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What does one think of when the name Titanic is said? That it was one of perhaps the most tragic events to have ever occurred on the sea? What is certain however is that it is one of the most remembered historical events to have ever occurred on the ocean and it is possible that the words “criminal negligence” come to one’s mind however, people look at it most have no idea of the true reasons the Titanic sank and that is why several people over the years have delved into the mystery of what sank…

It was not until the late 19th Century that Italy became a unified state. Without a navy of considerable size, Italy was unable to participate in what was called the ‘scramble for Africa’, this was when Europe had essentially partitioned Africa. However, Italy did manage to obtain a few small and poor colonies in East Africa. They wanted Tunisia but this was seized by France. Italy argued that, as Tunisia was only a few miles away from Sicily, it had a right to Tunisia due to proximity . Since…

In January 1933, some 522,000 Jews by religious definition lived in Germany. Over half of these individuals, approximately 304,000 Jews, emigrated during the first six years of the Nazi dictatorship, leaving only approximately 214,000 Jews in Germany proper (1937 borders) on the eve of World War II. In the years between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi regime had brought radical and daunting social, economic, and communal change to the German Jewish community. Six years of Nazi-sponsored legislation had…

The Fight for Life “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.”(Lee 6 PDF) This quote stated by Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird shows the reader what it was like to live in a small town during the Great Depression, explaining how little they could do with the money they had. Maycomb was an example of what the United States was going through during the Great Depression. The effects of the…

plus charitable contribution. The results were bewildering, people paid more for the picture with the PWYW plus charity method. The writers explain that this demonstrates that people pay more when “the benefit outweighs the cost” (Gneezy A., Gneezy U., Nelson L. D., Brown, A.…

The overall cause of World War I is very debatable; however most historians agree that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife was the most immediate cause. This assassination led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia. When Russia began to mobilize due to its alliance with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. Finally, Great Britain entered the war against Germany a couple days later and then was against Austria-Hungary. The drivers of these…

With the exception of the few skirmishes in Latin America, the United States of America’s foreign policy during the early 20th century was monotonously consistent. Since there was, at the time, no pressing need for a bolstered military, when presented with the outbreak of World War I the involuntary reaction of the U.S. government was to plead neutrality. However, as the war progressed, opportunistic companies began to invest in manufacturing war goods both prior to, and during, the U.S.…

International Relations Article Essay The two pieces that I will be discussing are Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points speech and the article written by Matthias Matthijs and R. Daniel Kelemen, Europe Reborn: How to Save the European Union From Irrelevance. I will be explaining what points both pieces are trying to make as well as what points of view they are coming from. In Woodrow Wilson’s speech he is approaching it from a liberal view and Matthijs and Kelemen are similarly using the perspective to…

Arthur Zimmermann was one of the few powerful men working under the German Empire during World War I. As State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Germany, he had a significant impact on the war. He was best known as the author of the infamous ‘Zimmerman Telegram’ that changed many events that were forthcoming. He proposed that Mexico create an alliance with Germany against the United States. Arthur Zimmermann impacted World War I as an entirety by creating an influential reason that would lead the…

How were WWI and WWII about nationalism and global power? Nationalism and global power were the main reason for the World Wars because it changed the political and social structure of the World. World War I caused alliances and in World War II those alliances joined together to defeat Hitler. Nationalism – the notion of belonging to an “imagined community” that could compel loyalty to a geographic entity larger than a locality, to the leaders of this larger nation, and to the symbols that…