First Battle of the Marne

German army having a bit more luck than the French. He argues against the notion that France’s defeat was sealed before the war even began. He reveals that France was in fact in a worse situation before World War One, but their crucial victory at the Marne helped them survive massively (Jackson 213-220). Jackson was born and lived in England only 10 years after the war ended, and was educated at the University of Cambridge. Since England was France’s ally during the war and the fact that he has…

wire and machine guns; this method of warfare in known as trench warfare. Trench warfare made it difficult for soldiers to try to infiltrate the enemy’s trenches. However, the British created a solution to this problem on September 15, 1916, when the first armored vehicle…

The Stranger Analysis- The Stranger is a short astounding novel by Albert Camus and was officially published in 1942. This was his first novel! It is both a brilliantly crafted story and an illustration of Camus’s absurdist world view. A title like the stranger normally leaves one to ponder what Albert Camus was really trying to tell his readers. Albert Camus was French, so it was originally wrote in French, and gave it a French title: Estranger. The main character, Meursault, is a French man…

The Allies won the First World war for a variety of reasons. The political situation in Germany for most of the war was a “State of Siege” which began on the 31st of July 1914, and transferred the administration of Germany (except Bavaria) to local army commanders who were above pre-existing civilian authorities in an attempt to secure the volume of raw materials required by the army to fight this war, an early example of the State intervening into the economic organisation of Germany.…

Werner Sombart was a German economist and social scientist who was born in 1863. He was interested in the relationship between capitalism and religion, applying Marxist and Social Darwinist theories in his writings. He was interested in class hierarchies and the evolution of society, particularly in the progress of the German race. Sombart’s book Händler und Helden (Merchants and Heroes), published in 1915, reflects ideas of German racial superiority. The book was published after the failure of…

similarities in trade relations since Europe was very intertwined with the United States and some of their resources like cotton were heavily dependent on trade with the South. This necessity during the Civil War is still noticeable throughout the first World War as well, but with different resources being more dominant such as manpower since instead of needing cotton, France and Britain both needed soldiers since they were fighting in a…

participation in the unmistakable theater would give Wilson a bigger part and more noteworthy influence in choosing the peace that took after. Consequently it would be on the war zones and in the trenches of France that the U.S. Armed force would battle in 1917 and…

13. Families were considered middle class only if they a. had a second home. b. were college-educated. c. did not work with their hands. d. owned their own horses. e. employed a full-time servant.* 14. When the typewriter and telephone were first used in business in the 1880s, a. businessmen found that they were ideal tools for women workers.* b. only men could use them. c. they created new jobs for immigrant workers. d. widespread job losses resulted. e. they were a failure because…