Weimar Republic

Can the middle ages be described as the Dark ages? With so many people describing this time period as the ‘dark ages’, what happened for people to think this way. Well for us to answer this question we need to go back in time hundreds of years. Looking back at 3 separate document from the ‘dark ages’ we will be able to see what created this famous title. For something to be considered ‘dark’, something disastrous, must have happened that might involve the loss of lives. It based on a…

The Treaty of Versailles was singed in June 1919; it was signed in the hall of mirrors. Germany was forced to pay a lot of money due to all the damage it had done to the allied countries. That is why Germany was the most important treaty. Germany had signed the peace treaty with Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria. Woodrow Wilson, who was also the U.S. president in the year 1918. The president had submitted “The Fourteen Points”. It was “aimed to secure a peace”; his beliefs for these…

1. The players: The war's key players were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania..) -- yellow region and Allies (UK, US, USSR, France, China, India, Australia, Canada...) -- green region below (as a side note: just as in WW-I, BRIC were on the same side). 2. The dates: World War - II was officially fought between September 1, 1939 (Invasion of Poland) and ended on August 15, 1945 (with Japan's surrender). 3. The humiliation (cause 1): The Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW-I…

Yes, the US should have entered WWI,. Three major factors contribute to this, one being that our allies were about to fall to the unstoppable German’s war machine. Second, the Germans and their allies were sinking ships carrying American citizens. Thirdly, we were experiencing a slump in our economy and needed to drive the prices back up. Generally a nation isn’t an ally until a treaty is signed. France, Russia and England were not our allies before 1917. Unrestricted German submarine warfare…

teleological,” perverting key processes by pulling them out of context and forcing them into a contrived chain of events (Hanioglu, p. 1). “It is often assumed,” Turkish professor and scholar, M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, writes, “that the emergence of the Republic of Turkey in Anatolia, and of the neighboring nation-states in the surrounding territories of the disintegrated Ottoman polity, was the inevitable and predictable result of the decline of a sprawling multinational empire,” (Hanioglu, p. 1).…

"The War To End All Wars", a quote from Woodrow Wilson at the time in World War One. But did the war end all wars? Although several peace treaties including the Treaty of Versailles, were signed, it surprisingly did the opposite. Not only did it do the complete opposite, it helped initiate the second world war. June 28th 1919, the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed. Despite it being a peace treaty, it angered the Germans. They were enraged because of the harsh terms they had to agree to.…

The purpose of the Treaty of Versailles displays a peace treaty amongst the allies and the Germans. This unfortunately did not have the best outcome. The British and the French’s purpose was more than peace it favored revenge on Germany. Germany involuntary had to sign the Treaty of Versailles. They did not get a choice. The Treaty resulted in Germany losing ownership of its colonies; thus created Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. The Alsace-Lorraine also got restored to the French.…

LeJeune 1 Mallarie LeJeune Mrs.Martinez English IV, 1st March 25, 2016 Adolf Hitler Hitler was a cruel German politician and fascist leader, many factors during his childhood contributed to the actions that have greatly impacted the world today. He had Hitler’s fascist actions led to World War II and changed Judaism permanently. Hitler was the fourth of six children and at the age of three, his family moved from Austria to Germany. It is rumored that as a child, Hitler and his father did…

dark period Germany faced after hyperinflation The Dawes Plan (1924 named after the head of committee- Charles Dawes) - Created by Weimar Germany in order to stabilise Germany’s economy that suffered a great loss after the WWI - After signing the Treaty of Versailles Germany was under great pressure to pay reparations for damage that occurred after WWI however the Weimar Germany couldn’t pay out the required instalments which led to French and Belgium overtaking Germany’s most industrialised…

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…