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    Mein Kamph which means "My Struggle." The book revealed his beliefs and ideas for Germany's government and his plans on taking over Europe. He believed that Germans were superior humanity and Hitler wanted to keep Germany "pure." He said Jews and Slavs were the evils of the world. In December 1924, Hitler was released after serving only nine months. The economy's recovery was very slow, but now most people had work, homes, food, and hopes for the future. After the revolt, the government decided

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    End All War

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    independence. Strong feelings of nationalism existed among the great powers of Europe and among the Slav people who hoped to unite all their into a unified state. The Serbians supported the rise of a Pan-Slavic nationalism and Austria-Hungary took Pan-Slavic nationalism as a threat to their country and culture. They hoped the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would ignite a nationalistic feeling among the Slav people of Austria-Hungary and cause a major revolt. These feelings led to countries being

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    The Great War was a result of our leader’s aggression towards other countries which brought about and supported the rising of nationalism of the different nations. Imperial competition and the fear of war prompted our military alliances to get ready for war. Nationalism was a cause of World War I. Nationalism could have been explained as an extreme form of patriotism and loyalty to your county, nationalism placed the all of their interested above all the other countries and thought that somehow they

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    out to be a piece of the Eastern Roman Empire (later called the Byzantine Empire). Byzantium became weaker and around 500 AD Slavs settled in Bulgaria. At that point in 680 the Bulgars attacked drove by their ruler Khan Asparukh. They were slipped from the Huns from Central Asia. They crossed the Danube and established the state of Bulgaria. They then intermarried with the Slavs. Byzantine Empire in 716 gave their approval of the Bulgarian State. The Byzantines ruled Bulgaria until 1185. At that point

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    Leshii Research Paper

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    East Slavs believe the leshii to be frightening due to the power of metamorphosis which enabled him to deceive people, lead them astray and even carry off maidens and children. The Vodianoi is said to be a male figure that is covered in slime, has claws, and is possibly white and bloated, that finds delight in drowning people who have offended him. More popular malevolent spirits are the werewolf and the vampire, which have become admired in today's entertainment industry. The entire Slav area held

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    The Sarajevo Murders and the Moroccan Crisis in 1905 In the years leading up to the Sarajevo murders and the outbreak of World War 1 many events took place that led to the building of tension between the 6 main powers of Europe, although, none of these events caused a war. My aim is to investigate and understand why the Sarajevo murders caused a war to begin, when previous events such as the Moroccan Crisis did not. In order to fulfil my aim I will be considering three

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    dominant Germans and Magyars were afraid of losing control at home if the various subordinate nationalities grew too strong. As most of these were Slavic, the creation of large Slavic states in the Balkins would draw the Southern Slavs from Austria-Hungary and induce the Northern Slavs and Rumanians to demand more power or even independence. If Russia destroyed the Ottoman Empire, took Constantinople and created

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    leadership came the search for power, which is often influenced by religion. According to Geographer Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher and Anthropologist Conrad Goodwin, in the 800’s missionaries from Greece, the home of Orthodoxy, came to Russia and converted the Slavs (Pulsipher 207). In Russia, Land of the Tsars, a documentary film about the history of Russia and how its leadership came to be, they emphasize how once the first leaders of Russia were selected, they chose a religion (Russia, Land of the Tsars). The

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    period of 1942-1945. That is killing 2,109,250 to 3,175,500 people a year! A majority of the people familiar with the Holocaust think that only Jewish people were persecuted when in fact there were many more groups of people, these groups included Slavs, Serbs, Soviet POWs, Romani people, colored people, the disabled, homosexuals, Freemasons, Spanish republicans, Gypsies, the mentally ill, and Jehovah's witnesses. These people were executed because they proposed a threat to the Great Nation, taking

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    Rodogno's nonforcible intervention in the Ottoman Macedonian Provinces discusses the attempts of Macedonian nationalists to gain European humanitarian intervention. After providing information on what European provinces fell under direct Ottoman government, Rodogno tells the reader that Macedonia was more ethnically and religiously mixed than Syria and Lebanon. Macedonia wasn't granted autonomy from The 1878 Treaty of Berlin, "even though it was implied in article 23, by which the sultan pledged

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