It is commonly known that one of the greatest discoveries in human history is that of Christopher Columbus' voyage in 1492. When he first set foot on the shores of South America, he had no idea how much he would affect so many people, animals, and agriculture for hundreds of years. After tha...

There are countless Greek inventors, scientists, and athletes, whose life history of intellectual or athletic excellence prior to becoming wealthy is itself proof of the possibility of gaining such excellence without necessarily being born wealthy. Example is Thales and Benjamin Franklin. Greek...

There were many links between the conclusion of WW1 and WW2. A few of these links include; The Treaty of Versailles, the rise to power of the Nazi party, the holocaust, the great depression and many more causes. The main factor which led to WWII though was Hitler, and his racial, anti-Semitism ide...

In this journal entry we ask ourselves who we are as Austrians. What does it mean to be an Austrian and come from our country? Today's Austrians are a complicated and interesting people. They have a long history closely tied with Germany. Both countries share many of the same policy issues, and...

The International Conference of Europeans held at Chicago chalks out the imperatives of this study which states the three advantages of being economical, clustering providing meaningful reasoning of each regime and facilitates hypothesis testing. The first type of evolutionary concept was stated i...

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...

In the following paragraphs I will be discussing France after it's defeat in the Franco-Prussian war; the constitution, divisions in government, threats to the people's faith in their rulers, and the economy. France began this era at considerable disadvantage because of the war and Bismarck's po...

The first things that come to mind when the names Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler are mentioned are the cruel, tyrannical, inhumane acts they committed against their own people, and people of other nationalities. But, what one fails to see is the public works they sponsored, the ways they modernized t...

How successful was Bismarck's domestic policy in unifying the new nation state between 1871 and 1890? By 1871 the process of unification of Germany had been completed when the German empire was declared in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. However many historians would argue that Germa...