World War 1 also known as the Great War started on July 18‚ 1914 & ended November 11‚ 1918. WW1 left millions of people killed. WW1 was caused by MANIA. Mania is an acronym for Militarism‚ Alliances‚ Nationalism‚ Imperialism‚ & Assassination. WW1 eventually led to the Great Depression. When the Great Depression hit‚ Adolf Hitler took advantage and attempted to rise to power. Militarism is what creates suspicions among European countries. Countries competed with each other to have the biggest and
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The Allies sought and tried to punish Germany for their involvement in WW1 by isolating them and forcing them to pay reparation for all damages caused during WW1. These punishments instead of teaching Germany a lesson would lead to a path of revenge and aggression and the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. Beginning with the end of WW1 and Allied forces closing in on German territory‚ Germany agreed to a ceasefire on November 11‚ 1918. With the war over Allied forces decided how to prevent this
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In this chapter I will try to find out why the Civil War actually started‚ and what the consequences of the war were. To find out this I need to know a little more about the history of the Civil War. The causes of most wars are often very complex‚ but in the America civil war it came down to two major issues‚ slavery and the protection of the Union. In the North‚ they were growing richer all the time as industry developed fast. The workers were mostly immigrants with low wages. The South didn’t
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opinion on the war. As well so do I but we will do the polar opposites first. The South states didn’t want to be part of the United States and create their own country‚ called the Confederacy States. A few reasons why they didn’t want to be part of the United states. The top reason why they started the war because they wanted to keep their slaves‚ even though it’s wrong. The second reason was economics‚ they didn’t want to be taxed for themselves and their slaves. They thought that the United government
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assassinated because of nationalism. He was an ethnic German ruling an empire that included ethnic Slavs. Slavic nationalists did not like being ruled by Germans and killed the archduke in an attempt to help rid themselves of German rule. This sort of ethnic conflict helped to cause WWI. Nationalism played a dramatic and dynamic
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Before we speak about the African American experience we must understand why the war begin. There is a common miss belief that the war was started because of slavery. Now slavery did play a big role but‚ “The Civil War began as a southern war for Confederate independence and a northern war to defeat the Confederate rebellion and restore the Union. At the outset‚ neither side thought that the war would last very long or eventually lead to the destruction of slavery. The Confederacy was founded to
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US involvement in WW1: Causes and Consequences The United States initially intended on remaining entirely neutral in World War 1. We wished to remain neutral in respects to continuing to build our economic trade routes with both the Germans and the British/French. When the British imposed a loose blockade of the German waters in order to slow or stop the amount of supplies the Germans had‚ the Germans resorted to using their submarines to put a blockade of sorts around the British Isles as well
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The History of how soccer started. Many say it started in England. Some say it started in the Aztec. Some even say it started in the India but where did it really start? Soccer is popular all around the globe its played worldwide every day. However not everyone knows about it all started. Soccer has been around many thousands of years. It started around 2nd 3rd B.C around China during the Han Dynasty (“History of Soccer”). They would dribble a leather type of ball and score on a small net
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Many people think that Germany started world war I. If you google who started world war I you will see many websites and papers that agree with this statement. Although‚ no one country stared the war and all of the involved parties are partly to blame. It was Austria Hungary that was mostly to blame. Austria Hungary started World War I by using war to distract form internal problems‚ delivering a harsh ultimatum and expecting an answer in three days‚ and declaring war after all of the demands in
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civilians alike were killed‚ and with no one great end-result for any of the central powers‚ it goes to show the uselessness of war. It is unmistakable to see these facts after reading All Quiet On the Western Front‚ a novel labeling the horrors of WW1 for what they are. The book is of a young soldiers experience in the trenches‚ and the indignities he suffered for the illusion of glory in battle. Overall‚ what can be said about the dismay‚ the terror that is evident in not just this war‚ but any
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