Abdul Hamid II

 Thirty Years War: Ignited by the conflicting of politics, authority, and religion, the Thirty Years War was a major event in the course of world history. It all began in the Holy Roman Empire when Ferdinand the II began to restrict the religious freedom of his people. The protestants began to rebel against these limitations, resulting in a war that spanned several countries. Countries such as Germany, Sweden, Austria, France, and Spain, all joined this cause of fighting for religious matters.…

The results of World War I had a dramatic effect on the historical evolution of the European empire. Anti-Semitism was prevalent at the end of World War I, and as a result the cruel treatment of the Jewish population was widely accepted and practiced by those who supported Adolf Hitler. The deterioration of the Weimar republic along with the great depression set Germany back tremendously. This set back gave Hitler the opportunity to come into power. A series of events lead up to the anti- Jewish…

I am going to be brief. in the series of events, which lead up to much of what remained of Humanity, having to take shelter in very large underground bunkers scattered across the Globe. They are called the Iron Shields Protective Bunkers or Iron Shields for short, due to them having the shape of a shield. They are not exactly what you would call comfortable or your first choice for a place to spend the rest of your natural life (which is likely over 80 years, with all the wonders of medicine of…

The pursuit of national interest is always in the formula for the calculations of the rational decisions made by a nation. National interest is something each nation is thinking about when they go into war. World War I was the sacrifice of millions of lives to fulfill each nation’s national interest. William Kirby argues that, countries enter war because of their “rational calculations and national interests”. The source points out how the purpose of war is not irrational, it is rationalized by…

Introduction The Marshall plan has been largely considered the greatest instance of foreign aid ever created by the United States of, but to what extent was the Marshall plan employed to contain communism? The Marshall plan was passed in 1948 and it’s publicly known main purpose was to help rebuild Europe’s economy and landscape during the post world war two crisis that many countries were dealing with following the war. Europe had spent tremendous amounts of money and used many resources on…

With the recent attacks on Christians by Isis, people have been wondering whether or not America should step in militarily for those whose rights are being consistently violated. However, the U.S. should not militarily step into foreign human rights violations; the U.S. must prioritize its own citizens. America shouldn’t step into foreign human rights violations so that we can prioritize what is best for American citizens. The historical precedents set by previous American wars support only…

civilians during World War I, and approximately half of World War II sufferers were non-combatant and even in the 1980s and 1990s, the majority of casualties experienced through armed conflicts (80%) were civilians (Bhutta, Yousafzai et al. 2010). When gathering the frequency consequence of violence against civilians, armed conflict is also straightforwardly linked to world poverty. Majority of the armed conflicts of post-World War II have occurred in developing countries, from the…

Following World War Two, tensions were high between the USA and Soviet Russia. The two countries had been part of an alliance during the war, but after Hitler’s defeat the Russians initiated a struggle for global supremacy between communism and capitalism that was to last the next forty-five years (Roberts, 2013). This struggle became known as the ‘cold war’. During the height of this ‘war’, the US government had ‘committed vast resources’ to an extremely effective programme of anti-communist…

Not since Julius Caesar and his expansive Roman Empire had there been a leader so pervasive or impressing as Napoleon Bonaparte. Born on the previously Italian, then French island of Corsica in 1769 and raised by the middling yet technically noble Buonaparté family, Napoleon would, by the end of his life, come to rule France as its First Consul and, later, constitutional emperor for a total of fifteen war-filled years. By age 20, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in France’s 1st…

WWI and WWII are two of the deadliest conflicts in human history. With over 98 million combined casualties these wars changed mankind. What made these wars so deadly? Why did they even start? These wars are actually more similar than generally perceived. WWI (1914 -1918) starts when Serbia assassinates Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. The assassination causes Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia. Russia declares war on Austria-Hungary causing Germany to declare war on…