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The Hundred Years’ War, a long battle between England and France, caused several factors directly and indirectly and greatly affected both countries afterwards, changing the European societies from feudal states to modern sovereign states. This extremely long battle was not a mere fight, but a turning point that affected the way nations are ruled today. This war started in 1339 when Edward Ⅲ invaded Northern France. It continued intermittently for more than a hundred years, involving several…

What were causes world war 1? If you ask that question some people might tell you to remember the word “main” which stands for militarism,alliances,imperialism and nationalism, why do they say to remember main? Because World War One revolved around those four words and were some major causes of it. For a state to be powerful it had to have a powerful army that way it could protect its interests and policies. Strong armies and navies were needed so they could defend their home and to protect…

understanding of this war. Germany at the time was what I would say a power country and had a lot of troops. Germany had been making a plan for war at the time period of 1914, later this plan became known as the Schlieffen. The plan was created by a German Chief Alfred Von Schlieffen and he came up with this plan in 1903. Alfred came up with this perfect plan that would save the lives…

immigrants. Looking at the history of German immigrants coming to the United States the sources found gave the reader a perspective on the Germans that they saw America as a beacon of hope and a place to start over for the better. A relevant part of these immigrant groups include the Germans; they are in fact a part of American history due to…

of American symbols such, Statue of Liberty, or American flag. The symbol of heroic soldiers displayed as giant like figures towering over evil. For example in “Halt the Hun!” shows an Allied soldier forcing a German soldier off a terrorized women who has a child in her arms. The German soldier has blood on his body and is standing in front of a wall of fire in the background. Between the two you see a sense of relief once the Allied soldier steps in. There are many different forms of…

Life in the 19th century was hard for the Indians to adjust to. The Westerners decided to claim as much as they could. So how could the Indians adjust to such living conditions that had just been pushed onto their land? In recent years the Americans only remembered the Indians when we celebrate “Thanksgiving” and of course the myths and legends of Pocahontas. Sure that was part of the Indian culture only affecting the influence it had on America. There are many things can contribute to this.…

civilian authorities in an attempt to secure the volume of raw materials required by the army to fight this war, an early example of the State intervening into the economic organisation of Germany. …companies nationalised to help supply demand?. The German Army High Command in 1916 openly set out to limit the power held by parliament, to discipline workers, and to introduce the compulsory direction of labour - by removing anybody following the policies…

Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish-German Social Democrat, gave a detailed Marxian analysis for her opposition to the First World War in “The Workers and the War” in 1916 when she was in prison, during the height of the war, and when its outcome of the war was unclear. Her detailed analysis for her opinions were outlined throughout “The Workers and the War”, providing the nature and causes for the war along with the effects of certain scenarios as a result of the war. In Germany, the economy is in ruins,…

Known as the “spark” in the “Powder Keg of Europe”, the tensions that have already been growing between Austria-Hungary and Serbia before the start of WWI, eventually led to the start of a war between many major powers of the world. This “spark” is commonly known as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and was murdered by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Black Hand movement, a group…

victory solidified the German speaking nation, with the exception of Austria, into a coherent state that would rival the European powers of the late 19th century. Having said that, the creation of the German Empire in 1871 was largely caused by the failure of the bourgeois uprisings in 1848. In this fashion, the establishment of the German Empire can be thought of as a counterrevolution caused by class struggle. In 1985, Hans Ulrich Wehler produced a book titled The German Empire 1871-1918,…