... their freedom from Austria-Hungary in order to keep their identity and tradition (Doc 6). They had to fight for their happiness and justice. The European powers also had poems and lyrics that showed their belief and full devotion to their country. For example, "God Save the Tsar!" was the Russian's National Anthem during World War I (Doc 5). The ... lyrics expresses the Russian's desire for the long lasting of the Russian Monarch and defend them from their enemies or anyone that will do them harm by praying to God. As ... ...

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... began to dig trenches. After a few months these trenches had spread from the North Sea to the Swiss Frontier. For the next three years neither side advanced more than a few miles along this line that became known as the Western Front. It is estimated that one-third of all the casualties of WWI occurred in the trenches of the Western Front ... was maintained throughout the summer and into November.  The Battle of Somme only ended with the coming of the snow. In the end the British and French gained approximately 25 miles along the Western Front at the cost of almost one million troops o...

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... experienced in childhood, and joining a fearful group defends self-respect" (Virtanen, 2003, p.3). A major aspect of skinhead life is their devotion to oi music, a hard driving brand of rock music whose lyrics send a message of bigotry and violence. No other means of communication compares with oi music's influence on their outlook and behavior. Music is the skinhead movement's main propaganda weapon and ... ...

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... than civilians were. According to the Butt report's main findings prepared for Churchill stated that of the aircraft attacking their targets during strategic bombing one in three got within five miles, over the French ports two in three and over Germany as a whole one in four. Over the heartland of German industry, the main target of strategic bombing, only one in ... ten aircraft got within five miles of their target. During 1941 the RAF aircrews were not bombing the heart of Germany, which they were ordered to, but they were bombing the German countryside because they were ... ...

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... try to weaken the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo led the 33-ship Japanese striking force that steamed under the cover of darkness to about 230 miles north of Oahu. On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed Congress. He called December 7 "a date which will live in infamy". Congress declared war on Japan. In a radio speech on ... try to weaken the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo led the 33-ship Japanese striking force that steamed under the cover of darkness to about 230 miles north of Oahu. On Decem...

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... the Bulge was named so was because of the huge line it carved into the American defensive line. The American's line was so thin, they sometimes had to cover eighty miles of territory with only eighty-thousand men! Hitler had so much faith in his plan that he removed divisions from his already weak defensive line and put it into his ... thrust capturing the allied supplies. Without a supply of fuel they where sitting ducks. Hitler's last attack had to work or he would be defeated. The plan was to march 85 miles from Southern Belgium to Luxembourg and attack the allies by surprise. He wou...

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... the countryside. The only way to reach it, is to take a dead end road which bring you at the middle of corn fields. You can see it two or three miles before. It's always amazing for me to see this big monument at the middle of no where. This monument, is seventy yards tall and made of stone. It has an ... ...

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... called submarines. Radios were also used to communicate with biplanes that would either bomb or spy enemy lines. The End The Central slowly started falling apart. First Bulgaria got out, then Turkey, and after Austria-Hungary fell apart, which left Germany by itself. Woodrow Wilson came up with the idealistic fourteen points, but he didn't make the Allies accept it. The Big ... ...

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... increase in aviation prices: • Air Passenger Duty (APD) increase by 8%. Analyses indicate that 16% of the British people will aim to fly on short-haul routes (less than 4,000 miles) or book a flight from a non-UK airport on account of the tax. It is expected that by 2016, a family of four will pay a tax of 500 £ on long haul ... ...

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... Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400,000 people crammed into an area of about 2.5 square miles. Rita Hilton is a survivor of the Holocaust. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. Rita Hilton grew up near a city called Lodz. Her life before the war was happy ... ...

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... of the Jews deported daily were sent to the death/labor camp, Treblinka. To ensure total humiliation of the "sub-human" race, the Nazis built a brick wall. It stretched eleven miles around the Warsaw ghetto to guarantee that the Jews would be totally isolated from the rest of society. It began construction on November 15, 1940. The ghetto was divided into ... ...

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... that a concentration camp in Dachau, Germany had been established. This was later simply known as Dachau Concentration Camp. This camp was located in a small town called Dachau and about 10 miles from Munich, Germany. It was entitled to accommodate 5,000 political prisoners, although after the camp had opened the population rarely ever dropped below 12,000. Yet as the war progressed ... ...

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... German Customs Union which abolished all tariffs in the states who joined up to it as well as the building of the first railway line which grew 600 to 4000 miles by 1840. Although massive improvements were made in areas such as coal and iron production these were small in comparison with British standards, due mainly to little technical innovation and ... ...

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... the French coast. When thousands of U.S. troops invaded, Germans, unexpected of our arrival, were caught off guard. Capa and the unit, to which he was assigned, were dropped off 100 miles from the beach. There he fought bullets above, below, dodged German obstacles, and dove for cover so that he could get two rolls of snapshots i! n as well. He developed and ... ...

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... so much that huge bull dozers were brought in to shovel them into piles so they could be incinerated. The burning flesh of the Nazi victims could be smelled for miles. So barefaced were the horrific inflictions upon the Jews that it seems almost incomprehensible for anyone in Germany and even the world to have been unaware of the horrid crimes ... ...

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... so much that huge bull dozers were brought in to shovel them into piles so they could be incinerated. The burning flesh of the Nazi victims could be smelled for miles. So barefaced were the horrific inflictions upon the Jews that it seems almost incomprehensible for anyone in Germany and even the world to have been unaware of the horrid crimes ... ...

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... wall was built in 1961. The wall was built to divide the eastside and the west communist. The Berlin wall was constructed as a heavily forted barrier that is about 26 miles long. Berlin was a focal point for changes. the fall of the Berlin wall which will always be remember as the end of "The Cold War". this made west available to ... ...

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... the English word for the German state of Bayern. Bavaria is located in the southeastern corner of Germany. About 11,449 thousand people live in the approximately 27,238 square miles (70,546 square kilometers) that is Bavaria. Most of the state is a plateau surrounded by mountains. Those mountains are the Bavarian Alps that blend into the Tirplesese Alps at the ... ...

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... of the Jews deported daily were sent to the death/labor camp, Treblinka. To ensure total humiliation of the "sub-human" race, the Nazis built a brick wall. It stretched eleven miles around the Warsaw ghetto to guarantee that the Jews would be totally isolated from the rest of society. It began construction on November 15, 1940. The ghetto was divided into ... ...

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... other words military commanders were not quite ready to the war with it's modern weapons and new technologies such as machine guns, also the men built trenches that ran 500 miles. The First World War was the first war to use poison gas as a military weapon. Germans also had the first submarines and used them to defend Britain by sinking British ... ...

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... -front war of attrition. Something that Germany feared. Although Germany did progress in 1916 with the battle of Verdun ended in many French but also Germany casualties. Germany won a few miles of land and a million men were killed. Although for all the effort and manpower not a lot was done or gained. To add to Germanys pain and suffering the British in ... ...

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... annexed into the Axis Empire in 1939. This camp held only ten thousand people. It was named Auschwitz. Two years later, a second camp was built approximately one and one half miles from the original camp. This is what is now generally referred to as Auschwitz as it was much larger and had many times the number of kills as the original ... ...

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... to invade France through the neutral country of Belgium. That September was the first Battle of the Marne. Come 1915 armies adopted "Trench Warfare". These trenches ran for hundreds of miles from the North Sea to the boarders of Switzerland. Due to all of the fighting and gunfire evolved a territory-" bombed out strewn with barbed wire and land mines" called "no ... ...

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... Germany admit it was their fault for the war, which made Germany feel a lot of resent. They were ordered to pay 132million gold marks and tens of thousands of square miles of land were taken away from them, This caused economic problems, as Germany could not afford to pay these fines in the short time that the allies gave them. In ... ...

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... her. She lost 13.5 percent of her territory and about 7 million people to neighbouring countries because of the Treaty of Versailles. They also particularly didn't like the loss 17800 square miles of land to the new country, Poland in the east and how Germany was separated into two parts by the Polish Corridor. The other losses included Alsace and Lorraine to ... ...

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