The First World War was the first ’total war’ - the whole nation had to be mobilised to fight. Men joined the army while women took over their jobs‚ but was this change lasting or a temporary effect of total war? The population at home - the basics People in Britain were affected by six main ways: 1. Recruitment - there was a huge poster campaign to get people to join up‚ and the government had to introduce conscription in 1916. Conscientious objectors could be imprisoned. Women were recruited
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goals‚ such as the development of an Aryan racial state that would dominate Europe and possibly the entire world. This goal was one of the reasons Hitler carried out the massive expulsion of nearly six million Jews during the Holocaust. He wanted to eliminate any race that would stand in the way of the domination of the Aryans. Another one of his tactics was the Blitzrieg‚ or “lightning war”‚ which depended on mechanized columns and massive air power to cut quickly across battle lines and encircle
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Impact of World War 1 on Germans and African Americans In the year 1790‚ the United Sates Census counted approximately 375 thousand people of the German origin. The number of the Germans immigration later increased after the year 1815. The occurrence of World War 1 during this period led to the increase in anti-German sentiments causing the German community to become invisible (Fiebig-von 33). The Germans were often met with accusations of being sympathetic about the German Empire. The war turned out
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significance of world war 2: World War II is important for many reasons. First‚ it stopped the spread of dictatorships ruling both in Asia and Europe. Had Hitler and Japan been victorious‚ North and South America would be surrounded by enemies to the democratic institutions represented in those areas. The United States would be surrounded by hostile forces bent upon complete world domination. Second‚ the war ushered in the Atomic Age. The dropping of the Atomic bombs not only signaled an escalation
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million people were plunged into war. Ten million soldiers were mowed down by bullets‚ blown to pieces‚ incinerated‚ starved‚ devoured by rats and lice‚ killed by the epidemics that thrive on misery‚ 20 millions more were wounded. What lunacy took hold of the Austrians‚ Serbs‚ Russians‚ Germans‚ French‚ British‚ Italians‚ Terks‚ and the Americans? The survivors could count themselves lucky‚ but they had lost their youth or their face or their sanity. How did the world unleash such fury? The peoples
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FoA Notes: Propaganda “Lead this people into war‚ and they’ll forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight‚ you must be brutal and ruthless‚ and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life‚ infecting the Congress‚ the courts‚ the policeman on the beat‚ the man in the street.” - Woodrow Wilson – 28th President of the United States (Successfully convinced the USA to go to WW1) Propaganda in World War One was adopted on a massive global scale‚ successfully
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also known as World War 1 was a massive war that included many of the major powers of the world at the time. It is also the first time that the United States was seen as a major world power. It had more deaths than any other war up to this point and spanned from 1914 to 1918. The tension started with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. This angered a lot of countries in the Balkans that had alliances. The Austria-Hungary leadership was angry with Serbia and began a war. This brought
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April 2014 World War II Impact on America As far as history goes‚ World War II was the most monumental war in the history of the United States. The war lasted from 1939 to 1945. About .4 million Americans were killed and many other were wounded. These casualties were the lowest in number compared to those of the Axis and Allied powers. America was also in control of the most powerful weapon of the time‚ the Atomic Bomb. Clearly‚ the United States was the leading super power of world affairs. Politically
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effect philanthropy had on post World War II reconstruction. Zunz starts the chapter by saying that “the clear division of labor between government and civil society that the New Deal had insisted upon to lift the country out of the Great Depression became irrelevant during and after World War II.” Basically what Zunz was saying was that even though government and philanthropy were seen to be separate organizations or institutions‚ they came together after World War II in order to rebuild‚ much like
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Essay Question: Assess the Origins of the Second World War The origins of the Second World War are of key assessment. It was a global war lasting from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world’s nations‚ including all of the great powers‚ in turn eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the allies and the axis. However the war was fought due to the basis of three main principles. The first principle was Hitler’s expansion of Germany‚ the second being the role of appeasement
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