The shifting balance in power in Europe and the thought that all the countries believed they would benefit from war was key in the outbreak of war in 1914. World War One was a war intended to end all wars and as a consequence became a 'Total War'. A war that not only involved soldiers and a battlefield but one that took over countries socially and domestically everyone became part of the war effort, everything at home was targeting towards war in 1914. ... Many believe that the Alliance system of World war one was a major reason of why world war one surfaced. ... This competition cam...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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History books choose to focus on the massacres that took place from 1915 through 1917 during the Great War; what is often overlooked is the suffering the Armenians endured forty years prior to the war. The aim of this essay is to understand the history prior to the genocide, the reasons for it and the massacres against the Armenians during the war. ... "2 In reference to the revolutionary ambitions Hamid spoke of, in the mid-1880s new generations of Armenian youth began returning to Turkey after receiving European university educations. ... These reforms included the Armenian right to vo...

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The Spanish Civil War signified to great ideologies, Fascism and Communism. To some extent the Spanish Civil War struggled between Fascism and Communism but towards the end, Fascism was not applied by the government. There were two opposing sides during the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalists and the Republicans. ... As these major groups quarreled over military and revolutionary policy they caused a social revolution and severe internal confusion. ...

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For Germany, the war was lost, their emperor had fled and the despondent citizens were rebellious. ... The end of the bitter war had caused unstable conditions for Germany and with the defeat of the military, political and ethical deterioration and conservative authority ruling a radical minority, it was evident that Germany needed democracy before it spiralled out of control. ... The sailors had inadvertently started an uproar that was to bring about revolutionary thinking however did a revolution really come about? ... The sailors revolt against authority showed revolution characteristic...

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The Russo-Japanese war was a strategic move by Nicholas II to distract his people from the domestic problems that existed within the nation during 1904. He believed winning the war would regain trust between him and his people and recreate that forgotten sense of nationalism. ... This revolutionary constitution gave the people freedom of speech, reduction in numbers and power of the Okhrana and made political parties legal. ... The terrible losses of World War I created tremendous controversy with an uncontrollable country wanting change and desperate for a revolution. ... He supported direct ...

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Bismarck's revolutionary economic policy resulted in the rapid expansion of German commerce and industry along with the acquisition of overseas colonies. Despite Bismarck's successful war victories and popularity amongst the nation his reign began to crumble with the death of Emperor Fredrick III. ... With the collapse of the Dreikaiserbund in 1884 Bismarck realised there was a possibility that Russia would join with France, who were still revenge hungry from their defeat in the Prussian-Franco war. The outcome of this would be the continuous threat of a two-front war. ... Unde...

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This presented a problem to the autocracy in that it was dangerous (from a revolutionary point of view) to have so many discontent people (around 3 million) so close to the centers of power. Any revolutionary sentiment that arose was crushed and society was kept under the thumb of the autocracy through harsh oppression. ... Like in the 1904-5 war against Japan, Russia's army was again poorly equipped. Nearly a million men started the war with no rifles and many more had no boots. ... During the course of the war, the Duma was also in turmoil. ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. ... Italy had long-standing problems that were made worse by the war. ... Small shopkeepers and white-collar workers-social groups that did not think the working-class movement supported their interests-found themselves alienated by business elites on the one hand and by apparently revolutionary radicals on the other. ... After the war, these groups formed the base of Mussolini's fascist movement. ... Indeed, the government quickly aligned with big business, creating more of a corrupt bureaucrac...

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Several crises almost led to general European war in the decade before 1914. ... Austria declared war on Serbia and immediately began to bombard Belgrade on 28 July 1914. Austria wished an excuse for a war with Serbia, because had interests in the Balkans where the nationalism sentiment, headed by Russian Emperor, has been risen prior the war. ... Consequently, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August and on 3 August on France. ... When Poincare' (President of France) refused to withdraw support for Russia, Germany also declared war on France (3 August) and privately expressed his re...

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Germany had this attitude of hope and expectancy because, by allowing people such as Lenin back to Russia, they could expect an end to the war with Russia and therefore fight only one front instead of two. ... It is because of this that the Bolsheviks were able to spread their revolutionary ideas. The defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and the failure of the Duma to control Nicholas" inefficient rule both created misery amongst the Russian people. ... World War One provided this catalyst. Although accompanied by patriotism and extreme nationalism, some predicted the war would end the reign of...

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Germany had this attitude of hope and expectancy because, by allowing people such as Lenin back to Russia, they could expect an end to the war with Russia and therefore fight only one front instead of two. ... It is because of this that the Bolsheviks were able to spread their revolutionary ideas. The defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and the failure of the Duma to control Nicholas" inefficient rule both created misery amongst the Russian people. ... World War One provided this catalyst. Although accompanied by patriotism and extreme nationalism, some predicted the war would end the reign of...

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The impact of total war on the home fronts of both Germany and Britain required each of the governments to implement controls that would enable an effective conduct of war while maintaining social and economic order. The ineffectiveness of the controls regarding economic life that were implemented by the German government resulted in the influence of total war being much more detrimental to the war effort than was the case in Britain. ... Additionally, other special state corporations were established, such as the Supreme War Office. ... This was effective in suppressing dissent and anti war ...

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At the time, Russia lagged economically behind European countries as a direct result of World War I from 1914-1918 and the Russian Civil War from 1917-1922. ... World War I and the Russian Civil War led to the establishment of a Communist government in Russia, which leveraged its tight control on the film industry in order to forge unity amongst all social classes. ... The Russian Civil War was fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the Anti-Bolshevik White Army. ... Vertov made Man with Movie Camera so Russia as a whole could apply the revolutionary communistic ideals and work together as ...

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Before the First World War, rising living standards, increased education, and general progress, gave people an extremely optimistic view of their future and the world around them. ... Yet the cataclysmic destructiveness of World War One, in conjunction with continually changing ways of modern thought, seemed to not only mask all of this optimism, but also shatter it in a way that was, and still is completely unparalleled by any other time in history. ... The works of a man by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche, who lived from 1844 until 1900, were later discovered and revived by many radic...

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World War One, at that time entitled the Great War, began as a result of the conflict between the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbia. ... Although the assassination precipitated the events that led to war, the true causes of the Great War were much deeper and much more convoluted than a gunshot and the death of a statesman. ... In 1859, Charles Darwin presented what was to be one of the most revolutionary theories in biological science when he published his On the Origin of Species. ... One of the most striking influences of these revolutionary ideas was the rise of nat...

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All major powers had anticipated war, and the pre-war planning, such as the Schlieffen Plan, exacerbated everything. ... The youth had slowly been indoctrinated for war. Society itself was familiar with the possibility of war. ... Mayer thus points to a pre-revolutionary state of affairs in all of Europe, which lead to an intense "interconnection of domestic politics and foreign politics." ... The solution, again, was war. ...

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Moreover, the tsar was forced to concentrate more on military matters because of the increased threats from Germans and the evolution of the First World War. ... The revolutionary Bolsheviks used this opportunity and seized the power with the help of a revolution (Fuhrman T)....

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