British Army personnel of World War I

International Relations Article Essay The two pieces that I will be discussing are Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points speech and the article written by Matthias Matthijs and R. Daniel Kelemen, Europe Reborn: How to Save the European Union From Irrelevance. I will be explaining what points both pieces are trying to make as well as what points of view they are coming from. In Woodrow Wilson’s speech he is approaching it from a liberal view and Matthijs and Kelemen are similarly using the perspective to…

1925. Written by one F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby is one literary work that has stood the test of time. The 1920s was a time of economic prosperity for the US and turmoil for the rest of the world. World War I (WWI) ended 7 years prior to 1925 and the effects were starting to take hold of the world. Benito Mussolini took control of Italy and Adolf Hitler released “Mein Kampf.” However, in America, business was booming; Chrysler started producing cars and Sears had opened its first…

leave to stay in the hospital. After his recovery, he was assigned to light duty in Munich, during his deployment there “He was appalled at the apathy and anti-war sentiment among German civilians. He blames the Jews for much of this and saw them as conspiring to spread unrest and undermine the German war effort.” (“Hitler in World War I”). He thought the Jews were “impure products of crossbreeding among the peoples of the Middle East.” (Bankston). The Jews were not the only ones Hitler wanted…

Fire, a dangerous element, which has been used to burn cities to the ground, has been used to forge the world we live in and has helped mankind live through the darkest times, a person’s pride is no different. Pride is the one feeling that has been used to keep people fighting to survive and do better since the beginning of mankind. This same feeling is also the cause of men becoming arrogant and fool-hearty to ask for help, see the truth, or in some cases both. No matter the cause, pride has…

in causing World War I because Germany was pressured into WWI to honor its alliances, Germany should be blamed for the war to a great extent because Germany played a crucial role in establishing the alliance system, increased tensions and anticipation of war throughout Europe through its militaristic practices, and increased the size of World War I with its aggressive use of military strategy and new weapons. While some have maintained that Germany was not at fault for World War I since…

After World War One, Italy was in shambles. Italy had entered the war in support of the allies and has emerged victorious. They lost more men than Britain but less than France. Despite this, Italy gained little territory in the Treaty of Versailles because President Wilson was not in support of more colonies. Italy’s political, economic, cultural, and territorial circumstance after World War One precipitated Benito Mussolini’s rise to power. Overall, the weak Liberal government faced great…

clear when protesters started to picket about an unjust war and the people became divided on an issue that in the beginning seemed to be unanimous. The reconstruction phase in the Lusitania disaster was quite different to that of the 9/11 attacks, the war took precedence and they went back to their normal lives expected to recover and rebuild. The way to U.S as a country reconstructed post Lusitania disaster was through its involvement of World War I, which had an extraordinary impact on its…

walks of life all have different perspectives on decisions based on life experiences speaks true to the period of 1914-1929 as the ways that British males attempted to include other members of society doesn’t seem to include everyone else. In the period between the beginning of the First World War and the beginning of the Great Depression, only white males of British descent enjoyed all the rights and privileges of being a member of society, while those who did not fit this category were…

The rejection of the ideals presented in Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” contributed to the conditions that made World War II possible. Add more! Nearly a year before the peace talks took place in Paris, President Woodrow Wilson presented a plan on January 8th, 1918 for lasting peace to the United States Congress. His intention was to draft a document that would be the basis for peace from that day forward, a plan that was comprised of “the “Fourteen Points” that he believed justified the…

you have no idea who 's going to die. You don 't know who is going to scream and burn.”- The Doctor. Each war has its consequences, as well as its positive outcomes. World War I had one of the largest impacts on individuals, society and the world. Movements of Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism, and Alliances in European nations created growing tensions which led to the start of World War I, which began in 1914 and ended 1918. There were two alliances that created this grueling conflict, The…