Thus the post war Europe saw differing political beliefs fighting for control. ... Most European countries owed large repayments. ... These gained the fascist support, as they seemed to provide a credible opposition to the Red Threat unlike the Govts. ... Following WW1 there was significant social unrest in European countries. ... This didn't occur in post WW1 Europe. ...
In addition, unlike the economies of many European countries, the American economy remained strong until 1929. Unlike Europe, the United States had come out of World War I with a dynamic industrial economy. ... The action of the war had shattered Europe. Governments were almost bankrupt, and revolution threatened much of Eastern Europe. ... A new Europe had to be put into action. ...
The Balkans had been a problem in Europe for over a century as it was ruled by the Turkish "Ottoman Empire." ... This particular theory is supported by the fact that all of the Great Powers in Europe had a vested interest in this area of Europe. ... At the time, Britain held the bulk of trade from Europe to distant markets such as the Middle East and Asia. ... Within Europe during the early years of the twentieth century, a system of military alliances was formed to provide European powers with a sense of security before the commencement of the war. ... Unlike the Triple alliance, this agreeme...
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway is a classic novel, telling the story of Americans in Europe in the early nineteen-twenties. ... Many of them, such as the characters in The Sun Also Rises, developed a cynical attitude towards American life and chose to immigrate to Europe. ... Not unlike most of the characters of The Sun Also Rises, Robert experienced harsh alienation from society, in his case, anti-Semitism. ... After finalizing the divorce, Robert met and immigrated to Europe with status seeking social-climber, Frances Coyne, whom he worked with on a literary magazine with. In Europe, Ro...
This argument leads one to believe that Wilson was performing in a purely democratic way by helping the more democratic governments in Europe defeat the autocratic governments, such as Germany, Austria and Turkey. At the beginning of the Great War Wilson approached the notion of America joining the war as incomprehensible, partly because of his strong feelings to resolve things by peace and partly because like many other Americans" he felt that the war was a European affair. ... Everyone assumed that this act of violence was sure to bring America into the war, Germany itself had banked on it, ...
In addition, the United States believed that the war in Europe did not concern it or its citizens. ... Unlike Germany, Woodrow Wilson and his government did not have imperialistic sentiments and America's relationship at that time with Britain was not strong enough for the United States to enter the war only on Britain's behalf. ... The commencement of the war did not lessen America's need to sell goods to Europe or to acquire raw materials from European nations and their empires. The United States naively thought trading with Europe would continue as it had before the war bega...
The European allies were odd with democracy, offering some liberties but not others. ... At whatever time there was an allied victory in WWI, that particular area of Europe would become an annex to Liberal Democracy in Europe. ... Such exposure to new democratic ideals during the war put the old European empires under constant tension that would eventually lead to their collapse in the 21st century. ... Mussolini and the Fascists Of all the popular movements in Europe's changing political mesh one figure stands out in one country in particular, Benito Mussolini. ... He also played upon t...
Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...
Nor does it really make it clear that we must resist war, even if it is accompanied by the seductive speeches of political leaders saying that this latest war, unlike other bad wars we remember, will be another "good" one, like World War 2. ... This is after all the war that freed Europe from Nazism. ...
The Armenian Genocide, the First Genocide of Twentieth Century April is the month of mourning for Armenians around the world. On April 24, every Armenian remembers the loss of his/her family member in Turkey. Some 1.5 million Armenian systematical massacred during the years of 1915 to 1923 i...
Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... In the US, the citizens were a little more reluctant to enrol, caused by not only the appalling casualties in Europe, but also due to the virtual lack of any military tradition in the states", the total amount of reserves being merely 32,000, insuf...
The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and thro...
The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generati...
The poem develops an image of a family supporting their brother, and son, before he goes off to fight in Europe. ... Because of his background as a WWI soldier, Cummings probably writes this poem as a personal account of his feelings of wanting to escape the murderous trenches of Europe. ...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...
