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The most anticipated war in history, World War One, started off with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. That event launched the July Crisis- a period of time where Europe was in a fighting frenzy. Countries were declaring war on each other, gathering secret alliances and building their armies. The Crisis was another event that lead to this Great War along with the Triple Alliance pact and Russo-Japanese War. Other underlying causes for the war were alliances, imperialism, militarism, and most destructive, nationalism.…
The United States responded by launching its own “dreadnaught”, the USS Michigan, and other nations later followed. Throughout the developments of ships and technology, navies could not afford keeping them all. The process of commissioning ships, as well as decommissioning ships became more and more influential when stronger technological advances came into play. There was no reason to keep a vessel used in the Battle of Ironclads when you have resources to further develop more and more dreadnaughts.…
Albert Speer contributed to his period of time through numerous different ways, these includes; his contribution to the second world war as armaments minister, contribution to the consolidation of Nazi and their power in Germany, architectural designs during the period as the architect of the Reich and significantly, being opposed to the ‘scorched earth’ policy, that was implemented by Hitler. Speer was not only known as a great architecture but also, an effective organiser due to his management skills. Through Speer, the architectural work for the Nazi propaganda was changed potentially forever. This can be seen at the Nuremberg rally of 1937, with the well-known ‘cathedral of light’ or also famously known as ‘the cathedral of ice’. Through…
WW1 The real cause of World War I was mostly the different alliances and the growth of armaments. The alliance of the triple entente included Britain, France, and Russia. Then for the triple alliance it included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. America ended up coming into the war but came in to help the triple entente.…
The U.S. military from WWI evolved into a powerful fighting force that remains today. The changes from WWI increased the government’s powers and expanded economic…
Scrap Drives During World War II During World War II a lot of materials were used at the same time to create equipment such as guns, tanks, gas masks, and parachutes, but the resources were disappearing because of the mass production of materials. So there must have been a way to get more materials to build the equipment. There were events known as scrap drives held around the United States, these were events where the community would bring scrap to donate it to the army to build more equipment. Scrap drives played an important role with schools and students collecting resources to build artillery to help win WWII. Scrap drives were held at schools as well as towns, cities, and public parks, and children enjoyed the events of the experience.…
During the 20th centuries, many countries wanted to make themselves economically independent, because of what had occurred and what the Great Depression left. Specifically Germany, no longer wanted to depend on others economically or for supplies. Their desire to become self-sufficient, known as autarky, caused major conflict throughout Europe, especially prior to WWII. During this time era, Autarky appealed to the people who were most impacted by the Depression by promising them hope for economic prosperity; however, this promise resulted in nations increasing the size and scope of their military and preparing for war.…
Overy, R. J. Why the Allies Won. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. In Why the Allies Won, Richard Overy gives the reader a chance to challenge the “inevitable” outcome of World War II. Allied victory may be viewed as certainty now, but during the war, it was not.…
Contextual analysis – Moving the Battle Abroad Jonathon E Houser MIL 310 American Military History I Instructor: David Bodamer 05/23/2016 Military administration in the American Civil War was affected by expert military instruction and the well ordered experience. While not all pioneers had formal military preparing, the U.S. Military Foundation at West Point, New York and the Unified States Maritime Institute at Annapolis made committed frameworks of expert officers whose comprehension of military science had significant impact on the behavior of the American Civil War and whose enduring legacy fashioned the conventions of the advanced U.S. officer corps of all administration branches. Under the U.S. Constitution, every state enrolled,…
At one end there were those who profited from the war and at the other end were those who suffered under the effects of inflation. The opportunities to make enormous amounts of money in war manufacture were plentiful. War profiteers were a public scandal. Fictional new rich, like the manufacturer of shoddy boots in Jules Romains's Verdun had numerous real-life counterparts. However, government rarely intervened in major firms, as happened when the German military took over the Daimler motor car works for padding costs on war-production contracts.…
Pre-War A. The Company Cain & Abel Weapons Manufactory, initially located in Antarctica, was founded in the year 3014, by a man by the name of Edelman Francis. When asked why he decided to start a company whose sole purpose was to thrive off the death and destruction of war he said, "I am simply a business man. Nothing more". In the first 50 years after the company began dealing military grade weapons to the highest paying governments, Cain and Abel Manufacturing became one of the top grossing dealers in the world with $25 billion in average profits.…
The First World War was an extremely devastating conflict, whether it is to the millions who lost their lives or the decimated, crater-ridden landscapes the war left in its wake. The Great War was also a war of technological brilliance, because of the many new types of war technologies and ideas that were brought to light during this conflict. From new rifles to machine guns to airplanes; all of these types of technology, weapons and methods of waging war paved the way for technology and warfare today. Because of technology’s rapid development and the failure of generals adjusting their strategy to it, millions were killed using strategies that were outdated to the technology. Over 37 million people were savagely killed in this long combat…
The reason and extent of this paper is to talk about the innovation of WWII and the way it advanced all through the war. Also, the distinctions in innovation for a portion of the nations that were included in the war will be explained. It's necessary for the history of the war to note what innovation was accessible as well as which nations used what, and who they used it against. In this manner, the objective of this paper will be to give an obvious picture of precisely what ways technology affected the nations that were included in the war and how technology influenced the way each country commanded their…
The pursuit of national interest is always in the formula for the calculations of the rational decisions made by a nation. National interest is something each nation is thinking about when they go into war. World War I was the sacrifice of millions of lives to fulfill each nation’s national interest. William Kirby argues that, countries enter war because of their “rational calculations and national interests”. The source points out how the purpose of war is not irrational, it is rationalized by the beliefs of a nation and the benefits of military conflict.…
Although one may argue that Germany played was not to blame for causing World War I because tensions between European nations made war inevitable, to a great extent Germany should be blamed for the war because Germany was responsible for initiating tangled alliance systems in Europe, German militarism started the European arms race by creating a large army during peacetime, and Germany was responsible for several nations, including Great Britain and the United States, entering the war. Although some may argue that Germany was not to blame for World War I because preexisting tensions between European powers made war unavoidable, Germany is responsible for World War I due to furthering these tensions by the being the first European nation…