Treaty of Versailles Essay

On January 8, 1918, President Thomas “Woodrow” Wilson the 28th President of the United States addressed Congress with a historical speech. The delivery of this speech occurred at the Joint Session and this address is part of the document records of the World War I Archives. President Wilson outlined what is known as his Fourteen Points, which he believes were the correction that needed to be made in order to complete his plan of everlasting peace. President Wilson gave a brief history of the…

America’s Delayed Entry into the Great War In 1914 when World War 1 commenced, the United States retained firm neutrality concerning their entry into the war. In fact, Woodrow Wilson requested Americans to remain neutral in thought as well as in action. Although there was immense tension for America to become involved in the war, shock in the United States over the bloodbath in Europe gave way to gratitude that a wide ocean stood between America and the killing fields. Furthermore, the…

World war one or otherwise known as the “Great War” embarked in 1914 and carried on for 4 long years. World War One was a very deadly war that left millions of soldiers dead. It was a contention between the Allied Powers (France, Russia, Britain, Italy and the United States), and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria Hungary and the Ottoman Empire). The three fundamental driver of the war were the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, across the board militarism and imperialism. The first cause…

The secondary source is in perspective of British Historian Paul Kennedy, arguing in his work of 1989 that whilst soldiers value total war, it leaves home fronts in a state of economic and social calamity. The origin aids in reliability, as the date of 1988 was post-war, and thus was no censorship on what historians wrote, meaning Kennedy’s descriptions are free of external control. The narrow perspective Kennedy limits the reliability, evident in his favorable comparisons of the allied home…

As tensions surged, European nations formed military alliances to protect against attacks from enemy nations. They agreed to aid each other, or at least remain neutral. Although alliances were beneficial, there were also some disadvantages. An alliance could lead a nation to take risks, it could cause disputes between many nations, and it could force a country to go to war with a nation with which it was neutral. Germany formed an alliance with Austria-Hungary in 1871 and Italy in 1882. This…

World War I was a very influential time period in history and two sources that explain World War I are history.com (source one) and britannica.com (source two). These two sources explain the causes and what lead up to World War I. Both sources are very accurate, well known, and provide some visual aid to help the reader understand. Source one is more organized with subsections and is clearly stated. As compared to, the information from source two is more difficult to understand because it tends…

Depth Study Three: WW1 Essay World War One was a period of struggle for Europe. There were several factors that lead to tensions in Europe which ultimately caused World War 1. The war occurred in 1914 until 1918 and it had many famous and bloody battles, such as The Battle of the Somme. The war killed up to 17 million people and caused 49 million casualties of not just soldiers, but civilians as well. The war was fought between members of the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy)…

Sidnie Bogle Main Causes of the United States Entering WW1 On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy” (President Woodrow Wilson’s War Message to Congress). World War One was a war fought between 1914 and 1918. The allies were Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States. These countries fought against the Central Powers which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and…

The two most significant obstacles to effective Allied innovation during the interwar period were 1) social, political and economic constraints, and 2) different interpretations of lessons learned from WWI. “General revulsion for warfare and all things military” following WWI resulted in social, political and economic constraints that inhibited innovation. The bloodshed was so great that no one throughout Europe or in America wanted a repeat of WWI. In 1928, fifteen nations signed the…

President Woodrow Wilson was reluctant to enter America into a European war for very solid reasons that were selfish on the behalf of America’s own future security as a nation. President Wilson delayed his request for a declaration of war to allow for America’s own internal conflict to settle and for the American people to unite under “… a single way of thinking”.1 Since the first shots of World War I, President Wilson has made several small steps in support of Britain and France through…