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Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hy of Warsaw out of the territory which Austria andPrussia had received in the third partition of Poland and what Prussia hadacquired in the second. As he was on good terms with Russia at that time heleft her in undisturbed possession of her part of the old Polish kingdom. Atthe Congress of Vienna the Grand Duchy of Warsaw was turned over to theTsar, who promised to give it a constitutional form of government. But theregion around Posen was given back to Prussia, and the Prussian governmenthas roused constant irritation and opposition by its efforts to stamp out thePolish language in the province of Posen and to Germanize the people. Asfor the Kingdom of Poland created by the Congress of Vienna, that has giventhe Russians much trouble. The term Poland, as now used, includes but asmall part of the ancient kingdom of Poland as it existed before the three par-titions. It comprises Napoleons Grand Duchy of Warsaw, less Posen, and, tothe south, Cracow, which has fallen into Austrian hands.
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) Germany-Austria-Hungary and their Allies V/////////A Countries at War with Teutonic Allies The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 75i 752 Medieval and Modern Times Germanyloses all hercolonies Turkey joinsthe CentralPowers,November,1914 The Gallipolidisaster The war early began to show an irresistible tendency toenvelop the whole world. Japan quickly captured the Germanport of Kiau Chau and took possession of the German stationsin the northern Pacific, while the Australians and New Zealanderscaptured those in the southern Pacific. Troops from the SouthAfrican Union, with the hearty cooperation of the Boers,Britains late enemies, occupied German Southwest Africa.The remaining German colonies, Togoland, Kamerun, andGerman East Africa, gradually fell into the hands of the Eng-lish or French. So while Germany was able, as we shall see,to conquer important portions of central Europe as the warproceeded, she lost all her colonies. The question whether sheshould have them back or be indemnified for

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