Turks in Germany

In the book The Klipfish Code by Mary Casanova, She writes about two children sent away from their homes to evade the war. The book is set during World War II in Norway, which is a normally neutral country when it comes to war. But when the nazis attack they are forced to help the british. The protagonist in this story is Marit Gunderson, a twelve year old that lives in Norway. In this book her parents send her and her brother Lars away to their grandparents house on an island. Marit and Lars…

Monika Mularski The Technological Surprise The Technological Surprise of World War I was the strategies both armies used during the war. According to, The Technological Surprise by, Raymond Aron, the French Revolution was a critical factor that led to World War I. Aron states that a smaller disagreement, could lead to a large battle "wars tend to naturally expand into total wars" (79). After the Franco-Prussian war, most European countries starting with France, "reintroduced…

Otto von Bismarck was a master of foreign affairs and a great politician at his time. He effectively ruled Prussia first and then all of Germany, between 1862 and 1890. His solution to never having war was to create a system of alliances to making it mutually beneficial to all of the great powers and therefore protect his newly united Germany and allowing it to strengthen. Bismarck's objective of the foreign policy was to keep peace among the people. Bismarck saw France taking revenge on…

June 8 1866 - The Austro-Prussian War, also known as the Seven Weeks War, was from June 8th, 1866 to July 26th, 1866. Austria, aided by Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover and some smaller German states, and Prussia, with the support of Italy declared war on each other. It was started by Otto von Bismarck, a German statesman, to push Austria out of the German Confederation. He did this against the wishes of his king. Bismarck wanted the German unification under Prussian control. Prior to this though,…

Germany was very weak at the time when Hitler rose to power; they did not have anyone to support them that was in a leadership position. Adolf Hitler used his propaganda skills and nefarious dictatorship to his advantage spreading the idea of Nazism all around Germany. Germany was in trouble, the economy was crumbling and most people were out of jobs. Hitler and his political party promised that things would be better with his help and he would make a change. While lots of people were happy with…

Comparing 20th Century Russia and Germany. The 20th century was a time of tremendous change, upheaval, and revolution. The existence of modern day Russia and Germany are a testament to that, and the development of communism and fascism in those countries respectively are what shaped them the most. In Russia, communism took hold during the 1920’s, and faced incredible opposition both internally, from royalists, and externally, from the hostile international community. Germany embraced fascism a…

nations, such as; Germany had to pay a certain amount of money to the Victors. This treaty also stripped the defeated nations in other scenarios as well. Even though, other defeated nations were affected by this treaty, Germany was the main one that was affected and took the toughest impact of all. The reason is because Germany started the war and the Victors felt that Germany should pay the quilt for it and pay them. When this happened, it opened the doors for chaos in Germany. Germany was…

An intelligent, perceptive girl, Anne Frank lived a carefree life until the age of thirteen. She had dark hair and dark eyes, and she was the kind of girl who says what’s on her mind. Her sister Margot was born in 1926 in Frankfort-on-Main, and Anne was born on June 12, 1929. The Franks moved to Holland in 1933, where Mr. Frank got a job as the manager of a company. Anne and Margot were enrolled in the Montessori School until 1941, when they had to switch to the Jewish Secondary School. On…

Nadia Comaneci was an olympic gymnast in the 1970’s. She was the first women to score a perfect ten in the Olympics in 1976 when she was only 14! She was born in Onesti, Romania on November 12, 1961. She grew up in Romania in an apartment with her parents. She loved to pretend she was a gymnast with her friend, and that is where Bela Karolyi, her soon-to-be gymnastics coach. At the time, she was only six years old. Bela found her and invited her to try out at his gym. Nadia and her parents…

Austria and Prussia both gained political power as the war and the threat of war aided the Strong kings greatly in building absolute monarchies. They monopolized the political power by imposing and collecting taxes without the people's consent. They also maintained strong standing armies to protect their countries and conducted relations as they pleased with the other states. Austria was exhausted after the thirty years war, and their effort to destroy the Protestantism in the German land had…