World War I characterized as the "first modern war" . Advanced machine guns‚ bombs‚ tanks‚ attack aircraft and submarines were widely used in the First War. It is also accepted as the first "total war" ‚ where most of the nations mobilised all resources for the war. The map of Europe has been changed by 1919‚ as big empires brought to the end and new countries‚ nations were formed. Involvement of the USA in the war arose the country as the world’s new economic power. Soviet Russia was formed. The
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Life in the trenches during the First World War took many forms‚ and varied widely from sector to sector and from front to front. Undoubtedly‚ it was entirely unexpected for those eager thousands who signed up for war in August 1914. Indeed‚ the Great War - a phrase coined even before it had begun - was expected to be a relatively short affair and‚ as with most wars‚ one of great movement. The First World War was typified however by its lack of movement‚ the years of stalemate exemplified on the
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techniques and devices to evoke the sense of World War One. Words such as ‘beggars’‚ ‘children’ and ‘boys’ refers to the soldiers. In the first verse‚ ‘Bent double‚ like old beggars under sack‚ knocked-kneed‚ coughing like hags‚ we cursed through sludge’‚ ‘like’ indicates that it’s the use of simile and ‘old beggars’ is hyperbole of soldiers’ fatigue. ‘Knocked-knee’ is the use of alliteration. ‘His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin;’ is a visible image of the war. He depicts the pain of the death to
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livWorld war I can be blamed on a combination of three events or idea’s and characteristic of the time. One of the events that caused the first world war was the large amount of alliances the world over. The treaties of the time conflicted with the growing popularity of imperialism. In the general populace resides the third cause‚ as the conflict between alliance and growth is not enough without people to fight for the country at war that is were militarism comes in. The countries of the world had been
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Imperialism was one of the main causes of World War 1. Imperialism is when stronger well developed nations try to take over weak or less developed countries.The three main European countries involved in Imperialism were Germany‚ Britain and France. The countries involved in imperialism where called the “mother country”(J. Llewellyn et. Al‚ 2014)‚ by taking control over of colonies by persuasion or threats of military forces. Military forces are used in the colonies being imperialized to retain control
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World war one was one of the major wars that changed the world forever. World war one started in 1914‚ after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The participants were Russia‚ Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ Allied powers‚ Britain‚ Japan‚ Romania‚ Italy‚ France‚ Ottoman Empire‚ Bulgaria.1 Australia’s involvement in ww1 began with Britain and Germany went to war on August‚ 4‚1914.2 On August‚4‚1914‚ German troops crossed the border into Belgium. In the first battle of ww1‚ the Germans attacked
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America’s reluctance to become involved in European alliances and wars. • Isolationists held the view that America’s perspective on the world was different from that of European societies and that America could advance the cause of freedom and democracy by means other than war. • American isolationism did not mean disengagement from the world stage. • Isolationists were not averse to the idea that the United States should be a world player and even further its territorial‚ ideological and economic
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Causes of World War One The two main causes of the First World War were Imperialism and Militarism; however the direct cause of World War One was the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. The Black Hand‚ a nationalist organization in Serbia‚ supported the assassination. It was a secret military society with the mission of uniting all the Slavic States. By assassinating the Archduke (the presumed heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne)‚ and a rejection of the ultimatum
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The causes of World War I The causes of World War I‚ which began in central Europe in July 1914‚ included many intertwined factors‚ such as the conflicts and hostility of the four decades leading up to the war. Militarism‚ alliances‚ imperialism‚ and nationalism played major roles in the conflict as well. However‚ the immediate origins of the war lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914‚ casus belli for which was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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that I think the United States shouldn’t have entered World War I is if the Europeans would have settled their issues on their own‚ there would have been a tie in the end‚ or maybe Austria/Germany would have won. In that case Hitler would not have arisen and WWII would never have occurred‚ many Eastern European countries wouldn’t have suffered communism. The United States had no reason to get involved in the war. The only reason we went into the war was because we merely got caught in a sort of crossfire
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