Armistice with Germany

The book Adolf Hitler, written by John Toland is about Hitler’s life as a child, his military years, his political years, his life as chancellor of Germany and his leadership in World War 2. John Toland gathered his research through doctors who treated Hitler, medical records, German citizens who went to his political debates and meetings and People who were friends and relatives of his or people who worked with Hitler. In the book Adolf Hitler it explains his childhood in Northern Austria and…

The threat from the right was very real in the early years of the republic because they were anti-democratic and because the institutions which supposedly held up the constitution of the new republic held these views. One system which exemplified this was the judicial system. The judicial system remianed unchanged by the Weimar governments and thus its attitudes towards the right and left wing remianed unchallenged also. Judges tended to favour the extreme right while condeming the extreme left.…

Hitler's armies managed to invade the majority of countries and kill more than six million Jews. Alike the regime established by Mussolini, the fascist ideology and politics were defeated at the end of the war. The Nazi government fell apart and Germany was up to paying out a great compensation for the opposing European countries. All things considered, one may assume that the two similar ideologies of Nazism and fascism were introduced in the same socio-economic circumstances. The desire for…

Trotsky’s primary assignment was to negotiate an armistice with Germany, known as the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Pipes’ criticises Trotsky’s approach to negotiate with Germans as they were aware of Lenin’s desperation to remove Russia from the war. His unwavering efforts and beliefs about an international revolution…

Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points was a speech addressed to Congress on January 8, 1918. The statement given by Wilson declared the war was being fought for moral causes and ultimately, peace in Europe. Wilson’s Fourteen Points suggested a League of Nations be created in order for peace and independence of countries. The Fourteen Points are described as “liberal, democratic, and idealistic,” just like Woodrow Wilson himself (History.com Staff) The first five of the Fourteen Points dealt with…

with Germany at the end of WWI. The treaty was made in effort to help rebuild Europe and create peace after a four-year period of devastation that killed millions of soldiers and civilians. Politicians from 32 different countries were thrashed with the difficulty of creating a peace agreement. Politicians from Britain and America had different intentions from that of France on what the Treaty was supposed to accomplish. Britain and America supported a more lenient treaty against Germany that…

important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. At the end of World War I (1914-1918), victorious Allied Powers negotiated a series of peace treaties to impose on the defeated Central Powers. They arranged different treaties with Austria and Hungary, after the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Empire. Germany was forbidden to construct or maintain on the left bank of the Rhine or on the right bank to the…

The loss of World War One for Germany resulted in food shortages in the country after the British put a naval blockage on the country. The war was over on November 11, 1918 after Germany signed a Treaty called the Armistice. The conditions after World War One left Germany in a vulnerable state, and the once world super power was weakened immensely. That’s when the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler emerged, offering a new direction for Germany. And so this vulnerable state helped aid Hitler in his…

Philippe Pétain, in full Henri-Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain was born on April 24, 1856, in Cauchy-à-la-Tour. The french general who was a national hero for his victory at the Battle of Verdun in World War I but was discredited as chief of state of the French government at Vichy in World War II. Born into a family of farmers in northern France, Pétain, after attending the local village school and a religious secondary school, was admitted to Saint-Cyr, France’s principal military academy.…

Hitler Adolf Hitler was a military leader and a fascist dictator of Germany. He is the reason World War 2 was fought. He was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria. He despised Austrian rule and became a strong nationalist. Hitler set the holocaust into motion considering the Jewish race inferior. He was chancellor of Germany from 1934-1945 acting as a dictator for a large majority of that time. Hitler had joined the Nazi party in Germany. By the year 1933, the Nazi party had a large portion…