Reportedly, Poland's foreign minister, Josef Beck, believed that a joint Polish-German anti-Stalinist foreign policy was dangerous in itself. Some historians believe that Beck, being a student of European history took the advice of Machiavelli in his book The Prince. In that renaissance era publication, Machiavelli warned that making an alliance with a more powerful nation against a third nation, if successful, would make the weaker nation a prime target of its ally.
The socialist part of Germany ( under influence of USSR ) and the capitalist part of Germany ( under influence of USA )
Germany was partitioned into West Germany and East Germany after its defeat the Second World War. West Germany was under the influence of the US, Britain, and France, and East Germany was under Soviet influence.
First of all, it wasn't Wilson's decision to make. The president doesn't choose America's wars; Congress does. Second, the Russian loss strenthened Germany, meaning Germany would have a better chance of winning and the Allies wouldn't be able to pay America back if they lost.
'Ending Austria's influence in Germany' was never an aim of the 1849 revolutionaries ... Austria and Germany was still one.
Spheres of influence
Germany, China, Austria
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As chancellor, he had a huge influence on the German empire and united Germany by creating a national state in 1871.
Adolf Hitler made all these decisions for Germany 1933-1945. It was his choice to go to war. The people of Germany generally supported his decision.
It brought in the Americans on the side of the Allies. But the biggest cause of Germany's defeat was their decision to invade Russia.
Germany slowed the Allied advance by pouring its own reinforcements into Italy.
Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare