple Entente Powers. Later called the Allies. The States sided with Serbia and ... Passive acoustic torpedoes moved toward the underwater noise generated by the target ship its self. The submarine provided the ideal weapon platform for the torpedo. Perfected during the war, and used in great numbers by Germany , the submarine proved too slow to challenge naval vessels but was extremely effective in attacking the slower merchant ships and convoys, which normally followed set courses. Germany challenged British sea power with a large ...
- 209: World War 2
- ... Wars simply because they involved most of the big countries of the world. Many people have died in these wars.. especially the second World War. That is my focus for this essay. The leader of Germany at the time of WW2 and the person who most think started WW2 was a man named Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria. By the time that World War 1 started in 1914, he was living in Germany. He served well in the German Army and for that he earned a medal for bravery. At the end of the war Hitler decided to take up politics. By 1921 he was already the founding ... other reasons, he was definitely one of them. Another reason was the Treaty of Versailles. This was the treaty that was signed at the end of World War 1. This treaty outlined the rules that Germany must follow because of their defeat by Britain and France. Many Germans were angered by the treaty, for most of the rules in the treaty were unfair and Germany lost a great amount of ...
- 210: WW
- ... was that an argument between two countries could draw all the other nations into a fight. This is just what happened when a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia led to World War 1. Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey). Prominent among the war's causes were the imperialist, territorial, and economic rivalries of the great powers. The German empire in particular was determined to establish itself as the preeminent power ... student who lived in Serbia, fired the shots that killed Ferdinand. On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia to start World War 1. On June 29 Russia order general mobilization. August 1 Germany came into the war declaring war on Russia. August 3 Germany declared war on France. The next day Germany invaded Belgium. Great Britain declared war on Germany. August 26-31 the Germans crushed the Russian second army at Tannenberg. September 1-October the Russians defeated ...
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