Delian League

World War One was a catastrophic event that involved almost all of the major powers of the twentieth century. When looking at the causes of this major world event one might believe that the sole cause of the war was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary (The DBQ Project, Background Essay). There is reason to believe that the causes of the war had a more lasting effect and were more broader subjects than the assassination of just one man. World War One also called The…

Task: Which of the following factors-technology, institutional self interest, or national security requirements- exercised the most significant influence on the development of airpower in Europe and the United States before the Second World War? Although technology and institutional self interest had their own role my thesis is that the most significant influence on the development of airpower in Europe and the United states before the second World War was the national security requirements that…

The French soldiers called Verdun “the inferno” because everything about the battle was hellish. After all of the shelling, the landscape was so cratered and barren that it looked like craters on the moon. The constant shelling drove soldiers insane on both sides, the effects lasting long after the battle for many of the “shell shocked” soldiers. Particularly for the French conditions were bad as the rotation of men from the front line trenches was not as often as it should have been. Many of…

In Graber’s (2015) “Is Political Evolution Over? An Anthropological Analysis of the Twentieth Century” explains how societies evolved from small groups into enormous populated nations. The author first explains how the growth of a society is not based on the number of societies but the number of people in a society. Graber then explains, from the growth of a society comes what he calls political evolution. Attributed to political evolution is the act of war. Graber explains that war directly…

The United States joined World War One on April 6, 1917, three years after WW1 originally began. Before that day, America would try to stay out of the war. President Woodrow Wilson tried to keep the United States neutral, but Germany continuously violated their conditions/neutral status. Based on the facts, The United States did have good enough reasons to join the war with the allied powers, against the central powers. Unrestricted submarine warfare was one of the most important reasons on why…

Many thought their husbands and fathers would be home that Christmas, they were wrong. In 1914, Europe went to war for four long years, losing the lives of millions of men. For many years, people debate over the same question: “What really caused World War I?” The three underlying causes to World War I were the alliances, militarism, and the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Duke. The most significant cause to World War I were the alliances.With the tensions high between alliances like…

Sudetenland It refers to the area of Czechoslovakia that were mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. Spielvogel noted that “the Sudetenland also contained Czechoslovakia’s most important frontier defenses and considerable industrial resources as well” (836). Hitler knew the importance of this land. To gain this land, he required the cession of it to Germany, otherwise, he may start a war. He successfully persuaded Britain and French not to defend Czechoslovakia, which allowed Germany to occupy the…

distanced from the national debate as exampled by belief that Americans agreed with their views. The liberal internationalists included President Wilson and the editors of the New Republic, the AmericanFederation of Labor (AFL), and members of the League to Enforce Peace (LEP) of which former Presient William Howard Taft was a member of. The third group was the Atlanticists led by Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Elihu Root. Consistency within the group was their fundamental…

I believe it was, some historians believe that it was really just continuation of WWI, however, like all historical events it is hard to say what would have happened. WWII was about a lot more than increasing Germany’s territory or promotion of the Aryan Race. Hitler’s main motivation for becoming the leader of German was to restore respect of the German people after WW1, which he fought in. Over time he became more anti-Semitic and blamed the Jews for Germany’s loss (although he still…

If Hitler had been a better historian we would be speaking German now and Hitler’s soldiers could have avoided the inhuman suffering, described in ‘All Hell Let Loose’ by Max Hastings, had he studied the mistakes made by Napoleon 129 years earlier when he sent his ill equipped Grande Armée deep into the frozen heart of Mother Russia. History is more than just the study of the past; it allows us to understand the present and it also shapes the future. The imaginary exploits of the Sultan Saladin…