The First World War was unlike previous conflicts in its scope and scale. While previous wars tended to be limited wars‚ where war only consisted of direct combat away from society‚ the Great War was a total war. For the purpose of this essay‚ total war will be defined as a type of war that involves all aspects of society and comprises of both the destruction of the enemy by direct combat and the disruption of enemy resources and morale. This essay will argue that the characteristics of total war
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1.What were the causes of the new imperialism of the 19th century and how did it differ from European expansion in earlier periods? Early European expansion was for the most part‚ an economic desire of the country to expand its territory and wealth. This new imperialism of the 19th century was a race to grab up non-European claimed territories to prevent their competition from gaining any advantage. It was also the need to fuel their industrial factories that emerged from the industrial revolution
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dominated most of the entire world‚ mainly Africa‚ and established empires throughout the continent. The Europeans then converted the people they were dominating to Christianity‚ because they thought that the Africans were uncivilized and weren’t practicing any religion or values. The pros and cons of imperialism affected the Africans’ social‚ religious‚ and political lives from the 16th to 18th centuries. As the Africans were vulnerable in such ways that they didn’t know how to fight back‚ other regions
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Were Economic Factors Primarily Responsible for Nineteenth-Century British Imperialism? In society today the almighty dollar is what motivates most people’s actions. However‚ there are other reasons that can promote a change within a system such as morals‚ religious beliefs‚ values‚ and ethics. During the nineteenth century‚ society was not much different from that of the present day as the economy remains one of the most important parts of the country. This is evident in the time period
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To What extent can USA and USSR be blamed for the start of the Cold War? After World War II‚ a new world order was created as USSR and USA emerged as the two superpowers. There were already existing tensions between these two before the war and the wartime alliance was more out of the need to destroy the common enemy‚ Germany‚ rather than out of mutual agreements between these two. It has been argued that the cold war was caused mostly by the USSR because of their Marxism- Leninism ideology and their
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Retrospectively‚ the First World War seems as if it was inevitable‚ but the arms race between the European powers can be conceptualized as a defensive response to the increasing military power by a country’s neighbours. Though some plans were indeed offensive‚ they were building not towards deliberately offensive maneuvers but rather an attempt to protect their borders should a neighbour invade. Germany’s answer to this in the Schlieffen Plan was an aggressive form of defence‚ hoping to avoid a war on two fronts
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In the mid-12th century‚ the tide began to turn in the Crusades. The Muslim world had become more united under effective leaders such as Saladin‚ and dissension arose among Christian factions in and concerning the Holy Land. The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders‚ the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights‚ and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions‚ politically and militarily. After the Templars were involved in several
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game for the first World War still rages on‚ a hundred years after the outbreak of the war. Historians’ views differ starkly‚ ranging from Serbia to Germany to Russia. At the end of the first World War‚ the Allied Powers decided to hold Germany answerable for the war and destruction caused by it. The undue responsibility that Germany had to carry due to the ‘war clause’ in the Treaty of Versailles resulted in resentment‚ which ultimately led to the second World War and the Cold War‚ after that. History
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The effects of Nineteenth Century transcendentalism continues to live with us today. Transcendentalism was a reaction to the grim conformity of the era’s rapidly modernizing society. To be transcendentalists was to believe that one could only achieve personal fulfillment and greatness through individuality and refusal to join the herd. Henry David Thoreau was in the vanguard of the transcendentalist movement and advocated a radically contrarian approach to work. At the dawn of the Industrial Age
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During The 1870’s and 1900s‚ Africa faced the threat of foreign imperialists who wanted to colonize African land to further their own countries power. But the threat of imperialism started way before European colonists came into Africa. Missionaries in the 19th century had a main objective of bringing Christianity to the people of Africa. They tried to change the way Africans behaved because European Missionaries saw Africans as being savages and uncivilized and they saw it as their duty to change
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