Cinema of Germany

Nationalism is a love for one’s country and is between groups who share a common heritage. Ideas of nationalism pushed people to strive to unify their common peoples in the 1800s. Reforms that result from nationalist ideas can be either positive or negative, though. In Italy, nationalism helped to bring separate states together, but it also tore Austria apart. Serving as a force for unity in Italy and disunity in Austria, nationalism was a major catalyst for change in the 1800s. Nationalism…

June 17th 1940, the defeated French signed an armistice and quit World War II. Hitler then turned his attention to Britain and started making an invasion plan called “Operation Sea Lion.” The plan was to get control of the air because if they had control of the air, then they would have control of the English Channel. The Germans needed to control the English Channel so that the British Navy would not be able to attack their invasion barges which were planning on landing at the Kent and Sussex…

In the 1780s in Bayonne, France a boy named Jean Laffite was born to a Spanish mother and a French father. His father owned a store in town. Nobody would have expected this man to become anything other than a store owner, or to have a job in the store. Absolutely no one would have expected this man to become a pirate. Jean Laffite had four brothers named Pierre, Mark, Jacques, and Antoine. Not much is known about his first nine years of life; however, we do know that his father was a store owner…

from the war, and to finally, prevent another war. Ultimately though, the Treaty of Versailles only broadened the amount of tension between both allied and opposing nations. The Treaty itself places full blame for the war and all of the deaths on Germany and makes them, singlehandedly, responsible for paying the $55 billion in reparations. In the…

David Hilbert mathematician, was born January 23, 1862, Konigsberg Germany And died February 14, 1943 Gottingen Germany(Britannica.com) Hilbert background of childhood is he came from money. His father Otto was a reputable city judge and his mother Marla was interested in philosophy and astronomy(thefamouspeople.com) Since he was a child he excelled in mathematics and had interest in language. In 1872 he joined Friedrichskolleg Gymnasium, when he graduated he decided he was to stay…

of possible wars were starting to appear. Germany, Italy, and Japan were becoming aggressors. Meanwhile, the League of Nations and the democratic countries did nothing to stop them. The British Prime Minister Chamberlain, believed that appeasement was the best solution, but many others disagreed and thought that collective security was a better choice. The main reason the world plunged into World War II was because of the three aggressors; Italy, Germany, and Japan. Causing many mini wars,…

During the mid-eighteenth century, Europe was starving for more power. With the colonization of the New World, different countries began to try and one up another in order to achieve ultimate power. Despite this, on the major scale, it was Europe itself trying to dominate the world on a global scale. Europe began to expand to increase their overall power, and inside of the continent, individual countries started act unreasonable so that it would not grant powers to anyone outside of themselves,…

In the movie, Swing Kids, three teenagers, Peter, Thomas, and Arvid are caught in the middle of Hitler's reign during World War II. They spend most of their time at a swing club, where the Nazi's don't have a hold on them, and they can dance away all of their problems. They struggle to remain together, but they are torn apart as they develop different feelings for the Hitler Youth program that they later join. Peter is obligated to join this program because he was caught trying to steal a radio.…

employed by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to develop alternative courses of action / outcome to this operation. In addition to these alternative courses of action, I will identify second and third order effects that could have changed the outcome of WWII and potentially the world as we know it today. Background Prior to WWII, Nazi Germany and…

tanks of World War II. Many types of tanks where used to do many different things like the anti-tank tank used a heavy gun and was super slow. There are 7 Nations i will talk about, we have The United States ,Britain ,The Soviet Union ,Japan ,Nazi Germany ,Italian ,and then France. There were multiple things used to help out tanks and destroy them like Anti tank rifles and anti tank guns. The different types of tanks used in WW2 are: AA tanks for anti-air to shoot down enemy aircraft.Anti-tank…