League of Nations

World War I, the first war that is generally understood to be a total war, affected soldiers from around the world fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts in various ways. The experiences that individuals faced are generally dependant on random factors of military rank, ethnicity, which of the fronts someone was stationed and the time said soldier was stationed. There seems to be two overall perspectives of how soldiers made sense of the war at the time of writing their first-hand accounts,…

Turkey and Austria-Hungary which meant that these nations had to call on the populations to help fight (Royde-Smith,…

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace agreement made by the Allied forces with Germany at the end of WWI. The treaty was made in effort to help rebuild Europe and create peace after a four-year period of devastation that killed millions of soldiers and civilians. Politicians from 32 different countries were thrashed with the difficulty of creating a peace agreement. Politicians from Britain and America had different intentions from that of France on what the Treaty was supposed to accomplish.…

The WW1 was one of the most horrific and dramatic wars of are time, The main causes of the WW1 was MAIN. MAIN stands for M-Militarism, A-Alliances, I-Imperialism, N-Nationalism these are the main causes of WW1. Militarism was one of the biggest impacts on the WW1 because the where the Arms race, but the leading causes were The Road to war, The Spanish-American War, and The New Foreign Policy, These wars were the biggest leading causes of WW1. WW1 is are first biggest war that we were in and had…

The subject of war and the loss had deeply influenced poetry on the first half of the 20th century. Poets from all around the world had felt the direct influence of these earth-shattering wars and expressed their passionate responses towards the horrors of war. It was during the times of war in which the poems “Refugee blues” and “Disabled” were written by W.H. Auden and Wilfred Owen respectively. Considered to be some of the most remarkable pieces of literature, they were written in the times…

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, you come across "Action vs. Inaction" very often. Before this novel was written, World War ll had just ended, and had greatly affected many societies in terms of limits and tragic changes. In this novel, there are many issues such as books being prohibited and people with different ideas being judged. These issues bring up the idea of the people who are being affected speaking for themselves and fighting for their rights.The main character of…

Death is ubiquitous, taking numerous manifestations and meanings. Whether it being the conclusion of a cycle or the genesis of another, there are many interpretations. In Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis, death is a paramount theme. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa is a traveling salesman who awakens one day as a giant insect. He then endures a series of abuse propagated mainly by his father, but which does not exclude his mother and sister, until his death one morning. The death…

The Darkest Hour presents the British government during World War II and how Winston Churchill became a significant player in winning the war and saving many soldiers from Dunkirk. The movie is a partial biography of Winston Churchill, personality interpreted by Gary Oldman, who also won an Oscar as the best leading role. The movie shows different sides of the same character. Winston travels from an angry and indelicate personality from an understanding and feverous leader one by the end of the…

The Great War or First World War broke out on 28th July 1914. It took more than nine millions combatants and seven millions civilian’s lives. Many intellectuals of the time grieved over the catastrophe and expressed their views, trying to analyze the possible causes of such a great and unprecedented catastrophe. In Lenin’s words The war is a product of half a century of development of world capital and of its billons of threads and connections. It is impossible to escape from the imperialistic…

Faith is Power Faith is not something that one can see or touch, but it is still something that one can have. In the book All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, the protagonists Marie-Laure and her father, Monsieur LeBlanc, have to suddenly flee Paris to a safer town, Saint-Malo, because of the beginning of World War II. Not only do they have to travel all the way to Saint-Malo, but Monsieur LeBlanc has to carry a diamond that may or may not be the famous Sea of Flames diamond and Marie…