The Effect Of Technology On The Modernities Of World War I

World War I started in 1890 because Austria and Serbia wanted the same piece of land. Serbia wanted the land because the people of this land spoke their language. The Serbian Nationalist organization called the black hand, which was a secret organization in Serbia that was in charge of terrorist actions, to assassinate the heir of the throne of Austria. This lead to a war between Austria and Serbia. Then the allies joined in causing World War I. This lead to the modernities of World War I, and these were technology, industry, and urbanization. The military had to improve their weapons which included the technology. This led to the production of more products which increased the industry. And that led to people moving to the cities for industry jobs which results in the increase of urbanization. These are the main modernities found in World War I. The advancement of technology impacted the ways of this war. This was the first war with type of technology. The advancements of the weapons included airplanes, submarines, machine guns, tanks, poison gas, cannons, military shells, and steam boats. This advancement impacted the way the war was fought, because they now had access to more powerful weapons. This meant a larger scale of war, which lead to more power yet more damage. This advancement affected everyone and everything. This advancement in technology led to the increase of production and increase in industry. This war became an Industrial war due to the advancements of technology. More technology meant more production. This meant more jobs became available in the cities. During this time as industry became more in demand more people had to move to the cities to take up the jobs. Many women had to take the place of the men in the factories because men were off to war. These actions changed the ways of industrialization and society. This gave women more freedom as to how to act and dress, and they started demanding the right to vote. This meant they were spending more time in the cities for their jobs. This led to more urbanization. Urbanization was the reaction to the increase of population in the cities due to the industry. The increase of urbanization affected the nations and the power. This is because more cities means more industry which equals more production of technology. Urbanization also played a key role in the government, because more people were living in the cities. With the increase of Urbanization was more chance to win the war. Technology, Industry, and Urbanization are the main modernities found in World War I.These modernities all greatly contributed to the first world war. From the advancements of technology to bigger cities. Topic 2: Politics in the 1920’s and 30’s changed quite a bit from the 19th century. …show more content…
There was many changes in government from monarchies to communist and fascist. The style of rulers changed and the overall type of government changed in some countries. In 1917 many changes in the government of Russia took place. The Russian Revolution took place it was the Provisional Government versus the Soviets. In February of 1917 the duma, russian emperor, renounced the throne, ending the monarchies of Russia. In October of 1917 a group named the bolsheviks seized power. This group was a communist group who took over the Provisional Government. They committed actions similar to those write by Karl Marx. The bolsheviks took over banks, gave factories to workers, and more. And in 1922 Russia was renamed USSR. In Germany in 1918 the emperor of Germany quite and Germany became a democratic republic. The new leader called for cease of fire of World War I. After the war ended the Versailles Peace Talk took place. The countries allowed to participate came up with the idea of the league of Nation States, which led to the treaty of Versailles. This resulted in most countries being ruled by one political party, a leader who ended up as a dictator, and the rejection of a democracy. In the 1920’s the fascist party came around in Italy. This party was led by Benito Mussolini, he claimed he wanted to restore Italy, and he used fear and terror to rule. This party disagreed with