World wars impacted in a global scale, although world war 1 and world war 2 took place in a 20 year difference, they also have their similarities besides geographic place. ... World War 1 began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war to Serbia. ... Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany. ... Cold War was a long period of tensions between the democracies of the Western World and the communist countries of Easter Europe. ... After cold war ended 9/11 demonstrated that not everyone was content with the situation. ...

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No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. ... Both wars had similar consequences. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... War on Terrorism). ...

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No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. ... Both wars had similar consequences. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... War on Terrorism). ...

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The Prospectives of World War I In World War One many people had very different opinions on the War. ... He was also known as a very good poet and once said "My subject is war, and the pity of war. ... Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. ... Though these two men were very opinionated about the war nothing they said would change the way the war started or ended. ... It was seen as a good and bad war. ...

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Those three events were World War I, World War II and the Cold War. ... At the conclusion of the war, people??? ... After World War II, the Cold War emerged; it too popularized the theory of existentialism. The main reason for the Cold War was communism; existentialism was applied to support the system of communism. ... So, existentialism is popularized by the Cold War, in addition to World War II and World War I. ...

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Whether it be the Franco-Prussian war leading into The First World War because of Alsace and Lorraine, or The First World War leading into The Second World War because of unresolved conflicts and unimaginable ideas with Germany. ... World War I began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. ... The war in Europe was over, but the war in the Pacific was still unfinished. ... World War II was over. ... They fought a war of ideas called the Cold War. ...

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He saw the carnage of two world wars, the destruction of empires through revolutions in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Russia, the surfacing of mass communist and fascist movements throughout Europe, the misery of the third Reich, the division of Germany and the cold war. ... Two years later, at the age of eighteen, he was almost expelled from school for disagreeing on whether it was necessary to defend his country in a time of war. During the First World War Brecht found himself working as an orderly in an emergency hospital until he was released from service having openly expressed a s...

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The Crimea war revealed Russia weakness and the importance to modernize to win future wars. ... Happening at the same time as the great world war 1914-1918, Russia however pulled out of the war, due to its unpopularity amongst the public. ... The war with Poland 1921-22 was won by help from France but also due to the NEP. ... so The started the Cold War with the division of Europe, with Communist Russia controlling the eastern half of Europe. Cold war/ Korean War 1945-65- As a counterbalance of NATO, the Soviet Union made the Warsaw Pact in 1955.   ...

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Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was an important figure in history because of his willingness to end the Cold War and Communism as it was known in the 1980s. ... He brought about massive economic, social, and political changes and helped bring an end to both the Soviet Union and the Cold War. ... After the tearing down of Russia, Europe as not broken out into war, thus making Gorbachev a key factor in European History. 2. ... Stalin's Soviet Union was a major factor in the defeat of Hitler in World War Two, and Stalin emerged from the war as leader of one of the world's two superpow...

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Prior to WW1, wars were generally not fought nonstop over the course of years, and that most of the soldiers in previous wars were professional mercenaries and war veterans. Now that this Great War is the complete antithesis of wars in the past, it had a profound effect on the minds of young men. ... This was because the war was born from nationalism. During this war, soldiers found themselves in utter boredom sitting idle in the cold, dirty trenches. ... This book illustrates the day and the life of a World War I trench warfare soldier....

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The use of biological warfare started to spread in the first World War. Both sides of the war used these agents for tactical purposes. ... During the cold war, many nations began experimenting and stockpiling biological and chemical weapons. ... The Hague Conference of 1899 made an attempt to outlaw weapons containing poisonous gases but when World War I came around, In Geneva in 1925 a League of Nations protocol against chemical and biological war was signed; it was not, however, ratified by the United States until 1975. ...

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For example, after World War Two the United States, the United Kingdom and France all supported a democratic cultivation in China. ... Finally, the most unsustainable argument for military intervention: the theory that by beating down doors, other nations will somehow fear us and no longer go to war with us. ... One of the major causes of the first World War was militarism. ... During the Cold War, a trend was noticed nearly immediately in terms of the Nuclear Arms Race; as the United States peaked in weapons manufacturing, the U.S.S.R soon followed suit. ... In a hearing to the State Defense ...

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Many years were spent fighting wars. Even in times of peace, war was still anticipated, and thus kept everyone prepared for war. ... Instead of constant hostility and preparing for war, people of this era sought to prevent future wars. ... The Napoleonic wars, which ended in 1816, were the first wars of the people. ... The Cold War saw an unparalleled build of arms. ...

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Throughout World War I increased engine power made faster flight and larger aircraft possible, however the transportation industry went down do to skeptical feelings towards the new invention and that people only associated planes with surveillance, bombing runs, and aerial dogfights. After World War I the surplus of airplanes that were made for military usage caused multiple production companies to go bankrupt. ... Whenever tired he would stick his head out the window and take in the cold air to wake him as well as having a slight instability built into the plane to keep him awake and focused...

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America's desire to establish an economic empire determined most of its foreign policy between the Civil War and the end of World War II, and fueled the U.S. into three wars: the Spanish-American War, WWI, and WWII. ... A decade later, as in the previously mentioned wars, the driving force in World War II was profit. ... (Zinn, 362) However, as soon as Germany threatened to sink any American ships bringing war supplies to its foes, Wilson used that as an excuse to go to war. ... (Zinn, 362) There is not even much evidence showing that the public wanted war. ... Evidence seems to indica...

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These soldiers lacked passion for the war. ... By fighting in the war did not mean the soldiers were stone cold and held no emotions. ... This war was not a glorious event to partake in for the soldiers. ... Filled with memories from the war that could never be forgotten. ... This novel holds the ability to describe the soldiers in any war. ...

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Introduction World War 1 was originally a European war. ... What had been projected as a brief war became a four year struggle. ... Rupert Brooke wrote this poem very early in the war, this is known as a pro-war poem. ... The poem "Futility", the heading says it all for Wilfred Owen, World War 1 was pointless, useless. ... "Think how it wakes the seeds, Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. ...

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Since then it has been demonstrated not only by Australians in war but also by those whose contribution has been in other fields." ... Not only battles fought with bullets, but also battles of extreme heat in summer, freezing cold in winter, fleas, flies, lice and disease. ... Although the Great War was to be the war to end all wars, there have been several major conflicts and peacekeeping missions in which Australians have participated in over the last nine decades. Some of these include; World War Two, Vietnam, The Gulf War, East Timor, Afghanistan and most recently The War on Iraq. ...

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World War I had just ended five years earlier, where 27 countries went to war resulting in 37,468,904 casualties and an unmentionable amount of money all because of the actions of one young Bosnian student. ... Life is change and when change ceases, we are only left with the coldness of death. ...

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The vivid language that he uses to describe the man's suffering send a strong message to the reader - that war is as "vile as a sore". ... Their coughs would come from wearing the cold wet clothes, causing lung disease, you would almost be able to hear them coughing up phlegm. ... Owen gives us no reprieve from the horror of the reality of war. ... This poem is true through all the ages, especially during these past few months with the war on Iraq donning on us. War means that people will suffer and all that will come of this war is suffrage. ...

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The classic existentialism time period occurred after World War II, as a result of the alienation and bitterness felt by so many people. ... Grendel rejects the notion that god purposely made the earth, and possibly if there even is a god "It was a cold-blooded lie that a god had lovingly made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land-dwellers -(55). ...

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