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"Ludendorff gambled on a quick victory but his offensive stood little chance of success" Do you agree or disagree?
... one unit rather than separate ones. A Frenchman Ferdinand Foch was employed to take control of all the armies, now they were acting as one, they would be able to fight and resist the Germans advance more effectively.
The Germans ...
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"Nazi economic policy was designed to meet purely ideological objectives." How far do you agree?
... the Nazi economy proved that Hitler just wanted him there because he was an uncompromising Nazi, and therefore met the ideological objectives of the Nazi state.
The first and most important factor concerning the economy was that the Nazi party ...
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"Nothing can be more misleading than to apply such a concept to the discussion between Germans and Jews during the last 200 years." - Gershom Scholem. Discuss this in relation to the texts and issues that you have studied.
... once the Jews of Germany were emancipated. Underneath this image of a symbiosis, there was another much darker image surfacing on top of it. This was the picture of a growing tension between the Jews and the Germans and furthermore, ...
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"Stalin was personally responsible for the Purges in Russiain the 1930s"
... Ukraine did not agree with the 'collectivisation', openly disagreed with Stalin's plan and therefore the regime. This led to Stalin manufacturing a famine, which killed 6-7million people and broke the Ukraine resistance! Evidence: Stalin increased the grain quota that the ...
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"The military successes of Germany in 1939/40 are explained more by the inadequacies and mistakes of its enemies, than by German military superiority." How far do you agree with this view?
... control over the armies in the North-East was Georges job; there were many command centres scattered over a large area, and this led to slow communications, it took 48 hours for one of Gamelin's orders to arrive and be executed ...
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"The only true patriot in the story of Risorgimento" "Garibaldi very nearly wrecked everything Cavour had achieved before 1860"
... his previous strong republican beliefs. He later returned to the aid of Victor Emanuel and Cavour whom both welcomed him as a useful ally. Garibaldi's hometown of Nice had been handed to France in negotiations beyond Cavour's control upon realising ...
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"To what extent was the Nazi rise to power the result of economic problems?"
... the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small." There were two ways which Hitler used ...
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"Was the Turkish Diplomacy conducted during the Second World War Immoral?"
... one view arguing that Turkey's neutrality and inaction was beneficial for both Turkey and her allies. This argument says that Turkish neutrality contributed to Allied belligerents to defeat Axis powers. On the other hand, this state of "neutrality" has been ...
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'An Economic Giant but a Political Dwarf': Is this a fair assessment of Germany in the Period 1949-1990?
... USA, Great Britain, Soviet Union and France, this aimed at incorporating Germany into the western democratic world. This type of integration was inline with the United States Marshall Plan set up by George C. Marshall.
The first few years after ...
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'The Versailles Peace Settlement Failed to Secure British Foreign Policy Interests' - How far do you agree with this view?
... the damage caused by the war. Germany were not allowed soldiers or military equipment within 30 miles of the East bank of the Rhine. Finally, Article 231 of the Treaty was the 'War Guilt Clause' which meant Germany had to ...
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'To what extent was the Cold War a consequence of the Second World War?
... of a "capitalist encirclement" and, on the opposite side, Americans' suspicion against an "international communist conspiracy". Each side saw the other as aggressive and intransigent. The Cold War contest rapidly became the dominant feature of international relations. In the late ...
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15th - 18th September 1914 - The First Battle of the Aisne.
... the French Ninth, Fourth, Third, Second and First Armies.
The Allies began to cross the Aisne under heavy fire. They mainly used pontoon bridges, as only one of the permanent crossings remained intact; a bridgehead was established on the north of ...
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A brief study of British ethnic groups
... net negative migration balance exists, the immigration to Britain has been substantial over the periiod undeeer consideration. Two general groups of ethnic groups may be identified as having fundamentally different characteristics. The first is the labour migration group, those migrants ...
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account for Mao's rise to power
... the legendary Long March in which the CCP marched 6000 miles, crossed 11 provinces, 18 mountain ranges and many deserts. Whilst marching, they where constantly attacked by GMD forces, and fought 15 pitched battles along the way. 100000 men set ...
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Account for the failure of Japan's attempt to challenge the West from 1931-45.
... into a conflict which in the end became unwinnable.
The growth of nationalism is one reason why Japan embarked on her military challenge of the West and also one reason why it failed. Nationalism combined with "insecurity and inflated pride" ...
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Account for the postwar "population transfer" in Europe.
... the numbers needed to be closely examined.
The Nazi Regime moved more than 900,000 ethnic Germans from eastern European countries back into the Reich in order to repopulate the newly conquered territory. During the attack on the Soivet Union, Germany took ...
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Account for the varying fates of the Jewish populations in different Balkan countries during World War II.
... Balkans vary so much.
Romania had the largest Jewish population in the Balkans, by 1930, they numbered over 800,000 (2). However there was little assimilation, in a country where 70 percent of the overall population was rural, 70 percent of Jews ...
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Account for the varying fates of the Jewish populations in different Balkan countries during World War II.
... Balkans vary so much.
Romania had the largest Jewish population in the Balkans, by 1930, they numbered over 800,000 (2). However there was little assimilation, in a country where 70 percent of the overall population was rural, 70 percent of Jews ...
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Account for the weaknesses of the First and Second Coalitions against France.
... a time when Russia especially, but also Prussia and Austria, were more concerned with events in Poland to commit enough energy to dealing with the French. Although worried by the regicide in Paris, and determined to ensure that the revolutionary ...
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Adolf Hitler and WWII.
... addressed in regard to there significance to the outcome of World War 2, as well as events in the life of Adolf Hitler which may or may not have contributed to the outcome of these events. Adolf Hitler's military background, ...
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Adolf Hitler: The Final Solution.
... years. In prison, he wrote the famed autobiography, Mein Kampf, in which he stated his first publicly known anti-Semitic beliefs and his 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Question'. While imprisoned, there was a worldwide depression as economic markets crashed worldwide. ...
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Analyse the above extract of 'Mein Kampf' and its particular qualities and content.
... terrible, but not to be overlooked, that precisely the Jew, in tremendous numbers, seemed chosen by Nature for this shameful calling. Is this why the Jews are called the 'chosen people''? I now began to examine carefully the names of ...
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Analysis of P.H.M Bell’s book The Origins of the Second World War in Europe
... years war thesis. The First World War left many unsolved problems in Europe, as well as great psychological, material and political effects. The war severely reduced the population of many European countries causing many people to question why the war ...
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Arab-Israeli conflict has become one of the world's greatest troubles in 20th century.
... founder of this ideology. By arranging scores of congresses, he tried to clarify his ideology and spread it to the Europe. Acceptance of his thoughts in these congresses assisted this ideology to become a political movement. Zionism holds the view ...
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Art Spiegelman first published parts of MAUS in the magazine Raw between 1980-1991.
... well. On another level, there are multiple narratives and kinds of texts in Maus: in addition to images, dialogue boxes, and commentary, we find maps of Poland and the Camps, diagrams of hideouts, real photographs from the family archive, detailed ...