Ferdinand Foch

There are multiple causes that sparked the beginning of the First World War. The main four are considered to be: militarism, alliances, nationalism, and imperialism. WWI was a direct result of these causes, but the murder of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife initiated the beginning of the war. World War I took place between July 1914 and November 11, 1918. At the end of the war over 17 million people were killed including over 100,000 American troops. Militarism is a system that…

event in time that historians today still look upon. Although there were multiple causes of The Great War the major causes lead to this big chaos. The main underlying causes were alliances, imperialism, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. These main causes lead the road to the Great War that now remains in history but is still looked upon to this day. Allow this was a historical time in history a lot of other little tensions sparked this war as well. Alliances…

mass world wars throughout history. The first world war happened between July 1914 and November 1918. There were a couple of causes to why this war started, but the immediate cause of it would be because of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Although this was the immediate cause, other factors also came into play as to why the war began. These factors include: the alliances made during the war, imperialism, militarism and nationalism. When looking at it from a whole perspective,…

events that were major turning points in history are the outbreak of the bubanic plague and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. These events sparked major changes due to the number of people who were effected by the results of the events. The bubanic plague had devastating effects on the social and economic lifestyles of Europeans, while the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand had consequential effects on the major powers at the time. The bubanic plague devastated many aspects of…

Bosnia-Herzegovina and turn into a single unified Slav nation. However Austria-Hungary conquered Bosnia-Herzegovina to expand their borders. In retaliation, the Black Hand (secret organization based in Serbia) ordered the execution of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. Young Gavrilo Princip was the one who carried out the order. This act of retaliation was the final blow required for the pressure building inside Europe to explode. Due to the nationalistic pride of Austria-Hungary…

Often times, many sharp vicissitudes occur in the world which brings metamorphic changes to the surroundings. The Battle of the Somme is one such example. During World War I, the Battle of the Somme, fought primarily by the British army with help of the French against Germany, near the Somme River in France was a turning point. The battle of the Somme was a pivotal point for the Canadian homefront, and due to the deplorable battlefield failures of the Somme, a plethora of lessons were learned…

Civil Disobedience –Martin Luther King. Jr & Mahands Karamchand Gandhi Eddie Li Tianjin Foreign Languages School Introduction For hundreds of years since the prevail of human civilizations, no matter in eastern or western countries, citizens were and are always trying to pursue a more democratic society. Since then, regional conflicts and battles had been raised in European and North America in the past two centuries, millions of people got injured or dead during the war time. However, civil…

Answer: The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history, and an estimated 12,000 people lost their lives. Goran Simic wrote this poem to convey and express his experiences of helplessness, horror, death and fear in Sarajevo during this dreadful useless siege. The title itself implies the sadness and misery the capital of Bosnia was suffering from. “Sorrow of Sarajevo”, this is to show how Sarajevo as a whole, felt grief and anguish after their loved ones were killed for no…

Trench Warfare WW1 was a brutal war between two sides; Germany, and Austria and the other side being France and Britain but other countries such as Australia and Canada soon joined the fight. Starting in 1914 and finishing in 1918 the First World War was long and unforgiving. This war was the first to employ the use of modern weapons and technologies such as gas, trenches and guns. These new technologies also lead to a new type of warfare. Trench warfare is a form of land warfare using occupied…

Many times in history, the fire of a gun, the explosion of a cannon, or the scream of a soldier tell the story of militarism. Imperialism is told first by a promise, but ends in betrayal. Nationalism rings loud in the crowds of people protesting for freedom and unification, but two times in history these individual acts would lead to world fighting. Militarism, imperialism, and nationalism would lead to the First and Second World Wars. Militarism is the predominance of the military class or the…