Old High German

authorities in an attempt to secure the volume of raw materials required by the army to fight this war, an early example of the State intervening into the economic organisation of Germany. …companies nationalised to help supply demand?. The German Army High Command in 1916 openly set out to limit the power held by parliament, to discipline workers, and to introduce the compulsory direction of labour - by removing anybody following the policies…

Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish-German Social Democrat, gave a detailed Marxian analysis for her opposition to the First World War in “The Workers and the War” in 1916 when she was in prison, during the height of the war, and when its outcome of the war was unclear. Her detailed analysis for her opinions were outlined throughout “The Workers and the War”, providing the nature and causes for the war along with the effects of certain scenarios as a result of the war. In Germany, the economy is in ruins,…

Known as the “spark” in the “Powder Keg of Europe”, the tensions that have already been growing between Austria-Hungary and Serbia before the start of WWI, eventually led to the start of a war between many major powers of the world. This “spark” is commonly known as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and was murdered by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Black Hand movement, a group…

in 1900. Within the essay, he argues that liberalism rose as a consequence of the corruption and abuse suffered under monarchies. Towards the end, Godwin mentions how nationalism is now dominating over liberalism, and he expresses his fears of this “old foe under a new name.” Godwin discusses how under nationalism, people who criticize the foreign policy of their country are unpatriotic. This becomes a problem during the first half of the twentieth century, when the United States had a great,…

DBQ 3 In August 4, 1914, the German Reichstag approved the mobilization of World War I and soon declared Burgfrieden, or civil peace. This peace was nationwide and meant that all conflicts within the nation should be set aside for the duration of the war. The initiation brought along an abundance of views and opinions, all of which were changing as the war progressed from 1914 to 1918. At first, the nation was primarily in support of government and their decisions of mobilizing the war and…

mentally. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, is based on a German soldier’s view during World War I. This novel is based on how it is to be human in all situations, including war. It is clear that based on his personal experience in the war, Remarque felt the war was unnecessary and without cause, due to chain of events over a conflict. After reading the novel, I feel that World War I should have not happened. As a German soldier, Ramarque experienced the war on the front line, he is…

enlightenment period leading to a new way of thinking, religious beliefs leading to war. For Italy, Germany and others it was nationalism which changed their history in the 19th century and led to wars for independence. Although nationalism helped Italian and German unification it also led to the breakup of empires such as the Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman. Nationalism is the idea that people of the same history, belief ,language and culture should unify and become independent of foreign rule.…

Although, other languages like ꦧꦱꦗꦮ (Javanese), 日本語(Japanese), Deutsch (German), Português (Portuguese), Italiano (Italian), فارسی (Farsi), and etc are categorized on the EGIDS ranking system as a national language “The language is used in education, work, mass media, and government at the national level”(). There are over…

The individual that I chose for my interview is a 37 year old male who was born and raised in Germany, but presently resides in northern Indiana. He relocated to the United States for work-related reasons. His name is Michael Drue and he is, at this time, married to my first cousin Krisha, a native English speaker, having been born in the United States. I chose Michael as the person of interest for my intercultural interview not only because he is speaks English as a second language, but also…

established a republican government called the Weimar Republic to replace the German Empire. However, because it was created in a time of chaos after Germany had lost the World War, the Weimar Republic experienced many problems from the start, including economic disarray and violent uprisings from various groups. In June of 1919, Germany also had to accept the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which reassigned German boundaries and forced Germany to make reparations for starting the war. The…