World War I started on July 28th‚ 1914. The war started because on June 28th‚ 1914‚ a young Siberian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia. Austria-Hungary needed to prove its authority after such a horrendous crime in order to maintain its credibility as a great power and a force in the Balkan region. With Russian threat of intervention looming and an unprepared army‚ Germany was required to help
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Ruby Richardson Honors Ideas in History Professor David Earnest 25 February 2024 Reflection Paper 2 Throughout Europe‚ during the pre World War I era‚ imperialism was extremely prevalent in many countries throughout the continent. Imperialism is defined as a policy or practice in which a country establishes dominance in neighboring countries through influence‚ power‚ attempts at colonization‚ annexation‚ or other means. Imperialist policies often involve a lot of force and coercion used against weaker
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World War I is one of the most remembered wars in the history. There are many short and long-term causes that lead up to the war. Most important causes that contributed are the Bosnian Crisis‚ Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ and the secret alliances. First critical cause that contributed to the war is the Bosnian Crisis in 1908. There was tension between A-H and Russia as the Balkans was important to both of them. Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina and an agitated Serbia looked
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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
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4. Though racial discrimination was both common among the citizenship and the legal system at the time of World War I‚ many African-Americans still chose to fight in this war. Why would this be the case? Simply‚ it was their only chance at being recognized as equal. First‚ if African-Americans did not fight in the war‚ how would it be that the opposing forces would ever see them as equal? If they did not fight to preserve the country‚ it would give ammunition to those who said they did not deserve
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Introduction World War I has had traumatic effects on the countries that participated in it in terms of many aspects such as the tremendous amount of debt and war costs that they had to encounter at the end of the war. Such effects were usually long-term in nature and were most strongly reflected in the form of changing political‚ economic and social structures‚ and public opinion across those participant nations or even other parts of the world for decades even after the official end
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Living conditions for soldiers during World War I was tough and required courage and bravery and a bit of luck if you they were going to remain healthy‚ let alone survive. The lives where hard‚ food was scarce disease was rampant. Many men died during the first World War but as many died from gunshot wounds as died from disease and infection. Disease was usually caused by rats being in and around the food that was being eaten by the men. Lice would breed quickly without even giving the soldiers
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World War I was a military conflict from 1914 to 1918. It began as a local European war between Austria - Hungary and Serbia on July 28‚ 1914. It was transformed into a general European struggle by declaration of war against Russia on August 1‚ 1914 and eventually became a global war involving 32 nations. Twenty - eight of these nations‚ known as the Allies and the Associated Powers‚ and including Great Britain‚ France‚ Russia‚ Italy‚ and the United States‚ opposed the coalition known as the Central
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World War I was an event that caused almost 10 million deaths in Europe‚ therefore killing off almost a generation of Europeans. It ended empires in Russia‚ Germany‚ and Austria Hungary and caused Russia to turn to communism and become a totalitarian state with Stalin in power. It created more rights for women and changed the social perspective of life to gloomy and pessimistic. The Congress of Vienna of 1814‚ created a long-lasting peace in Europe completed with regular peace meeting which proposed
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World War I is still today one of the most critical historical events of all time. Its’ political‚ social and economic repercussions were extremely serious and took a huge hit on those who were involved and even to those who were not. Peace settlements were imposed on the defeated powers - Germany‚ Austria‚ Bulgaria‚ Hungary and Turkey - as a way to deal with the devas-tating results of the war. Empires collapsed‚ new nation states were formed whilst others disappeared‚ countries suffered from loss
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