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Catherine the Great Catherine the Great, Yekaterina Alekseyevna in Russian, was bound to the heir to the Russian throne at the young age of 14. Sophie Friederike Auguste Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German- born princess. At the beginning of her reign, she overthrew her husband Peter after he began cheating on her. Now without Peter she accomplished several things for Russia and was a principal leader of the Russian Royal Family. Being born German and ruled Russian Catherine the Great is a…

An authoritarian leader is someone who has individual control over all decisions and tends to make choices based on their own beliefs and as they have centralised power, also having the final decision. An effective authoritarian leader is different however, they take advice, handle opposition well, maintain strong relationships with elites and the masses and have strong decision making. The main test of effective authoritarian leadership is the strengthening of the German state into the future.…

In addition to that, the Germans took the blame for starting world war one. So, in the writing of the Versailles treaty the writers included a clause for blaming the Germans; for starting the war Germany had to pay 226 billion Reich marks in gold around £11.3 billion. They also had to give the Alsace Lorraine which hindered their ability to pay the money. The debt that Germany has to pay made them poorer than they were after the war. Hitler used the damaged Germans to give him power to fight…

The first major war since the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most devastating and unjustifiable wars of all time. The Great War of 1914 began in Sarajevo with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist group, the Narodna Odbrana. The war began as a small dispute between two countries but soon spread through the entirety of Europe. The expansion was largely due to alliances made prior to the war. These alliances were made due to fear, revenge,…

The Battle of Verdun was the most important battle of World War 1 from February 21 to December 18, 1916. German and French Forces employed industrial warfare tactics and the use of heavy artillery through the initial attack and French counter-fire. The Battle of Verdun resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths and approximately half a million wounded. Verdun was the longest battle and one of the bloodiest in World War I. In both France and Germany, it has come to represent the…

Kasmeier Joshua Mrs. Pickle History 20 March, 2017 The Two Front War and the Schlieffen During World War War I, Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II fought a two-front war Two Front War against France, Britain, Belgium, later American forces on the Western Front while,simultaneously fighting the Russians on the Eastern Front.It is important to get a basic understanding of this war. Germany at the time was what I would say a power country and had a lot of troops. Germany had been making a…

Why was the Battle of Jutland significant to the outcome of World War I? The Battle of Jutland took place on May 31st 1916 between the British Naval Fleet and the German imperial fleet. Though the Germans claimed it as a victory for them, as they suffered less casualties, the Battle had major effects on both sides of the war. There were many casualties on both sides of the war, and after the Battle the Germans never attempted to invade Britain through sea again, cutting off one possibly way of…

reached. The government decided that in order to do this, it was acceptable to violate some civil liberties. A majority of Americans possessed anti-German sentiment from the beginning of the war. They were against the ruler of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German invasion of neutral Belgium, and the country’s practice of submarine warfare. When the United States joined the war in 1917 on the side of the Allies, Germany became the main antagonist in World War I. Anti-German sentiment further…

It is seen that Germany’s only real aggressive moves in which Germany made was during the both Moroccan crisis and the Anglo-Germany Naval rivalry, which are seen as factors to World War One. During the Kaiser’s visit in Morocco in 1905, Kaiser Wilhelm II had decided to state his idea of sovereignty of the Sultan, challenging French influence in Morocco , as “the Kaiser and his advisers desperately wanted Germany to be a World Power on the same level as Britain” . However, the Kaisers wishes of…

the future. It represents that the Nazi acts did not go unpunished. The trials are advancements that allowed us to come together and make decisions that have affected us today. The Nuremberg Trials are an important aspect of the ending of World War II. The Allies finished the despicable deed that the Nazi’s started. They truly finished this chapter in history. Robert H. Jackson, “It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen…