... kept them out, they bowed to the values in the name of which they were excluded from power. German Liberals were not liberal, they were capitalists: industrialists, bankers, big businessmen. They were against the landowning interests that constituted the backbone of Prussian policy and against agricultural protection, but they were for expansion, and colonialism and militarism, not any ... Reichsfiende, the Centre and the Social Democrats maintained their popularity and continued to oppose Biz. "The Social Democratic party had been little more than a sect until the passing of the anti-...

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... self-determination policy had created. Moreover Europe was disintegrating economically after World War 1 but as the big three were politicians, there was very little attention in the economic part of the treaties. Little they knew that Europe would need a huge amount of economic support after the war but the ... the 1920s, a further more serious political problem that the Treaties caused was that the Treaties were made to fit different political views. The big 3 had much different opinions; Georges Clemenceau wanted to punish Germany at the harshest way possible to take revenge on what ...

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... as Serbia. Britain, an independent tough and incredibly capable remote island, which wanted equal power for everyone, however remained happy as long as it was a little bit more advanced than anyone else would ever be. A dream come true, however not for long, as the rapid growth of Germany had promptly taken ... a chain of events, reactions followed after someone decided to do something vital, something which could be classified as immensely of great consequence. Every little detail, every element of the conflicts and problems in the beginning of the 20th century should be noticed, obser...

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... to Europe's centrality would be the same thing that would lead to its fall. The thick fact that I chose to excavate is "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling. Even though this poem can be interpreted many ways, there seems to be some basic ideas that Kipling is trying to ... portray. I think that the poem draws lines between the Old Regime and the Modern. "Take up the White man's burden" is a line that is repeated throughout the poem. I understood this as a reference to how Europeans drew sharp lines between their own culture ... and the rest of the world. The poem also seems to b...

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