Domino Effect Turning Points

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The main/major points the author is trying to make are basically the turning points in history starting from the death of the Queen of England, Who was allegedly the pivot which kept Europe balanced, with the her death came instability and uncertainty which was further pushed by the occurrence of the First World War, which as well aided the rise of Totalitarianism, which is basically the need of large/strong nations to rule and control smaller/weaker nations, this bought about Fascism of all kinds. This was basically a Domino Effect, the occurrence of one event leading to another, in this reading the reader would assume that the death of the queen was the starting point of all the mishaps that occurred in this period. The new point in the reading

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