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- 341: Battles Of World War One
- ... regroup North of the Marne and destroyed the Schlieffen Plan. The Schlieffen Plan was the German plan of attack. Its objective was to knock the French out of the war before Russia would conquer eastern Germany. It unleashed three quarters of the German army in a giant westward sweep across Belgium and Luxembourg, and then into a giant wheel South into France. This plan accepted the risks of an early Russian ... attained and it left the Russians with an open window for an attack. The Russians took this opportunity and attacked, which brings us to our second most important battle. The Russians sent two armies into Germany that met in Tannenberg. Due to an error one army arrived before the other, but still had superior numbers. The battle of Tannenberg was a lot like the First battle of the Marne. In it ... at Gallipoli caused Winston Churchill to resign as first lord of admiralty. Another very important battle of World War One was the battle of Verdun. The French stationed a lot of forces in Verdun, then Germany attacked. On the first day of the assault more than one million shells fell on the French positions. Soon Fort Douaumont an important French defensive position north of Verdun fell to the Germans. The ...
- 342: Battle Of The Bulge
- Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last stab at victory in WWII. It lasted from December 16,1944 until January 28,1945. It was the largest land battler of WWII, which was mostly determined by the infantry. Over one million men participated in this battle including 600,000 German's, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British. Civilians, men, women, and children joined Hitler's Secret Service army. Late in 1944 Germany was clearly loosing the war Allies were bombing Germany heavily and Hitler was in a bomb shelter. Some people thought he was dead. While in the shelter he was planning his last attempt to slow the Allied invasion. He planned it down to ...
- 343: Anti -semitism
- ... Jews. In 1923 he tried to seize Bavaria but had no success. There was an increase in the number of Nazi s between the years of 1929 and 1930. Hitler was then appointed Chancellor of Germany. Hitler started a campaign to destroy world Jewry. He met with high ranking officials and created the final solution to the Jewish problem, and in 1933 the first of many German concentration camps was built. This one was at Osthofen. A concentration camp is a place where the Jews were tortured intensely, and by 1939 there were many of these camps in places across Europe, mainly Germany. There were camps in Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Mauthausen, Ravensbruck, and Sakenhausen. There were many other camps such as Natzweiler, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof, Hinzert, Vught, Dora, and Beranen-Belsen. In Poland there were camps called Auschwitz. Majdonek ... 1,000,000 people died here. Kulmhof majored in gassing killing over 150,000. In Majdonek 50,000 people died either being shot or gassed. Ravensbruck was the largest concentration camp for women in Nazi Germany. 92,000 women and children died here. My Grandfather is Polish and was in a concentration camp. I don t remember which one but I do remember him saying that it was horrible. He ...
- 344: Did The Western World Do Enoug
- ... the time leading up to the outbreak of World War II, the Western Press consistently carried numerous reports of the Germans anti-Jewish policies and their purposeful victimization of the Jews living in Nazi Germany as well as the annexed territories. The general public cannot claim that they did not know what was going on, that they were uninformed. Whether or not they chose to believe it however, is a ... them to intervene for they felt that the Jewish problem classified as an internal affair within a sovereign state. The truth behind this is simply that the governments were anxious to establish cordial relations with Germany and didnt want to cause any hostility. Thus they stood idly by and remained silent as Hitler went from denying the Jews of their civil rights to denying them of their means of earning ... the US and Britain organized against the admission of immigrant doctors. The President of the United States initiated the Evian Conference in 1938 in an attempt to find a means that would aid emigrants from Germany and Austria and enable their absorption elsewhere. Thirty-two countries sent delegates with hopes that a solution would be found however, it quickly became clear to all that the even the great powers who ...
- 345: Albert Einstein 5
- ... And despite some skepticism, the theories he developed 85 years ago are still the most accurate that we have. Einstein comes from humble beginnings, born to a not-so-well-to-do family in Ulm, Germany. He came into this world on March 14, 1879, born to Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Early in life, he showed a great interest in mathematics and the sciences. When he was about eight years old ... which included the English Royal Society s Copley Medal, the Royal Astronomical Society s Gold Medal, the first German Max Planck Medal, and the Nobel Prize for physics (Swisher 62). Around this time, Hitler and Germany were becoming a world power. In 1932, Einstein and Elsa fled Germany never to return again. In 1940, eight years after fleeing Germany, Elsa and Einstein became citizens of the United States of America. Einstein became a friend and colleague of President Roosevelt. He wrote a ...
- 346: Social Criticism In Literature
- ... animals with insatiable appetites. Boxer, the overworked, incredibly strong, dumb horse represents the common worker in Russia. The two surrounding farms represent two of the countries on the global stage with Russia at the time, Germany and England. Orwell begins his book by criticizing the capitalists and ruling elite, who are represented in Animal Farm by Mr. Jones, the farmer. He is shown as a negligent drunk, who constantly starved his ... and apples were appropriated to the pigs, and continued to when the pigs could drink and sleep on beds, until finally the pigs were the "human masters" to the rest of the animals. Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield Farm, which betrayed Animal Farm by paying for lumber with counterfeit money. In real life, this represents the Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact during World War II which Germany eventually broke. Eventually, towards the end of the story, the term, "absolute power corrupts absolutely," is proven, as the pigs, who retained all the privileges ...
- 347: The End Of Affluence
- ... our rate of growth equaled by any other major country during this period. Between 1870 and 1913, the eve of World War I, America s rate of growth rose to nearly four percent a year. Germany s gross domestic product (GDP) grew only 2.8 percent, Japan 2.3 and France 1.5 percent during this same period. America s population grew faster than Europe s over the same years. The GDP per person also faster at a rate of 1.8 percent a year between 1870 and 1913, while the GDP per person rose only 1.6 percent in Germany, 1.4 percent in Japan, 1.3 percent in France and a lowly one percent in Britain. By 1913, America was the most productive major nation in the world, producing 25 percent more per worker than Britain, who was the world leader for more than a century and twice as much per worker as Germany or France. By World War I, America was making more than 30 percent of the worlds goods! In the mid nineteenth century, Great Britain was a highly mechanized and urbanized nation, the leader in ...
- 348: Albert Einstein 4
- The Life of Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born on March 14th 1879, in Ulm Germany. Einstein spent much of his youth in Munich where his family owned and ran a small manufactured electric machinery company. Although Albert Einstein is thought to be one of the most brilliant influential thinkers of ... the Noble Prize award in physics from different world scientific groups. The two social movements that resulted in his full support were pacifism and Zionism. During World War I he was involved in publicly announcing Germany s involvement in the war. Following the war, he continued to offer support to the pacifist and Zionist principles and as a result he was made a target of vicious attacks my anti-Semitic and right wing associations in Germany. During this time he scientific theories and beliefs were publicly ridiculed and disapproved of. Einstein left Germany when Hitler came to power. It was then when he gained a position at the Institute for ...
- 349: What is Fascism and Why does it Emerge?
- ... will not question the state. Nationalism often relies on the use of a scapegoat. The most blatant example of this was Hitler's scapegoating on the Jews. He would blame them for the defeat of Germany in World War 1, or claim they were the downfall of Germany. Hitler took this idea to an extreme and later went on to ethnic cleansing which resulted in the death of 6 million Jews. Another method of motivating the masses is to present the concept of ... to mobilise the nation to its full capacity. This system of government usually emerges when other forms of government have failed. Where democracy lacked in a sense of hope and faith, fascism excelled. Post war Germany, Italy and Argentina in 1955 can all exemplify this theory of emergence: After World War 1, Italy had a poor economy and its national identified diminished. To build the nation and strengthen it economically ...
- 350: Christmas Traditions Around Th
- ... stake because she refused to deny her Christian faith and marry a pagan. In her honor, young girls dress in white robes and red sashes, and wear crowns of greenery and glowing candles C2 In Germany The German custom of decorating an evergreen tree at Christmastime has become one of the most popular images of Christmas around the world. At one time, Germany supplied the world with almost all of the decorative glass ornaments for Christmas trees. The Christmas season begins in Germany during the first week of December, when town squares become filled with stalls selling everything from toys to hot spiced wine. On the evening of December 5, children wait for a visit from Saint ...
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