... . They did this with aggressive actions against other countries. For example, Germany under their dictator Hitler attacked Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria and other small countries around Germany early in the war. Now when three different countries are attacking many other different countries around the world, little wars sprout up all over the place. For Germany, the harsh circumstances left from the ... lost against the Allies and were severely punished. Germany alone was in debt for 33 billion dollars. In total, 10 million soldiers and civilians were lost their lives in World War I. Wo...

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... terrorist group known as the Black Hand assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. This act was the event that essentially sparked the beginning of World War I. However, the assassination was not the one and only reason behind such a massive conflict. There were underlying issues that all together helped push the ... European nations to battle. With all things considered, the First World War was caused by the struggle for military power, the intense feelings of national pride and the need to build and expand empires. One of the ... that reason only, Germany must have a powerful ...

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... they could not join to the League of Nations causing bad international relationships and no aid form others to Germany. Therefore the Treaties caused political instability in Europe after World War 1 especially as they humiliated and isolated the central powers, especial Germany, form the rest of the world. However, while the Paris peace Treaties were clearly responsible for the continuing ... take revenge; and Germany fell into hyperinflation making them poor not like Lloyd-George wanted. The Paris peace Treaties caused numerous political problems in the 1920s as they prevented the Wa...

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... citizens of the United States, although the American public was in an uproar. In 1916 President Wilson was re-elected having campaigned on an antiwar and pro-neutrality platform, the war in Europe had left millions dead with neither side poised to achieve victory. By the spring of 1917 neutrality did not seem to be feasible any longer. The unrestricted submarine ... he believed necessary to achieve a lasting peace in Europe and globally. These points became known as Wilson's "Fourteen Points." Some of the points were obvious for ending the war the removal of German troops from Belgium, ...

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... Rival-Alliance with the French. This entanglement of the alliances threatened Germany as well and therefore threatened the peace in Europe and lead to World War 1. In 1900, Kaiser Wilhelm the second proposed a new policy called "Weltpolitik" a foreign policy of colonial expansion and imperialism. After ... immense in size. This enforcement caused tension between Germany and Britain; (Naval Race) 1906-1912, which makes Britain partially responsible for the World War 1. Moreover, in 1905 Alfred von Schlieffen a minister proposed another plan called "The Schlieffen Plan" which proposed to pu...

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... professions as medical care was vital if the soldiers on the Western Front were to be able to fight for the country. Subsequently, in the post-war years, The Representation of the People Act gave women the right to vote provided that they were of the age of 30 and they were married ... when women were given the right to vote at the age of 21, on equal grounds with men. This change was brought about by the war because of the Sex Disqualification Act of 1919 opening up more employment opportunities for women. This showed that women were able to be trusted to make ... of married women wen...

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... ways. When the Treaty of Westphalia was signed, many aspects of European society were changed dramatically. Two significant changes were that the Thirty Years War altered the balance of power between countries and also impacted the role and influence of religion across the continent. First of all, the Treaty ... of Westphalia was signed at the end of the war in 1648 after four years of negotiations. The players involved were the territories in Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, the provinces of the Netherlands, ... the country, further crippling the nation financially. Germany remained a fr...

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... Hugenots, (Protestants) rejected the idea of having a Habsburg as a king. Frederick of Palatinate who was the Calvinist ruler in Bohemia went to war with the Habsburgs. In response to this Ferdinand of Habsburg, soon to be elected Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II decided to take action against Frederick ... took over Frederick of Palatinate's land. The Catholic Counter Reformation was making an impact on Germany, which gave another reason for fighting the war religiously. Protestant Germans were starting to worry about the influence of the Catholic Church on the Lutheran states. Cardinal...

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... economic and military strength while France was one of Europe's leading powers. The French were still mad at their defeat in the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 because their leader Napoleon III was overthrown and they had to accept harsh peace with Germany. The peace treaty said that they ... powers, which consisted of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary and the allies consisted of England, France, and Russia. So to me, the war started because Austria-Hungary wanted revenge for the assassination of their archduke and that led to Russia helping Serbia, which made Germany, stand by its ... ....

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... Revolution. These countries competed for economic expansion in Africa. Although Britain and France resolved their differences in Africa, several crises foreshadowing the war involved the conflict of Germany against Britain and France in North Africa. In the Middle East, the collapsing Ottoman Empire was very appealing ... an alliance with someone and as a result, if one country started something with another, it would eventually bring every country in Europe to war. Armies and navies were greatly expanded. The armies of France and Germany doubled in size between 1870 and 1914. Naval exp...

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... overthrow of the Southern plantation system, a small fanatic group of Southerners circumvented the democratic process and attempted to leave the Union. The Civil War became inevitable when the nation's founders acceded to the demands of Southern Planters in 1787 and wrote slavery into the Constitution as our national policy ... gradually or all at once is ludicrous- almost as ludicrous as the idea that there were substantial numbers of Northerners who wanted to go to war to free the slaves. Lincoln, in his First Inaugural Address, promised not to interfere with slavery in the original So...

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... those of their loved ones. Each side had their own leaders and each leader had their own story, their own point of view of why the war was taking place. Just think, all the money wasted put towards weapons, put towards all this chaos and destruction. All of the armies were powerful ... lives and devastated those that still lived. It was the beginning of a terrible conflict, bigger than anyone had ever imagined. The war started in 1939 and ended in 1945. Six longs years of turmoil and pain which could have been easily avoided. Germany was the one who started ... in the Holocaust. Million...

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... countries were forced to support policies implemented by their partners, which was not taken so easily. In some ways the basic causes of World War 1 goes back as far as the early 1800's. People controlled by other countries began to develop feelings of nationalism and patriotisms, often ... 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. So countries started to group together in rival of military alliances to advance their aims. Quite similar to the arms race of today, ... Africa and Asia. No...

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... . The United States has made decisions just like other countries, where they think they are helping their people, when in reality they are hurting themselves, and others. One situation where war is in dire need would be if the country was threatened by another country. For example: being threatened to be bombed, over run, anything that would over-throw the current ... over them. Nations have to stand up against these things. In addition to why people should commence in war, there are reasons why countries should not go to war. For example: Civil war is not needed. There is no reason that...

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... for anyone involved. The sheer cost for a nation involved was huge and it had a negative impact on living conditions by the end of the war. Women became much more important during this time because they stepped away from traditionally female roles in society to fill in for men in the workforce. ... would be left to die in the space between the opposing trenches which came to be known as "no mans land"3. Soldiers quickly learned that the war wasn't glorifying or exciting it was devastating. The conditions in the trenches were terrible often very muddy and soldiers were always cold and wet...

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... Europe, resulting in tensions both within the regions involved and between various European nations. One particularly prominent nationalistic movement, Panslavism, figured heavily in the events preceding the war. Another cause of "The Great War" was imperialism. Imperialism was a major cause because Great Britain, Germany and France needed foreign markets after the increase in manufacturing caused by the Industrial Revolution. The ... result of such tensions, between 1871 and 1914 the nations of Europe adopted domestic measures and foreign policies that in turn steadily increased the da...

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... sector and that there was little need for political involvement with other countries. As a result, the American approach to foreign policy in the inter war years appears to be confused. Public opinion, and Congress, appeared to be predominantly isolationist but the presidents and policy makers wished to be more ... were intended to shut off the United States from future conflicts by ensuring that businessmen and financiers could not do business with those waging war. Public opinion continued to remain strong; the severity of the Depression led many to conclude that their efforts and att...

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... Arch Duke, Francis Ferdinand. (Adams, 7) This "Black Hand" was based in Serbia, and as a result of the murder, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28th, 1914. No single person is of such significance that his or her murder should be avenged by warfare. The Austrians were ... Holocaust: the mass slaughter of Jews all throughout Europe. The second reason is to attack a country that remained neutral throughout the beginning of World War II. This country is America, primarily Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Thousands of good American soldiers lost their lives in a blind side attack by the ...

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... more complicated. Before the question can be answered, it is important to look at the situation in Europe at the time before the First World War started. Europe was divided by two alliances: the Triple Alliance, of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy and the Triple Entente, consisting of Great ... Germany and Britain were on friendly terms, their agreement on the Baghdad railway outweighing their naval rivalry. Industrialists in Germany did not want a war, which might spoil the country's economic prospects. They thought that Germany would become the leading power in Europe from economic s...

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... Today is Saturday November 15, and I"m going to interview my Great-Grandfather about World War II. : Today grand-dad I"m here to interview you about World War II. : Okay. Now can you give me a specific date or year when World War II began. the second world war began in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and an Anglo-French coalition but eventually widened to include ... I"ll have to say that the greatest advances were in air craft and tanks. What is one cause of this war? One cause of the war was Europe's refusal to pay their War debts. l: What was going on during World War II?...

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... whether or not Western Europe was integrated by threat'. The European economy boomed in the immediate months following the end of the Second World War because stocks of goods needed to be replenished after the conflict but this boom turned into bust as countries overspent what little money they ... was crucial to Western European integration but at the same time it was born out of the threat from the Soviet Union and the Cold War. From this evidence, it would appear that the integration by threat' idea suggested in the question is an accurate portrayal of Western Europe ... in this perio...

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... alarmed at the increasing might of the Habsburgs, but France who was catholic and England who was protestant, were then allies against Spain and refrained from immediate intervention in the war because of domestic difficulties. Christian IV, king of Denmark and Norway, however, came to the aid of the German Protestants. However, Christian's intervention was really motivated by nonreligious ... the Habsburgs and France, which was still under the leadership of Richelieu. Religious issues were not significant in the final phase, which opened in May 1635, with France declaring war against ...

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... with Serbia, which had become more explosive. Therefore Austria seized the chance of a war between them by accusing Serbia for the assassination. However this war was supposed to remain local. Nonetheless the Austro-Serb quarrel explains the outbreak of the war, however it does not explain why it became a world war. These are a few reasons that are suggested for the escalation of the world ... become more world wide; rather than the points highlighted in italics, which show the contests between the rival countries. There were many reasons why the war broke out between the countries howe...

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... section of Western Germany declared a Demilitarized Zone by the treaty of Versailles Appeasement - the policy of giving in to demands - Start: Occupation of Rhineland - End: Invasion of Poland Blitzkrieg - "lightning war- which stressed speed and surprise; Stuka bombers, tanks smash defenses, knock out communication Luftwaffe - German Air Force RAF - British Royal Air Force Blitz of Britain -German bombers bomb RAF bases ... transported to camps in desolate areas Holocaust - the systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe; more than ½ were Jews Strategies and turning points in ...

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... Imperialism caused tension among the nations because as each nation gained a colony, those colonies became dedicated to help their motherland in any event of war. Militarism was the belief that one's country should be well armed and military ways could be used to gain nationalist needs. Militarists was an ... countries. There were many alliance agreements between the Great Powers before WW1 had broke out, and one alliance system became a long term cause of war because it divided Europe into two armed forces; Germany, Austria and Italy became allies and France, Russia and Britain joined ...

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