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COUNTRIES IN A NUTSHELL: DENMARK. It contains: interesting facts and information about Denmark and the most famous Danish people such as: Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Andersen, Esther Bosserup and many others.
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COUNTRIES IN A NUTSHELL: DENMARK. It contains: interesting facts and information about Denmark and the most famous Danish people such as: Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Andersen, Esther Bosserup and many others.
Had to create a short presentation about Denmark for my daughters Elemetary School. The presentation is well supported with Speaker notes and Wiki links.
* short presentation about Germany :
- location
- the land
- climate
- population
- capital city
- The meaning of the color of the flag
- president
- economy
- national recourses
- Languages
- Music
- Sports
- food
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* short presentation about Germany :
- location
- the land
- climate
- population
- capital city
- The meaning of the color of the flag
- president
- economy
- national recourses
- Languages
- Music
- Sports
- food
- traditions
- UNESCO
- Famous sights
- Sources
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07. DEPTH STUDY GERMANY: NAZI REGIME - REICHSTAG FIRE
On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. They claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship.
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Following Hitler’s appointment as chancellor the Nazis were finally in a position of power.
However, this power was limited, as the Nazis were just one party in a three party coalition government, under President Hindenburg.
This topic will explore how the Nazis managed to eliminate their opposition and consolidate ultimate power over Germany, whilst maintaining an illusion of democracy.
It will first explore this topic in chronological order, from the Reichstag Fire through to the death of President Hindenburg, and then explore it thematically in the last section. On the 31 January 1933, Hitler, conscious of his lack of a majority in the Reichstag, immediately called for new elections to try and strengthen his position. The Nazis aimed to increase their share of the vote so that they would have a majority in the Reichstag. This would allow them to rule unopposed and unhindered by coalition governments.
Over the next two months, they launched themselves into an intense election campaign.
On 27 February 1933, as the campaign moved into its final, frantic days, the Reichstag, the German Parliament building, was set on fire and burnt down. An atmosphere of panic and terror followed the event.
This continued when a young Dutch communist, Van der Lubbe was arrested for the crime.
The Nazi Party used the atmosphere of panic to their advantage, encouraging anti-communism. Göring declared that the communists had planned a national uprising to overthrow the Weimar Republic. This hysteria helped to turn the public against the communists, one of the Nazis main opponents, and 4000 people were imprisoned.
The day after the fire, Hindenburg signed the Emergency Decree for the Protection of the German People. On the 28 February 1933, President Hindenburg signed the Emergency Decree for the Protection of the German People. This decree suspended the democratic aspects of the Weimar Republic and declared a state of emergency.
This decree gave the Nazis a legal basis for the persecution and oppression of any opponents, who were be framed as traitors to the republic. People could be imprisoned for any or no reason.
The decree also removed basic personal freedoms, such as the freedom of speech, the right to own property, and the right to trial before imprisonment.
Through these aspects the Nazis suppressed any opposition to their power, and were able to start the road from democracy to a dictatorship. The atmosphere of uncertainty following the Reichstag Fire secured many voters for the Nazi party.
The SA also ran a violent campaign of terror against any and all opponents of the Nazi regime. Many were terrified of voting of at all, and many turned to voting for the Nazi Party out of fear for their own safety. The elections were neither free or fair.
On the 5 March 1933, the elections took place, with an extremely high turnout of 89%.
The Nazis secured 43.9% of the vote.
DEPTH STUDY GERMANY: NAZI REGIME - 04. HITLER BECOMING CHANCELLOR 1933George Dumitrache
Hitler was not immediately appointed chancellor after the success of the July 1932 elections, despite being leader of the largest party in the Reichstag. It took the economic and political instability (with two more chancellors failing to stabilise the situation) to worsen, and the support of the conservative elite, to convince Hindenburg to appoint Hitler.
Hitler was sworn in as the chancellor of Germany on the 30 January 1933. The Nazis were now in power.
DEPTH STUDY GERMANY: WEIMAR REPUBLIC - 08. NAZIS IN THE WILDERNESSGeorge Dumitrache
The “Lean Years” (also called the "wilderness" years) of Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany refer to the period between 1924 and 1928 when the Nazi party did not have high levels of support and still suffered from humiliation over the Munich Putsch. Why where these years “lean”?
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DEPTH STUDY GERMANY: WEIMAR REPUBLIC - 06. THE BEER HALL PUTSCH 1923George Dumitrache
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923, during the Weimar Republic. Approximately two thousand Nazis marched on the Feldherrnhalle, in the city centre, but were confronted by a police cordon, which resulted in the deaths of 16 Nazi Party members and four police officers. Hitler escaped immediate arrest and was spirited off to safety in the countryside. After two days, he was arrested and charged with treason. The putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the German nation for the first time and generated front-page headlines in newspapers around the world. His arrest was followed by a 24-day trial, which was widely publicised and gave him a platform to express his nationalist sentiments to the nation. Hitler was found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in Landsberg Prison, where he dictated Mein Kampf to fellow prisoners Emil Maurice and Rudolf Hess. On 20 December 1924, having served only nine months, Hitler was released. Once released, Hitler redirected his focus towards obtaining power through legal means rather than by revolution or force, and accordingly changed his tactics, further developing Nazi propaganda.
DEPTH STUDY GERMANY: WEIMAR REPUBLIC - 05. HYPERINFLATIONGeorge Dumitrache
Hyperinflation affected the German Papiermark, the currency of the Weimar Republic, between 1921 and 1923, primarily in 1923. It caused considerable internal political instability in the country, the occupation of the Ruhr by France and Belgium, and misery for the general populace.
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Thanks to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany's ability to produce revenue-generating coal and iron ore decreased. As war debts and reparations drained its coffers, the German government was unable to pay its debts. Some of the former World War I Allies didn't buy Germany's claim that it couldn't afford to pay.
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The German Revolution or November Revolution was a civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First World War that resulted in the replacement of the German federal constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary republic that later became known as the Weimar Republic. The revolutionary period lasted from November 1918 until the adoption of the Weimar Constitution in August 1919. Among the factors leading to the revolution were the extreme burdens suffered by the German population during the four years of war, the economic and psychological impacts of the German Empire's defeat by the Allies, and growing social tensions between the general population and the aristocratic and bourgeois elite.
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Manchurian Crisis. On September 18, 1931, an explosion destroyed a section of railway track near the city of Mukden. The Japanese, who owned the railway, blamed Chinese nationalists for the incident and used the opportunity to retaliate and invade Manchuria.
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2. GEOGRAPHY
• Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Europe.
• The southernmost and smallest of the Nordic countries, it is south-west
of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany.
• The Kingdom of Denmark is a sovereign state that comprises Denmark
proper and two autonomous countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the
Faroe Islands and Greenland.
• Denmark has an area of 42,924 square kilometres and a population of
5.7 million.
3.
4. BORDERS
• Denmark has existed with its current borders since 1921.
• The only terrestrial border of Denmark is that with Germany, with a
length of 68 km.
• The border along the territorial waters with Sweden runs along the
Øresund (a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating
Denmark from Sweden) for 115 km.
• The exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Denmark borders those of
Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden,
Norway, Iceland and Canada.
5. Kronborg castle is situated on
the extreme northeastern tip of
the island of Zealand at the
narrowest point of the Øresund
8. CURRENT LEADERS 2016
• Hereditary monarch Queen Margrethe
II has been head of state since 14
January 1972.
• The prime minister is Lars Løkke
Rasmussen, the leader of the Liberal
Party (Venstre).
• Rasmussen heads a cabinet which,
unusually, consists entirely of ministers
from his own party.
9. ETYMOLOGY
• The first recorded use of the word Danmark is found on the two
Jelling stones, which are runestones believed to have been erected
by Gorm the Old (c. 955) and Harald Bluetooth (c. 965).
• The larger stone of the two is popularly cited as Denmark's
baptismal certificate, though both use the word "Denmark", in the
form of "tanmaurk" on the large stone, and ᛏᛅᚾᛘᛅᚱᚴᛅᚱ "tanmarkar“
on the small stone.
• The inhabitants of Denmark are there called "tani", or "Danes".
10. King Gorm the Old receives the news
of the death of his son Canute
Harald Bluetooth being baptized by
Poppo the missionary, probably ca. 970
11. CURRENCY
• The krone (sign: kr.; code: DKK) is the official currency of Denmark,
Greenland and the Faroe Islands, introduced on 1 January 1875.
• One krone is subdivided into 100 øre, (deriving from Latin aureus
meaning "gold coin“).
13. EARLY HISTORY
• The earliest archaeological findings in Denmark date back to the Eem
interglacial period from 130,000–110,000 BC.
• During the Pre-Roman Iron Age (500 BC – AD 1), native groups began
migrating south, and the first tribal Danes came to the country between
the Pre-Roman and Germanic Iron Age, in the Roman Iron Age (AD 1–400).
• The Roman provinces maintained trade routes and relations with native
tribes in Denmark, and Roman coins have been found in Denmark.
• From the 8th to the 10th century the wider Scandinavian region, was the
source of Vikings. They colonised, raided, and traded in all parts of Europe.
The Danish Vikings were most active in the Eastern and Southern British
Isles and Western Europe. They conquered and settled parts of England
(known as the Danelaw) under King Sweyn in 1013, and France where
Danes and Norwegians founded Normandy with Rollo as head of state.
14. The gilded side of the Trundholm sun chariot dating from the Nordic Bronze Age.
15. MODERN HISTORY
• The Danish-Norwegian union was dissolved by the Treaty of Kiel in
1814; the Danish monarchy "irrevocably and forever" renounced
claims to the Kingdom of Norway in favour of the Swedish king.
• After the dissolution of the union with Norway, Denmark kept the
possessions of Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, governed by
Norway for centuries.
• The National Constitutional Assembly was convened by King Frederick
VII in 1848 to adopt the Constitution of Denmark.
• Denmark became a member of the European Union in 1973 and signed
the Lisbon Treaty in 2007.
16. The Battle of Öland during the Scanian War, between an allied
Dano-Norwegian-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy, 1 June 1676
17. GOVERNANCE
• The Danish Parliament is called the Folketing. It is the legislature of the
Kingdom of Denmark, passing Acts that apply in Denmark and, in limited
cases, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
• Denmark is a representative democracy with universal suffrage.
• Membership of the Folketing is based on proportional representation of
political parties, with a 2% electoral threshold.
• The Government of Denmark operates as a cabinet government, where
executive authority is exercised—formally on behalf of the Monarch—by
Prime Minister and other cabinet ministers, who head ministries.
19. FOREIGN RELATIONS
• Denmark wields considerable influence in Northern Europe and is a middle
power in international affairs.
• Greenland and the Faroe Islands have been guaranteed a say in foreign
policy issues such as fishing, whaling, and geopolitical concerns.
• The foreign policy of Denmark is substantially influenced by its
membership of the European Union (EU); Denmark joined the European
Economic Community in 1973.
• Following World War II, Denmark ended its two-hundred-year-long policy
of neutrality.
• It has been a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) since 1949, and membership remains highly popular.
• Denmark has for a long time been among the countries of the world,
contributing the largest percentage of gross national income to
development aid.
20. MILITARY
• Denmark's armed forces are known as the Danish Defence.
• During peacetime, the Ministry of Defence employs 33,000 in total.
• The main military branches employ almost 27,000: 15,460 in the
Royal Danish Army, 5,300 in the Royal Danish Navy and 6,050 in the
Royal Danish Air Force.
• 55,000 serve as volunteers in the Danish Home Guard.
• The Danish Defence has around 1,400 staff in international missions,
not including standing contributions to NATO.
22. TOPOGRAPHY AND RELIEF FORMS
• The country is flat with little elevation; having an average height
above sea level of 31 m. The highest natural point is Møllehøj, 170 m.
• A portion of Denmark's terrain consists of rolling plains whilst the
coastline is sandy, with large dunes in northern Jutland.
• Once extensively forested, today Denmark largely consists of arable
land.
• The Kingdom of Denmark includes two overseas territories, both well
to the west of Denmark: Greenland, the world's largest island, and
the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.
• These territories are self-governing and form part of the Danish
Realm.
23.
24. RIVERS AND LAKES
• Denmark is drained by rivers, like Gudenå, Odense, Skjern, Suså, Vidå.
25. A view north to the Gudenå River close to Sminge Sø.
26. CLIMATE
• Denmark has a temperate climate, characterised by mild winters, with
mean temperatures in January of 1.5 °C, and cool summers, with a
mean temperature in August of 17.2 °C.
• Denmark has an average of 179 days per year with precipitation, on
average receiving a total of 765 millimetres per year; autumn is the
wettest season and spring the driest.
• The position between a continent and an ocean means that weather
often changes.
• Because of Denmark's northern location, there are large seasonal
variations in daylight. There are short days during the winter with
sunrise coming at 8:45 am and sunset 3:45 pm, as well as long
summer days with sunrise at 4:30 am and sunset at 10 pm.
27. BIODIVERSITY
• Denmark belongs to the Boreal Kingdom and can be subdivided into two
ecoregions: the Atlantic mixed forests and Baltic mixed forests.
• Almost all of Denmark's primeval temperate forests have been destroyed
or fragmented, for agricultural purposes. The deforestation has created
large swaths of heathland and sand drifts. There are several larger second
growth woodlands in the country and 12.9% of the land is now forested.
• Roe deer occupy the countryside, and large-antlered red deer can be found
in the sparse woodlands of Jutland. Denmark is home to smaller mammals,
such as polecats, hares and hedgehogs. 400 bird species inhabit Denmark
and 160 of those breed in the country. Large marine mammals include
healthy populations of porpoise, growing numbers of pinnipeds and
occasional visits of large whales, including blue whales and orcas. Cod,
herring and plaice are abundant fish in Danish waters and form the basis
for a large fishing industry.
29. ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS
• Land and water pollution are two of Denmark's most significant
environmental issues, although much of the country's household and
industrial waste is now increasingly filtered and sometimes recycled.
• The country has historically taken a stance on environmental
preservation; in 1971 Denmark established a Ministry of Environment
and was the first country in the world to implement an environmental
law in 1973.
• To mitigate environmental degradation and global warming the
Danish Government has signed the Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol.
• The Climate Change Performance Index for 2015 placed Denmark at
the top of the table, explaining that emissions are still quite high, the
country was able to implement effective climate protection policies.
31. ECONOMY
• Denmark has a developed mixed economy that is classed as a high-
income economy by the World Bank.
• It ranks 18th in the world in terms of GDP and it is the 13th most
competitive economy in the world, and 8th in Europe.
• Denmark has the fourth highest ratio of tertiary degree holders in the
world and it is the country ranks highest in the world for workers'
rights.
• According to the International Monetary Fund, Denmark has the
world's highest minimum wage.
32. Denmark is a leading
producer of pork, and the
largest exporter of pork
products in the EU
33. ENERGY
• Denmark is a long-time leader in wind power: in 2015 wind turbines
provided 42.1% of the total electricity power consumption.
• Denmark is connected by electric transmission lines to other European
countries. On 6 September 2012, Denmark launched the biggest wind
turbine in the world, and will add four more over the next four years.
• Denmark's electricity sector has integrated energy sources such as wind
power into the national grid. Denmark now aims to focus on intelligent
battery systems (V2G) and plug-in vehicles in the transport sector.
35. NATURAL RESOURCES
• Denmark has considerably large deposits of oil and natural gas in the
North Sea and ranks as number 32 in the world among net exporters
of crude oil and was producing 259,980 barrels of crude oil a day in
2009.
36.
37. POPULATION AND DENSITY
• The population of Denmark is January 2016 estimate 5,707,251
(113th), Greenland 56,114, Faroe Islands 49,079.
• Density (Denmark) 132.96/km2.
• The median age is 41.4 years, with 0.97 males per female.
• The total fertility rate is 1.73 children born per woman.
• The World Happiness Report ranks Denmark's population as the
happiest in the world.
38. CAPITAL
• Copenhagen is the capital and most populated city of Denmark.
• It has a municipal population of 591,481 and a larger urban
population of 1,280,371 (as of 1 January 2016).
40. LARGEST CITIES: AARHUS
• Åarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark.
• It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula, in the
geographical centre of Denmark, 187 kilometres northwest of
Copenhagen and 289 kilometres north of Hamburg, Germany.
• The inner urban area contains 264,716 inhabitants (as of 1 January
2016) and the municipal population is 330,639.
42. ETHNIC GROUPS
• There are no official statistics on ethnic groups, but according to 2016
figures from Statistics Denmark, approximately 87.7% of the
population was of Danish descent, defined as having at least one
parent who was born in Denmark and has Danish citizenship.
• The remaining 12.3% were of a foreign background, defined as
immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants.
• With the same definition, the most common countries of origin were
Poland, Turkey, Germany, Iraq, Romania, Syria, Somalia, Iran,
Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia and its successor states.
43. LANGUAGE
• Danish is the de facto national language of Denmark. Faroese and
Greenlandic are the official languages of the Faroe Islands and
Greenland respectively.
• The languages are so closely related that it is possible for Danish,
Norwegian and Swedish speakers to understand each other with
relatively little effort. Danish is more distantly related to German,
which is a West Germanic language.
• A large majority (86%) of Danes speak English as a second language,
generally with a high level of proficiency. German is the second-most
spoken foreign language, with 47% reporting a conversational level of
proficiency. Denmark had 25,900 native speakers of German in 2007.
45. RELIGION
• In January 2015, 77.8% of the population of Denmark were members of the
Church of Denmark, the officially established church, which is Lutheran in
tradition. The Constitution states that a member of the Royal Family must
be a member of the Church of Denmark, though the rest of the population
is free to adhere to other faiths.
• In 1682 the state granted limited recognition to three religious groups
dissenting from the Established Church: Roman Catholicism, the Reformed
Church and Judaism. Denmark's Muslims make up approximately 3.7% of
the population and form the country's second largest religious community
and largest minority religion.
• 28% of Danish citizens polled responded that they "believe there is a God",
47% responded that they "believe there is some sort of spirit or life force"
and 24% responded that they "do not believe there is any sort of spirit,
God or life force". 25% of Danes believe Jesus is the son of God, and 18%
believe he is the saviour of the world.
46. Roskilde Cathedral has been the burial place of Danish royalty since the 15th century. In 1995 it became a World Heritage Site.
47. HEALTH SYSTEM
• As of 2012, Denmark has a life expectancy of 79.5 years at birth (77 for
men, 82 for women), up from 75 years in 1990. This ranks it 37th
among 193 nations, behind the other Nordic countries.
• Denmark has a universal health care system, characterised by being
publicly financed through taxes and, for most of the services, run
directly by the regional authorities.
• The primary source of income is a national health care contribution of
6%.
48.
49. EDUCATION SYSTEM AND LITERACY
• All educational programmes in Denmark are regulated by the Ministry of
Education and administered by local municipalities. Folkeskole covers
the entire period of compulsory education, encompassing primary and
lower secondary education.
• Most children attend folkeskole for 10 years, from the ages of 6 to 16.
There are no final examinations, but pupils can choose to go to a test
when finishing ninth grade (14–15 years old). The test is obligatory if
further education is to be attended.
• Pupils can alternatively attend an independent school (friskole), or a
private school (privatskole), such as Christian schools or Waldorf schools.
51. CULTURE
• Denmark shares strong cultural and historic ties with its Scandinavian
neighbours Sweden and Norway. It has historically been one of the
most socially progressive cultures in the world.
• In 2012, Denmark replaced its "registered partnership" laws, which it
had been the first country to introduce in 1989, with gender-neutral
marriage.
• Modesty and social equality are important parts of Danish culture, so
much so that, 'success' or what may be seen as a deliberate attempt
to distinguish oneself from others may be viewed with hostility.