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The First World War went down as the deadliest conflict in history, with over 17 million deaths and 20 million injuries ("WW1 Casualties"). Although, what possible reason could ‘justify’ over 37 million casualties? Like many historical events, WW1 transpired in wake from equally influential events, like a domino effect. In 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip sparked the initial outbreak of fighting, and WW1 began. Yet, this wasn’t the sole reason for war. Many…

factors directly and indirectly and greatly affected both countries afterwards, changing the European societies from feudal states to modern sovereign states. This extremely long battle was not a mere fight, but a turning point that affected the way nations are ruled today. This war started in 1339 when Edward Ⅲ invaded Northern France. It continued intermittently for more than a hundred years, involving several generations of English and French kings. This war finally ended in 1453 with France…

The treaty of Versailles, which ended the war with Germany in 1918, resulted in great shock for Germans. Not only did Germany lose the war, but were also forced to deal with the harsh terms the treaty imposed on them. Nonetheless, many argue that the treaty led Germany to recover its dominance in central Europe. However, Germans did not see it that way. Most Germans, in fact, despised it. One of the most controversial terms of the treaty was the “war guilt clause” since it imposed Germany to…

Differences meet In this very second there is a war in the Middle East. Different ideologies fight for the control of the area. Differences are destroying a once blossoming culture. This is seen way too often in the human history, but differences are not necessarily bad. When it comes to love different people meet and something magical happens the same could be said about friendship. The short story “Cathedral” written by Raymond Carver in 1989 is a great example on how differences can come…

The Second World War: Collective Memory and History- Historiographical Essay: Judt, T. “The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Post-War Europe.” In Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past, edited by J.W. Muller, 157-83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Paragraph- Judt’s Main Arguments: Tony Judt’s essay The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Post-War Europe details the immediate post-war European past that failed to face the…

World War One started July 28, 1914. The conflict arose when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife Sophie were assassinated by a Serbian terrorist group. Russia became part of the fighting July 31, 1914 and then Germany declared war on Russia August 1, 1914. Many other countries got involved as well. There were two groups the Allies and the Central Powers. Regardless what side you were on many lost sons, husbands, and fathers. Eight million troops died and 21 million were wounded.…

Did you know that within the first day of the battle at Somme over 57 thousand Britons died? This was only one small battle that occurred during World War One and only a small fractions of the lives lost in the war. World War 1 was a battle between the allies: Russia, France, Great Britain and the U.S. and the Central Power: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy that started in 1914. The war lasted four long years. There were many events that are thought of as being the cause of the war. The…

Kenneth Bevan Professor Wood HIST 334 23 February 2016 The Innovation of Propaganda in WW1 During World War One, propaganda was employed on a global scale. Propaganda was a new found method for nations to spread their ideals and stances on the war and bring them to their homeland and neighboring allies on relatable scale. With propaganda came many different forms and technics of implementing these ideas to the people on both sides of the Allies and Central Powers, they were forms of…

“Kriegsschulduge” or war-guilt lie which further spread negative discourse around the Treaty and the reparations payments it called for. Advocating the payment of reparations was very risky to the political future of politicians – the assassinations of Vice-Chancellor Matthias Erzberger and Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau make this evidently clear – and so Weimar ministers resorted to a policy of obstruction and inaction towards reparations. In this context, many German citizens started…

Many years ago, Europeans experienced a period called the “Medieval Times” or also known as the “Middle Ages”. The time period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. These times were often thought of as the most turbulent, or most exciting in the English and European history! The Medieval people were war like, they always wanted to conquer new land. Even though the Medieval times has numerous things to be remembered by, the most remembered from the Medieval Times were the castles.…