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Brownson’s Assessment Horace Mann gained support for his educational reform during the 19th century, yet there was some opposition to his proposals. Orestes Brownson constructed the best appeal to his reforms with several well-grounded concerns. Brownson reveals Mann’s undermining of the democratic and meritocracy society through the education of students and their educators, the extension of politics into education, and using education as a means of mass control. Mann’s ideas for the…

When some imagine a world dominated by The National Socialist party of Germany, they imagine a horrible dystopian future split into three tripartite factions by the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis. In this imaginary world, all resistance to the Nazi regime has been quelled and replaced with Hitler 's Dystopia, where all non-aryans have been eradicated or enslaved and The Third Reich now reigns supreme. The reality of an Axis victory is far more complex. While this alternate fascist dominated world would…

In the year 1846, Karl Marx set up a Communist Correspondence Committee (“Karl Marx”, 2003; “Karl Marx”, 2016). This committee was supposed to help connect the leaders that were socialist in Europe. The organization had decided that they were aiming to overthrow the bourgeoisie and create a new society that had no classes and no private property (“Karl Marx”, 1998). After the first meeting, Karl Marx decided to finish The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto is based on the book written…

The Schlieffen Plan was only used by the Germans. This plan was set out to have a war with France and Russia, but in 1905 it was all revised. The Schlieffen Plan was by Alfred Von Schlieffen who was the Chief of the Imperial, and also German Chief of Staff. The idea was to find a new war plan that would be understanding of the new factors that happened since the Franco-Prussian in 1870 and 1871. These factors included the Diplomatic Isolation. The Diplomatic Isolation left Austria-Hungary as the…

Napoleon lost power, many nations were already wary of France, because they felt threatened by the changes Napoleon made (Gettysburg College 1). After Napoleon's defeat in Russia, Alexander the Russian Czar aligned with countries such as Poland and Prussia to form the Sixth Coalition (Durant 713). The Sixth Coalition then began their attack on the French Empire, defeating them in places such as Leipzig (“Napoleon Bonaparte” 1). Napoleon was retreating to Paris, but before he arrived the capital…

territory. They said that God had given them their authority and that they ruled by “divine right”. This meant that they had absolute authority and they were not bound to any manmade laws. Absolutism took over many European countries like France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia yet in England it was defeated. English kings had to contend with Parliament. Absolutism lasted almost two centuries and people, especially the middle class, were tired of doing whatever the king wanted so they started to…

and others. The war was directly blamed by the winners on the nationalism of the Kaiser's Germany; it was Germany that effectively started the war with an attack on France through Belgium. France, which had hurt a previous defeat at the hands of Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, wanted revenge for its financial devastation during the First World War, made sure that…

The historical context of nationalism dates back to the late eighteenth century as the French Revolution and time of enlightenment, helped society realize the importance of the ideal nation of arms and the emphasis on discipline within its military. The interest in one’s nation was now a derived concept of bound independent ideas of its people driven by the aspirations to the whole of a nation and the loyalty and patriotism for one’s count. The foundation of nationalism, shaped by social,…

occupation zones as well as Vienna, Austria. With the re-occupation of Europe, the Soviet took advantage and re-annexed countries west of Germany. Eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina. Soviets also recovered the Baltic States and parts of Prussia. ("The Soviet Union and Europe after 1945") The Soviets gained land and were able to spread power through these occupations they regained. Such as cities as Vienna and Berlin. As the Soviets were granted their regained land they put of…

The Revolutions of 1848 were a series of conflicts that began in Paris, France in February of 1848, and spread all over Europe during the next year. These revolutions shook the very foundation of political and social order in the countries that were involved. They took place in France, Italy, the Habsburg Empire, and much of Germany. These series of political upheavals throughout Europe were primarily caused by the severe food shortages which led to famine and increased food prices, economic…