“guesses” or “questions”. Then do research to justify your observations and answer your guesses. List the research. Do not do research on wikipedia! (12 PTS) How is Russia’s influence in Austria-Hungary? Russia had little to no influence because the Austrian-Hungarian people sided with the Germans so Russia was an apparent enemy There was a lot of ethnic diversity in Austria-Hungary According to my sources more than 11 different ethnicities made up the country How big is Austria-Hungary?…
in British society, becoming ‘European’ by instigating colonial resistance movements in various territories under threat of Napoleonic acquisition such as Spain . Britain considered it vital to disrupt the Spanish empire, so that the French could not fully incorporate it and the empire had too many territories for full scale bombardment and carefully planned relations with resistance movements in Spanish colonies was the best course of…
INTRODUCTION World War 1 occurred during 1914-1918 and was originally called The Great War before the Second World War in 1939. It had a devastating impact on all of the countries that were involved as the mortality rate was huge. There were several reasons The Great War started which included some long term causes such as Imperialism & Nationalism as well as a few short term triggers that included the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie which in turn became known as the…
Lodge, C., From Confederation to Empire: Germany 1848-1914 (Wiltshire: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002) Lowe, J., Rivalry and Accord: International relations 1870-1914 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990), Robbins, K., The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Briton 1870-1975 (Essex: Longman Group, 1985) ----------------------- [1] G.Layton, From Bismark to Hitler: Germany 1890-1933 (Wiltshire: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999), p2. [2] C.Lodge, From Confederation to Empire: Germany 1848-1914…
to unify Germany due to the fear of liberal ideology in a fragmented Germany. In essence, Bismarck was violent and would not stop at anything until his goals were realized with the eventual formation of a German state. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler, an Austrian, sought to rid the nation of any race that was not “pure,” creating a utopian society based upon his radical ideology. Like Bismarck, Hitler was close-minded and would always go with his instinct, regardless of what was truly in the best…
most notable being the Masi. These people lived in relative peace until the Romans came over the mountains and conquered the region in the 3rd Century BC. The Abruzzi people were considered Romans and part of the Roman Empire until the decline of the Empire. The weakness of the empire gave the Lombards access to the previously protected region of Abruzzo. The Lombard people conquered the region and two tribes eagerly fought for centuries for control. This changed in the 13th century when the…
Vissarionovich Djugashvili, on December 18, 1878, or on December 6, 1878, according to the Old Style Julian calendar (Although he later invented a new date of birth for himself: December 21, 1879), in the small town of Gori, Georgia, then part of the Russian empire ” (History). In the year of 1922, Joseph Stalin was delegated to a newly formed office for the general secretary for the communist party (Biography). “After Lenin’s death, in 1924, Stalin set out to destroy the old party leadership…
that was comprised of the largest navy and strongest army at the time would have begged to differ. At the time, it seemed that the British army was destined to control the entire planet. About 5,600 kilometers away, a little colony of The British Empire had enough. Outrageous taxes without any say in Parliment, hostile interactions, and forced quartering of British soldiers were just some factors raising tension between mother and daughter. March 5th, 1770 brought about the Boston Massacre - the…
Called French and Indian War in America, Seven Years’ War French v.s. British The French were outnumbered, even with their Indian allies, with the exception of the Iroquois who refused to ally with France and negotiated a treaty with the English government instead. British General Edward Braddock leads 2,500 men against Fort Duquesne, where the French and Indians ambush and kill them. In 1758, Braddock is avenged by William Pitts in a retake of Fort Duquesne. Britain planned expedition to…
In this story Elephant, is about a man out of his natural region and out of place in a different country with different ethnicities. In this story there was a man who was peer pressured to kill an Elephant who wasn’t being destructive anymore. The man who was pressured to kill this animal was pressured even though the elephant wasn’t in musk anymore. The three main messages in this story's is that he has no real intentions to kill an elephant, this story suggests that we sometimes do things we…