Armistice with Germany

Charlemagne was a leader that not only to his kingdom, but he understood the outside world as well. He mainly looking towards at the other kingdoms and trying to understand what is making them thrive. He knew that other Kingdoms were paying a lot of attention towards education. He also notices that each kingdom had a specific location where they would store this texts therefore anyone can obtain knowledge Charlemagne had a long road ahead of him because his Kingdom did not have any locations of…

insistent for the Saxons to convert to Christianity, and this fueled their resistance. Eventually, Saxony was accepted in the Carolingian domain (Spielvogel 217). The year following this event Charlemagne invaded the land of the Bavarians in southeast Germany. By the next year he had incorporated them into his empire as well. This expansion leads him to be in contact with the Southern Slavs and the Avars (Spielvogel 217). Charlemagne continued the efforts of his father’s organization of the…

thirty eight states, there was no unity. In 1848, people of the German Confederation wanted a unification, and so the Frankfurt Assembly attempted to create a constitution for a future unified Germany ; although it was unsuccessful. Due to this, Bismarck became well known for his part in the unifying Germany. He was also known for his use of “realpolitik’’ (Spielvogel 274) and it showed his pragmatic political views and choices. He focused on foreign affairs and knew that a strong military was…

Euro Essay In the early 17th century Europe was dragged into a long and treacherous conflict, The Thirty Years' War, that altered the country drastically. Battles were fought, economies were ruined, and thousands of lives were lost all due to the lack of religious toleration and the importance of politics. Countries formed alliances and clashed against each other with all their resources only to find themselves completely depleted and vulnerable in the end. However, through all the…

As Napoleon continued in his campaign against Europe, he turned his sights to Switzerland. After his arrival, he successfully conquered Switzerland in 1798. His plans were to centralize the loosely governed country by imposing a constitution. In doing so he created the Helvetic Republic, a regime greatly disliked by Swiss natives. It is easy to reason that the regime was disliked since it was imposed by an invading country, but a big factor in the opposition was that the regime failed to…

The most important war of the 17th Century would take place in Germany. The Thirty Years War began as a result of the failure of the Peace of Augsburg. This was due mostly to the foundation of new sects of Protestantism including Calvinism. Since these religions were not recognized, they were not allowed to be practiced. This takes us into the first phase of the Thirty Years war which has become known as the Bohemian phase. The Bohemian Phase began when a Calvinist noble threw two Holy Roman…

To what extent was the foreign policy of Prussia, and later, Germany a serious threat to European peace in the years 1814–1914? From the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the outbreak of war in 1914, the foreign policy of Prussia has changed enormously due to a number of political and geographical factors. Bismark’s unification policies provoked much uproar from major European powers and Germany’s imperialistic “Weltpolitik” of the late 19th century was blamed for an increase in hostilities across…

Poland had a mutual aid treaty that required either country to come to the aid of each other in case of war. When Germany invaded Poland, Britain was obligated to help Poland in this predicament by declaring war on the Germans. Finally when they invaded Poland British has no choice to engage Germany. Appeasement by Neville Chamberlin had failed and only encouraged Hitler and Nazi Germany, so they knew that Hitler was bent on domination of Europe for the beginning of his world controlling fight.…

Education is what a person gets from attending school, college or a university. An education is what you retain from classes you take at any given school. Charlemagne the Great was born in 742 AD to 813 AD. He and his brother both inherited what is now modern day France from their father Pepin. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 5th century, Rome went through a time of dark ages as everything was in chaos. Along from gaining most of France he also gained wealth and a strong military…

Germany began to put Belgium under threat. As Belgium was one of Britain's allies, Britain had to step in and protect them. This is can be either an example of self-interest or selflessness. This is because Britain stepped in to protect their allies, Belgium, and as they have to protect Belgium, it gave them an excuse for war which was only in the interest for them. During the years leading up to the war, many countries formed alliances, that would benefit them, or even the other country in some…