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    its prior territories restored. Also, a wrongdoing to France by Prussia in 1871 should be righted. This would return the territory of Alsace-Lorraine back to France. The ninth point suggests that Italy’s borders need to be redrawn, but Wilson gives no input on the readjustment of Italy’s borders. For the tenth point Wilson recommends that the

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    The Berlin Wall Of Berlin

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    following the fall of the Berlin wall brought Germany closer together as one country. The east side of Berlin was communist, whereas the west side was socialist/democratic. The Berlin wall was often referred to as a symbol of the cold war and the inner conflict of Germany. It showed the different ideologies of the USA and USSR and their systems of government. Officially known as the “Anti-Fascist-Protective Wall” by the east, and the “Wall of Shame” by the West, it physically divided the city of

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    master plan for humanity. Hitler’s hatred of the Jews, whom he portrayed as responsible for all of the problems and evils of the world, particularly democracy, Communism, and internationalism, as well as Germany's defeat in the War. Jews were the German nation's true enemy.

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    bound for Liverpool, England. On board were 1,962 passengers and crew, including 139 of which were Americans. Less than a week later on May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was attacked and sunk without warning by a German submarine (U-boat) off the coast of Ireland. Under the discretion of the German U-boat commander, Lieutenant Walter Schwieger, the Lusitania was sunk based on the assumption that the ship was carrying war supplies for the United Kingdom (In harm’s way, 2002). In total 1,198 lives were

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    THE HOLOCAUST Essay

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    The Holocaust was the mass annihilation of the European Jews by the National Socialist Party (Nazi) of Germany from 1933 to 1945. In The War of the Jews, Dawidowicz explains the conditions that made anti-Semitism politically acceptable. The Germans of the nineteenth century "inherited a Christian-inspired popular and intellectual anti-Semitism that depicted Jews as foreigners- a state within a state- killers of Christ, well poisoners, and a cause of every misfortune, whether natural, economic

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    ABSRACT The thesis of this essay is to illustrate the life of Felix Mendelssohn and to expound on his accomplishments, his style of work as well as the influence his music had on the early Romantic era. Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, organist, and conductor. He wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. Mendelssohn was regarded as a child prodigy, just like Mozart had been before him. At six years of age Mendelssohn began taking piano lessons from

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    on April, 15, 1894 in Kalinovka, a small town near the Ukraine border. He joined the communist Bolsheviks in 1918, which was more than a year after they seized power in the Russian Revolution. During the Russian Civil War, his first wife died of typhus, leaving him with 2 children. He remarried and had four more kids. Khrushchev rose through the communist ranks after moving to Moscow in 1929. He eventually entered Dictator Stalin’s inner circle. By that time, Stalin had been instituting his power in

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    Numerous authors, like Evans, Wilson, and Sloan, made it clear that their main character was nerdy or different unlike the common usage of the all-American boy. For example, in A Good and Happy Child, Evans wrote the story of George fighting with his inner demons and additional family struggles including the death of his father and the affair

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    Anita Desai was born on 14 June 1937 in Mussoorie, a quaint little hill-station close to Delhi. She was born to a German mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman father, D.V. Mazumdar, Anita had an unorthodox upbringing, which in turn helped to nurture writing aspirations in her young mind. During her early years, she spent much time learning German, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and English that compounded her passion for literature. She received her early education from Queen Mary 's

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    interim steps can be created and then satisfactorily implemented by all parties concerned. The Sunshine Policy was articulated in 1998, and while the policy has resulted in some political contact, it has produced little in the way of tangible results. German unification came about as a ‘result of the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe’ along with the dissolution of the Soviet Union (Verheven, 198: 17). This unification has prompted a second scenario where re-unification will occur

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