Allies of World War I

than a billion people are liberally occupying India because of the courageous actions one man took against the British Raj (or British Rule). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born on October 2, 1869, grew up in the small town of Porbandar and became a world-renowned political and spiritual leader who would be valued by many people under the British rule ("Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948)"). There are a limited amount of people in history who have accomplished what Gandhi did when he took on…

were a time of economic disaster, there is compelling evidence to suggest that it was a period of economic growth. Firstly, after the First World War concluded, there was a high demand for Canadian raw materials. This includes wheat harvesting, pulp and paper production and mineral refineries. By 1928, Canada was the single largest exporter of wheat in the world with 567 million…

Germany before Adolf Hitler took over was not in a well-rested state. They just lost World War I and basically had to rebuild the country from all the destruction it took during the war. The economy in Germany was completely destroyed, and it didn’t help when the Treaty of Versailles made Germany to disarm their army, make substantial territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries, which finally cost them $31.4 billion. The country was in need of a miracle worker. Before going…

International Relations Article Essay The two pieces that I will be discussing are Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points speech and the article written by Matthias Matthijs and R. Daniel Kelemen, Europe Reborn: How to Save the European Union From Irrelevance. I will be explaining what points both pieces are trying to make as well as what points of view they are coming from. In Woodrow Wilson’s speech he is approaching it from a liberal view and Matthijs and Kelemen are similarly using the perspective to…

Military history has had it up and down throughout the years depending on who you are talk to about it. It has always be popular it with the public who are not scholar for a living, but in academic world it is not as popular as it is public. Before getting on what current state of military history need to know the historiography of the military history and how it effect how military is seen in today. The historiography of the military history has change over the years from the starter of…

The Great War, which took place from 1914 to 1918, exposed the world to brutality and horrors that it had never before seen. As a result of the upheaval of the war, a generation of young men and women were suddenly freed from the social constraints of the previous decades; as a result, they went mad with freedom and new ideas. A decade of partying, loose morals, crazed dancing, and ever-changing fashions entered the American life-- a decade that confounded the older generation, and fascinated…

think we are swimming in it?.. .What sacrifices is he making in the war? If he has any sons at the front am sure that they must be very ‘pleased’ and ‘proud’ of such a father”. This example of a single reaction to the prohibition movement at home illustrates and highlights the divide between the soldiers abroad and those at home. The “necessity” of rum is not wholly understood by those at home, because they face a completely different war experience. Another soldier candidly tells his mother how…

the five things I have learned are: Galileo Galilei’s life and accomplishments, political and social thought in the Enlightenment, the industrial revolutions in Europe, Russian Revolution, and the era of totalitarianism. I feel that this course had taught me so much about topics that I only learned a small amount about in my educational career. The topics I have selected are ones that I feel made a large impact in the world, and some in my life, and that without these events, the world would be…

"We must ALWAYS take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Wiese, Noble Peace Prize Winner and Jewish Holocaust Survivor I agree with the quote above because by staying neutral we don 't stand up for what we believe in. We all need to make a stand for what we believe is right and what we believe is wrong. If more people were to stand up for what they believed in perhaps the Holocaust and the Genocide of the…

“To what extent did World War 1 contribute to the Russian Revolution?” In 1914 the ‘Great War’ began, there were many nations who were involved in the conflict, such as Germany, England, Ottoman Empire, and the most backwards country out of them, Russia. During World War 1, most of the countries involved were democratic and their people had basic human rights. Russia was two centuries behind the rest of the world because of its absolute monarchy who refused to make concessions for the population…