Introduction: The Weimar Republic was created after World War I with Germany in a state of near-anarchy. It was created in the aftermath of the war to govern a defeated Germany. ... Germany was the losing state at the end of the First World War, and although the Weimar Republic was born around 1919, the government carried substantial negative baggage from the previous era. Chief of these were the monies paid by Germany to the victors of the war, initially set at five billion dollars per year up until 1921. ... This was very advanced for its era, especially the fact that voting included wo...

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In an era where everything is constantly becoming more intertwined with technology, the rituals of our daily lives follow this very trend. Whether it is something as simple as online banking or as complex as using technology as a mechanism to resist and express one's beliefs, the modern era of technology is continuing to expand society's possibilities. ... From anti-war movements like the "Chicago Seven" and Kent State Vietnam protests, to workplace movements like the Homestead Steel Strike, the evidence clearly speaks for itself. ... As the modern era's technological ...

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The Tsars who ruled in Russia were firm autocrats in an era where the nearby Europe was transforming to liberalism and republicanism. ... At this time, war with Japan was impending. ... The defeat in this war and the expense it incurred were direct causes of the revolution which occured just a few weeks later. ...

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Due to over ambitious wars and extravagant spending on courts, Louis XVI and his predecessor had successfully bankrupted France. The Seven Years War economically drained the country and her losses were considerable in human and territorial terms. ... The revolution was virtually over by this time but France was still at war with Europe and was subject to many intended coups. ... The various problems encountered by the masses were many and undisputed; the autocratic and repressive nature of the Tsarist regime, Russia's hugely unpopular participation and her eventual defeat in Worl...

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" That is, Democracy was hailed as the best form of government hence, an increasing process of democratization in many parts of the world especially in Africa; Army Generals traded their military fatigues for suits to contest elections as politicians in an unprecedented era of democracy. ... It is no surprise then, that the post- cold war era saw many states democratizing since like a towering lighthouse guiding emerging States; development, just as Sachs 1992 postulates, seemed to be pointing to the direction of democracy. ... The assembly had four main functions: it made executive pro...

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In the wake of the New Deal era reformers in the 1960s and 1970s attempted to curtail the administrative state and revitalize local and self-government in the country. ... The Neutrality Proclamation in 1793, an act in which the Washington administration declared that the United States would enter no war, compelled Jefferson and Madison to take action. He claimed that according to the Constitution, the power to declare war is not in the hands of the President but in those of Congress. ...

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The era of the Patria Vieja came to an end in 1814 when power was removed from the executive and vested in a "Supreme Dictator." ... Much of Venezuela's 19th century history was characterized by periods of political instability, dictatorial rule, and a 5-year civil war where ¼ of the population was killed. ...

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And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among whites. Numerous events during and after the misnamed Era of Good Feelings "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of John Marshall's Supreme Court, the devastating effects of the panic of 1819, the launching of John Quincy Adams's and Henry Clay's American System "confirmed a growin...

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