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How did the British Empire not benefit its Empire?
I think it is fair, at least I hope it is, to say that Britain did well for the Empire. I also hope that those who were subjected to British rule, for as long as it lasted, do not feel that the British are too bad a lot. I am British, but I do not see myself now as a master of anything other than a small piece of real estate in UK. It was the way things were then. I am not going to be apologetic about what the British did, yes, we didn't get it right all the time. But it is the thrust of my point that there have been many, far worse Imperial powers in history. In some instances Britain did benefit its colonies. And if all you think we did was to spread Cricket & Christianity then there are worse things than those in this world.
Did the British and Germans hate each other after World War 1?
The sad answer is yes. Lord Haldane, for example, a senior British politician, was forced from office because he had studied in Germany. SOME Germans who had been naturalized before WW1 were deprived of British citizenship and so on. In what one might call the Anglo-German community in Britain, WW1 is seen as the time when conditions for Germans in Britain were worst - significantly worse that in WW2. Similarly, there was intense hostility towards Britons in Germany at the time. Joncey
How did the political boundaries of the Middle East change after World War 1?
they got worse due to lack of trust between contries
Why were conditions in Germany so bad for the people after World War 1?
Germany was forced to pay reparations as a result of losing world war one. The Treaty of Vesailles made Germany and all of the other countries that were agaisnt the allies responisble for the damages that occured during world war one. Germany's economy got worse because of the repartions. People couldn't afford to buy even a loaf of bread because prices were so high. Families starved and people were desperate for change.
Why do historians call between 1919 and 1939 the 20 year truce?
It was the reaction of Marshal Ferdinand Foch when he saw the terms that Germany was forced to accept in the treaty of Versailles. "This isn't a peace, it's a twenty year truce!" This came about because the three victorious powers that were forcing Germany to sign the treaty, Britain France and America, wanted very different things. The American president Woodrow Wilson wanted to create the League of Nations, rather like a beta version of the United Nations, thus he wanted to forgive Germany so that it could take its place in the League, and peaceful governing of the world could continue. The French wanted to weaken Germany so much that they could never be a threat. You must remember that the Western Front had largely run through France, it was a miracle that she survived. 1,382,400 Frenchmen were killed and 3,594,889 were wounded terribly. 12.5% of the population of France, mostly between the ages of 20 and 35, and all of the men, would never work again and instead of adding to the economy, would drain it. The French wanted Germany to pay a ridicules amount of money to make up for the war, they wanted to make the Rhineland (the area that borders France) and make it into a separate state, and a buffer zone, and they wanted Germany to admit that the whole war was their fault. The British wanted to see Germany punished for the war, but they didn't want them to be crippled forever. They wanted Germany to recover so that they could become a useful trading partner again. In the end, Britain persuaded the other two powers to compromise. The treaty wasn't as harsh as the French wanted, and not as lenient as the Americans wanted. And therein lies the irony, if the Americans had had their way there wouldn't have been so much German resentment, and if the French had had their way Germany would probably have been to weak to go to war in '39. You could argue that Britain, in trying to find a compromise to fit all helped the war along. On the other hand, France and America were at each other's throats over the terms of the treaty, and if Britain hadn't helped them to reach a middle ground, things could have gone a lot worse. Anyway, despite good intentions, three different opinions all trying to work with each other meant that sensible policies had to be abandoned and foolish ones put in just to appease the others. People quote Foch in calling 1919-1939 a twenty year truce because, in retrospect, the treaty seemed bound to break down.
Why did relations between Britain and Germany grow worse from 1900-1914?
Germany wanted an empire like Britain and France had. Unfortunately, Britain and France owned over half of the world between them and Britain also had the world's best navy, so Germany would have to both increase the size of its navy and fight Britain and France for colonial possessions. This damaged relations
How did the Yellow Press contribute to the aggressive nationalists sentiment in the US before the Spanish-American War?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the United States worse than they were
Was Britain defeated in world war 2 by Germany?
Have you read ANY history ? - Britain and the Allies won the war - or else you would be living under Nazi slavery, or worse, in a concentration camp.
How did the yellow press contribute to the nationalist in the US before the Spanish American war?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the United States worse than they were
How did the yellow press to the aggressive nationalist sentiment in the US before the Spanish American war?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the United States worse than they were
How did the yellow press contribute to the aggressive nationalist sentiment in the US before the Spanish American?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the United States worse than they were
How did the yellow press contribute to the nationalist sentiment in the US before the Spanish-American war?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the United States worse than they were
How did the yellow press contribute to the aggressive nationalist sentiment in the us before the Spanish war?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the United States worse than they were
How did the yellow press contribute to the aggressive nationalists in the US before the Spanish-American war?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the united states worse than they were (novanet)
How did the yellow press contribute to the aggressive nationalist sentiment in the US before the Spanish American war?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the United States worse than they were
How did the yellow press contribute to the aggressive nationalism sentiment in the US before spanish American war?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the united states worse than they were
How did the yellow press contribute to the aggressive nationalists sentiment in the US before the Spanish war?
by printing stories that made relations between Spain and the united states worse than they were (novanet)
