However war in Africa can be thoroughly included in the history of World War One. ... While Algerians were he most heavily represented areas of Africa to see action in France, other nations mainly French Black Africa nations like Morocco and Senegal sent to France over 150,000 themselves . ... The idea of conscription was not popular at all in the French colonies. ... In Senegal for instance the French were offering French citizenship to all the originaires . However despite this the French had only sent 90,000 men to France by November 1917, of which 50,000 had come in the month of October 19...

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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. ... Although new philosophy is not a new or even rare event in history, the ideological changes occurring in the latter half of the nineteenth century were markedly different from those in the past because science enhanced their credibility. ... When the recent history of each of the major contributors to the outbreak of war is examined, a interest for war, based on increased nationalism, can be discovered for each. ... France's nationalist interest, ...

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Instead it was only harsh enough to make life incredibly hard for a few years, just long enough to fester hatred for the Allies, especially the French. ... France wanted to permanently punish Germany harshly enough that they could never make war again. ... After the defeat of the French by the Prussians in 1871 the Prussian diplomats met with French offcials in the "Hall of Mirrors- and hammered out an agreement. ... The leaders were David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson of the United States.(1) The purpose of forcing this treaty upon Germany...

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France was forced to give up most of Alsace and Lorraine, pay a large indemnity, and accept a German army of occupation. ... The Treaty of 1763 was signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain. ... "France lost Canada to Britain, Cuba and the Philippines were restored to Spain, and India in effect passed to Britain"(Internet 2). ... In addition, the warring European powers-Britain against France and Spain, with the Dutch as armed neutrals-effected a large-scale peace settlement. Spain reacquired the Floridas and Minorca from Britain, and Britain relinquished its restrictions on the F...

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Then would come the subjugation of France in the west, to protect its rear. ... Hitler believed that the history of mankind was really only a struggle for space among peoples, and that the strong survived by gaining the necessary living space from which they could continue to grow numerically, and in terms of racial quality. ... In 1920 Hitler's greatest enemy was France, but Germany in its miserable position, was in no way able to tackle the strongest military power on the continent. ... And on August 1st of the same year "we must use everything we can, especially the differen...

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There had always been events that played major roles for changing the balances in the world throughout history. ... The French forces are joining the battle in this period. French are being keen in involving in the Dardanelles adventure as Eleanor van Heyningen states in her text, "Helles: The French in Gallipoli-. Heyningen talks about the reasons of French government to join the war in Gallipoli, the struggles French forces faced and last the evacuation of the French troops from the Dardanelles. ... Heyningen also clarifies the attacks that the French forces had made and the attacks tha...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. ...

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These four objectives have been key factors in the defining and shaping of our country throughout its history, and they continue to influence the world (Krawling, www.edu/odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/ essay1.htm#int). ... The peace around the world was shattered in August of 1914 when German and Austria-Hungary waged on war against the alliances of Britain, France, and Russia (Handlin). ... At the same time, American trade had tripled with Britain, France and Italy ("World War I" www. ... Pershing, the AEF landed in France on June 14,1917, coming in slow numbers at first then later they came in hug...

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While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. ... While Britain and France were constantly in quest of expanding their empires at the cost of their adversaries, the United States was not in the war for Empirical gains. ... Some liberties were not even introduced until after the war such as all women being able to vote ...

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Men and women in the West felt "increasingly adrift in a strange, uncertain and uncontrollable world.""5 In his essay "The Crisis of the Spirit- written in 1919, Paul Valéry, one of France's most outstanding poets, wrote that Europe "doubted itself profoundly.""6 This is certainly true since the terrible trauma of total war left deep scars in the European "spirit."" 7 The people were so devastated by the war that they lost faith and hope in a brighter future. ... The poem "Rosie the Riveter- by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb paints a vivid picture of the role that women played in ...

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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 find those promises withdrawn when they con- flicted with principles of self-determination. Italian claims to the west coast of the Adriatic, for instance, were denied by Yugoslavia. Italy received most of the Austrian territories it demanded, but many maintained that these were inadequate rewards for ...

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The First World War: A Complete History. ... Of these countries, twenty-eight joined forces to become the Allies and Associated Powers; they included Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States. ... The Germans unloaded 168 tons of chlorine on French, Algerian, and Canadian divisions, leaving many men in a comatose or dying state instantly (Gilbert 144). ...

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At that time the new Super Powers were wary of each other, and the new found strengths that both had; the United States, (the more dominant force along with Britain and France, had a prominent place in Western Europe, while the Soviets were the undisputed and sole rulers of Eastern Europe. ... The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. ...

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The German official history of war asserts that Tannenberg was the greatest battle of encirclement in world history. ... In order to relieve pressure on France, Jilinsky agreed to launch an offensive against Germany on the Eastern Front. ...

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And they really badly wanted to get to France to get in the fighting." ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ...

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By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. ... He brought home to British poets the significance of French experimental symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine, Laforgue, and Mallarme, and observed that with them l...

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