The national unification of Italy, Germany, and the United States had many similarities and differences. When Germany and Italy experienced unification, the United States was already unified but going through a process of conserving the union of its states. While both the United States and Germany c...

Germany is Western Europe's richest and most populous nation, it remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. Even though European power struggled in the two World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the v...

During the 1930's Italy and Germany followed a policy of aggressive territorial expansion; they invaded weak lands that could be taken over easily. The dictatorships (led by Hitler in Germany, and Mussolini in Italy) knew exactly what their goals were, to form the empire they didn't achie...

Berlin is the capital and the biggest city in Germany. It has a population of about 3.5 million and extends over 889 kilometers. Berlin is located in central Europe, longitude 13:25 E, latitude 52:32 N, and is 34 m above sea level. Originally, Slavic tribes who were replaced by German settlers in th...

The seizure of power in Germany and Italy by fascist movements in the 1920s and 1930s was based on a weak and inexperienced government and the humiliation of both countries by the winning powers (United States, France, and Great Britain) after the Great War. These totalitarian right wing movements f...

In 1815, Germany was nothing but a loose grouping of States known as 'the German Confederation'. This creation replaced the holy Roman empire which had previouly held the many German speaking states together and united central Europe under the Austrian emporer. The holy Roman empire had been destroy...

Berlin is the capital and the biggest city in Germany. It has a population of about 3.5 million and extends over 889 kilometers. Berlin is located in central Europe, longitude 13:25 E, latitude 52:32 N, and is 34 m above sea level Originally, Slavic tribes who were replaced by German settlers in th...

Since the beginning of Christ, Jews have been fated from the mainstream of society. They have often been outcaste and therefore marginalized. Germany's defeat in World War 1 and a worldwide depression in the 1930s left the German economy in ruins and made many Germans angry and resentful. Adolf Hit...

After the devastating effects of WWII, Europe's economic and social conditions where in shambles. The personal suffering and internal upheavals threatened chaos. There was a lack of coal, steel, electrical power, railroad cars, locomotives, trucks, oil, and grain. All of the West European co...

Throughout the past centuries, much of our world's nations have converted from various types of governments to a democracy of some kind. Of all of the countries that have switched to this type of government, none have found this form of government to be undesirable. What is it that mak...

Nationalism is a popular sentiment that places the existence and well-being of the nation highest in the scale of political loyalties. In political terms, it signifies a person's willingness to work for the nation against foreign domination, whether political, economic, or cultural. Nationalism al...

"Human Life is the basis of all good and is the necessary source and condition of every human activity and all of society. Most people regard life as something sacred and hold that no one may dispose of it at will, but believers see in life something greater, namely a gift of God's love which the...