Was the Treaty of Versailles fair? The treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty signed by Germany at the end of the First World War, some historians would say that the treaty was fair and that Germany got what they deserved but others would argue that it was far too harsh on Germany, and contributed...
Treaty of Versailles: The Resulting Effects After World War One Following the Grate War, the “Treaty of Versailles” was suppose to be a form of peace between the nations involved in World War One, and also point blame to the nation responsible. This war brought a variety of devastation to the European countries;...
A united Germany has required many different wars to be accomplished. The unification of Germany was associated with one man in particular: Otto Von Bismarck. He was a Russian Prime Minister and later the German Chancellor. He was a real politick which means he based his decisions on the realities of...
Essay “In only twenty years there was a second world war. Why and how was this possible?” World War 1, the war that would end all wars, that’s what people, thought at that time but little did they know World War 2 arrived 20 years later. There were many causes of WW2 but it is mutually agreed that...
as his detractors say he was. Adolf Hitler was that man and World War II was Hitler’s war.’ Explain why this statement would not satisfy historians as an adequate assessment of the reasons for the global war called World War II. To say that Adolf Hitler controlled a war that could debatably is the...
World War, mistrust and suspicion existed between the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R. This was the Cold War. This war which leaves society questioning to which super power was to blame leaving both was to blame. Both sides had different beliefs and ideas. The spread of communism straight after World War II helped...
impact of total war on the home fronts during World War I. In your answer, consider the perspectives provided by the TWO sources and the reliability of each one. Both sources C and D would be very useful to an historian studying the impact of total war on the home fronts during World War I. Source...
World War broke out in 1914, explaining why the long term causes may have had some part in it as well as the short term causes and their role in the whole ordeal. However, what has to be decided is whether the long term causes are a bigger part of why the First World War broke out or if it was the short...
they managed to become the largest party in Weimar Germany in July 1932, and form a government which ruled for over several years. Historians have argued there were several reasons this was able to occur, including the distinctive leaders the party was groomed by, the ongoing despair of the German public...
World War 1 There were a number of causes to World War 1 which occurred over a four year period starting from 1914, ending in 1918. It was a global military conflict consisting of the world’s great powers with two opposing sides; the Triple Entente & the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente was made...
Holocaust Bystanders; Placing the Blame on Surrounding Citizens and Allied Nations It is commonly believed that the members of the Nazi regime directly responsible for the mass murders of European Jews in the mid 20th century are solely accountable for the Holocaust. As a result, local civilians,...
World War I, also known as the Great War, was a global war which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918. The immediate cause of the World War I was the June 28, 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of...
The main causes of World War I, which began in central Europe in late July 1914, included many factors, such as the conflicts and hostility between the great European powers of the four decades leading up to the war. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played major roles in the conflict...
Welcome to HIST 1302 OnlineUnited States History, 1877- Part II: War, Depression and War, 1914-1945 U. S. Foreign Policy, 1901-1941 United States foreign policy between 1901 and 1941 can be characterized as generally confident, sometimes aggressive and, occasionally, even cautious. The first...
The Cold War was a term first used in 1947 to describe the conflicts between the Communist USSR and democratic United States. It is hard to solely blame the war on just one particular party however one must look closely at the differences and events that caused the outbreak of the Cold War. These reasons...
History World War II: The Loss of Human Value With over 25 million deaths throughout the war, World War II was a very poorly thought out war (Wikipedia). Aside from the drastic numbers of battlefield causalities caused by the natural outcome of war, a near equal amount...
Start of World War II As part of the anti-British course, it was deemed necessary by Hitler to have Poland either a satellite state or otherwise neutralized. Hitler believed this necessary both on strategic grounds as a way of securing the Reich's eastern flank and on economic grounds as a way of evading...
individuals and ideas. 1. The seeds of conflict 2. Emergence of Cold War, 1944-53 3. The ‘Thaw’ & ‘Peaceful Co-existence’ 4. The arms impact of the arms race 5. Sin-Soviet relations 6. Détente 7. End of Cold War Reminder of the structure of Unit 3 Unit 3 = 25% of total marks Written...
How far do you agree with the view that the development of the Cold War in the years 1945-8 owed more to Soviet expansionism than to USA’s economic interests? The Cold War, dated from 1945 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, dominated...
To what extent was Ronald Reagan responsible for the end of the Cold War? Introduction During WWII Stalin and the Western allies joined forces because they feared what Hitler was capable of, namely ‘world domination’. After WWII when reconstruction began in Western Europe a bitter power struggle...
Cold War Essay World Cultures Nov. 21 2013 The Cold War was a drastic period in time. The Cold War was a feud between the USSR Soviet Union and the United States. It was called...
Germany drives America to War The Fear of America's Neutrality over Belligerency World War 1 was a significant part of our history as Americans, for the whole world especially it was a war that America had no reason to be in, but America joined into the bloodbath that would become, World War 1. throughout...
The first World war bought about a lot of surprise and went on for so much longer than people thought, but there were so many different reasons for the happening of this war, that it should have been foreseen earlier. Some were short-term affects and others were long term. Two alliances - The...
Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1. I t ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The treaty did not favor Germany at all. In the treaty Germany’s army was reduced to 100,000 men and the army was not allowed to use tanks. Germany also had to admit...
not be blamed for the Trojan War according to the narrators in the accounts we have read, and why? Pinpointing the cause of the Trojan War to one person I believe is a naive assumption. The Gods and Goddesses, Paris and Odysseus also played a part in starting the Trojan War. The narrator in the Odyssey...
Cold War Essay World Cultures Nov. 21 2013 The Cold War was a drastic period in time. The Cold War was a feud between the USSR Soviet Union and the United States. It was called...
broke out in war, the fighting of Austria-Hungary and Serbia contributed to the expansion of the war. This war was resulted by the aggression of European countries that strived to be the best. These country's nationalism, militarism, imperialism and alliances escalated into the spreading of war. (The Great...
Why Did the World Go to War in 1914? Why did Europe go to war in 1914? The ‘Great War’ of 1914-1918 became the first war anyone had ever seen of its kind, not only that, but it was the First World War. It did not, however, begin as a world war. It started in Europe for several reasons. In the...
Shortly after peace treaties were signed after the end of World War I, many predicted the inevitable subsequent World War. Howard Spodek mentions how the economist John Maynard Keynes feared that the victors demanded too much out of Germany and Austria, causing these countries to eventually retaliate....
During 1914, the entire Europe was a powder keg filled not with gunpowder, but pride. Finally, it blew up with the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in the 28th of June. While Franz Ferdinand was on his way to examine Serbia, he was assassinated by the Serbian nationalist (Sowards)...
Derek Jackson Research Paper The world wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 are two of the darkest chapters in the long narrative of human history. The magnitude of death and destruction, as well as the depths of evil to which human nature sank during these two calamities, dwarfs that of anything previously...
To what extent was Bismarck responsible for German Unification in 1871? Word Count: 1,431 Virtually since Germany was unified in 1871, historians have been at debate as to what factors brought about this significant change within Europe which lead to the formation of one of the strongest economic...
As in World War I, Germany's main downfall was its lack of adequate allies and an attack on several fronts. Territorially, Hitler came remarkably close in World War II to achieving his quest for Lebensraum, yet his failure to concentrate his resources proved disastrous. His lack of time spent organizing...
World War, mistrust and suspicion existed between the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R. This was the Cold War. This war which leaves society questioning to which super power was to blame leaving both was to blame. Both sides had different beliefs and ideas. The spread of communism straight after World War II helped...
Spencer Dusebout World History Honors Mr. Shertzer February 17, 2009 Germany- The Country most Responsible for World War 1 (WWI) WWI was a tragic event, which took millions of lives and affected nearly every person on earth. While there were many causes leading to WW1 including nationalism, alliances...
Introduction WW1 was unlike any other war fought up until that point in history ; many new weapons where used for the first time like chemical warfare and tanks. Over the course of the war 15 million people where killed and 20 million were wounded and huge areas of Europe were devastated. World War 1 (WW1) started...
World War I was a global war that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was a war full of advanced weapons, great tactics and gruesome fighting resulting in over 40 million casualties. There were a lot of pivotal events that could have changed the outcome of the war. The three pivotal events to happen before...
invaded Poland and two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. This outbreak of war can be traced back to Hitler’s foreign policy, which was greatly responsible World War II. Hitler had always been very popular in Germany due to the economic success and the sense of pride Nazis instilled...
Australia (World War II Commemoration, 2). Also in 1940, the Triparte Pact was signed, allying Japan, Germany, and Italy into a powerful force that stretched halfway around the planet. The association with Hitler and Germany unified the war in the Pacific and the war in Europe. Japan was now fully involved...
First World War Germany's economy, after defeating France in the Franco- Prussian war in 1870/1871, was growing really fast, particularly in the industrialization sector and the construction of railways and together with unification of the nation, lead Germany to became one...
Was the appeasement policy of the late 1930s justified? Explain your answer. Germany’s aggressive behaviour had always been met with appeasement by Britain and France in the 1930s. Appeasement explains the reluctance of getting involved so that a war could be avoided. Britain and France appeased...
World War I; World War II. World War I, was the First World War, the Great War, and “The War to End All Wars”, was a global military conflict that took place mostly in Europe between the year of 1914 and 1918, and it left millions dead and re-shaped the modern world. The outcomes of World War I would...
The first world war began in August 1914. It was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, on 28th June 1914 by Bosnian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip. This event was, however, simply the trigger that set off declarations of war. The actual causes...
discussing America and the great war which is also known as World War I. A key cause of World War I was due to the assassination of Austrian ruler, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. A Serbian by the name of Gavrilo Princip was responsible for the assassination, as a result Austria declared war on Serbia. During this time...
demands on Germany that went far beyond simple justice. The Treaty of Versailles was an exceedingly vindictive document. Particularly harsh was the insinuation of 'war guilt' placed solely on the shoulders of Germany. Germany was required to accept the allegations from the Allies that it was solely to...
Was the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified? Jazmyn Vanmidde It was 1939. Germany was under the power of Adolf Hitler and was intent on spreading its borders. A series of preceding events and a previous World War had the world’s patience with Germany worn thin. Russia...
World War 1 Started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in Sarajevo. He was killed by Gavrilo Princip a member of the Black Hand. A Balkan war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia was considered inevitable. The rise of ethnic nationalism coincided with the...
------------------------------------------------- Germany Germany - officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, is a federal parliamentary republic in western-central Europe. The country consists of 16 states and its capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021...
How far was the Field Marshall Douglas Haig responsible for the failings of the British armies on the Western Front in 1916 and 1917? Was Sir Douglas Haig responsible for the failings of the British army on the Western Front? That questions has caused many debates and disputes between many historians...
World War One took a toll on everyone between 1914 and 1918. What were some of the main causes and effects of World War One? There were many causes to World War One but one of them was the Cult of the Offensive. According to class notes on 4/4/11, countries should not wait to be attacked, they should...
Hitler was the (Leader) of Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War II and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise known as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler enlisted in the German army and saw four years of front-line service during which he was wounded...
First World War’. Do you agree with this statement? Argue your case. Competing alliance contributed greatly to the eventual outbreak of the First World War. The Great Powers of Europe were all involved in alliances and this greatly added to tensions between the nations and lead to the Great War. Militarism...
only a few days ago, Allianz, a German insurance company, and the largest international insurance and financial services organization in the world, was engaged in talks with the New York Jets and Giants of the NFL for naming rights of the new Meadowlands stadium. Talks ended on Friday due to a large...
Why did war break out in 1914 The War of 1914-18 began in August 1914. There are various reasons as to why the war started, and everyone has been debating what the main cause was for years. 3 fuses – empire, an arms race, allies Spark- assassination of archduke Franz Many countries had signed treaties...
Historical Essay America and the Great War Jenna Sherry United States History HIST 405 Historical Essay America and the Great War Nationalism of the 19th century was a successful political force, it emerged from two “sources” ("First World War: Nationalism, Militarism, Imperialism...
The Cold War developed from a period of conflict, tension and competition between The United States and The Soviet Union (Russia) at the end of World War Two. From this President Truman issued his policy. He said that his policy was going to be one of containment- keeping communism within its current...
Vojtech. The _Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. New York: Oxford University Press 1996 _ Mastny explains that he had a desire to find out more about Soviet insecurities gave him the initial drive to write this book, also as a sequel to his other book, Russia’s Road To Cold War. The book starts...
History Essay. How important were ideologies in the bringing of the Cold War until 1949? “Ideologies have no heart of their own. They’re the whores and angels of our striving selves”. This is how John le Carré classifies the harsh thing called an ideology. An ideology is a system of idea or ideals...
It was on April 20, 1999 that it was brought to the world's attention again, about how weapons should be used. Every day there are people that are affected by weapons, war, and anger. So it was brought to the attention of citizens; is the United States of America responsible for their gun problems...
Why did World War 2 start in 1939? Historians have suggested many reasons for the outbreak of the Second World War, yet there is no single reason why the war broke out. One reason why the war broke out in 1929 is that the Treaty of Versailles solved nothing. Because Germany suffered huge reparations...