The Treaty of Versailles solved none of the problems that caused WWI, and sparked issues that resulted in WWII. ... While it did temporarily stop the Great War, it ended up sparking World War II, which was much more deadly. ...
Submarines of World War I The First World War introduced a whole host of new technology to the armies of the world. The machine gun, the tank, and the airplane ruled the battlefields of France and Germany. These new inventions changed the face of warfare forever. As equal, the submarine changed ...
This marked the first occasion since the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks where Christians resisted soldiers in Turkey.4 This rise in Armenian Nationalism expressed by the ARF sparked the initial massacres of 1894. ...
From April of 1915 to 1917, the Ottoman empire began a process of eliminating its Armenian population by a mass genocide or "ethnic cleansing." At the time, the first World War was already occurring, which turned out to be the original spark that would cause the carnage to flare. Thomas de Waal sta...
In America, we are privileged to live in such a place where our religion is not put on trial and who or what one believes in is not reason to ignite violence on such an extreme stage. In the movie Gandhi, India is revealed much like the United States was during the Civil Rights Movements, a country...
1) The greatest cause of World War 1 was the European Alliances. Before World War One began, certain European nations had entered into many alliances to protect themselves from each other. There were ten major alliances formed in Europe before 1914. The countries created alliances between t...
The conditions after World War One left Germany in a vulnerable state. The Great Depression and the Treaty of Versailles proved to weaken the once world super power immensely. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party offered a new direction for Germany. This vulnerable state helped aid Hitler in his grasp f...
The Decline and Fall of The Romanov Dynasty World War 1 was the defining factor which led to the collapse of the Romanov Dynasty in February, 1917. Without it a revolution would not have happened at this point in time. This is not to say a revolution would not have eventually happened, as many of...
English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. England has b...
The great Mahatma Gandhi once said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." In other words, violence is not the correct way to resolve problems between two or more opposing groups. Violence will always serve its long term ...
When German Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg was asked why war broke out he replied with a sigh "Oh - if I only knew!" (Ross, 53) This statement implies that there was not just one thing that caused the war there were many. Tensions were building all over Europe prior to the outbreak of World War One. Ev...
The rise of the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, during the 1920s was no coincidence. The world, especially Germany, was ripe for dictatorship following the Great War. The Treaty of Versailles crippled Germany and laid the foundation for another World War. Germany, ravaged by war, was facing a crisis caused by rising unemployment, substantial inflation, famine, allied control, and outrageous war reparations. Moreover, the growing dissent in Germany caused by the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Government's failure to restore order prompted the rise of one of the most dange...
World War One or "The Great War" as it became known, occurred due to many causes, some of which still remain unexposed today. The obvious trigger for the war was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28th June 1914. The assassination occurred during the Archduke's visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Archduke was targeted due to the general feeling amongst Serbians that, once appointed to the throne, Ferdinand would continue the persecution of Serbs living within the borders of the Austro-...
Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera was influenced by the wars in the early 1900s that paved the way for a Bolshevik culture rooted in the principles of communism. For example, Russia's Soviet Montage Era in the 1920s dissuaded producers from the conventional ways of making films and encouraged t...
