The failure of foreign policy in the years 1514-1525 can be attributed to many things. The combination of Henry's isolation from European affairs and the fact that his attempts to raise tax were ultimately unpopular failures, meant that he had no way to impose himself upon Europe. Even when he did manage to scrape together the finances needed for a strong foreign policy his reliance on his allies led to disaster. As soon as Henry took the throne in 1509, it was obvious that he was a king that wanted to fight a war. However, wars generally led to very expensive costs to the country.
The Nazis represented the return of traditional German values which went down well with the middle class people. The first two points are linked because the person are losing money already and if the country becomes a communist country then the businesses and land owners will lose more money therefore a big aspect in the great depression was that Germany was losing a lot of money. Hitler and the Nazi party gained a lot of supporters who voted for them at the elections. This was because Hitler appealed to them and was meeting their needs. I believe that Germany becoming a communist country was more of a big problem than families losing because once Germany became a communist country they were most likely going to stay like that for a long time however with the money lost the families could always find new jobs.
There were more weapons as USA had a lot of resources, the soldiers were not too experienced but there were many, USA had a lot of food for the allies, and since USA was such a big country the Allies’ citizens were more hopeful of winning the war. USA joined the war because of the deaths of 128 Americans on the Lusitania, in 1915. Many Americans were outraged with the fact that Germans would sink their boats, even though they were neutral in the start of the war. In 1917, the German unrestricted submarine warfare was declared, America was no longer cautious towards Germany. When Germany asked Mexico to join the war against USA, this message was deciphered and led to the entry of USA in the war.
This is demonstrated in documents 4, 5, and 6. Henry Haskell states that “The government undertook such far-reaching responsibility in affairs that the fiber of the citizens weakened” (Document 4) This shows that the decline of the empire was due to heavy taxation that couldn’t support the government. If the taxes couldn’t sustain the government then it wouldn’t be able to control the people. According to Montanelli “The military crisis was the result of… proud old aristocracy’s… shortage of children” (Document 5) This means that many children weren’t old enough to go into the military which caused the decrease of soldiers. With the lack of soldiers, it would be easier to invade Rome, which could’ve led to the decline of the Empire.
One third of the total output was going to the military. It was economically impossible for the Soviet Union to increase the share of its output going to the military. The problems all consisted of poor housing, alcoholism, drug abuse, and pollution. All of these things eroded the communist party's social power base. The Gorbackev's attempts were not good enough to get the countries sluggish economy back on track.
Our international trade with Europe declined because of that. Europe was productive in industry and agriculture. This caused their demand for American goods to slow, and since Europe had obtained a major debt from the war, they were not capable of paying back American banks the large sums of money that they had previously borrowed. Even though they had planned to pay America back, they couldn’t. Their plan was to use the money they were going to receive from Germany and Austria, but the Central powers never followed through.
While Rome did not police nearly the entirety of Earth as America does, in both cases the resources required for such a policy have drained the economy, and places military spending ahead of anything else. Towards the end of the Western Roman Empire, taxation became extremely high as the government needed more and more money to support its military in the form of supplies and payments for mercenaries. The case today with America is no different, our country spends more money on military than anything else, so much so that we have fallen hard in other important areas, especially education. In order to fund its military endeavors, the American government has borrowed absurd amounts of money from other countries and likely wealthy citizens, to the point that we are trillions of dollars in debt. In both cases this focus on military spending has led to a lack of concern for problems effecting the people living within the borders of America and Ancient Rome, and most likely this lessening of importance in regard to domestic affairs will lead to protesting, and possibly
Lyndon Johnson kept spending money on the war without adequate funds to pay for the expenses. “President Johnson also introduced many domestic programs that were known as the Great Society” (Ryan, J.S., 2008, p.2). However, he did not supplement the taxes to cover these programs (Ryan, J.S., 2008). This resulted in inflation and a severe expansion in the nationwide shortage of money. The economy of the U.S. began to rapidly
The problem with this was that the allies had slow growing post war economies, this meant that they had little money to repay their war debts with and many of the nations disagreed that they should have to repay the loan at all, as the war had been in everybody’s interest and the money they had spent had helped the united states to prosper. The two ways that the allies could repay the US were with Gold reserves or with increased exports to America. Neither of these were appropriate, the allies needed gold reserves to support their faltering currencies and they were unable to build up a trade surplus with the states because of their extensive protectionism measures including the … tariff. The main problem, that countries, such as the UK, had, stemmed from re-joining the gold standard. This was a way of doing international trade and was an early exchange rate system, it used gold as a bases to convert currency and later included strong currencies such as the pound and the dollar.
This influx of government money was wasted, for the economy did not recover. As the United States prepared to enter World War II, the government spent even more money, now on weapons, tanks, aircraft, and the other materials necessary to the war