League of Nations

Isolationism, intended to result in the best interests of a nation, is an ineffective foreign policy that represents weakness, selfishness, and fear. Remaining uninvolved in European conflict promotes that the United States is naive in believing that the rages of war will stay confined to the boundaries of Europe and Asia. Furthermore, one could claim that the country has no intention of maintaining peace overseas. Restrictions, such as The Neutrality Act of 1935, allow Hitler’s forces to grow…

In regards to the organization of The Fall of the Dynasties, Taylor manages, rather spectacularly, to portray the tangle of dynasties, alliances, and battles in the Balkan region relatively chronologically, accomplished in such a way that the book can be sectioned off according to the dynasty being discussed. To this end, Taylor successfully avoids creating unnecessary confusion regarding an already confusing topic, thus allowing him to better fulfill his aim to identify the cause and effect…

William Jennings Bryan – Born March 19 1860, Salem Illinois, died July 26, 1925, Dayton Tennessee at the age of 65. Bryan was a father of three children and happily married. His wife was Miss Mary E. Baird, and his children were: Ruth Bryan Owen, Grace Bryan, and William Jennings Bryan Jr. Born in Illinois, Bryan became a Nebraska Congressman in 1890. In the Democratic convention of 1896, Bryan with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, was defeated by William McKinley to become…

What is the Underlying cause of WW1 Nationalism was the underlying cause of World War 1 (WW1).Nationalism is the pride of a country feeling superior over everyone else. It caused a spark between many neighboring countries who were more or less stronger than another country.Many other causes can also be said to start World War 1 like imperialism and militarism, but nationalism will always be the underlying cause. Alliances made countries strong together and WW1 became a numbers game.It all…

was true initially, it quickly became clear that both sides were equally met, and there would be no clear victor. Through timely reinforcements by the British and French, the Turks were able to push the Russians back to the border, before all three nations began an attacking into the Crimean peninsula that gave the war its name. With the 11 month siege of Sevastopol, it’s this offensive that would define the war for the butchery and needless violence that it was. While…

With the vast amount of history in the entire world, history has to be broken into different categories and be analyzed by different historians. Who are these different historians? Some examples include political historians, economic historians, cultural historians, psychohistory historians, and many more. Personally, I see myself as an intellectual historian because I find interpreting ideas to be very interesting. Norman J. Wilson claimed that it is the idea that “historical changes happen…

World War II left a large majority of Europe divided, broken, and war-torn. Nazi Germany was defeated and dismantled yet much of Europe appeared the same way. Europe was forced to endure countless political, economic, and social challenges. The solution to many of these issues turned out to be the pact of peace, commonly misconceived as the welfare state. State intervention into the market economies was largely, and for the most part, accepted but not to the point of the Soviet Union’s standards…

“War. Terrible War.” In the movie, the Hunger Games, the man, President Snow makes a speech in which that statement is made. War is basically systematized & pre-planned conflicts organized by head of states, a war either happens between two or more countries, with in a country, or against a specific group, such as wars against terrorism. There are ten main reasons for war, both within countries boarders, a civil war, as well as conflicts between two or more countries; unavailability of rights,…

American citizens that opposed the war, isolationists, were afraid of the consequences that the participation of the United States could have on the nation. Americans and the nation itself was still recovering from the first World War and the Great Depression so the thought of being in another world war was very much fearful. Roosevelt wanted to be involved in the war because he believed isolating himself from the…

Wilson believed that establishing democratic governments in struggling nations would secure their loyalty to the United States and not to European countries which later led to him establishing constitutional, democratic governments in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, including other countries too. During the 1930s, the policies…