Causes of WW2 Soon after WW1‚ Germany went bankrupt due to all the payments they needed to pay back to the other countries involved in WW1. These countries included France‚ England and the US. After Germany had paid back the money to France and England‚ ‘The Great Depression’ began. Germany needed a way to become wealthy again. To do so‚ Germany were forced to replace their President‚ Adolf Hitler was elected. He promised the German country that he would destroy these other countries and to not
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15: World War I and the Home Front World War I‚ also known as the Great War‚ was a global war centered around Europe. The first four years of “total war” that constituted World War I (1914-1918) changed the lives of not only the men who fought as soldiers‚ but the people who remained at home. Some effects of the Great War on the European home fronts during the first course of the war were nationalistic feelings‚ working women‚ dwindling food supplies‚ and the rise of socialism. When the war first
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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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World War I Chemical Warfare On April the 22‚ 1915 at the start of the Second Battle of the Ypres‚ the first poison gas attack and the first use of chlorine gas in a battlefield started‚ even though the Hague declaration and Convention forbade the use of poison weapons in the warfare. The Germans attacked France with the chlorine gas‚ but the French were not prepared at all for this attack. The effects of the chlorine gas to the soldiers was very severe; within seconds it destroyed their respiratory
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The discontent between nations grew with every difference they came to face and wars began to explode all over the globe. Potential economies fail their attempt to succeed‚ average people were dying and social crisis remain in everyday life. The first worldwide war began and with it its consequences. The introduction of new weapons increased and each country tried to play their cards the best they could. Gas mask emerged from the desperation of a new form of attack and the terrifying image of the
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Some of the consequences of the War of 1812‚ Americans were a force to be reckoned with and were willing to prove it. Another consequence White house was set ablaze by the British. The treaty of Ghent was drafted to Bring peace to America and the United kingdom. As a result‚ of the war of 1812‚ approximately 15‚000 American soldiers died in pursuit of a better life. The new nation proved they would endure and prevail anyone or nation that dangers the freedoms of America. After defeating‚ the British
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THE FIRST WORLD WAR PLANNED OR THE RESULT OF ACCIDENT AND MISCALCULATION? In the immediate view‚ it seems that there are two main arguments attributed to the origins of the First World War. One is that the war was planned‚ the other that it occurred due to accident and miscalculation. I aim to give a detailed analysis of these two arguments with the focus being on the main European powers at the time - Germany‚ Great Britain‚ France and Russia. It is my view that the First World War was effectively
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World War I has been a controversial topic in the sense that who should take responsibility for not only causing it but how it brutally affected the world. Professor V. R. Berghahn makes the argument that evidence indicates Germany’s role in World War I was the main factor responsible for the conflict. To prove his argument he focuses on the framework of Germany’s economy‚ society‚ culture‚ and politics from 1871 to 1914. While Samuel R. Williamson argues that the factors and conditions that led
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Consequences of the Korean War * The Korean War never ended‚ and they are still under an armistice to this day. The Korean War is technically not over; all that’s keeping the two sides from going to war again is a cease-fire agreement. * The Korean War brought the US and Russia further apart‚ and the fear of communism would later lead the US to throw itself into Vietnam‚ to avoid another North Korea. * It also brought China into conflict with the US‚ bringing bad feelings between the
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Europe had been on the brink of war for many years before 1914. The rise of nationalism meant that no country was willing to yield their opinion on who should be the dominating power. Nationalism has both positive and negative definitions. It can refer to the sense of pride and unity felt by a populace of people. Nationalism can also be explained negatively as the way in which people or governments tend to put their own countries interests first. As the rise of nationalism between 1870 and 1914 led
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