the most powerful navy in the world. This caused tension in Europe. • The Scramble for Africa (when European countries had tried to get as many colonies as they could) had led to many small conflicts around the world. This meant that some of the major European powers were not very friendly towards each other. • The French were very distrustful of the Germans as a result of the war in 1870-1871 that the Germans had won. • The alliance systems set up to prevent war meant that any major political
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interrelationship between factual history and factual memory allows a universal understanding to be gained. Denise Levertov’s Libation and A Letter to Marek about a Photograph are showing personal experiences as well as a sense of separation and about the World War 2 refugees. Similarly in Nam Le’s The Boat we can see the personal experiences and the refugees. Through all of these texts we can see the purpose of showing personal experiences and the stories/memories the refugees have an impact on us as individuals
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The Effects of the First World War There are many after effects of the First World War. One of the first effects is‚ that because the death toll was quite high for the war and the injured civilians and soldiers was also very high. The effect of this was that because most of the population was unemployed and all the injured civilians and soldiers were in hospital being treated‚ it was costing the government a lot of money to treat the injured people and the economy was getting damaged by this
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should have been if she had not tragically been messed up by the effect of war” (Wilfred). World War 1 was a devil’s playground‚ torturing the evil from the good in the lives of human. War has affected many lives in humbling families oppressed near bloodstreams of disintegrating rivers. War was initiated from the hardships of other nations hunting for potential in their liberty. Although assassination brought an immense impact to War however ‚ in addition ‚ the advancement of military power ‚ the forming
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HHIs7 Source based World war one‚ a great European war‚ nations conflicted and divided‚ aligning themselves with their own allies. World war one war one was a war not born from profound causes but triggered by a continents own insolence‚ competition and whom a nation was allied with. Each of the European nations had their own goals and motives as to why they did what they did. Some fought to preserve the interests that best served their nation‚ some fought to retaliate
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World War I was the result of chain-reacting events; originated from the Crises in the Balkans which led to the Collapse of Bismarckian Alliances. The creation of The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance further escalated the tension contributing to the outbreak of the war. Increase in international tension‚ caused by the division of Europe into two armed camps‚ provoked fear of war and prompted military alliances and an arms race. The system maintained the balance of power in Europe after the
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World War 1 Causes WW1 left roughly 10 million soldiers dead‚ 21 million soldiers wounded and 8 million soldiers missing. It was a conflict between the Allied Powers‚ and the Central Powers. The three main causes of the war were the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ widespread militarism and economic imperialism. I will explain why these where the three reasons in the following paragraphs. The first cause of WW1 took place on June 28‚ 1914. Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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1940’s were dominated by World War II. European artists and intellectuals fled to the United States from Hitler and the Holocaust‚ bringing new ideas created in disillusionment. War production pulled us out of the Great Depression. Women were needed to replace men who had gone off to war‚ and so the first great exodus of women from the home to the workplace began. Rationing affected the food we ate‚ the clothes we wore‚ the toys with which children played. After the war‚ the men returned‚ having
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World War I (WWI) was a hard fought‚ crude war that lasted just over four years. Nationalism‚ a group’s desire to form their own country‚ militarism‚ a group’s opinion of military use to gain power over another‚ and imperialism‚ a gaining of power due to conquering other countries‚ all played a big role in the beginning of WWI. However‚ this was not actually the cause of the war. The famous start of WWI was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Here are some other factors
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Topic: 1st and 2nd Balkan Crisis Summary: The Balkan War took place from 1912-1913 in the Balkan Peninsula in the southeastern part of Europe. Greece‚ Bulgaria‚ Montenegro and Serbia had gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 2oth century but their ethnic population was still under Ottoman rule. These nations formed the Balkan League. The League decided to attack the Ottoman Empire and the First Balkan War took place in October of 1912 and ended seven months later. The Ottoman Empire
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