The German-Polish Nonaggression Pact was a treaty between Germany and Poland that resolved their fighting and decreased their armed conflict for 10 years. The pact effectively normalized relations between both countries. The two countries recently fought over the land borders in the Treaty of Versailles. This agreement between France and Poland was to make France an ally to Poland. France thought that creating an ally with Poland was essential to create stability in postwar Europe. Poland was
On June 28, 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed and World War 1 had officially come to an end. Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versaille because they could no longer afford to participate in the war. The Treaty of Versailles was put in place to punish Germany. (New York Times) There were three things that greatly affected Germany caused by the war and the Treaty. First Germany lost much of its land and territory and during this time the condition of Germany’s economy was terrible. The
“The Spirit of 1914” gives a comprehensive examination of the opinions and feelings felt during the beginning of the Great War by the German people. This monograph goes into extensive detail on the complexity of the German nation’s reactions and response to the vast, “patriotic outbursts…which many contemporaries and historians categorized as “war enthusiasm.””(2) The content of the book also centers on how German unity was portrayed. “Conservative journals claimed that these crowds spoke for public
Second, France and its response to the Spanish Civil War had a noninterventionist policy by the French government. To start, Jose M. Sanchez’s main argument in the international Catholic response to the war was that, “No event of political or social significance since the beginning of the nineteenth century engendered such heated religious debate among Christians worldwide as did the Spanish Civil War.” The war signified a Catholic united condemnation for or against the war but the politics involved
was a disaster financially, and Rivera could not fix the problem. In April of 1931, Spain held an election, and those elected declared Spain a republic instead of a monarchy. Because of this declaration, many problems arose. Catalonia and the Basque region requested independence, which could have caused Spain to break up. The Catholic Church and the republic also did not get along very well. Spain was primarily an agricultural country around this era, so when the country was in a depression in the
crisis to another, the people began to protest the draconian censorship of the government, forcing the militaristic dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera to step down. His resignment resulted in the country’s first real step towards democracy, the Second Spanish Republic. During the municipal elections, new radically ideological politocal parties began to emerge, both on the extreme left and right wings. The right wing parties were supported by the monarchists, upperclass, conservatives, and the catholic church
The Spanish Civil War began in July of 1936, and ended in April 1939. Spain of the early 1930s was a deeply divided nation. There were two main factions in Spain- those of the left, and those on the right. Contrary to the political system in the United States, on the left were the Republicans (also called Loyalists) and on the right were the Nationalists. The Republicans were a conglomerate of many groups that banded together over the main thing they had in common—their opposition to fascism. This
they drew were based on the borders of Germany in 1917. However, when it came time to divide and draw the borders of Belin they based it off of the Berlin Act of 1920. The Berlin Act of 1920, was a municipal ordinance passed during The Weimar Republic, the ordinance extended the boundaries of the city. At the end of the War Germany ceased to exist, as a sovereign independent national state. The Allies had to have believed, that Berlin was an independent creature, otherwise the Berlin Act of 1920
The Republic of Poland is a member state of the European Union. Poland is much less established than most Western European countries. The nation is considered to be a developed country, but at the very minimal level a nation can be to be considered “developed.” According to the governmental restructuring of 1998, the country is divided into 16 provinces. These provinces are divided into “poviats”, and then further separated into the principle administrative units “gminas”. The Polish legal system
unveils what he called “The Testament.” The Testament was a collection of Lenin’s writings which expressed his dissatisfaction with the direction the Soviet government was taking and his former second in command Joseph Stalin. In 1924, two years after the establishment of his country, Lenin suffers a second stroke that takes his life. He dies in Gorki, a suburb south of Moscow at the age of 53. Lenin’s work to make a sort of Heaven on Earth has been greatly distorted due to other communist leaders
fear and dislike of any other form of government. Look at American policies towards the Soviet Union after the second world war. The ... ... middle of paper ... ...rom America is a godsend, Many Poles agree that the intermingling of American culture with Polish culture is unacceptable. Never has the US ever extended another country such equal treatment. A large section of the Polish population views Americans as wealthy and powerful on the positive side, and imperialistic and egotistical on the
along ethnic lines. Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia all wound up autonomous states. Land was given to Romania (Transylvania, the Banat and the greater part of Bukovina) and Italy. The Austrian Province of Galicia was joined with the previous German-Polish
movement in Gdansk, proof of the polish peoples' exhaustion with the communist state was an irreversible taste of freedom that helped propel the country forward both immediately before and after independence from the Soviet Union (Reisinger). Since Poland never developed ideological ties to communism it was easier for the Polish government to become more democratic. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the establishment of Liberated Poland the government became a republic (Poland, CIA). According to
century about Poland when the Polish nation changed into Christianity in 966. Prince Mieszko I was the first ruler and his son, Boleslaw I, was the first king of Poland. This established the Piast dynasty that lasted from 966 to 1370. During the Piast dynasty there where Piast kings with a lot of rivalries from nobility and Bohemian and Germanic invasions that made Poland a very troubled country. The last king of the dynasty was Casimir III, crowned in 1333. He extended Polish influence eastward to Lithuania
the majority of my cultural heritage is Polish. Poland is located in the center of Europe and traces its roots back at least one thousand (1,000) years (“Poland profile,” 2016). The surrounding countries are Ukraine and Belarus on the east side, Lithuania and the Russian province of Kaliningrad on the northeast side, Germany on the west side, and the Czech and Slovak Republic on the south side. It is basically
Russia became recognized as a world power in in 1721, under the rule of Peter the Great, when it was declared an Empire. Peter the Great ruled and passed on his rule to his daughter, Elizabeth. Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1878 in Gorgi, Georgia. Joseph Stalin’s birth name was Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili. He was the son his mother, Ketevan Geladze, and his father, Besarion Jughashvili. Joseph Stalin’s father was a cobbler and then became an alcoholic which turned him abusive to his
ccertain laws of exchange and production to be allowed to work freely in economic markets (Palmer et. al., 442). Inventions like steam engine, telegraph, new road construction processes, steam locomotive were all the products of the Industrial Revolution. Britain dominated the industry for most part of the 19th century with its advantage of the early start in manufacturing, its world markets, and its powerful navy. Its industrial power was starting to be challenged by Germany and US close to the
nations that emerged out of World War II (WWII). The United States of America came out of the second world war as the savior of Europe, they gained many new allies and came strongly out of the depression to become an economic power. As well as economic power the US also gained many top global political positions. Behind the protective “Iron Curtain was the other great super power to come out of the Second World War, Russia, after relentlessly helping the US to end Japan’s power in the Pacific soon
The cause for the collapse of the United of Soviet Socialist Republics cannot be pinpointed to one event, one policy, one movement, or one outlook. The series of events, policies, movement, and outlooks are not black and white; they connect multifariously: politically, socially, economically, and culturally. The causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union were both short and long term. Overall, the long-term cause of the collapse was the embedded disposition of the Soviet Union: the politics, the
the state neglects as it crushes Native American protests at Standing Rock for an oil-pipeline, breaks unions and strikes against corporate exploitation, and fights in unpopular wars like that in Afghanistan and Iraq so that American, British, and Polish oil companies could drill oil while evading export tariffs. So American government officials