During spring break of my senior year in high school, two of my closest friends and I went to Austria and Germany for a ski trip. It was probably the most cathartic time of my life. My high school experience was the most stressful time of my life, but my two friends and I left all of that in the sta...

In 1990 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 57,985,595 people in the United States claimed some measure of German ancestry. This makes up almost a quarter of the U.S. population. German immigration started as early as 1607. The first three Germans to migrate to the U.S. were, F.Un...

German-Americans Individual Germans had been coming to the United States since the 17th century, and continued into the late 19th century at a rate exceeding that of any other country. The first to arrive as a group were religious dissenters who landed at Philadelphia aboard the Concord in 1683....

German immigration has been a huge influence in our country\'s development. Germans came to this country in the hundreds of thousands to millions over the history of the United States. They came in search of religious freedom, new farmland, more jobs and to flee from genocide. Many of the German imm...

What is it like to be young in Germany today? Many kids and young adults seem to be without any perspective on their future. They are disillusioned and frustrated. But is it that bad? I don\'t think so. Of course, in some cases, things are worse, and therefore I am going to look at some general prob...

By late 1943 the Germans war efforts in Russia where looking more and more bleak. With a large number of German forces still entrenched in the Russian heartland problems that they faced where surmounting quickly. One would have to look back at 1942 to see the beginning of the difficulties the German...

English 1A 11/24/99 Submarines: The Underwater War The submarine is one of the greatest naval inventions in the history of war. This innovation allows men to dive to certain depths in the open seas at will. Submarines were equipped with weapons and communication devices. The submarine coul...

How was World War I won by the allies? The first world war must have been one of the greatest technological period in the decennia , and one of the most cruel because they did not yet know what they had found...

After the First World War everyone wanted peace, even Germany. The Germans had no reason to fight; they had admitted defeat and began to rebuild their society. But the Treaty of Versailles changed all that. It had diminished Germany's land, economy, military, and most importantly, honour. The (...

Chapter 23 1. The Great War: World War I to a generation unaware of World War II. Began in August of 1914 when forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded Serbia following the assassination of the Archduke. (#3) Within weeks a bi-country dispute became a world war that encompassed almost all of...

The Harsh Treatment of the Jews in the Nazi Concentration Camps The worst treatment to one single race during World War II was towards the Jewish race. These people were stripped of all their rights and then they were not even treated like human beings. The German's forced the J...

The German society is alomst as the American society is, but there are some differences between those two cultures. Germans spend their money for traveling all over the wolrd, the Americans (which isn‘t quite the right expression for people who live in the US, because there are a lot more peo...

The treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th of June 1919 by the Weimar government. The French, British, and American governments designed the peace settlement in order to place blame on Germany for starting the war. The consequences being that the German government would have to pay reparation...

Based on the ideals of a nationalist German society, extermination of Jewish people was perceived as necessary in order to form a united Germany. A large basis of German political movements was based on anti-Semitism. The need for the extermination of Jews in these movements was based on the chang...

The chain of events that led to WW1 is controversial and most speculations revolve around the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, on June 28, 1914, by a Bosnian revolutionary. Germany\'s position concerning the possible outbreak of war is also speculative, with som...

The 19th century was a time of rapid growth and change in America. It was a century of Westward expansion, and the building up of new cities like Chicago, St. Louis, and Milwaukee. It was a time where people from far off places packed up their belongings and sought out new opportunities as they immi...

World War I ended on November 11, 1918, and the Treaty of Versailles was written soon after. The Treaty of Versailles, often known as the Peace Treaty, marked the beginning of a great period of poverty in Germany. The diplomats attending the Versailles Peace Conference intended to draft a general pe...

The German-American exchange program had been going on in my high school for a very long time. Every other year the Germans would come to our school and every other year the Americans went to Germany. In September of 2001 a group of German students were scheduled for a stay of 3 weeks. After Septem...

In this ambitious study, Uta G. Poiger attempts to trace the developments of Post-WWII popular culture in East and West Germany, paying close attention to reaction and politicization that framed each side's discussions. The picture that emerges seems to be extremely accurate, but it is at the s...

After Germany signed the Armistice, the Great four: United States' president Woodrow Wilson, France's prime minister Georges Clemenceau, England's prime minister Lloyd George and Italy's Orlando met in Paris in January 1919 and worked out the Treaty of Versailles. The armistice ...

There were a few components that led to the unification of the GDR and the Federal Republic. Most of them began in 1989. In the summer of that year, thousands of East German \"vacationers\" in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and other eastern bloc states escaped through holes in the iron curtain or pushed ...

When World War I came to a close in mid-November of 1918, many ideas were circulating in Europe as to what the peace settlement should entail. In Britain, leaders were thinking about how to increase British colonial power. In France, many wanted to permanently punish the Germans, partly in revenge f...

Events in history often become associated with single individuals, such as Hitler and World War II, or Cavour, Mazzini and Garibaldi with Italian unification. The same seems to be true for German unification, with which Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck is generally associated. It is often arg...

The ultimate warfare called Blitzkrieg was first used by Germany in the early twentieth century. Everyone was tired of the old trench warfare, and after World War I many speculated that a type of mobile warfare would be much more effective. The Germans tested this new-found type of combat during ...

The Enigma code machine was first thought up before world war two started, sothat German's could send information back and forth without enemies being ableto see what they were saying. The Enigma code machine could send 150 million,million, million, different messages. And with that many different...