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The Serbs and a few other countries formed the Balkan League which defeated the Ottoman Empire. “The Turkish collapse was so complete that all parties were willing to conclude an armistice on Dec. 3, 1912,” (www.britannica.com). The Ottoman Empire had been in power over many different groups of nationalities…

World War I probably affected my great great great grandparents. It began in 1914 when a Serbian nationalist murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife. Austria-Hungary, then declared war on Serbia. Europe was divided in two, the Triple Alliance, made up of Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy, versus the Triple Entente, made up of Russia, France, and Great Britain. As more and more countries got involved, the Triple Alliance became known as the Central Alliance, and the Triple…

During 1914 all the way to 1918 the people left confined in their homes were surging with nationalism, grief and sorrow. Women found out of their husband’s deaths, mothers mourned their sons and children lost their father. In history the Western Front attracts most of the attention and the home front sometimes is forgotten. Such a crucial part that greatly influenced the outcome of the war cannot be sidelined. The war took its toll on the British economy. The war was getting heavy and the only…

Since the conception of the United States, George Washington had set forth the country to be an isolationist nation. As the country progressed and expanded into the 20th century, presidents, Taft and Roosevelt took a more aggressive intervening approach to foreign intervention. During Wilson’s presidency, the world was at the center of imperialism. President Wilson, however, had an eye for world peace. He believed Americans had the duty of bringing democracy to the rest of the world. His belief…

One hundred years ago today, Congress voted to enter what was then the largest and bloodiest war in history. Four days earlier, President Woodrow Wilson had sought to unite a sharply divided populace with a stirring claim that the nation “is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.” The war lasted only another year and a half, but in that time, an astounding 117,000 American soldiers were killed and…

President Woodrow Wilson gave his speech “The Fourteen Points” on January 8th, 1918 to a joint session of Congress. Which was during the period of World War I that America had joined on April 6, 1917 to ensure was being fought for an everlasting peace in Europe. In this document President Woodrow Wilson discusses his Fourteen Points Plan. President Wilson begins by saying that we shall be open to start completely clean with one another by accepting what has been done in the past and choose to…

There are a lot of great sports in this world. Soccer is the world’s most popular, drawing crowds in excess of 100,000. Baseball is America’s pastime. And football is the most exciting thing on television. But, for me the best sport is volleyball. I love volleyball for so many reasons that it is hard to list them all. But, I think the number one reason that I love volleyball is that it reminds me of high school, which was a super happy time in my life. I played on the varsity team with…

Matteo Paoli WWI Assessment My topic is about Vittorio Orlando. Orlando was born in 1860 in Palermo, Sicily. Well educated, he became a professor of law and in 1916, and is also renowned for his 100+ writings on legal and judicial issues. He entered government as Minister of Justice. During the height of the Caporetto disaster, he was appointed Prime Minister. However, more favorably, his wartime leadership ended in triumph with the Italian victory at Vittorio Veneto in 1917. In 1917 he was an…

Groupthink is a phenomenon that occurs when the desire for harmony and compliance within a group leads people to operate in a way that can reach a faulty decision. (Janis,1972) Historically, there are many examples of groupthink decisions made by corporations, governments, or other types of organization or group. In this paper, we will examine an important aspect of Modern Greek history that changed not only its borders, but also the population characteristics of certain areas. Asia Minor was a…

Main Causes of World War 1 There are a lot of things that factor in when discussing what caused World War 1. The main causes of World War 1 was; militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism. Some things that led to these factors was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. His assassination triggered the outbreak of WWI. After his assassination is when Austria declared war on Serbia. Nationalism was also another cause. Nationalism encouraged the public people to support military…