First World

The First World War and its aftermath opened to gates to international politics and warfare as we know them today. After five years of brutal and slow stalemate, American intervention finally broke the back of Germany. The abdication of the Kaiser and unconditional surrender of the Weimar Republic led to treaty negotiations at the Paris Peace Conferences in 1919. The world that Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, and other conference participants found themselves tasked with reshaping was in…

explains the methods used by the American government. The Treaty of Versailles is a prime example. This treaty put one country responsible for the damages of World War I and causing the war. This countries name was Germany. During the war a president name Woodrow Wilson made a bill named the fourteen points. This bill was supposed to be used for world peace. At this time America was allied with Great Britain and France. They didn’t agree with the bill. He didn’t want to anger his allies so the…

largest effect on the world. Five sentences is one paragraph Perhaps one of the most vital parts of information to the start of World War was the large amount of treaties. These treaties meant that if one country was attacked, the countries that the treaties were made with were bound to defend them (Kelly). When the war started, the whole continent of Europe was immediately involved in the war because of the large web of treaties. The different reasons for the start World War I are still in…

Operation Overlord The year was 1944. Allied Soviet forces held a strong front across East Germany in a stalemate. What the Allies needed more than ever was an attack of the western front. This War had no problem taking casualties, and no other battle was more deadly nor significant than was yet to come. Enter: Operation Overlord. By this time, Adolf Hitler has held control of France for many months (Meacham). With the loss of this Allied power, the Allies needed to plan and…

The history of the Berlin Wall was ignited by World War II. Germany plotted an attack on Poland, yet was intimidated by the fact that the Soviet Union might interfere. So, before raiding Poland, Hitler made sure to sign a non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. This pact secretly stated that Poland should be divided between Germany and the Soviet Union, with Germany receiving the western third, while the Soviets gained control of the remaining two-thirds. Germany began their attacks on Poland on…

labyrinth of trenches which were used for the protection of soldiers during World War I. It is located down the coasts of France and Belgium and trails 740 km to the Swiss border. Out of the many countries involved, the first few that joined the Western Front included Serbia, Russia, France, Belgium and the British Empire all of which fought against the Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria-Hungary. One of the main causes of the First World War was due to the assassination of Archduke Franz…

There are many reasons why the First World War started. We can argue in how the alliances is the main reason for the First World War, but the following are proofs that imperialism is the real main reason. Imperialism is the main reason for the First World War because the battles to create the most powerful Empire caused so much tension between countries and colonies. Imperialism is also strongly attached to Nationalism, the Nationalist countries wanted to prove their power and power, which…

War are prime examples. World War I and World War II are also instances in which two groups have decided to go into war in order to resolve issues. Through all these wars, new technology has been brought out in order to make militaries stronger and more capable to defeat opposing forces. World War I introduced three key elements to warfare in the tank, aircraft, and the aircraft carrier. These three new forms of machinery impacted the way war was fought in the Second World War. How did the use…

was just the beginning of America’s involvement in World War II. The propaganda film, Why We Fight, shows many examples that lead up to this attack. The film explains the rise of Nazis and how wide spread they were becoming, along with the invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese. It also includes other motivations as to why America needed to be included in this war between other countries. The Neutrality Act helped Woodrow Wilson avoid the First World War as long as he could whereas refrained…

War devastates anyone, the damage is emotional and psychological as well as physical. Everything we see in the news, in the newspapers, or hear on the radio is about battles, shots, weapons, and deaths. In the First World War, nobody really knew how destructive this dispute was going to be, no country in Europe was prepared for what was coming. The propaganda recruited the necessary soldiers and the only thing that was known was that the troops of the United States, France, England, and Russia…