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May 20, 2009

social political and economic effects of world war ll

social
people were devistated by the blits and this left genral moral in countrys low
hitler had made his mark of terror in on the world and affected millions even to this day
women were used even more than the first world war to make shells and demanded more rights

political
japan was devistated by the first world war and was place under us controle for a short time
berlin and was split in two by the berlin wall
hitler killed himself and nazise totaly demorilised

economic
munitions and ammo groces grew by alot of money
britain owed so much money to america
food was still rationed after the war for a long time

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May 20, 2009

Communism and Capitalism and The Cold War

Communism and Capitalism in a nut shell

Capitalism is every man for them self you are born and you have to work your way up or bomb out trying. if your ritch its quite easy to stay rich. you have the fredom of speach and all the human right you could ask for.

Communism is the leaft wing idea of Karl Marx's. every one is equal, every one has the same amount of money the same size house and is treated the same exept the person that is running it all.

The Cold War was a WAR that had gone COLD between the USA and the USSR (Russia) the fought by backing the oposit sides of exesisting.... the Viatnam war. this was caused by the distrust and anger of russia after the second word war because no one helped them not us or the us why we wer not involved im not quite sure.

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May 5, 2009

Neville Chamberlain has been accused of being directly responsible for the Second World War. Would you agree that he is guilty of this?

Neville Chamberlain has been accused of being directly responsible for the Second World War. Would you agree that he is guilty of this?

Plan- lack of enforcement shown towards Hitler, Appeasement weak, Allowed Hitler to invade without opposition, Broke Treaty Of Versailles agreement that Germany shouldn't be able to expand, Didnt act responsivly enough when Hitler invaded Czechkoslovakia.

In many ways I would agree that Neville Chamberlain is directly responsible for the Second World War, but at the same time i wouldn't, due to other contributing factors. My reasons for this are as followed.

First of all, Chamberlain failed to enforce the terms that were put on Germany in the making of the Treaty Of Versailles. He allowed Hitler to expand Germany's military forces ready for invasions, without opposing him, with the backing of the League Of Nations, to prevent the outbreak of another world war. The consequences of this were Hitler being able to invade Czechkoslovakia and break the agreement of appeasement, showing Chamberlain to be weak and responsible for allowing Hitler to imorally invade countries which weren't his. However, as the revisionist historian ASP Taylor stated in the 1950's, it was, most probaly, the only thing Neville Chamberlain could have done, as, no doubt, he would have suspected that there would be another War, and so needed to pro-long it to be able to re-arm Britain's military forces so that they could combat the threat of the German world domination. Moreover, Chamberlain had no previous experience of running a country that was recovering from a world war, aswell as preparing for another. Therefore, the decision he made was on behalf of the people of Britain, for their best interests, as many would still be suffering from the aftermath of World War 1.

Second of all, Chamberlain, along with the Prime Minister of France, made an agreement with Poland to say that if Hitler decided to invade their country they would declare war on Germany and serve Hitler an ultimatum, to try and persuade him to change his plans. It was the lack of responsive action, from Chamberlain, along with the French Prime Minister of course, that caused WW2 to begin as if they had done something to stop Hitler previously from his plans of the German domination of Europe, there would probably have been no need for war. It was his lack of responsibility and decision making skills that caused the war to begin, as if they ( France and Chamberlain) hadn't made an agreement with Poland to help them, then Hitler may have stopped doing what he was doing, despite suspicions. The trust between countries was another factor that would pin the blame on Chamberlain, as he and the Prime Minister of France made a threat of declaring war on Germany when thet hadn't sat down and discussed whether or not they had the strength or men to take on Hitler's army. Chamberlain most likely felt guilty for not acting to stop Hitler sooner and so, to save him from going down in history as weak and forgetable leader, he decided to try and make amens for his earlier mistakes, even though he was elected out of office soon after the war began. Although, despite his lack of responsive action and consideration, Neville Chamberlain was, in a way, trying to right his wrongs and attempt to stop Hiter before he did anymore damage.

Finally, Chamberlain was directly responsible due to him having doubted the agreement of the Nazi-Soviet pact, him believing that Stalin, a communist, would never make a deal with Hitler, a facist, when in fact he did, all because of the delay of British invlovement, when Stalin was making his decision.It was this delay that caused the Stalin to force himself to save Russia and agree to Hitlers proposition, to gain some eastern provinces, and to help him invade Poland. This chain of events, all down to Chamberlain, caused WW2 to begin, due to after them, Hitler and Stalin, invading Poland, Britain had to interviene when it could have prevented and maybe got Stalin and Russia on its side to stop Hitler once and for all. It was Chamberlain's fault as he was leader of Britain. On the other hand, it could be said that the blame was not on Chamberlain as France did not attempt to stop Stalin agreeing with Hitler all together. Plus, Neville Chamberlain had every reason to believe that a communist and facist would never agree, due to them being on totally opposite sides of the political compass. It had never been known that a right and left wing politition could agree with one another as they wanted different things.

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May 5, 2009

Some have said that the Nazi-Soviet Pact was the single most important reason for the start of the Second World War. Would you agree with this judgement? Explain your answer.

Some have said that the Nazi-Soviet Pact was the single most important reason for the start of the Second World War. Would you agree with this judgement? Explain your answer.

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Agree- Hitler gained more power by combining forces with Stalin, It forced Britain to serve Hitler Ultimatum, France and Britain had to protect Poland like they agreed.
Disagree- The weakening of the League Of Nations allowed Hitler to break the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, lack of appeasement in the first place, no country trusted one another, Hitler would probably have caused a war no matter how he went about expanding ( gaining Lebenstraum (living space ) for his people)

The reasons that this was the single most important reason for the start of the Second World War was that it gave Hitler great security. He suddenly did not have to worry about the eastern front, about another power attacking him. The agreement allowed him to be able to weild more power in that he had the backing of the Russian army when deciding to invade Poland, which led to the Second World War.

Moreover, when Britain showed no signs of attempting to prevent Stalin from agreeing with Hitler's terms, Stalin was forced, on behalf of his people, and personal greed, to join with Hitler, help him carve up Poland and, in reward, recieve more land in the east that Hitler didnt want. The invasion of Poland, due to the Nazi-Soviet pact being made, was what caused World War 2 to begin as Britain and France had sworn to help Poland when Hitler did invade. It was the decision of the pact forcing Britain into a war they didnt want to fight, eventually causing them to serve Hitler with and ultimatum as one last attempt to get the two countries to change their minds, that did lead to another World War.

However, this could be argued against as at the time no countries trusted one another, and so eventually there would have been some sort of betrayal or disloyalty that would have caused a war anyway, despite whatever Hitler did. And for Hitler it gave him the opportunity to be drawn into a war with Russia anyway, in Poland. The agreement could have been a way of him trying to get to know the man and his country, who he was going to take over eventually anyway, due to the Nazi ideology of the 'Third Reich'.

Another reason that the pact can be identified as the main cause of WW2, is due to it allowing Hitler to become too much of a threat to Europe, in that when he joined forces with Stalin of Russia he gained an ally who had an army strong enough to make the dream of German domination reality. It was the fear of Stalin having agreed with Hitler that caused Britain and France to intervine and threaten Hitler with war if he invaded Poland, which of course they knew he would, as he had the backing of the Red Army. The intervention of Britain and France, due to the reason of the pact creating a far worst enemy, was what led to the outbreak of the Second world war.

Although, despite these reasons, it could be said that there were other factors that contributed to the war starting, as it was initially the lack of appeasement shown toward Hitler that allowed him to break the terms of restriction put on Germany as a result of the Treaty Of Versailles and start aquiring Lebenstraum (living-space) for his people, by invading other countries that he had no right to have. The reasons for Hitler breaking the treaty can be, more-or-less, blamed on the collapse of the League of Nations, whose job it was to sort out international disputes. If they had learned to trust each other and not make secret agreements, then the countries of Europe may have had a chance of opposing Hitler and preventing Germany from becoming powerful again.

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May 5, 2009

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April 20, 2009

Wall street crash

The Wall Street crash was the crash of the stock market in America located In wall street. This was caused by the same thing that has happen in the current time because of lenders lending money to people that could not pay it back. This made many banks go bankrupt and all the savings of people two. This made the county overall poorer and made many people loose there jobs homes and often had nothing to eat. This had a nock on affect that rippled all round the world causing many other countries to go the same world

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April 20, 2009

The Manchurian crisis

The Manchurian crisis was the attack on china by Japan

this happened because Japan was fast running out of room for its own people and had started to become poorer because of the wall street crash this ment America could not buy the main export from Japan silk.

Japan wanted to become self sufficient and the military had ideas of gaining more territory to become self sufficient others thought that they should stay in there own territories.

There was an explosion on the rail way that ran through Manchuria this is said by Japan to have been an attack by china. So this (air quotation) ment the Japanese could move in and make Manchuria (air quotations) safe from the Chinese. This decision was made by the ARMY and only the ARMY this was only followed blindly by the government because the army had already moved in and would have made Japan seem foolish.

China made no attempt to fight back as the Japanese pushed further in to Chinese territory China called upon the league to sort things out and the league said Japan pleas stop that Japan left the league with a prompt no.

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March 31, 2009

Treaty Of Versailles

http://classtools.net/my/diamond954950treaty_of_versailles___problems.htm

This is a link to the Diamond Nine ranking of the problems of the Treaty of Versailles.

I think the biggest problem was the fact that the people in the home country’s of the big three there was huge pressure to make it work and do as they said. Nearly all the decisions on what to do were made by the public expressed trough one of the big three.

The least important in my opinion was the The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that ended Russia's involvement in WWI meant huge areas of land were given to Germany. Yhis was largly pointles because the land was taken of them in the Treaty of Versilles.

The othere points of the dimond nine are ranked in order hear:

Britain soon came to see the Treaty of Versailles as a mistake.

The 'reparations' Germany had to pay to the Allies (especially France) were extremely high at £6,600m.
The League of Nations, set up as a result of the Paris Peace Conference was not very influential or powerful.
The 'Big 3' wanted different things from the Paris Peace Conference.
The end of the Austro-Hungarian empire led to nationalist uprisings calling for independence across Eastern Europe.
Woodrow Wilson persuaded representatives from France and Britain to support the principle of self-determination.
The secret Treaty of London (1915) between the Allies and Italy was not upheld at the Paris Peace Conference.

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March 31, 2009

Presentation On The Abysinian crysis

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March 30, 2009

hitler how he came to power

Hitler was able to come to power trough the depression because Germans needed some to blame e.g. Jews communism. This was a scapegoat for the entire country also Hitler made some very good changes such as making unemployment nearly non by making unemployed people who wanted to work, work on the roads and things. Hitler also made the promise of lebansround witch was living space giving all Germans living space this made the need for space great and Hitler had to invade. He promised to make Germany great again and to fend off communism this made the majority of the country support him and this is where he came to power.

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