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377 shells every single day causing damage to over 64% of the buildings and over 100,000 apartments. The Bosnian Serb army also used the hills surrounding Sarajevo to its advantage by placing snipers there who targeted innocent civilians including children, elderly and women. The siege ended in 1996 after the intervention of the United Nations and The NATO, which forced the Bosnian Serb Army to declare ceasefire. However, the once beautifully diverse city of Sarajevo…

The causes of World War I remain diverse and debated questions. World War I began in the Balkans in late July 1914 and ended in November 1918, leaving 17 million dead and 20 million injured.Scholars looking at the long-term seek to explain why two rival sets of powers – Germany and Austria-Hungary on the one hand, and Russia, France, and Great Britain on the other – had come into conflict by 1914. They look at such factors as political, territorial and economic conflicts, militarism, a complex…

Speaker- Chris Hedges, a man who finds the differences between each nation's way they teach about wars, and someone who is dedicated to the history of mankind. For example, Hedges writes that, “I went one rainy afternoon to the Imperial War Museum in Vienna… [ and when] I looked for the room dedicated to World War II. There wasn’t one… [because] many Austrians had come to think of themselves as victims of that war.” By saying this, he writes that there was no WWII room because the Austrians…

2014. Web. 04 Dec. 2015. B. The Article was written to inform readers about Ferdinand’s assassination details, effects, and how different countries are remembering the assassination as the 100 year anniversary passes. For example Bosnian Serbs unveiled a statue of Ferdinand’s killer. The author’s target audience is anyone interested in history since the assassination and the chain of events that followed affected all people in some way shape or form. C. The…

An example of imagery Sebastian Junger uses is, “Sarajevo had once been a gorgeous Hapsburg-era city filled with cafés, art galleries, and theaters, but now it was sweltering in the July heat and permeated by the smell of burning garbage. Destroyed cars littered intersections where street battles had taken place, and almost every building was spattered with shrapnel”(Junger, 38). This imagery is used to show the devastation that happens during war. He gives us an image of a beautiful city and…

The outbreak of war in 1914 has been the subject of considerable debate ever since the war was concluded in 1918. Initially the victorious powers did blame Germany wholly for causing the war whilst historians from the 1920’s and 30’s tended to focus on the shared guilt e.g. Lloyd George argued that the nations of Europe slithered into the cauldron of war and nobody really wanted it but nobody really did anything to stop it. This argument has some credence but does not differentiate sufficiently…

Hungary and the Ottoman Empire). The three fundamental driver of the war were the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, across the board militarism and imperialism. The first cause of World War One took place on June 28, 1914. Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb understudy, shot and executed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the beneficiary to the Austro-Hungarian position of authority, and his significant other. Princip had a place with a gathering called the Black Hand, who wanted Serbia to be free from…

Struggling with Migrants) This action is also putting more stress on the migrants. (Bridging Oceans) Many other countries such as the UK have decided to help by committing an extra 115 million euros to the budget of the EU. (Dearden,Lizzie) Despite the Serb - Croat war in the 1990s, Serbia and Croatia have reopened their border to the migrants. In this way, many countries have decided to take their own action on this…

George Bernard Shaw is certainly one of the major playwrights in the history of English literature. Shaw’s Arms and the Man, is one of the most popular plays in English literature. Arms and the Man is a thought-provoking, anti-romantic and anti-war play. “Arms and the Man is a fitting entry-point into Shaw’s career, which goes on to encompass many more plays investigating the nature of relationships between men and women.”1 The play satirizes the social issues of the day by highlighting and…

The Black Hand was constructed when Herzegovina and Bosnia, where annexed which was resented by many Serbs and Croats. The United States entered WWI uniting with the allies in 1917, April 6th when the house of representatives had voted 373 to 50 to go to war after Germany had sunk a warship using a submarine. A supreme of World War One was battle of Verdun…