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Question: Help with my History Homework!.!.!.!?

i have to do a worksheet for my history class and i answered 14 out of 16 questions already!. I cant find the answer to the following 2 questions :(

Why did antidemocratic governments rise to power in post war Europe and Asia!?

Why were the British able to prevent the Germans from invading their country!?

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Antidemocratic govts!. rose because of the turmoil in the nation - when things are bad, the people blame the government!. This allows for a new regime to take its place!. [A perfect example is Germany - post World War I!. The terrible depression led to the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany)!.

The British were able to prevent a German invasion because it had a great navy and because it was an island!. In history, Great Britain has never been invaded - Napoleon failed and Hitler failed!. Britain has the great advantage of being an island, isolated from the rest of Europe and on top of that, it has a superior navy!. So even if someone tried, it would be very difficult to invade Great Britain!. (However, there was one such battle were the Germans were very close to getting into Great Britain - I can't remember the name, sorry, but it was during World War II and Britain just barely made it)!.

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Question 1 after the second world war there was chaos and strife in a number of countries in Asia and Eastern Europe!. The allied armies did not have the ability and in some cases the care to prevent this from happening!. The Soviet Union had no interest in stabilizing the eastern European countries after liberating them from the Nazis!. The soviet union was a Communist dictatorship!. This gave individuals the ability to rise to power as dictators!. In Asia the allies had limited resources to police all of the counters to ensure democratic governments!.

In some cases dictatorships were even supported due to their political affiliations with the allies or the soviets!.

The focus with policing and investment at the end of the war was on Japan, Germany and to a lesser extent, Italy !.The eastern countries fell through the cracks!.

Question 2, The answer to this question is a little more complicated!. The prevention of the the invasion had not so much to do with the British defense as it did with the lack of German will and ability after 1941!.

Here are some answers,

Operation Sealion was stopped because of

British propaganda

The air war was not as successful as the germans had hoped!.

Hitler felt that the operation was doomed and by the time of the invasion of Russia the invasion forces were earmarked for the east!.

The english channel and the Royal Navy had little to do with stopping the invasion because the germans had the technology and the ability to invade and the Royal Navy was stretched to its limits!.

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Umm Im guessing your talking about WWI or II

If it was the second world war, my vote would be because democracy failed them!. Unfortunately democracy does not always work!. In Germanys case, it was a very democratic nation at first!. a very bad government but democratic none the less!. Hitler was elected by the german people, and there were weekly/monthly polls on how things should be done in the country!. Not even America has been able to rival that kind of open democracy!. I cant help you with Japan, I dont know enough about them to feel good telling you anything!.

The British were able to resist because of the English Channel!. It prevented a land invasion and an amphibious assault was out of the question until the British had been defeated in the skies!. The RAF (royal air force) also did a outstanding job defending British skies from German attack!. *If you can read up on the battle of Brittan!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Nazis were elected to power in 1932 through free elections, and Britain was successfully invaded in 1688 (the Glorious Revolution) – one response was correct about the recommendation to check sources though!.

The vaunted German war machine was not invulnerable, especially the Luftwaffe!. During Unternehmen Adler (Operation Eagle) when faced with a well-organised and directed air force in Britain, behind a screen of radar, it was opposed by fighter squadrons with an extensive support structure!. Radar could direct the RAF to the German bombers and their fighter escort; the bombers were poorly armoured, slow and had small capacity for carrying bombs, some of the fighters were comparable to the Hurricane and Spitfire however they had too short a range to spend any serious time engaging British fighters, nor could they provide continuous air cover in support of the bombing raids!. By the time the focus of the air campaign turned to bombing British cities (from destroying the RAF in the air and on the ground), the Luftwaffe bombers were forced to operate only at night and were still open to directed attacks!. The invasion of Britain – Unternehmen Seel?we (Operation Sealion) was poorly prepared, the Kriegsmarine did not even have dedicated landing vessels, relying on river barges brought from ports all over occupied Europe – not sea-going vessels!. The Royal Navy, although vulnerable to air attack, commanded the Channel and the Kriegsmarine had no answer, the Channel is too shallow for a successful U-boat campaign!. Without a port there would have been no possibility of transporting the heavy equipment that the army would require!. Hitler and the High Command had decided that the operation was not practicable in 1940 – 2 years before the invasion of the Soviet Union!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't know about the 1st question, but!.!.!.

The English had a very good navy, the English channel offered England some protection!. The Germans did do air raids (dropped bombs) on England a lot, but the Germans never invaded on foot!. There's a lot more to it, but here's a good website:

http://www!.sparknotes!.com/history/europe!.!.!.

It pretty much answers your question about that!. Don't copy and paste from it though!.!.!.cite your sources!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

The british had control over the air, via airborne divisions and planes and stuff, they just overpowerd the germans with that!.
Plus, the english channel was a waterway that divided the too just enough, so the english airforce was all that was nessicary to drive em awayWww@QuestionHome@Com

Hey I only had a quick look at this but don't listen to the advice from the person who says Hitler was elected by the German people!. He wasn't, he took power in a bloodless coup, and last time I checked National Socialism (the freakin Nazis no less) wasn't democracy, but I haven't got time to go into it now, just be careful who you listen to, check sources!. Hitler also cannot be used as an example in this case, unless you're talking about after the first world war!. (FYI-Britian hasn't been successfully invaded since 1066!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

antidemocratic governments arose because the countries were weak and in complete disorder with failing economies and dictators saw the opportunity to take over by giving the people hope and faith that the new govermnent systems would improve the state of the countriesWww@QuestionHome@Com

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When you refer to post war Europe, which war are you referring to!? If WW 1:

1!. USSR--They had a revolution backed by democratic forces, but the Bolsheviks outmaneuvered the Menshevicks and betrayed it!. This was followed by a bloody civil war!.

2!. SPAIN--The Second Spanish Republic was declared in 1931!. This Republic soon came to be led by a coalition of the left and center!. A number of controversial reforms were passed, such as the Agrarian Law of 1932, distributing land among poor peasants!. Millions of Spaniards had been living in more or less absolute poverty under the firm control of the aristocratic landowners in a quasi-feudal system!. These reforms, along with anticlerical acts, as well as military cut-backs and reforms, created strong opposition!. There was a bloody civil war that was won by the Fascists!.

3!. ITALY--An important factor in fascism gaining support in its earliest stages was the fact that it opposed discrimination based on social class and was strongly opposed to all forms of class war!. Fascism instead supported nationalist sentiments such as a strong unity, regardless of class, in the hopes of raising Italy up to the levels of its great Roman past!. It was largely an anti-communist movement!.

4!. GERMANY--Hitler appealed to nationalism!. WW 1 left Germany in a poor state, and many Germans felt they had been cheated in the peace process that followed the war!. He chose Jews as scapegoats and Germany's economic malaise as a means to gain power!.

For your second question, note that Hitler tried to bomb the British into submission!. Since WW 2 this tactic was used successfully by NATO against Serbia, but it failed when used by the US against North Vietnam, by the US against Iraq, and by Israel against Lebanon!. The cards are still out in Gaza!.

Bombing from the air is generally seen as a cowardly act and people are willing to resist despite the hardship!. With failure in the air, Hitler was unable to gather the 200,000 man army needed to invade!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Antidemocratic governments rose to power in eastern post-war Europe on the backs of Soviet tanks!.
The Occupation of the Eastern European states was to remain mostly unchanged until the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, due to the weakening and eventual collapse of the Soviet Union, in the eventful years between 1989 and 1991!. The Warsaw Pact itself was a sham, put on by the Soviets, to legitimize their puppet-state eastern European governments, and gain an outwardly more willing control of their security forces!.
In Asia, a vacuum in power appeared at the end of WWII, in Southeast Asia, since the Japanese Army wasn't defeated in the field there, and withdrew due to the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki!.
Certain promises were made to the Viet Minh, to grant them their freedom, in return for their support against the Japanese!. Double-dealing occurred, and the French were returned to power instead!. This gave the more radical elements of the Vietnamese resistance a strong feeling of resentment, which led to rebellion, and the rise of Ho Chi Minh, and the Vietnam wars (VN/FR!.) and (NVN/US-SVN)
China was a mess, with power divided between the Nationalists and the Communists!. Rival claims to power were made by their leaders, Chang Kai Shek and Mao respectively, which led to civil war, ending in 1949!. The Nationalists lost, since they had lost popular support through their well-known corruption, and the better propaganda of Mao's little red book commissars!. The Nationalists withdrew to Taiwan, with Chang Kai Shek still claiming power over all of China!. This moment of non-closure, due to this General's greed and ego, made it so that Taiwan, only briefly a Chinese island again, after so long being better known as Formosa, lost its chance of declaring themselves an independent country!.
Now the tables are reversed, with the mainland Chinese claiming governance over the Taiwanese, and threatening invasion to bring "Their rebellious little province" back under their control!.

The problem for them is, in reality, it was NEVER under Chinese communist control, and only briefly under Chinese mainland control!.
North Korea was rebelling against the idea of being controlled by their more pro-western South, since it seemed to them that their liberation was due to Chinese, rather than western influences!.
The North Koreans saw their chance, and attacked in 1949 to 1953, ending in a ceasefire, since at that time, both sides were proxies of the sides of the new Cold War, and the war could have been endless!.

The British had been able to keep the Germans away, in both wars, because of the English Channel!. Until the later 1940's, Britain was considered to be the number one naval power in the world, and until aircraft made the huge battleship fleets obsolete, it was simply impossible to get german ships and troops across the channel!. It could be said though, that if Goering didn't fail in destroying the RAF in 1940, during the early days of the Battle of Britain, they might have controlled the channel briefly, maybe long enough to get an invasion force across the channel!.
In the end though, the British Royal Navy, and later, with the RAF, the "Biggest anti-tank ditch in the world" would remain defiant, and no invasion was possible!.Www@QuestionHome@Com