DADA The word Dada simply means rocking horse in its native tongue. But over the past century it has taken on a whole new meaning. In Zurich, Switzerland, 1916, the chance meeting of a collection of young artists sparked a group we know today as Dada. Most were young men retreating to neutral Sw...
Lets go back to 1916 where Hugo Balle, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, and Richard Hue- Isenbeck are finding the Dada artistic movement. These guys are a bunch of anarchists living in Zurich, Switzerland. The Dada movement preaches the "essence of spirit" the freedom of expression, hatred to "the great...
Trench Warfare By 1915 the bolt Lee Enfield Rifle with a range of nearly a mile could fire 25 rounds a minute. Even more devastating was the Vickers Machine Gun which fired 600 rounds a minute. The howitzer could fire shells eight miles. Add grenades, flame throwers and eventually gas and it's no...
The signing of the Versailles Treaty on June 28th 1919 and the formation of the League of Nations were thought to be the two ground-breaking events that would idealistically end war and bring an everlasting peace to the world. Even with the covenant of the League in place, war broke out in 1937...
At the beginning of the First World War, popular opinion was that it would not last more than four months. It was also believed that the science of modern warfare would be so deadly that mankind would demand cessation of such barbarism. The failure to anticipate the severity of war, and to be unprep...
The Treaty of Versailles, which was made after World War One, caused German anger in many ways, including the high reparation claims and how much territory was taken from them. There were also some other actions taken during the 1920-1929 period to try and maintain peace, in the form of treaties and...
Love and war can have many effects on a person. In the novel A Farewell to Arms written by Earnest Hemingway the central character is a young man by the name of Frederic Henry. Fredric is effected by love and war and this causes him to change quite a bit. The novel takes place in Italy during the ...
Adolf Hitler was able to gain the support of the German people in these years through numerous devices, pretty much all of them were propaganda. Hitler came at a good time where the population was fed up with how it was being run and also a great depression had just hit Germany. Hitler also fuelled ...
WWI Essay Causes The four main causes of WWI were nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and the system of alliances. The match that lit the fire was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, by Gavril Princip. Gavril Princip was a member of the terrorist organization the "Black Hand". After the assas...
The novel Daddy is a historical fiction/thriller takes place during World War II. Because this book is more of a thriller than a historical novel, the author's purpose in writing this book is to entertain the reader rather than educate them, although he ended up doing so in the process. Hans Thom...
Using a film as a historical source allows us to peer into the perspective of the director or producer that had experienced through the time period that is portrayed in the film. In Renoir's Le Grande Illusion, we are able to sense and understand the sentiments of the European population that were i...
The league of nations was an idea of Woodrow Wilson, the president of America from 1914 to 1921. The league was established in 1920. It was set in Switzerland because it was a neutral country. The main 2 countries of the league were Britain and France. Some people say that the league of nations was ...
