Austria-Hungary and Serbia that culminated in WWI. This tension was caused by the threat Pan-Slavism posed on Austria-Hungary due to its high Slavic population and its recent annexation of Bosnia Herzegovina. Another tension-builder was that Russia‚ a Slavic nation and a super-power at the time‚ was fully supporting this movement‚ thereby indirectly challenging Austria-Hungary to control of its own people. The tension had been mounting long before WWI began‚ but it was the breaking of this tension
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president that helped the American people regain faith in themselves‚ especially at the depth of the great Depression. They say he brought hope as he promised prompt‚ vigorous action after asserting this statement‚ “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” But no one looks back to notice Roosevelt to be the president who signed an executive order to condemn‚ and relocate all Japanese Americans living along the West Coast to internment camps. Roosevelt signed the Japanese Americans off to be personally
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Write a one or two paragraph diary entry explaining how the soldiers viewed their experience with their enemies. Mention in your diary the propaganda these men may have been subjected to and explain if and how their attitudes had changed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Diary‚ It is 2:00 in the morning and most of our men are asleep in their dugouts - yet I could not sleep myself before writing to you
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Battle Strategies of the First World War A battle strategy is a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim or a tactic used to direct military operations and movements in war or battle. In World War I‚ battle strategies were often planned with the idea of wearing down the enemy’s supply of troops and equipment allowing the enemy to become more vulnerable to a later attack. Battle strategies were used to deploy aircraft in the sky‚ direct soldiers and vehicles on land
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Was life in the trenches “Hell On Earth” in WW1? In this essay I will be discussing the different points that are pro and con to the statement that life in the trenches as hell on earth during the first world war‚ there are many points arguing both ways but I will be concentrating mostly on the main points. I will talk about the conditions of living‚ moral‚ sleeping to name just a few. Life in the trenches was a filthy thing with constant rain and boots churning up the ground. There was mud
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Analytical Categories Involved in WWI World War I was filled with many countries who loved and admired their government and nation‚ yet they all showed their love and appreciation in diverse ways. The behaviors they exhibited included major patriotism‚ devotion to their country‚ and lies and propaganda. The analytical categories included nationalism‚ militarism‚ imperialism‚ and alliances of countries. We’ll first discuss the effects of nationalism in countries. Nationalism is‚
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Germany‚ in particular‚ bore the most afterwar consequence; the Treaty of Versailles placed full blame for causing World War I (WWI) on Germany’s shoulders. However‚ it was unjust to force Germany to assume sole responsibility for triggering World War I. Other powers in Europe played roles equally significant to that of Germany in giving rise to the four factors leading to WWI: imperialism‚ militarism‚ nationalism‚ and alliances (Plante‚Yvette‚ Miller‚ & Falk‚ pp.41). Imperialism‚ the
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World War I made a great impact towards the status of women and African Americans living in the United States. Both of these groups were facing hardships and wanted to make a difference by voicing their opinions and change their roles in society and status. Eventually‚ after some time‚ they did. Before World War I‚ a women’s role consisted of domestic labor such as; teaching‚ nursing‚ and agriculture. These women were not quite seen as equal to men‚ or capable of doing what men during that time
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When WWII started the opportunity arose for many women to change their career path to go into defense work‚ where they had more direct competition with men. This competition and expansion of women obtaining higher level jobs lead to discrimination. In the article Adele faced discrimination when she searched for a job and when she started to work with men. This gave Adele the opportunity to prove herself that she had the same ability as anyone else. Unions started to reappear during the war. They
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however‚ the Japanese found that they were not considered equal to the Europeans and the Americans. This Western hypocrisy caused Japan to lose faith in the Western powers and pursue a pan-Asian order‚ with Japan as its leader. In order to become self-sufficient‚ Japan needed the raw materials of East Asia‚ as well as "living-space" for its surplus population. This pan-Asian vision threatened European and American interests in the region‚ which therefore opposed it. Japan found itself by the 1930s with
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