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Was Germany as a Nation Ready For a Democracy?
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Was Germany as a Nation Ready For a Democracy? The democratic Weimar Republic was set up in 1919, but was Germany ready for a democratic nation, where the people ruled the country indirectly through a government, instead of the autocratic system that they had been used to for so long? At the end of the First World War Germany was one of the largest industrialised nations in the world, amongst the USA, France, Great Britain, Russia and Austria. Of these the USA, France and Great Britain were all democracies, whereas the other three were not. The democracies at the time appeared to be the nations achieving victories in wars. An example of this, outlined in Encarta 99 by an unknown author, was Britain in the Boer Wars (1899-1902) fought Dutch colonists for possession of gold and diamond mining areas of southern Africa. In January of 1901 it appeared Britain had won, but...
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