Examples of Central Powers in the following topics:
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- The Central Powers alliance faced
grim prospects in 1918.
- The four Central Powers of Germany,
the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria faced the
combined might of the Allied Powers of the United States, France, and the United
Kingdom with its British imperial dominion nations of Australia, New Zealand,
Canada, and South Africa.
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Germans launched a final, desperate attack on France that failed miserably,
while the other Central Powers began to capitulate in the face of Allied
counterattacks.
- The Habsburg royal family and the Austro-Hungarian government
desperately sought to keep its domain of diverse nationalities together, but the
once-powerful dynastic empire fell apart and split into the separate states of Austria,
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
- A propaganda poster depicts the alliance between the Central Powers in World War I.
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- Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government's power to regulate financial matters was kept quite limited.
- Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government's power was kept quite limited: the Confederation Congress could make decisions, but lacked the power to enforce them.
- Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was denied any powers of taxation and could only request money from the state legislatures.
- Congress had also been denied the power to regulate either foreign trade or interstate commerce and, as a result, all of the states maintained control over their own trade policies.
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- At the
time the Ottoman Empire maintained separate power on the southeast edge of
Europe in Turkey.
- Meanwhile, Germany had
also turned its attention east by declaring war on Russia, bringing all the
major powers into play.
- Thus, Europe was
divided into two warring camps: the Allies, based on the Triple Entente of the
United Kingdom, France and Russia, and the Central Powers, based on the Triple
Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; although, as Austria-Hungary
had initiated the offensive, Italy did not immediately enter the war.
- These
alliances both reorganized – Italy later fought for the Allies – and expanded
as more nations entered the conflict, either through treaties with neighboring
powers such as Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, or due to their status as
colonies of the various European powers.
- This WWI postcard shows Central Powers monarchs: Germany (Prussia), Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
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- Strong governors with veto power over the legislature and substantial appointment authority
- Regardless of whether conservatives or radicals held sway in a state, the side with less power did not accept the result quietly.
- Despite its being the central government, it was a loose confederation, and the individual states help most significant power.
- Even with the Articles of Confederation, the central government's power was quite limited.
- While Congress could call on states to contribute money, specific resources, and numbers of men needed for the army, it was not allowed to force states to obey the central government's requests.
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- The Articles of Confederation, which established a "firm league" among the 13 free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for conducting vital domestic and foreign affairs.
- They designated no president and no national court, and the central government's power was kept quite limited.
- Congress was denied any powers of taxation; it could only request money from the states.
- Congress was also denied the power to regulate either foreign trade or interstate commerce.
- Alexander Hamilton was particularly vocal in arguing that a strong central government was necessary to levy taxes, pay back foreign debts, regulate trade, and generally strengthen the United States.
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- A major part of Roosevelt's legacy is his conception of the executive branch as a source of regulatory powers for the "good" of the nation.
- In his own words, Roosevelt claimed, "I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power."
- As some scholars have considered, Roosevelt's domestic policies, taken together, paved the way for the 1930s New Deal legislation as well as for the modern regulatory state and centralized national authority with expansive political power.
- To that end, by concentrating power in the executive and broadening the scope of federal regulatory power, Roosevelt was arguably attempting to create a modernized, Progressive United States that functioned seamlessly and in the better interests of the nation as a whole, rather than for local political authorities and wealthy interests.
- Describe the means by which Roosevelt broadened the scope of executive power
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- The Seven Years War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines (.
- In many respects, the two powers' forces complemented each other excellently.
- Prussia was the rising power in central Europe and the British paid Frederick substantial subsidies to support his campaigns.
- In 1763 a peace settlement was reached at the Treaty of Hubertusburg ending the war in central Europe.
- 1763 peace settlement reached at the Treaty of Hubertusburg ending the war in central Europe.
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- Constitution and the growth of a strong centralized government.
- Anti-Federalists, on the other hand, opposed the Constitution in 1788, in part because it lacked a Bill of Rights and because they believed it provided for an overly powerful central government at the expense of state sovereignty and personal liberties.
- Hamilton devised a complex, multifaceted program to achieve his vision of a strong centralized government and diverse economy.
- "A national debt," Hamilton concluded, "will be to us a national blessing... powerful cement to our union."
- Analyze the central commitments of the Federalist party and its quarrels with the Democratic-Republicans
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- Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court affirmed the supremacy of federal powers over those of states.
- The Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government.
- The court determined that Congress did have the power to create the Bank.
- Third, Marshall addressed the scope of congressional powers under Article I.
- Marshall admitted that the Constitution does not enumerate a power to create a central Bank but said that this is not dispositive as to Congress's power to establish such an institution.
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- Alexander Hamilton's broad interpretation of Constitutional powers has influenced multiple generations of political theorists.
- In Hamilton's vision of a strong central government, he demonstrated little sympathy for state autonomy or fear of excessive central authority.
- Instead, he believed that the United States should emulate Britain's strong central political structure and encourage the growth of commerce, trade alliances, and manufacturing.
- This broad view of congressional power was enshrined into legal precedent in the Supreme Court case McCulloch v.
- This ruling has since been termed the "doctrine of implied powers."