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The reasons for World War 1 Millions of lives lost because of one man’s actions and another’s life. In 1914 a young man, part of the Black Hand a radical group who didn’t want Austria Hungary too take over, named Gavrilo Pincip killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The reason he did this was because Austria Hungary was trying to take over Bosnia. This sparked the already heated nation of Europe. World war one is often referred to as a keg filled with gun powder just one small spark could set it…

Schlieffen reminded his successors to avoid this temptation. However, von Moltke was uncomfortable with the left-wing's weakness and decided to modify the left-wing to right-wing ratio. This modification was carried out in the 1914 invasion, and the German efforts to sweep around the western flank of the enemy never succeeded. Although, it could be argued that Moltke changing the ratio is what kept Germany from being completely crushed in the first days of war. Moltke reduced the…

Alliances, the Underlying Cause of WWI Millions of combatants and civilians died during the first World War, creating the desolate lost generation. European countries started WWI purely off of alliances, starting with the killing of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary. The triple alliance, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy fought against the triple entente. The entente was comprised from the countries of, Russia, Britain, and France. Alliances are a type of formal agreement involved in…

The treaty of Versailles reduced the German military force to a mere fragment of what it was at the conclusion of World War I. Leaders in the German military force were looking for a new approach, after all their goal was to defend Germany’s large open borders. Geographically, Germany is sandwiched in between France and Poland, and German military leaders were more concerned with securing the natural resources from Poland’s eastern neighbor Russia. From the German perspective, Germany could…

If you ask me World War One was the cause of Imperialistic nations, ambitious territory expansion,independence, power and wealth. These factors are the key cause of the War that would stain the world with blood and destruction. The war itself last root cause was the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand who was the archduke of Austria Hungary. Most of the European nations were Imperialistic nations inflicting political power and influence through their vast military forces. After the Archdukes…

there were various fronts that battles took place, the Western and the Eastern being the main ones. On the Western front one example is the Battle of Somme which took place in France in 1916. The Battle of Somme, fought between the British and the Germans, is one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Great War. The reading we looked over in class called “Voices from the Battle of the Somme,” had original testimonies from young soldiers, or just young civilians fighting for their country…

The coming of war, declared on 4 August 1914, caught most Australians by surprise even though there had been a climate for war for many years. An expectation had arisen of a clash between Europe’s two major trading nations, Britain and Germany. Australia was in the middle of an election campaign when war came. Both leaders, Joseph Cook, Prime Minister, and Andrew Fisher, leader of the Labor Party, promised Australian support to Britain. Labor won the Federal Election and became an enthusiastic…

a very brutal & grossing war, A war that many expected to be short. In fact, it lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. Within these 4 long and terrible years, millions of soldiers & civilians lives were lost. Some of the English, French, German & Russian soldiers were made up of young high school graduates. These young soldiers died fighting one another along the Western & Eastern Fronts. The main underlying causes of World War I were the Alliances & Imperial rivalries between the…

In this essay I will explain what has caused the English spoken today is different from the English spoken in earlier century. three reasons it has changed is other languages around us, then electronics and finally made up words or slang. One reason it has changed is that French changed is right after the English was form Germany. This happen when Germanic tribes invaded England. By 900 CE people of England spoke Old English.If other country come we learn from them. In 1066 William of Normandy…

When most people think about war, the see one quick decisive battle that results in a winner and a loser and tons of dead bodies.That’s rarely ever true.One example of this is the Hundred Years’ war. The Hundred Years’ war was a group of periodic battles fought over who gets to be the successor of the French king , Charles IV. The cause of the war can be traced to one specific incident; Charles IV’ death, but the effect was important in the way these two countries grew and the overall…