World War I reparations

The “great soul,” Mahatma Gandhi was a man of honor. He was a man that proved that it only takes one to change the world. Overcoming countless challenges Gandhi lived a hard, selfless life. His entire life was dedicated to his people, whom he constantly tried to gain freedom for. Gandhi lived to the tender age of 79, when he was assassinated in 1948. The entire world mourned over the death of this significant man and still remember him today. Gandhi lived his whole childhood in an…

In this essay, it will be shown how Canada joined World War One as a colony and dispersed as an independent nation. The next couple paragraphs will examine the battle of Vimy Ridge, women in the Great War, and the Treaty of Versailles benefitted Canada’s transition from a colony to a nation. This essay will be referencing the magnificent work of Garfield Newman’s, Canada: A Nation Unfolding, and Chris Trueman’s website, http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/index.htm. Vimy Ridge was located…

internal opposition to Hitler.” Both theories could be possible, sometimes going against an overwhelming opinion could be too much for a person to overcome. It would be easy for people in Germany after World War II to declare that they weren’t Nazis and protest their actions. But that’s when the worlds beliefs are coming down on them and having anti-Semitic views would be greatly looked down…

Armenian Genocide was the first genocide in the 20th century. It was a cruel event much like other genocides, but this particular one killed an estimation of 1,500,000 people. Armenians were blamed by Turkish for partnering up with the Russians during World War I. The consequence for the Armenians resulted in being forced to give up their weapons; Also those that were in the army were killed or put into slave work until they died. The Turks would find any way to get rid of the Armenians. There…

How did the British people see their empire at the end of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? They saw the Empire evolving and even some devolving. For the people living in the British empire, during the turn of the century, Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee was a time of pride and yet a time of growing insecurity about the fate of the nation, because of the concerns with status as an economic power, a strong anti-imperial sentiment was growing, and the resistance in Ireland.…

assassinated creating a buildup of war. In the build up that occurred in the beginning of the First World War many men enlisted to join the military to fight for their country. Leaders on all sides believed that the war would be short and easy. With expecting the war to be short propaganda was used to persuade men to war as quickly as possible, the promise of home by Christmas was used to encourage men to join war, and when these promises failed the reality of war set in. After the…

For years people that express anti-war feelings can be seen throughout media, like in books, news and TV or even through protest. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front written by WWI veteran Erich Maria Remarque is no exception as it delves in the horrors of war through its main character Paul Baumer, a German soldier who fights in the infamous Western Front during WWI while truly questioning if the war is worth fighting. Paul and his comrades face the disgusting conditions of the trenches as…

money they could spend a million dollars every day for years. They could easily have afforded to be more generous with their money, and spent it on the good of the poorer public rather than on the rich few. The Republicans’ corruption between the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution permitted the huge gap between the rich and the poor. As president, Cleveland was ineffective, having power to at least weaken some of the monopolies, but neglecting to do so. He vetoed bills to help the poor and…

officers assigned to trench warfare during World War I. War is and has always been one of the most psychologically taxing activities of the human race. History books or even accurate reenactments do very little to help people identify with those who had to fight for their beliefs or freedom. Journey’s End provides a very well-constructed set of examples to help the viewer understand the plight of military officers, and many mechanisms used to help cope with war. The story begins in the evening…

On July 1st, 1916, the foundation of today’s artillery profession was forever established. The Battle of the Somme (otherwise known as the Somme Offensive) was actually a series of battles that spanned over 141 days, from July 1st to November 18th, 1916. The Battle of the Somme would claim over one million casualties in the end. Three hundred thousand would be killed in action, effectively making this battle one of the deadliest in history. The militaries of 1916 were very tactically…