Allies of World War I

officials, non-Turks and Christian non-Turks were a great risk factor to their power. In 1914, World War I began. The Turks entered World War I siding with Germany and the Austria-Hungary. Military leaders began to believe the Armenians were traitors; if they assumed they could receive liberation from the Turks if the Allies were triumphant, the Armenians would be willing to fight for the enemy. As the war…

In the film Gallipoli, we follow Archie Hamilton, and 18 year old rising sprinter. In May 1915, he puts aside his dream, to join the Australian Light Horse Division and fight in World War I. At an athletics carnival he defeats Frank Dunne in a race, whom he persuades to sign up with him. Dunne cannot join because he is unable to ride a horse and joins the Infantry. Training starts and they run into each other. Dunne transfers to the Light Horse and they are sent to the Gallipoli Peninsula where…

The Ottoman Empire leaders took the big risk of entering World War I to get big rewards. After the Balkan Wars and all the internal conflicts that the estate had, these decision were supported with the idea of creating a more nationalistic empire, that it would eventually get their lost territory, re-establish control in their different ethnic and religious provinces, and more importantly to revoke capitulations with whatever European power that decided to be allied with the Ottoman goals. The…

The First World War and its aftermath opened to gates to international politics and warfare as we know them today. After five years of brutal and slow stalemate, American intervention finally broke the back of Germany. The abdication of the Kaiser and unconditional surrender of the Weimar Republic led to treaty negotiations at the Paris Peace Conferences in 1919. The world that Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, and other conference participants found themselves tasked with reshaping was in…

to why they treated the Jews the way they do. “The Jews disrespect the Germans because they felt like they were being neglected and attacked by the Germans which in reality they were. Because at the end of World War 1 of November in 1918 Hitler became involved in German Politics.” After World…

For years people that express anti-war feelings can be seen throughout media, like in books, news and TV or even through protest. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front written by WWI veteran Erich Maria Remarque is no exception as it delves in the horrors of war through its main character Paul Baumer, a German soldier who fights in the infamous Western Front during WWI while truly questioning if the war is worth fighting. Paul and his comrades face the disgusting conditions of the trenches as…

The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to take responsibility for World War 1. The Treaty of Versailles had a very harsh impact on Germany. Germany was forced to reduce their military and to give up its land overseas and their small colonies. Germany’s government became incredible week which gave an opening for Hitler to rise for power because the german people needed a figure to look up to. The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to reduce their military power. They could no longer have…

of the Germany. Weitz gave a national perspective and Allen gave a municipal perspective. After World War I, Germany Empire was not longer exist. The Democrat government tried to renaissance Germany Empire. The problem was the Democratic Party did not know how to do it. Germany did need a fresh start after the World War I. The Weimar Republic was not right call for Germany to rehabilitated from the War. Unfortunately, as the Republic was established, for many Germans the Republic represented…

as being immensely enthusiastic about the outbreak of war in 1914. Yet Gregory argues that ‘the evidence for mass enthusiasm at the time is surprisingly weak’. This misleading portrayal of British society was fuelled by the memoirs of politicians, in particular Lloyd George. Writing almost twenty years after the outbreak of the First World War, the Chancellor at the time recalled how the crowds behaved in London after the announcement of war on 4 August, he wrote ‘hundreds were buying Union…

More than 65 million men from 60 countries fought in World War I, a war between the Allies and the Central Powers. The German army enlisted approximately two million eight hundred thousand soldiers to fight for the Central Powers. One of those men, convinced by his schoolmaster Kantorek to enlist as the patriotic thing to do, was a nineteen-year-old student named Paul Baumer. Paul encountered many hardships during his time on the front. Despite these hardships, in the novel All Quiet on the…