<span>Global interactions and entanglements between the West and Asia are at present more and more at the forefront of scholarly attention and the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence, aptly named `Asia and Europe in a Global Context', is an initiative to facilitate academic endeavors in this promising area of research. Under the auspices of this Cluster a conference was organized in which the participants looked at the phenomenon of the state, and related processes of state building, in early modern Asia and Europe.(
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For Germany the treat of Versailles dealt them a heavy hand. They were imposed land, economic and military restraints as well as forced to pay a great deal of the reparations cost for countries like France. Whom during world war one had received heavy damages.
More specific on territory, Germany's land were split between different nations. Such as the Rhineland which they were prohibited from occupying after losing the war.
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It increased the size of the United States because it was based on the idea that America was destined by God to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in other words, it encouraged many to expand west.
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