As a result of a devastating and bloody world war, popular sentiment in America returned to a foreign policy of isolationism. ... People didn't want to risk more American lives and money to fight a war that had nothing to do with them in the first place. ... In 1921, an Emergency Quota Act was passed that limited the number of immigration from that country to 3 percent of the people already living in the US; and in 1924, the quota was reduced to 2 percent. ... As a result of the devastation the war had upon Britain, which held the strongest economy in the world prior to the war, the fina...

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As violence continues in the Middle East, the roots of the conflicts in the area can be seen to originate from World War I. ... By the beginning of World War I, although the Middle Eastern Conflicts did not play a significant part during the war, the Middle Eastern Conflicts is best understood as a power struggle between Arabs and Jews because of Zionism and Arab Nationalism before WWI, three essential agreements during WWI, and the affects following World War I. Before World War I, the declining Ottoman Empire had two rising movements that would begin the conflict in the Middle East. ... As...

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This was therefore a missed opportunity to rebuild Europe after World War 1 and create economic stability. ... Therefore the Paris peace Treaties both created and failed to solve a variety of economic issues in Europe during the 1920s; important examples of this were the Reparations and the War debts, which had effect of creating an economical unstable Europe and poverty who´s final result was the outbreak of the Second World War. ... Therefore the Treaties caused political instability in Europe after World War 1 especially as they humiliated and isolated the central powers, especial Germany,...

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Like every other war, World War 1 took many lives and money and changed the balances in the world. Actually, these big wars are usually emerging to change the balances because some sides don't like the world to stay as it is. In the Gallipoli War, which was a part of the World War 1 there were different sides which were joining the war for different reasons and goals. ... The following pages that will be about the Gallipoli War that took place during the World War 1 will not include all of the sides that entered this war. ... The two contracting parties agree to observe strict neutrality ...

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When Italy first entered into World War One they did so on the territorial conditions of the secret treaty of London in 1915. ... When the First World War ended 2.5 million troops were demobilized, this led to a massive rise in unemployment and did nothing to encourage public opinion towards Paris Peace Treaties and this bad feeling spread to the politicians soon the treaties were being accused of inflicting a mutilated peace upon the Italian people. ... This unification led to many problems in Italy, the first and perhaps most important was the definite sense of disunity between states. ... T...

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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. ... "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. ... It is important to note that these massacres were not spontaneous, but rather a calculated daily military operation. ... Much like the National Socialist of pre-World War II, this new group of Turk...

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The horrors of World War 1 created an immense market allowing British authors, both professionals and amateurs, the leeway to express what they witnessed in the frontline (Das 9). ... Among those: Ivor Gurney, whose development of poems of originality, broken poetic form, urgency for change in attitude and disruptiveness call of the war, has made him one of the great World War I poets. ... However his studies were quickly halted by the outbreak of World War I. ... But it's important to note that even before his participation in the war, Gurney was already suffering from an eccentric perso...

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"Bertolt Brecht In 1914, the world witnessed one of the most terrible and bloody wars in the history of mankind to that date. 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. On the surface, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, seemed to be the cause of the events that led to a European and, eventually, a world war. ... The fundamental motive behind this Pan-Slavism was to unite all the Serb peoples under one government. ... The entire future of ...

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Introduction: The Weimar Republic was created after World War I with Germany in a state of near-anarchy. ... Germany was the losing state at the end of the First World War, and although the Weimar Republic was born around 1919, the government carried substantial negative baggage from the previous era. ... But reparations only cost Germany 2% of her national out put per year. This suggests that the annual payments were not too harsh and the reason why Germany became so poor was because of the vast sums of money spent on the war and the world recessions. ... This meant that many people coul...

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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. ... They supported two more radical groups: the Socialists and the Catholic People's party (newly formed with the pope's blessing), which appealed to the common people, especially in the countryside. ... After the war, these groups formed the base of Mussolini's fascist movement. ... Fascists believed that war ennobled man and regenerated sluggish and decadent peoples. ...

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Nonetheless there is however a general consensus amongst historians that the frightful events of world war one, distilled a sense of fear and regret amongst British society, and consequently Britain strived to prevent any future war, through whatever means necessary. In the aftermath of World War 1, lay a mutual understanding between the British government and society that never again should a catastrophe such as World War 1 occur, it was described as the war to end all wars reinforcing the view that it was a cataclysmic event which should never be re-enacted upon society. ... World Wa...

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Most importantly, Rosa Luxemburg and fellow Spartacist Communist leader Karl Liebknecht were murdered, stripping the communists of their leaders. ... They felt it was too harsh, that it was a forceful 'dictated' peace, and most importantly, they felt they had not lost the war, and so did not deserve such severe punishment. ... Ludendorff was arrested, and then Hitler two (2) days later. ... The treaty required Germany to pay the Allies reparations for the damage incurred during World War I. ... The blame was not laid on the Kaiser's war government which had started the inflat...

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