British Army personnel of World War I

The Great War, which took place from 1914 to 1918, exposed the world to brutality and horrors that it had never before seen. As a result of the upheaval of the war, a generation of young men and women were suddenly freed from the social constraints of the previous decades; as a result, they went mad with freedom and new ideas. A decade of partying, loose morals, crazed dancing, and ever-changing fashions entered the American life-- a decade that confounded the older generation, and fascinated…

superior military strength, or, as is seen more recently, through wealth and economic strength. After World War Two, America and the Soviet Union were the two most powerful nations on Earth. While many European countries had been torn apart by the war and in need of much rebuilding, the United States had thrived economically due to the industries that emerged to support the war effort. The Soviet Union…

Gandhi advocated for peaceful resistance during the Indian fight for independence by saying, “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is peramanent.” Interestingly enough, the evidence to support Gandhi’s veiwpoint is pervasive throughout unrelated World War I, which took place between 1914 and 1918. Uncharacteristically called the Great War, World War I was a bloody conflict that erupted out of growing tensions between a complicated…

think we are swimming in it?.. .What sacrifices is he making in the war? If he has any sons at the front am sure that they must be very ‘pleased’ and ‘proud’ of such a father”. This example of a single reaction to the prohibition movement at home illustrates and highlights the divide between the soldiers abroad and those at home. The “necessity” of rum is not wholly understood by those at home, because they face a completely different war experience. Another soldier candidly tells his mother how…

debates about how the First World War started in 1914 among historians. A German historian, Fritz Fischer, proposed the most common theory about how the war started by putting the blame completely on Germany. However, historians nowadays tend to overlook this proposal and try to re-apportion the guilt, which is not merely based on either the sole-guilt thesis or the sole- innocence thesis. Four different trends in the historiography have appeared that explain how the war started with exonerating…

When analyzing the Nazi Party in World War II, the party’s success contributed to multiple factors. These components such as political, economic, social changes and the anti-Semitism in Europe contributed to the rise of Nazism in Germany. In the book, War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris Bergen, states, “In order for a house to burn down, three things are required. The timber must be dry and combustible, there needs to be a spark that ignites it, and external conditions…

controlling the state in a republic, was controlled by an emperor. The Empire included various parts of modern lands such as Britain, Spain, Greece, Germany, and parts of Africa. The Romans had widespread control of the Mediterranean and exercised their army which was the most powerful…

In November of 1918, soldiers returned home after fighting in the first world war resented, alone and scarred. Veterans were shunned, mentally and physically hurt and most were homeless. America completely turned on the soldiers and gave them no support, help, or respect. This resentment had life-long effects on the veterans along with the struggle of coping to society without the help and benefits they deserved. The only option veterans had was to come together as a brotherhood and support…

World War I introduced to the world many new articles to the field of technology. Although technology today is more advanced than in WWI, technology thrived during WWI to meet the ever changing needs of the crisis, accordingly, WWI had a big impact on the technology in the present. World War I pushed for headways in the realm of medicinal services, made new strategies for offense and guard, and finally, affected the innovation of the present day. The introduction of prosthetics helped give…

to dig himself into the ground with hands, feet and teeth” (279). In this quotation, Paul explains that Berger, a strong six feet tall soldier, went mad and almost got himself killed trying to save a dog. This quotation demonstrates the effect that war tends to have on some people. The constant fear, boredom and stress of being in the trenches affects the soldiers psychologically and when they lose their composure, they go mad. This also demonstrates that soldiers tend to be unstable as they…