Ottoman Empire

The alliances between groups of countries formed as Allied powers, also known as allies and Axis powers, strongly opposed each other for their authoritarian establishments in the Second World War. The Allies and the Central Powers dissented each other during the World War I. Few countries like Japan, Italy were among the Allies during World War I joined the Axis Powers and fought against the Allied Powers in the World War II. In both the wars, Allies played a significant role and won. The…

World War one began on July 28th, 1914 and ended on the 11th of November 1918. It started off with a local war between Austria Hungary and Serbia. It developed into a war which involved 32 countries. Empires like the Great Britain, Germany, Austria Hungary and Russia took over many territories, and were fearful of others invasion towards their newly marked lands. Thus, countries began culturing alliances with one another. Australia, is one of the many countries that were involved in WWI. Many…

Although there were multiple reasons for the cause of WWI, nationalism contributed the most to the outbreak of the war due to Serbia’s desire for independence and excessive confidence of the European nations. The first example of such nationalism was Serbia’s effort in forming a large, independent Slavic state. Having Slavic minorities in its nation itself, Austria-Hungary opposed a greater Serbia in fear of seeing its own nation disappear. Along with the Slavs, there were various other ethnic…

World War 1, which lasted from 1914-1918, was the war to end all wars. There were four main causes behind this war, the triple alliance and the triple entente, militarism, imperialism and the rise of nationalism. The trigger of the war was the assassination of the Arch Duke Ferdinand, which led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, in this conflict Russia siding with Serbia while Germany sided with Austria-Hungary. Russia now mobilized German border which lead to Germany attacking Russia.…

However, on the other hand, heavily influenced by ‘Imperialism’, Serbia stood on a disapproved position towards the advanced annexation. Obviously, the Serbs were greatly tempted to have included the Bosnia and Herzegovina in order for a greater empire. Through this incident, the relationship between Austria and Serbia was tense, in which another provoking event could have triggered both, resulting in a war. Furthermore, the already stressed relationship had laid the foundation for one to…

In turn, when Germany was notified of the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, they encouraged the decision for war and signed a blank cheque to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in order to assure them they had their support in case anything occurred. The commonality between the players of world war one was to ultimately build a stronger nation which would dominate Europe, these nations were competitive in nature; the main…

Phobias of inferiority developed due to social Darwinism are what caused the leaders of five major powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Serbia, France, and Great Britain, to take a dramatic and unnecessary leap into a Europe-wide altercation. The idea of nationalism and heightened or decreased social stature was enough for these representatives to lose sight of what it meant to see from another’s point of view, as well as what it meant to be loyal in terms of kin and allies. European…

for military purposes; the Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided into two countries: Austria and Hungary; other parts of its territory will be used to form new states: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland (for the latter, with territories taken from Germany and Russia). the United States showed their power. They got rich: their agriculture and industry with many products to help French and the British that they also paid a lot of money. the Russian Empire became the USSR, a country where the…

The classical empires legitimate their power by displaying a set cultural and belief system. Religion played a big role to control and maintain social orders, while bringing a sense of unity. I think the most effective was the first Persian empire. The Persian Empire was founded by Cyrus the Great around 550 BCE. Although the Persian Empire came to an end by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE, it had a lasting legacy and setting the standards for other future empires. The Persian Empire also…

On February 13th, 2017 half-brother of Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-nam was assassinated at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur airport. While waiting for his flight to Macau, Kim Jong-nam reportedly said that “two unidentified women had swabbed or had wiped his face with a liquid and that he felt dizzy" to a customer service desk. He was then taken to a hospital in an ambulance but died on the way. The North Korean government has come out saying that this was no accident, and was organized by the South Korean…