Triple Alliance

casualties in its wake. World leaders of the time, like President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, and Prime Minister David Lloyd George, met to not only create a treaty between themselves and the Triple Alliance, but to also create a treaty that would last. Unfortunately, this treaty for peace and European prosperity, known as the Treaty of Versailles, did not last long. On the eve of September 1939, a new war, deadlier than the last, erupted,…

Townsend, Camilla. Malintzin’s Choices: an Indian woman in the conquest of Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2006. Selfishness or NOT Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico is a book written by Camilla Townsend. Townsend’s timeframe in this book takes place in the 1519-1521.Townsend describes the thesis of this book throughout her work, her thesis basically stated that Malintzin was an indigenous woman that translated for Hernando Cortés in the…

He was able to keep the triple alliance by agreeing to share all war winnings by three. This way all nations gained more than they lost. With Tlacaelel’s helpful advice, Moctezuma had a temple sent to be built to honor their most important god, Huitzilopochtli. He is the god of the…

Shawn Smith Mauldin UCCA 102 17 February 2016 Poverty in Latin America Throughout the myriad of problems that exist in South American and Central American countries, one problem seems to be common for all Latin American countries: poverty. For centuries, most countries in Latin America have been in the same economic state. They have enormous separations of class. Usually, the countries have no middle class, only the extremely rich and the extremely poor exist. Now, the debatable topics in this…

find a way to make the Keystone XL pipeline unbreakable, money will always win. To make an unbreakable pipeline will cost billions of dollars. According to Energy Consumer Alliance the Keystone XL pipeline already costs $7.6 billion for their high-quality steel pipeline. Making an unbreakable pipeline would double or maybe even triple that. According to The Huffington Post within the past year and four months there have been 372 oil and gas pipeline leaks, spills and other incidents, leading to…

conservation program uses sheepdogs to solve a modern problem In southern Australia, a sturdy breed of sheepdog known as the Maremma sheepdog is hard at work guarding the Little penguins of Middle Island. So how did this unlikely animal kingdom alliance come about? In the mid-1990s, the beach town of Warambool faced a new foe; foxes had infiltrated Middle Island to devour Little penguins and within a decade’s time the colony was on the brink of elimination. “The crisis came to a head, in…

Otto von Bismarck— “The Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck, one of the most influential characters in European history brought together the birth of the German empire. Bismarck became the first chancellor of the German empire under the “leadership” of William II during the late nineteenth century (History.com, Otto Von Bismarck). He developed Germany into an economic powerhouse to even rival that of Great Britain. Through the usage of the Realpolitik and cunning intellect, he managed to…

Who is there to really blame for the Great War? The question is not who but rather what caused the war. The Preliminary Peace conference’s decision on the responsibility of the authors of the war establishes a broad view of who and how initiated the war. The decision to blame only a couple of super powers is absurd considering that more than two participated in the war. According to Hunt Tooley’s more narrow explanation the blame does not lay solely on Germany and Austria- Hungary, because there…

Aztec society was based on obedience to the law, and anyone who committed a crime was punished severely. Because the tlatoani<> himself had made all the laws, a person who broke a law was seen as having disobeyed the tlatoani. A noblewho committed a crime was often punished more harshly than a commoner. Laws covered every part of Aztec life. These included religion, public behavior, marriage, families, and property or possessions inherited from someone who died. However, one of the most…

The long nineteenth century was undoubtedly the most unstable periods of French history which saw numerous varying regimes govern over the French people. However, as a result of a constant inability to represent the interests of its people, these regimes came and went in perhaps the most bloodiest of means, whether that was the horrifying events of la Terreur or the disastrous defeat by the new German state during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. Arguably, the most interesting of these…