League of Nations

of Versailles and built up their armies to invade other countries. Italy invaded Ethiopia to start another Italian empire. Germany built up its army, created a new air force, the Luftwaffe, and sent troops into the Rhineland. Japan left the League of Nations and invaded Manchuria. By the time European leaders wanted to take action, it was too late. Still they tried to find a solution. Great Britain, under the leadership of Neville Chamberlain, wanted to seek a policy of appeasement, which is…

like Russia, Italy, and Spain. So in 1905 Kaiser Wilhelm 2 visited Tangier and rode down the streets on a white horse with a military and with morocco troops and he proclaimed to support an independent Morocco open to the peaceful competition of all nations for trade, he called for the international conference to discuss the future of Morocco. And the international conference was held at Algeciras(Spain) in 1906 and powers divided into two. Germany was weakly supported by Austria-Hungry and…

The Land of the Free Zazueta 1 Is America truly what we want it to be? The question that James G. Thompson asked himself has surely purposefully as it captures the early twentieth century perfectly. A time where no one was sure of what would happen in the future. I strongly maintain that America is not the society everyone depicts. Let me begin the discussion by talking about World War II and America’s involvement and why it matters now, in 2016.…

how did the Canadian identity form. Canadian identity comes in many shapes and forms. An identity is something that everyone who lives in Canada shares. Also it is what separates a country from others and the fact of being who or what a person or a nation is.The Canadian identity formed just like any other country. Canadian identity has taken various forms throughout the history and this depends on the authority given the final word of important matters. Mackenzie King was one of many people…

Globalization brought racism and slavery to the world. The saying that “ignorance is bliss” is very appropriate because if every nation lived in their own homogenous bubbles, then there wouldn’t be things like racism or genocide. The loss of life and tragedy on such a global scale is not worth the exchange of ideas or goods that came from globalization. “When I search for Man in…

divides the nation from the rest of the world. As Americans, we idealize the equal…

race, all trying to built up bigger and better than everyone else. But the militaries did not have much to do, so they began getting antsy which would help lead to WWI. This happened again in 1933 when Adolf Hitler pulled Germany out of the League of Nations, a peacekeeping organization. Hitler then began rebuilding Germany’s military and airforce up to a half a million men while simultaneously remilitarizing the Rhineland, a strip of land between Germany and France previously agreed on to be a…

countries look World war 1 and 2 as examples, and they do the best that they can to not repeat history. For they know how deadly it can end when war is use to solve the problem. A lot of progress have been made since world war 1 and 2, such as, the united nation, which was created to maintain peace and security. It is a very successful organization and through it, countries can come together to negotiate on things that may not be suitable for them but might be suitable to the other counties.…

Woodrow Wilson proposed his resolution to World War I known as “Wilson’s 14 points” during the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson’s ideas and his “14 points” were shut down by the other countries’ representatives during this peace meeting. While a majority of the Allied members favored the traditional punishment for Germany and her Allies, Woodrow Wilson was more forgiving toward Germany saying “Victory would mean peace forced upon a loser, a victor’s terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be…

Although the French government had been aware of Hitler’s plan to reoccupy the demilitarized Rhineland during the Spring of 1935, it took the French government nearly a year to decide how they would respond once Hitler decided to move German troops into the Rhineland. France’s indecisiveness regarding the reoccupation of the Rhineland was due to the fear of French people who thought it would provoke a war with the Germans, and the French generals’ lack of confidence in fighting a war against…