Treaty of Versailles Essay

Wilson’s blunder Like Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson is one of the best presidents who just served at a bad time as claimed by Kendrick A. Clements, a historian formerly at the University of South Carolina. Clements praises the Wilson administration for its foreign policies and helping America emerge as a world power. Jim Powell of the Cato Institute, on the other hand has a different opinion. According to Powell, Wilson is the worst president in American history. He says, in his need to join the…

Laykyn Rainbolt Mr. Domino Art Appreciation 04 October 2017 Otto Dix: The Skat Players Krieg hat uns alle verändert. German for “the war changed us all”. I think that sentence was very illustrative of the surprising artwork from Otto Dix. I loved the piece The Skat Players. I think this piece represented so much more than just the authors style or the war. Using his personal events and knowledge he gave the world a chance to experience the things he did in his life. All those events…

(Fromkin, pg271-273)) If anyone could delay if not prevent WW1 it would be a diplomat from Germany. The events that if changed could prevent a world war and instead France and Germany by seceding more land from France, continuing the reinsurance treaty with Russia, and taking of Ottoman lands. In the peace dealing with France after the Franco-Prussian war, a German diplomat could help create a long-term plan for war by taking more land from the eastern side of France. Land grabbed by Prussia at…

Often times, many sharp vicissitudes occur in the world which brings metamorphic changes to the surroundings. The Battle of the Somme is one such example. During World War I, the Battle of the Somme, fought primarily by the British army with help of the French against Germany, near the Somme River in France was a turning point. The battle of the Somme was a pivotal point for the Canadian homefront, and due to the deplorable battlefield failures of the Somme, a plethora of lessons were learned…

"War makes human virtues fatal, even to their possessor." Bertolt Brecht questions the purpose of virtues during war in his play, Mother Courage and Her Children. While the play is set during the Thirty Years' War, Brecht suggests that during the German invasion of Poland, there is a lack of morality in society which is caused by the war. To convey the immoral effects of war, Brecht uses the journey of mother courage's cart in order to map the imminent loss of society's virtuousness during a…

Answer: The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history, and an estimated 12,000 people lost their lives. Goran Simic wrote this poem to convey and express his experiences of helplessness, horror, death and fear in Sarajevo during this dreadful useless siege. The title itself implies the sadness and misery the capital of Bosnia was suffering from. “Sorrow of Sarajevo”, this is to show how Sarajevo as a whole, felt grief and anguish after their loved ones were killed for no…

George Orwell A Comparative analysis George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Shooting an Elephant (1938) both share two major characteristic features, namely politics and history. Animal Farm is mainly an allegory of the Russian Revolution which took place in 1917. All of the characters in the story represents the biggest names in the Russian Revolution and the early start of the Soviet Union. The farm itself is also supposed to represent the Russian Federation, which they fight for in the…

“The Revolutions of 1831 and 1832 failed due to a lack of unity” To what extent do you agree with this judgement? The revolutions of 1831 and 1832 in Modena, Parma and the Papal states certainly failed due to a lack of unity. The revolutionaries had only limited shared aims and beliefs, and were lacking in a clear and decisive plan. However, although this was not the sole reason for their non-success, it was the most important one. In addition, the role of Austria, and Prince Von Metternich…

1. Hitler claim of returning Germany to its former glory and boundaries was nothing more than a ruse to cover up his true intentions. Since the beginning he was bent on conquering all of Europe and uniting it underneath the Germanic flag of the Nazi Empire. Hitler first had to develop a strategy that would allow him to rebuild the country while also expanding Germany’s size. Due to the atmosphere after WWI many of the western countries powers such as England and France established appeasement…

Being in the forefront of the 2nd World War and Face of Pro-immigration during the European Syrian rescue, Germany have been a controversial country with events that altered the world and put a chapter into history. This brief aims to help to understand Germans and avoid intercultural misunderstandings while doing business. However, this is just a generalization of most common German culture and one should not stereotype. Location A member of the European Union, Germany is located between…