World War I reparations

Among the battlegrounds Canadian soldiers have toiled and fought, Vimy is aptly the location of Canada’s largest war memorial, symbolic of the selfless exploits of Canadian soldiers. The Battle of Vimy Ridge awakened nationalism and pushed the country out of Britain’s shadow, while other battles such as those of Passchendaele and Somme were counterproductive, leading to fruitless sacrifices that deflated Canadian morale and a costly stalemate that created internal and external rifts for Canada,…

Western Front by Erich Remarque, a man named Paul Baumer is persuaded to join the war by his school teacher. As he gets more into war itself, he questions his decision to join and so do his mates in the war. When Paul has time alone on sentry duty, he really opens up and tells the reader about what he is thinking about the war. As the war progresses, Paul begins to think about memories of home and how pride of being in the war was something that is not all that important to him. The importance…

War has begun. The 28th of July 1914, will be synonymous with pain, anger, and destruction, and we will sit by in Russia and watch it all happen. We will sit at the top of the world and the depths simultaneously, watching from the highest seat, while our good strong men be sent away to die in the millions… If our Tsar asks this of me, I will go, and you; you will be in my heart until my end. I love you, forever and you live in my heart always. Here at the factory, they’ve been preparing for it…

| A P R I L 1 9 4 3 | THE ground shook beneath their feet as the enemy fired rounds of shells one right after the other. The aid station was less than two miles away from the front line, and to Vera and her nurses it was absolutely horrifying. In the months they had been on duty, this was the closest they ever came to the battlefield. Tensions in the aid station were high. Too many men were being dropped off, and there weren't enough staff members to tend to them all. The cases were brutal,…

themes of All Quiet on the Western Front was the brutality of the war. Throughout the book, there were numerous times depicting what war was actually like, not what it was made out to be by the commanders behind the front line. The war brought strangers together and friends even closer. The comradeship that happens during the book is in direct result of how much the brutality of the war has caused. With the increasing brutality of the war, we’ve seen the increase of camaraderie through the…

a dried bloody corpus, I desperately held back the sensation of being nauseous at this moment. I needed to be strong, if not for Skylar's sake. Then, came the soldier's bullet nicking his skin. God help us now. He glimpsed at the six of us, huddled in the two farthest corners. Our lives had forever changed. Nothing would be ever the same. Everything we thought we knew, had turned up-side-down. After surviving our ordeal, everyone's loyalty had been tested. Honestly, I didn't know who to…

Despite President Woodrow Wilson influencing and starting up the League of Nation the United States of America not being apart of the organization was a huge deficiency because the legitimacy and power the United States had. Why was the United States not apart from the League of Nations? President Woodrow Wilson would have had to convince the Senate to approve of the U.S. joining the League of Nations and at the time the United States practiced a policy of isolationism, the belief that they…

Do you know what a genocide is? According to Webster’s Dictionary a genocide is “the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.” There is a total count of thirty documented genocides in history. Twenty-nine of them are recognized by the United States as a genocide and one is not, also known as the Armenian Genocide The Armenian genocide is familiar to some but not many, as of 2015 should the United States recognize this as genocide? Armenia,…

Nazi’s and The Turkish people were responsible for the Genocide of these two groups. The Nazis carried out one of the most notorious crimes in history, The Holocaust. They killed countless minorities but specifically targeted the Jewish. During World War 1, The Ottoman Empire was having a lot of turmoil between the two main ethnicities in the country, The Turks and The Armenians. The Turks felt as though the Armenians may be a threat and made their country weaker, so they decided to simply…

As the European nations sought to decrease the power of the Ottoman Empire, they introduced nationalism to the Arabs. The British seduced local Arab leaders to leave the Ottoman Empire and create their own state and Caliphate. The Arabs joined the fight wishing to gain their independence from the Ottomans. They wanted their own identity and a unified Arab region but what happened was the Arabs were separated into mandates governed by the French and British. The promises for Sheriff Hussein were…