Anschluss

After the ultimate end of WWI the world was in utter chaos, due to Germany’s defeat during the war, the Treaty of Versailles was created. The Treaty was created by the Allied powers outside Paris, inside the Palace of Versailles on January 1919. This peace conference was dominated by the big four, this included the following countries and their leaders: France, Great Britain, Italy, and the United States. After a prolonged session of meeting after meeting the big four was eventually able to come…

12. The Sturmabteilung, also known as the Brownshirts, was the organization Adolf Hitler created to protect the Nazi Party from potential dangers at assemblies, but later began to disrupt rival parties’ meetings and to intimidate voters, Nazi opponents, and Jews in the streets. They were known as the Brownshirts because from the founding in 1921, the organization utilized brown shirts as their uniforms, as they were easily obtainable. The founding itself was controversial, as the Treaty of…

“Outstanding Issues with Implementing German Reunification” Germany has had a tumultuous history and inspiring rise to international prominence over the last century. This political anomaly is referred to in German as “wirtschaftswunder” which translated is the phrase the “wonder of economics.” This eminent rise has been recognized by the leadership role the German government is currently playing in the European Union, in relation to monetary policy that is intended to alleviate the Euro-zone…

On April 20th, 1889, a man was born in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. That man came to be known as Adolf Hitler. When he was three, he moved from his hometown in Austria-Hungary to Germany. As a child, he had an interest in becoming an artist. He also became obsessed with German nationalist ideas, despising the declining House of Habsburg. However, when his younger brother died in 1900, he became increasingly detached. After his father’s death, his mother permitted him to drop out…

imminent. War wasn’t something he ever lived ,but has heard of from his parents. It was described as “ Hell on earth” and not an event anyone would ever want to live through. Adolf Hitler, führer of Germany, was expanding the nation in what he called Anschluss. The world seemed to disagree and what happened next changed his and everyone’s world forever. Chapter 1: The Beginning…

During the 1930’s, Britain and France followed the policy of appeasement. Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister was particularly keen to pursue the policy. The Oxford definition of appeasement is: “the action or process of appeasing.” Britain and France were crippled from the emotional, economic, political and psychological costs of war, therefore they gave Hitler what he wanted in order to maintain peace and avoid conflict. The appeasement encouraged Hitler’s aggression as he gained…

Adolf Hitler is one of the most powerful and influential men in history. The way in which he persuaded the German people to support his diabolical political agenda was phenomenal. Hitler was born On April 20,1889. Growing up he never advanced past secondary school and failed to enter the Academy Of Fine Arts twice . Hitler later joined the fight in World War on December 1914 where he was wounded during battle . After being discharged Hitler joined a small workers party in Munich. This would be…

The political cartoon, “Little Goldilocks Riding Hood,” was drawn for the American public by the US cartoonist's Herb Block in 1939. The message of this cartoon denotes a small grill labeled as Poland and that is confronted by two fairy tale predators. The undertone of the cartoon is that the little girl is vulnerable and weak and is about to be eaten by two predators. Essentially meaning that Poland is in danger. The cartoon also includes the words “Nazi Germany” on the wolf’s pillow who also…

World War II: The Four Freedoms Because the United States had been supporting isolationism and were creating and supporting non-interventionist groups, such as the America First Committee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt it was time for a change in America's stance on the involvement of war. To do so, he delivered the Four Freedoms Speech on January 6, 1941. The Four Freedom Speech had been addressed to Congress in effort to move the nation away from the foreign policy of neutrality.…

The first girl I ever kissed was the daughter of a woman who frequented my parent’s hat shop. I was thirteen years old and we had escaped into the alley beside the shop. Her mother was taking her time perusing the hats: hats with wide brims, big feathers, funny textures. My family was very successful; hats were an important commodity to the women of Vienna, even to those that typically upturned their noses at my family. The approaching war distanced itself further from me each time a woman…