gained power, we must understand the social, political and economic context of Germany after the First World War. Politically, Germany was humiliated by its loss of the war and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles. Economically, the devastation from the war and the heavy taxation repayments demanded by the treaty were exacerbated by the massive inflation of the Great Depression. Germany and its people lacked a sense of hope. The new Weimar Republic, led by Kaiser Wilhelm, struggled to restore Germany…
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ZN2: Primary Document Analysis 1. Why did you choose the document that you did? In other words, what motivated your choice? I choose Winston Churchill’s speech “We Shall Fight on the Beaches.” The reason I decided to go with this document is that I am an admirer of Churchill and have read a few books on him. Another reason I wanted to read this speech is that here in the United States, Great Britain’s involvement in the victory over Nazi Germany is often understated or overlooked all together…
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purpose, value, and limitations all in order to properly evaluate the evidence. Some of the documents will include all of the countries that attended the League of Nations and how it succeeds for a while and how Germany made them noticeable again. An analysis of these documents as well as the summary of evidence will be used for a precise conclusion and evidence on how these leaders and their intense thinking and doing started World War II and how it made the League of Nations collapse. Word Count:…
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lust for war, a conflict erupted in 1914 (Chang, 2017a). After the Versailles Peace Treaty was signed by Britain, France, Italy, and Russia in 1919, extreme reparations were implemented in Germany which led to the collapse of German society and government (Mckay,…
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Research – The Rise to Power of Leaders in Single Party States A. Knowledge Role of Events and Conditions: Economic: Before Hitler’s rule Germany was in the middle of a economic crisis due to: The Treaty of Versailles Germany had to take full responsibility for the war that meant they had to compensate for the Allies losses, which left them with $6,6 billion worth of debt in 1921. Germany had hyper-inflation 1923 Germany suffered immensely from the Great Depression as they had loaned large…
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a meeting in Paris to lay the groundwork for a peace that they hoped would last for the near future. Despite the expectation that the Treaty of Versailles would create peace, the world found itself in an even worse war barely two decades after the treaty’s signing. Hypothetically, if nuclear weapons existed in the period after the signing of the Versailles Treaty, their deterrence capabilities may have prevented the outbreak of another global war. The injection of nuclear weapons into pre-WWII Europe…
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broken battered and insulted. Germany lost over 1.5 million lives during the war and almost as many after the war due to famine and starvation caused by the allied blockade, as well as an economy devastated by the reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. The loss of human life added to the cripple economy was only made worse by being forced to take full responsibility for the war. These were some of them reasons the German people felt backstabbed and betrayed by those who sign the peace terms…
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to publication of the source within a textbook, the author trusting Macmillan’s sincerity, as her account was selected as a valuable supporting piece of evidence, increasing its reliability. The source is reliable as it is consistent of analogous analysis, such as historian Richard Evans, who asserts that the reparations were not beyond Germany’s capital and not arbitrary considering destruction upon Belgium and France . The source is reliable in the accuracy of the assertions presented, as if Clemenceau…
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Modern History – Assessment Task 1 World War 1 Source Analysis 1. Use Sources A and B and your own knowledge. How successful were the Allies and the Germans in using technology to break the stalemate on the Western front? (6 marks) Both the Allies and the Germans introduced new technologies in an attempt to break the stalemate on the Western Front. Source A is a photograph featuring ‘A Trench Scene’. Trenches were the greatest piece of technology used in the war, represented in the source is a…
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view that the collapse of the Weimar Republic was primarily due to the appeal of Hitler and his Nazi Party. From its initial inception, the democratic Weimar Republic was doomed to fail. Having begun its regime by signing a severely unpopular peace treaty, the newly instated Weimar Government not only “lacked moral validity”1 but also ensured and vast variety of problems whilst similarly guaranteeing the distrust of its people for the duration of its existence. The Republic encountered a multitude…
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