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    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…

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    Causes of the Great War The Great War, also known as World War I, was an event in Europe that caused ten million deaths over the course of four years. It is one of the worst wars in history. There are many contributing factors that caused the ‘’War to End All Wars’’. First, the Eastern and German questions remained unanswered. Second, the July Crisis of 1914, and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. And third, there was a long lasting rivalry between the Great Powers. The…

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    The Great war was started on June 28, 1914 when the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand,was assassinated by Serbian rebels in Bosnia. This cause the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire) to declare war on the Serbians and the Allied powers which were Russia, Great Britain, and France. For almost three years, The United State did not want to enter the “Great War” because they felt that it could cause civil unrest between Immigrant that came from countries…

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    The five most accredited causes of the Great War are the following: military buildup, the rise of nationalism, competitions for colonies, military alliances and the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War (Reichert). First of all, military buildup began with the conscription law of 1905, in while every male over eighteen years of age was required to join the military; Germany…

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    The Causes of World War 1/ the Great War The Great War, or what most people know it as World War 1, was an extremely bloody war that took place in Europe from 1914-1919. World War 1 caused an estimated of 10 million soldier deaths and 20 million more wounded. Finally, at the end of 1918, the Versailles Treaty was signed by the countries taking part in the war, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Britain, France and Russia, which was a treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the…

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    Everyone knows Harrison Ford, from Indiana Jones to Star Wars his career has been a success but his greatness was not immediate. Ford originally went to Los Angeles to get a job in radio voice overs. He didn't get the job, but he didn't give up on the entertainment industry altogether. Eventually he got some small uncredited roles in a few movies, yet it wasn’t nearly enough money to live by so Ford decided to leave the acting business and take up carpentry. It wasn't until 1973 when he got a…

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    with its cracked frame. The same can be said for a world that has gone to war. Ontario in particular, is a Canadian province that has not flourished because of World War 1. Wars in many cases are beneficial as they increase a countries productivity and bring unity to a countries people but not in this case. This paper is written to illustrate how World War 1 was adverse in transforming Ontario as a province. The Great War is a critical turning point in history that evidently tore Ontarian…

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    One hundred years ago today, Congress voted to enter what was then the largest and bloodiest war in history. Four days earlier, President Woodrow Wilson had sought to unite a sharply divided populace with a stirring claim that the nation “is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.” The war lasted only another year and a half, but in that time, an astounding 117,000 American soldiers were killed and…

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    On July 2, 1917, Greece declares war on the Central Powers. With a system of alliances in place among multiple nations, one by one other countries joined The Great War, which today is known as World War I. Since Addams beliefs were completely against war and violence she certainly opposed the U.S. government to joining the war. “To her a government at war was a government seeking to harm its citizens: it not only required them to kill other human beings and to risk being killed but redirected…

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    The Great War, an infamous event in human history, had a huge impact on the young minds of that generation. Two of those minds impacted by the war stem from the lost generation of famous authors, Robert Frost and John McCrae. As part of the lost generation they had the most impact on the literary world that inspired future generations of authors. Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” poem can be interpreted as his view of how the Great War ended in Fire “the world will end in fire”(Frost, 1106). World…

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