Examples of League of the Rhine in the following topics:
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- The League of Nations was created as an international organization after WWI.
- The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Talks that ended the First World War.
- The United Nations (UN) replaced it after the end of the war and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.
- The countries on the map represent those that have been involved with the League of Nations.
- Explain the historical rise and fall of the League of Nations after World War I
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- The crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe-Mulde line and the Alps all established the final campaign on the Western Front as a showcase for Allied superiority in maneuver warfare
- The Western Allies recognized that the Rhine would present a formidable natural obstacle to their invasion of Germany and focused their efforts in the area of the river already in the fall of 1944.
- By the end of the month, Allied forces were close to the Rhine's west bank.
- In the North, Operation Plunder was the name given to the assault crossing of the Rhine at Rees and Wesel by the British 21st Army Group on the night of March 23.
- Summarize Eisenhower's drive toward Berlin, including the crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe-Mulde line and the Alps.
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- The league was the brainchild of U.S.
- House, enthusiastically promoted the idea of the league as a means of
avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of World War I, and the creation of
the league became the centerpiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.
- While one of the primary goals of the League of Nations was global diplomacy, the league proved largely unsuccessful in part because it lacked the support of the United States.
- Members of the Commission of the League of Nations in Paris, France, 1919.
- Identify the creation, goals, and limitations of the League of Nations.
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- In cities linked to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, the Hanseatic League developed as a trade monopoly.
- Long-distance trade in the Baltic intensified as the major trading towns came together in the Hanseatic League under the leadership of Lübeck.
- The Hanseatic League was a business alliance of trading cities and their guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe and flourished from 1200–1500, and continued with lesser importance after that.
- The chief cities were Cologne on the Rhine River, Hamburg and Bremen on the North Sea, and Lübeck on the Baltic Sea.
- The league was founded for the purpose of joining forces for promoting mercantile interests, defensive strength, and political influence.
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- The Immigration Restriction League called for restrictions on immigration of people from certain parts of the world.
- On April 8, 1918 the League introduced a bill into the Congress to increase the restriction of immigration by means of numerical limitation.
- The influence of the Immigration Restriction League declined but it remained active for nearly twenty years.
- The League disbanded after the death of its president, Prescott F.
- Portrait of George Edmunds, a founding member of the Immigration Restriction League
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- The violent actions of Spartan leader Pausanias at the siege of
Byzantium, for instance, alienated many of the Greek states from Sparta and led
to a shift in the military command of the Delian League from Sparta to Athens,
setting the stage for Sparta’s eventual withdrawal from the Delian League.
- A series of rebellions occurred between Athens and the
smaller city-states that were members of the League.
- For example, Naxos was the
first member of the League to attempt to secede in approximately 471 BCE.
- According to Thucydides, the siege of Thasos marked
the transformation of the League from an alliance into a hegemony.
- The Delian League was the basis for the Athenian Empire, shown here on the brink of the Peloponnesian War (c. 431 BCE).
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- The first professional league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, lasted from 1871 to 1875; scholars dispute its status as a major league.
- The pact formalized relations both between the two major leagues and between them and the National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues, representing most of the country's minor professional leagues.
- The Boston Americans of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.
- The next year, the series was not held, as the National League champion New York Giants, under manager John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion.
- In 1905, the Giants were National League champions again and team management relented, leading to the establishment of the World Series as the major leagues' annual championship event.
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- The latter would end up going to a more junior branch of the Habsburgs in the person of Charles's brother Ferdinand, while the senior branch continued to rule in Spain and in the Burgundian inheritance in the person of Charles's son, Philip II of Spain.
- A side effect was the Cologne War, which ravaged much of the upper Rhine.
- Napoleon reorganized much of the Empire into the Confederation of the Rhine, a French satellite.
- Francis' House of Habsburg-Lorraine survived the demise of the empire, continuing to reign as Emperors of Austria and Kings of Hungary until the Habsburg empire's final dissolution in 1918 in the aftermath of World War I.
- The treaty between Charles V and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Lutheran princes, officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christendom permanent within the Holy Roman Empire.