Armistice with Germany

if slavery was abolished. In Germany, Adolf Hitler rose to power during a time of horrible economic problems in Germany. He promised to fix the issues and found a scapegoat in the Jewish population. With these examples it can be concluded that Prejudice attitudes and actions increase with fear of Economic woes. In…

Have you ever read a book or seen an movie that was almost alike? In The Giver it was a kid and the place where his was living everyone was the same but he was different because he was the only person who could see colors. In The Truman Show Truman was the only gut controlled and everyone wasn't and he got tired of it so he tried to escape . The Truman Show and The Giver are two stories with a lot of things in common but also have different symbols , biblical allusions, and setting. One of…

in the poster competition sponsored by the Priester Matches Company. It is an advertising poster for matches and shown in Berlin. Bernhard was only 18 when he created this poster. Lucian Bernhard (March 15, 1883 – May 29, 1972) was a designer from Germany. Before he came out with the final version of the poster, he had the poster with two dancing women forming from burning tobacco smoke. His friend told him this poster was a great cigar poster. This misleading understanding let him change up the…

the military secrets of their opposition. Germany was a nation that participated in this trend. However, their collection of intelligence did not involve much covert action. Rather, German intelligence officers used overt intelligence collection methods, including using both personal relationships and enemy news sources to predict enemy movements and strategy. Therefore, collection was the most important element of intelligence prior to World War I for Germany, as it led to early success on the…

In 736, Boniface was made the Archbishop of Mainz, a city in the southern part of modern-day Germany. He continued to work among the German peoples, and founded several more monasteries, while bringing the German clergy he was building up closer to Rome and the Pope. Boniface also worked to reform the crumbling Church in the Frankish kingdom. Boniface…

To put it simply, there was not a sense of a collective German nation. Prior to the Brothers Grimm, Germany found itself heavily influenced by the French. In the late 18th century, France occupied German territories, and by 1794, found itself in possession of the western extent of contemporary Germany (Roberts 28). As a result, the idea of what it meant to be intrinsically German was vastly neglected, until the efforts of the Grimms’. The brothers’…

Graffiti Knight- Draft #3 Graffiti Knight by Karen Bass is a great book for IB students to read. It gives the reader a deeper understanding of the global context of Fairness and Development. This book is about how a young man named Wilhelm and the rest of the German citizens are in the control of the Soviets, and they are treated very poorly. Wilhelm and his group of friends become leaders in rebelling against the soviets. The book describes the topics of inequality, developing countries and…

Although alliances were beneficial, there were also some disadvantages. An alliance could lead a nation to take risks, it could cause disputes between many nations, and it could force a country to go to war with a nation with which it was neutral. Germany formed an alliance with Austria-Hungary in 1871 and Italy in 1882. This secret alliance was known as the Triple Alliance. In 1904, the United Kingdom and France signed the Entente Cordiale, meaning friendly agreement. In 1907, Russia joined the…

Catherine the Great Catherine the Great, Yekaterina Alekseyevna in Russian, was bound to the heir to the Russian throne at the young age of 14. Sophie Friederike Auguste Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German- born princess. At the beginning of her reign, she overthrew her husband Peter after he began cheating on her. Now without Peter she accomplished several things for Russia and was a principal leader of the Russian Royal Family. Being born German and ruled Russian Catherine the Great is a…

World War I was a very influential time period in history and two sources that explain World War I are history.com (source one) and britannica.com (source two). These two sources explain the causes and what lead up to World War I. Both sources are very accurate, well known, and provide some visual aid to help the reader understand. Source one is more organized with subsections and is clearly stated. As compared to, the information from source two is more difficult to understand because it tends…