Ferdinand Foch

World War I Through The Realist’s Lens World War I or The Great War was a global war that shook the world to its core originated in Europe which took place from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. In analysing the First World War especially on how it started, many events can be attributed to it but to understand how and why the war happened, perhaps it is best to start from the Concert of Europe which some would argue, is the first domino piece that started the sequence of events that led to the…

‘World War I was a European war.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? World War I “sparked” in 1914, between Serbia and Austria-Hungary, then turned into a chain reaction of declarations of war that spread throughout Europe, and to other areas of the world. Because this became such a widespread war, but began in Europe and was caused by Europe, there is controversy and question as to whether the Great War was a world war, or in fact a European war. On one hand, World War I can…

1. What do you believe was the main cause of World War I and why? Do you believe it was nationalism, imperialism, militarism, alliances, or something else? Alliances are possibly the best known cause of World War I. An alliance is a formal political, military or economic agreement between two or more nations. Military alliances usually contain promises that in the event of war or aggression, one signatory nation will support the others. The terms of this support is outlined in the alliance…

Before World War II the majority of fatalities in war were not caused by trauma but by diseases. Common diseases like dysentery, cholera, typhus, typhoid fever, smallpox and the influenza would wipe out entire camps of soldiers before bullets were ever fired. WWII marked the transition to trauma causing the most fatalities. Trauma wounds are defined as an injury to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agents like bullets, shrapnel, or blunt force injuries. Medical advances with blood…

The importance of nationalism and selfish ambition as causes of the World War One. There have been many discussions about the cause of World War One and how nationalism and selfish ambition of countries contributed to it. It can’t be denied that both nationalism in many European countries and their selfish ambitions played a large role in the outbreak of The Great War. Nationalism has more than one definitions: 1) an extreme form of patriotism marked by a feeling of superiority over other…

the war were the Triple Entente: Great Britain, France, Russia, and later on, the United States, who were against the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Italy. Historians believed that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the event that “sparked” the war, but there were many events that happened before the assassination that led to war. The main reasons that caused the war was militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism. Every one of the men are…

The causes of World War I remain diverse and debated questions. World War I began in the Balkans in late July 1914 and ended in November 1918, leaving 17 million dead and 20 million injured.Scholars looking at the long-term seek to explain why two rival sets of powers – Germany and Austria-Hungary on the one hand, and Russia, France, and Great Britain on the other – had come into conflict by 1914. They look at such factors as political, territorial and economic conflicts, militarism, a complex…

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What was WW1 about? World War 1 was about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand he was the Archduke of Austria-Hungary. Some of the events that led up to the assassination where various but mainly because the group of alliances between the two big powers to blame the cause of the war. How did it start? It started with the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary which was Franz Ferdinand. Why did the U.S get involved in the WW1? The U.S. did not declare the war until April 6th of the…

used violence for mostly every action taken. All Princip wanted was power, and by this, there was death. Gavrilo Princip is a terrorist because he disturbed Austro- Hungarian rein of power. On June 28th, 1914, Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, the Duchess of Hohenburg. This was the spark that basically led to World War I. After this, occurred, many allies never got along. There was much tension between the countries…