Ww1 Nationalism Effects

Creation, destruction, war and pride is a perfect way to describe big era 8. A big part of this era was focused around nationalism which provided a sense of unity, nationalism made the citizens of a country feel as though they were a part of something bigger than themselves. During World War I nationalism seemed to be the cause of the war, no country believed that they were going to be defeated as war began. Over the period of the interwar years nationalism arose in China and India allowing for countries that were no longer in the spotlight to become the great nations that they once were. In the time of WWII extreme cases of nationalism arose bringing about the demeaning of other nations. Over the span of roughly 21 year’s the transition from …show more content…
While there seems to be a negative side effect to everything the nationalism that occurred during WWI seemed to be mostly positive. Amidst the Interwar Years nationalism started to take a turn towards destruction. With the end of the war a worldwide recession began which led to the great depression. With the rise of the Great depression came the rise of the Nazis and Hitler the message of Hitler was one that excited the people of Germany all while demeaning others. Hitler proclaimed that he could create a “homeland for the ‘superior’ Aryan race” (259 The Twentieth Century and Beyond) all while restoring Germany to the great nation it had once been. Hitler’s message shifted into WWII where he took his beliefs to the next level. During the period of the Second World War Hitler was elected chancellor and used his new found position to spread his fascist message, Hitler believed that the Germans were superior and the fact that one was German made them better than anyone else this extreme form of nationalism led to Hitler’s idea of Lebensraum [Which translates to living space], Lebensraum was what Hitler believed would be space for his “pure” German race to expand and live comfortably. Hitler believed in his message so much that he began to exterminate those that he felt where not up to his standards. While one part of the Second World War was being fought in Europe another war was being fought in Japan. The Japanese nationalism was both similar and different to the nationalism of the Germans. While the Germans believed that the Aryans were the “superior” race the Japanese believed that they were the superior nation and that the Aryans were the enemy, though on the opposite side much like the Germans the Japanese felt as though they needed to expand and went about conquering different nations with the claim that