...Out of all the wars that influenced the development of Russian government, the first world war was the most significant’ How far do you agree with this statement? I feel the First World War is a very strong factor in Russian history and is a very good point to argue with it was the final disappoint that drove the people of Russia to not only take down the tsar but to later kill him. However in the development of Russian government I don’t think it had much importance, out of all the wars in Russian history I feel it was the revolutions in 1917 that played the most important role in the development of the Russian government. Russia involvement in world war one is a very big turning point in Russian history, it removed the tsar from power and left Russian on its knee’s as industries could not keep up with the demands of the war, many soldiers were without weapons and ammunition. But really didn't have a effect on the development of the Russian government it wasn't until the February revolution in 1917 that the development really started, it allowed the few remaining members of the duma including Kerensky to develop the provisional government, it was successful in installing a democratic government as it quickly allowed free elections and allowed legal political parties to be formed. However their freedom of speech and publishing of political materials from opposition was their downfall as it allowed the Bolsheviks to attack them, as there popularity increased the provisional...
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...of the First World War? Historian and former Nazi party member Fischer believes that the First World War was all Germany’s fault. He states how Germany had a strong will to war and that events such as the War Council Meeting and the Blank Cheque given to Austria clearly were factors that showed that Germany wanted war. However there are arguments to suggest that international developments, as well as the Arms race and the alliance system also contributed to the outbreak of World War One. Yet despite this, the decisions made by Germany’s leaders are most probably the most responsible for the start of the First World War. The actions of the German leaders were responsible for the outbreak of the First World War due to their aggressive policy of Weltpolitik and Brinkmanship. Furthermore, the War Council Meeting in 1912 underlines that war was on the German leaders’ agenda. This is shown in Source 1 when it states that the “German army and government pushed for war before 1914” which implies that no matter what circumstances changed in 1914, the German leaders had had war on their mind for years before. This is shown by Germany continuing the “policy of Brinkmanship” which they had used in 1911 in the Second Moroccan crisis whereby Germany demanded a large part of French Congo over French troops being sent to Fez and subsequently breaking the Algeciras agreement made in 1906. This can be backed up by Source 3 which states that “the situation in which the First World War did break...
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...learned about over the entire first semester. Major topics will include The Progressive Era (Chapter 4), An Emerging World Power (Chapter 5), World War I and Beyond (Chapter 6), The Twenties (Chapter 7), The Great Depression (Chapter 8), The New Deal (Chapter 9), The Coming of War (Chapter 10) and World War II (Chapter 11). There will be 75 questions consisting of multiple choice and true/false. You may use one small 3x5 notecard for notes on the test. Do not tell others about this benefit. If you mention the notecard to anyone else or out loud, you lose this benefit for you and the person you are talking to about it. It is a reward only for those of you who read directions. Chapter 4- The Progressive Era (1890-1920) Who were the Progressives? Urban Middle Class who wanted social reforms Muckrakers Journalists who sensationalized to drive social change Define recall Power to remove public servants What did the 19th Amendment do? Gave women the right to vote What is Americanization? Teaching minorities and immigrants to follow white, middle class ways of life Who were the three Progressive Era presidents? Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson Domestic policies of Progressive Era presidents (match them) Wilson-New Freedom/ Roosevelt- Square Deal Chapter 5- An Emerging World Power (1890-1917) Social Darwinism- Survival of the fittest Alfred T. Mahan and what he argued for a stronger America Strong modern Navy Four main causes of the Spanish-American War Cuban independence movement...
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...Front, is a novel based on World War I. Author Erich Marie displays the message of how bad war really is compared to the glorification it is given in the time period of the early nineteen hundreds. He supports his idea by explaining the physical and metal impact war has on a young solider. Remarque demonstrates a major theme that stands out. The only way to show how bad war is, is to describe the horror. He wrote this book specifically to persuade people in the opposite direction. He tried to show everyone that war is not a good thing. In the early nineteen hundreds, war was seen as a good thing. Everyone assumed war was the answer because they had not been in the situation of it. Remarque figured he could use all the horrific things that he saw and experienced at war into his writing to inform people. He talked about the physical horror that occurred. Battle wounds, death, and much more. It also mentally affected these soldiers. It scarred them. War is not something you see every day, and this mentally killed their heads....
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...Asian countries alongside the diplomatic pressures, colonial conquest and military invasion especially in the regions of Africa. The domestic people faced the foreign domination and attempt of colonization. During the 1870s the Europeans succeed to under control only 10% of the African region and it was the period when Europe started to grab the African land by the 1914, around 90 percent of the African continent was under control of Europeans (The Creation, 2011). In Africa the Berlin conference played vital role in regulating colonization alongside the trade in the African regions. Similarly in the Asian region in subcontinent, the European Colonialism was established ant later on the imperialism was started in 1857 after the freedom war. The European colonialism gradually extend its control over the political powers that later on let the European regions to take control over the African and Asian Regions. After the 1870s, the European started to explore Africa with the industrial revolution that lend the European new ways to enter and new weapons to make its terror and till the 1914, it took control over ninety percent of the African region. This impact let the European to establish their...
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...War Past and Present Through out time man has been involved in many wars due to man wanting to protect what is theirs or to gain more power and wealth. No matter how or why a war is started one thing that is clear, war has an ever-lasting effect on everything and everyone. By true nature man is genital but man is also protective and man will fight to protect what is right or what man holds dear. War has taking a toll on land across the world that war has been fought on, and war has also taken an even bigger toll on those who were involved and those who have yet to be involved in war. For century’s war has played a large part in our history and with the most resent war in Iraq this couldn’t be more true. War is something that can bring things together that might not of been on any regular day and yet war has the power to rip it all apart. War has been here since the beginning and war will be here till the end there for lasting forever in our history. War Past and Present When World War 1 began many thought that the soldiers would return home to their families by December 1914 victorious, yet what started out with high expectations ended more than four years later than the original hope. According to Jennifer Rosenberg (n.d), “World War 1 was an extremely bloody war, with huge losses of life and little ground lost or won“ (para 1). Soldier’s that fought in WW1 were fighting their enemies by hiding trenches firing artillery and lobbed grenades, but when ordered the...
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...Warfare Evolution War is a never ending, yet historical event. It is supposed to be used to solve conflicts. It is supposed to determine which nation will be considered the more superior nation and to determine which nation would be considered to be the weakest. Although war is supposed to be used to solve conflicts, often times instead of solving conflicts it either makes matters worse or creates new problems. According to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary, war is defined as, “a state or period of fighting between countries or groups. It is also defined as an organized effort by a government or other large organization to stop or defeat something that is viewed as dangerous or bad (War, 2016).” War consists of a lot of violence, and unfortunately we as a society, think that is the best way to get our point across and the best way to solve problems. It is a situation that affects so many people. Not just those involved in the actual fighting in the war, but their families, their friends, and each country included in the war. When we send soldiers in to fight a battle, a lot of them will not make it back home to see their loved ones again. They may not even understand or agree with the reason behind the war. They just know they were called to serve their country and that’s what they will do. Based on the history of the United States of America, we have been at war for about 90% of the time since 1776. Some of the wars that have been instrumental within our history and that I...
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...were then unprecedented. All these gains crumbled just before the start of the Great War of 1914. For the next thirty years attempts were made to bring the world economy to its glory years without any success. At this point, nation states had retreated back to protectionism and a wave of national identity and anger of one state against another was sweeping across Europe. State debts, the just ended war, Fascism, Nazism and other various anti-International economic policies and philosophies made it difficult for cooperation amongst states. Cooperation and success was not realized until another undisputed economic power (United sates of America) rose to the occasion in the summer of 1944, to plan and re-arrange the post war economic order. If we were to follow the same naming style as the above mentioned, then this period would in turn be termed Mach-2. Once again the world united under a new Hegemonic leadership. Just as in the previous hegemon, Markets began to recover the good practices of the classical economic system were adopted and the lessons learnt in the thirty years of economic turmoil since the first world war were also in-cooperated. In this essay I will explain, compare and contrast the similarities and differences of the two hegemonic leaderships during the two periods of world economic dominance. I will focus more on analyzing and explaining the variations in the economic openness with a main focus on how the four factors/perspectives of: • International political...
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...The Empire of Japan during WW2 The Empire of Japan during World War two seen great victories and expanding territories it also seen dramatic defeat. “At the height of its power in 1942, the Empire of Japan ruled over a land area spanning 2,857,000 square miles, making it one of the largest maritime empires in history (Colin, 1998).” It was the first and only nation to endure the atomic bomb twice. During this paper we will look at the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire. What kind of Government ran this nation? Was their economy a strong or weak economy at the start of the war and how did the war affect it? How did their military operate? The Empire of Japan’s government was a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. To better understand the dynamics of the Government during WW2 you have to travel back to the Meiji Restoration in 1868. “The Meiji Restoration was the political revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate (a feudal military government which existed between 1603 and 1868) and returned control of the country to direct imperial rule under the emperor Meiji (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2009).” Although, at the start of the Second World War the emperor did not have complete control of the government. The Emperor was the supreme ruler and head of state but the prime minister was the actual head of government. The Emperor was worshipped like a god similar to the Pharos of Egypt during ancient times. “Emperor Hirohito was the emperor from...
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...Professor Wei Quiz 4 4.18. 16 Commonly misconstrued, conflict aroused by Japan did not start with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but started many years prior in China. China had been at war with Japan since 1937 (though faced encroachments from Japan beginning in 1931), with the Marco Polo Bridge incident. The long fight that China put up against Japan up until 1941 is often discredited or even disregarded because the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ dramatic entrance into the war gets associated to Japan’s first military offenses. Crucially drained from fighting years prior to the official start of the world war, the battered state that China was in during the course of the war seems to take credit away from their resilience in battle, despite being at an obvious disadvantage when everyone else joined in on the fight against Japan. Viewed as weak and dependent on other Allied Powers to defeat Japan, China deserves to receive credit for being a major ally in World War 11 for the brutality they endured during and after the war, and for how their forgotten role significantly shaped how defeat would play out for the Axis Powers. Becoming a united force with the Allies was in China’s interests because it not only meant military support and resources China was critically in need of, but also it was an opportunity China to receive global recognition that seemed impossible prior to the War. Over the course of fighting four years against Japan’s dominate forces; a large...
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...Dillon Milliron 4-3-14 Period 6th WWI Essay World War I is known as the war to end all wars. This statement was obviously not accurate. There are many topics that caused WWI but the main causes are militarism, nationalism, the building of alliances and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The two alliances that fought against one another in this war were the Triple Entente which consisted of France, United Kingdom, Russia (whose place in the war would later be taken by the United States of America) and the Central Powers which consisted of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary. WWI took place mainly in various parts of Europe. The Great War lasted for 4 years, from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. Militarism, nationalism, and the forming of alliances are what escalated and kicked off World War I. Militarism is the belief that a country should build and maintain the strongest army. Every country in the world has the desire to possess the strongest and largest army, stronger and larger than all other countries. During the build up to WWI there was a mad scramble to build the strongest army amongst all of the countries that participated in the war. France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and the United States all wanted to prove that their army was superior to all others. There is no better way to prove that your military is the best then to put it into war against another military. Building a strong military was not cheap at all, “Counting...
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...Many soldiers were either enlisted or drafted in World War I. It is devastating to see young innocent men go to war, especially not knowing what they are about to experience in the harsh environments of World War I. In World War I, many humans were brutally killed throughout the 4 year war, “in which over 16 million people have been brutally killed by diseases or fighting in the frontline (lecture, Gonzalez).” “The total number of both civilian and military casualties is estimated at around 37 million people. The war killed almost 7 million civilians and 10 million military personnel (How Many People Died in WW1?).” Not only humans were killed int the war but, millions of horses were also killed during World War I. Paul is an innocent young teenager who was a student in the beginning of the novel. Him and his classmates decided to join the German army after his teacher influenced him to enlist in the military. Was Paul mentally strong to encounter a bloody mess of a war? The pain, death, and inhumane will strike Paul’s point of view of the war....
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...How far did the position of Black Americans improve in the years 1945-1955? The position of Black Americans from 1945-1955 changed a lot throughout these years, and mainly for the better, particularly in social and economical areas. Although there were occasional setbacks in some areas, such as politically, overall their position was vastly improved. In this essay I’ll be discussing the different areas in which Black Americans improved their position in and some areas in which they continued to struggle in. Firstly the economic improvements made by Black Americans were hugely significant, many African Americans had exceptionally low paying farming jobs that barely supported a decent standard of living. However when The Second World War involved America in 1945 things began to change in the employment area, masses of new jobs were created both in the North and South of America. In the South, $4.5 billion was spent on setting up factories to produce items for The Second World War. Unfortunately, at first African Americans were unable to get jobs in these factories, Philip Randolf was appalled at the racism of this and threatened to lead a march of African Americans to Washington unless the racism from the employers was resolved. In recognition of this, Franklin Roosevelt made an executive order that made sure that industries involved in the production of war goods could not discriminate against people by their race, creed, colour or national origin. After this executive order...
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...(7%), Pennsylvania-Dutch (6%) 3. What sorts of contributions did the Scots-Irish bring? (see “Makers” section too) They were westward pioneers, and helped make trails for people to follow. 4. What was the Paxton Boys uprising? A group...
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... they made it their purpose that they would stay isolated from the world, so that they could focus on their nation and make it stronger. At the time, America would have needed a lot of attention to become the superpower it is today, however in the late 1890’s the American soldiers and political leaders broke the foreign policy by taking over the Philippines. Even though the men who spoke of the ceded Philippine, they had different messages through their tone. The first Spaniard to set foot on the Philippines was Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, however the actual invasion did not begin until 1564. Spanish power in the Philippines soon started to fall as other nations were starting to practice their spread of power in the mid 1700s. When the U.S.S Maine sunk in an American attempt to relieve the tension between Cuba and Spain exploded, the U.S. declared war on Spain and won a naval battle against them in Manila Bay, May 1, 1898. By the time U.S. got to the Philippines, the Filipinos has already declared their independence from Spain. However, their celebration did not last long when the Treaty of Paris 1898 transferred the Philippines to under the U.S.’s power. Wesley Merritt, William Mckinley, and Otis all had the same message to the Filipinos. Everyone pretty much said the same thing, but at the different times, to remind the Filipinos that the Americans were not their enemy. However, when Merritt made the first announcement, he was smooth, took some time to ex...
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