Causes And Effects Of World War 1

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World War 1 took place over the course of four years. The war started in July of 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, and over thirty two countries were involved. The war started out as a small conflict between Serbia and Austria-Hungary, but eventually it led to a bigger war between the allies and the central powers. Though America was only actively involved in combat for nineteen months, the American people back on the Homefront were significantly affected; the children, African-Americans, and Women of all races were able to push past societal boundaries and build better lives for themselves. The first World War was started because of the assassination of the archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand. The assassination was executed …show more content…
In fact, some had claim that cinema was an imperialist weapon for the U.S Homefront. When the America join the war in 1917, many movie studios like Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox, etc; were ready to support congress idea of entering the war, so they put several different plans into production, with a huge selection of famous Actors and Actresses to help promote their movies. Because the war was going on, many country like Germany, Italy, and England couldn 't spent their time creating movies, and because of that the Hollywood industry started to rise. When the production for these movies were completed, it attract even more people to joining the war, movies like Uncle Sam 's Gun Shops, The Beast of Berlin, The Kaiser. These Movies did a great work as propaganda, for it was able to convince more people to join the army, and some studios even convince their actor to make an appearance with soldiers to pull more people into the military. However, some of the films during the time was censors or not allowed to be shown at some area because it was said to be too offensive, or it was promoting the The central power, due to the rises of censorship president Wilson must pass the Espionage Act "which attacked any form of speech constructed as critical to the war" (Alvarez, Cinema as an Imperialist weapon: Hollywood and World War 1) this led to several famous people to being arrested, and some even get

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