History of Germany

One of many ways students broaden their knowledge of history is through attending lectures and presentations. In Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. lecture titled "A Life In The Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 includes reflections from the twentieth century through a person who lived it all. The Twentieth Century was a crazy epoch of time, of trials and troubles; of tradegies and triumphs. The Twentieth Century was a glorious yet a doomed time period. The century was a time of science,…

This history course was very eye-opening for me. I learned history that was different from history taught in classrooms. Authors and publishers of history textbooks can alter the information to make it appealing to their target audience (Loewen Ch. 1). I did not know this was allowed. I always believed that the information in history textbooks must be true. History textbooks have target audiences that they want to make happy. If these target audiences like how the history textbook portrays them…

complicated national relations within the European continent bonded by variety kinds of alliance treaties. Accompanying with more and more countries joining in the conflict, it had gradually led to one of the most destructive and violent wars in the human history. It is estimated that approximately 8 million people including civilians…

Germany is a land holding a multitude of cultures within itself. The modern history of Germany has been shaped by great feats of wise men but also left a stain and tarnish on the people of Germany and the world. But from the ashes, Germany has risen up like the mythical phoenix and has become one of the leading culture fusion nations in Europe. The country of Germany is a rich sports nation with their major following being their national football team. The German national football team is a…

millions of deaths in countries involved around Europe, Prime Minister of Germany, Adolf Hitler, and British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain sought peace for Europe. By 1938, Germany violated the Versailles Treaty which was put in place after the First War by rearmament and territorial expansion. Hitler desired to take back Sudetenland and Rhineland, which were lost in the First War. Chamberlain realized that Britain and Germany were the two global forces in Europe and the adversity of the…

he believed that the opening of the German war guilt clause in the Treaty of Versailles was relevant in the discussion of the origins of World War II, but that it allowed for there to be a humanization of the actors in World War I. In his study of History is focus is not on only the political and diplomatic issues that arise from war but the impact that individuals have on the system. In the case of WWI there was many countries whose base of power was concentrated in one central person. If one…

“History repeats itself.” is a common maxim that is not particularly accurate. Rather, history can exhibit parallels. The treaties of Vienna and Versailles show these parallels, even being a century apart. These treaties share the prominent similarity of their goals towards security, leveling, and peace throughout Europe. But their historical applicability evoke differences in their processes towards peace. The Congress of Vienna took on the monumental task of reassigning territory to each…

Fall of Germany After World War 1 Imagine celebrating the end of the war and getting to see your family members come home. You finally think your life is going to go back to normal after rationing off your food and worrying about your family in the war. But no, you fall into extreme poverty while the government is collapsing right in front of you. After the end of WW1, there were many major problems in Germany that caused mass chaos throughout the country. The first problem that Germany…

Versailles however was not that as it removed a lot from a country who didn’t start the war and left them defenseless and broke. The treaty made sure that Germany had to take the blame for the war as they had to sign a war guilt clause (C N Trueman,” The Treaty of Versailles”, http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk). This would have been just should Germany had started the war but unfortunately they did not, the war instead was started due to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (an Austrian next…

religion, language and history and share a territory. These people often feel that their nation is better, and better off as an autonomous state that rules itself, and they might be willing to go to many extremes to achieve this. This nationalism has affected Italy and Germany as well as Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. In these countries, nationalism was either a unifying or a dividing factor that affected these countries in positive or negative ways. Both Italy and Germany were…