Causes of WW1 Essay

Setting: The Garden Party was written in 1922, shortly after the end of WW1. The story is set mostly in the garden of the Sheridan’s house which is based one the author’s childhood home in Wellington, New Zealand. The first part of teh story is set in a festive, light mood on a “perfect day.” (Mansfield 1) The sky is described as “without a cloud” (Mansfield 1) futher representing the light mood which seems to take away all your worries. In contrats, the second half of the story is set in the…

The Easter Rising is the defining event of the modern Irish republican tradition. Most Irish nationalists regard the Rising as the most important event in twentieth-century Irish history. Without it, Irish politics would have been shaped by the moderate constitutional nationalism of John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party, and southern Ireland may have remained part of the British Empire for much of the twentieth-century. One of the driving forces behind the rebellion was Patrick Pearse, an…

Research Paper I learned a lot throughout this course, and I also came to realize that every event in history is important. Each event leads to another event creating a big chain reaction. But I do believe that some events are more important and make a bigger impact on the world and change it forever. Events such as, The Renaissance, The Industrial Revolution, The Boston Tea Party, The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and creation of The Treaty of Versailles. There is no…

which was the stock market crash. The two long-term causes of the Depression were the decline in industry growth and the overproduction of crops. Industry decline was one of the main factors that contributed to the Depression because former consumers no longer had the means to pay for goods or services which caused people to be laid off and businesses to fail. Overproduction of crops also played a part in triggering the Depression because after WW1 farms were still producing copious amounts of…

Palestinian-Israeli conflict (Jewishvirtuallibrary.com). Britain is responsible for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, because they didn’t thoroughly plan how to govern the area in dispute. This is shown through the various treaties they made during WW1 and the lack of control during their mandate. In 1915, the British under the McMahon agreement to King Hussein promised the Arabs the land they had lived in before the Turks came, in exchange for a revolt against the Turks. The British had…

How much are you willing to give the person you love ? Probably everything you have , love blind most people and also Gasby in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby gives up his goal for the women he loves. Gatsby went to the WW1 and come back sees his ex-girlfriend is already married, so he tries to earn lot of money and wanted to earn her back. He knows you need to have money and power to win the girl back, at the end he gives up his job to stay with the women he love. On the other…

roughly after four years on November 11, 1918. Eventually there would be over 70 million soldiers mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. Over 9 million soldiers from both sides would be killed. There were various underlying and fundamental causes that led to this deadly and…

German expressionism appeared, as the name implies, in pre-WW1 Germany. During these times, the country was in turmoil and was facing complete isolation from other countries, especially during the end of World War I and the subsequent change in regime, as in The German Empire was transformed into a republic, more specifically the Weimar Republic, would bring Germany to its knees. Thus, it comes to no surprise that a country with such issues would produce these kinds of films; surrealistic,…

“The fundamental reason why the old regime collapsed was the personality and weak leadership of the Tsar.” To what extent is this statement accurate? The sovereignty of Nicholas II led to the ultimate collapse and diminishment of autocratic rule in Russia. The statement, “The fundamental reason why the old regime collapsed was the personality and weak leadership of the Tsar,” is significantly accurate as demonstrated through the decisions and responses of the Tsar during and post many events…

polarization, extermination, and denial. In 1941 Germany one of the most famous genocides occurred after World War 1 also known as the Holocaust. During the Holocaust Hitler, the elected Chancellor at the time, used Jewish people as scapegoats of WW1, targeted them, and killed them on a mass scale. His goal was to create a perfect Aryan race. Now decades later genocide is still occurring in 1994 the Rwandan genocide…