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Second World War Concentration Camps
1,031 words... post for the Polish divisions stretched out along the extensive front. Polish artillery firepower's were unable to defend themselves against the advanced Germans. Within few days it was perfectly clear that despite the heroic Polish resistance, no defense line had been held. An attack without any declaration of war increased an already superior German position. A certain amount of aircraft was destroyed on the ground, because of the sudden surprise. Additional problems were caused by great a...
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand President Woodrow Wilson
2,259 wordsIt is thought that this war that is been ongoing for over a year, began with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand; however, many other reasons led to this war. Some occurring reasons date as far back as the late 1800 's. Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and the system of alliances were four main factors that pressed the great powers towards this explosive war. Nationalism is the love of one's country rather that the love of a native region. Throughout the 1800 's many nationa...
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Austro Prussian German Unification
1,625 wordsEvents in history often become associated with single individuals, such as Hitler and World War II, or Cavour, Mazzini and Garibaldi with Italian unification. The same seems to be true for German unification, with which Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck is generally associated. It is often argued that it was due to Bismarck's foresighted and planed actions that Germany became unified. Although Bismarck's action undoubtedly played a most fundamental role in German unification, it would give...
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Second World War Britain And France
1,511 wordsThe Second World War gave rise to a multitude of new ideas which changed the course of modern society, the idea which has had the greatest impact on the world as a whole is the concept of the superpower nation. To be a superpower, a nation needs to have a strong economy, an overpowering military, immense international political power, and related to this, a strong national ideology. It was this war ( WWII), and its results that spawned the formation of superpowers and lead them to experience suc...
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Austro Hungarian Empire First World War
1,865 wordsWorld War One or 'The Great War' as it became known, occurred due to many causes, some of which still remain unexposed today. The obvious trigger for the war was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28 th June 1914. The assassination occurred during the Archduke's visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Archduke was targeted due to the general feeling amongst Serbians that, once appointed to the th...
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Struggle For Existence England And France
2,698 wordsSince 1795, when Immanuel Kant published in his old age his treatise on 'Perpetual Peace, ' many have considered it an established fact that war is the destruction of all good and the origin of all evil. In spite of all that history teaches, no conviction is felt that the struggle between nations is inevitable, and the growth of civilization is credited with a power to which war must yield. But, undisturbed by such human theories and the change of times, war has again and again marched from coun...
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