The Beginning Of World War I And Commencement Of A Tumultuous Era For Politics, Society And Art

The First World War fought from 1914 to 1918 was one of the largest and most brutal catastrophes fought in the 20th century. With nearly the entire European continent fighting a barbaric and everlasting war, the U.S. had eventually to get involved in order to reinitiate stability to Europe. Ultimately, the U.S. taking involvement in World War I had a profound political, economic, and social impact on the country. It increased government powers and solidified the nation’s leadership role in foreign politics. The U.S. emerged as the world 's greatest industrial power with increasing financial opportunities for minorities. At the same time anti-immigrant and anti- communist sentiments arose among many American citizens. And finally the war contributed to the massive migration of African Americans from the Southern to Northern states looking for employment and freedom and, first time allowed women to participate in jobs that were traditionally reserved for men.

This paper focuses on the underlying causes of world war I instead of just immediate causes. In this article, I will answer the question what were the underlying causes of world war I. ("DBQ: What Were the Underlying ...", 2010, p. Doc 1) Some of these causes consist of militarism, nationalism, and imperialism. The immediate causes of the war were the ones that set it off but the underlying causes are the ones that had been building up over time. ("DBQ: What Were the Underlying ...", 2010, p. Doc 1)

World War I was a war that shocked the world and brought about new emotions that created a large wave of “-isms” as well as the “lost generation” of writers. Modern art was catalyzed by World War I and without a thorough study of the various forms of art that resulted from it, modern art and the tremendous effect that World War I had on the people of the world cannot be fully understood. This historical investigation will cover a few aspects of the art that resulted from World War I so that a general idea of the emotions shared by the people of the world can be known. A few paintings that represent specific movements will be studied to understand the artistic movement. A number of museum exhibitions will be studied along with government websites, databases, and museum websites, especially from the Museum of Modern Art.

World War One was an event that devastated the globe in such a way that was felt by all of the individual nations of the world. Many events prior to the beginnings of the war acted as a precursor to the chaos. The late eighteenth century and all throughout the nineteenth century was an era of revolution. Ordinary citizens and others hoping for liberty and justice in all of their respective nations found their voices. Out of the great “new” societies the people established arose a mutual sense of nationalism and also a state of vulnerability. The vulnerability factor brought about a system of alliances, whereas the snarky nationalism birthed a period of competitive colonization and festered until it became a dangerous weapon known as militarism.

From 1890 to World War I, U.S experienced an era of social unrest, racial concerns, and questioning of true democracy. Many of these problems arise from the economic problems faced by growing American middle class. Because economy and politics are close linked, political parties and party platforms were inevitability affected by these changes in social patterns. A new political party, populists’ party, gained widespread acknowledgement from Americans while democrats and republicans set out to remake their platforms to fit the ideals of the common man. Faced with growing economic and expansion problems in American society, these three major influential parties of the era had their own distinct economic visions as well as similar interests as time progressed on.

With death tolls peaking at 16 million the future of Europe was bleak. The First World War for many was an opportunity to reflect upon their commitment, a sense of sacrifice, to the national crisis. This overwhelming sense of pride led to the pressing notion of citizenship among the great nations. However, by the time troops returned home to their native land, they were faced with a whole new array of challenges in addition to the psychological trauma they had endured throughout the war. A new social party now supersedes the impeding economic problems in Germany. Austria-Hungary also holds their fare share of problems as it pertains to an all-new multi-ethnic diversity and lack of consolidation. For many in Europe, the Great War brought an end to the Ancien Régime in addition to society as a whole. The European population began their search for a sense of certainty and belonging in this new modern world. The promise of the enlightenment and the idea of government protection both lacked conviction and certainty in the eyes of the people. We can conclude that the idea of ** failed at making the world a more civilized

Whenever the topic of World War One is raised, the issue of necessity follows immediately after. The cost of the war, both in terms of monetary loss and lives lost, was so immense that people will always talk about the reasons for those losses, and whether it was all worth it. Referred to, once idealistically, with names such as “The War to end all Wars” and “The Great War”, these names are now used both ironically and sardonically as a social commentary that revolves around the topic of the necessity of the war. But while the necessity of the war is often called into question, the actual understandings of what exactly necessity entails vary—and this is where a lot of discord is rooted. In order to determine whether the First World War

The Four Minute Men where a public relations group that worked for the government around the time of World War I (WWI). They would manipulate information at of the war and then share that information with the public. One of the 75,000 would share this information during the reel changes at the movie, which was about four minutes, thus the name (Guth & Marsh. 2012. pg. 66). Sometimes instead of a person delivering that message they would produce small feature to get the point across, such as Pershing’s Crusaders and Under Four Flags (Guth & Marsh. 2012. pg. 66). These men motivated people to become active in this war by manipulating information to the benefit of the people thus creating a historical impact that would change the way the public see public relations.

The events of 6th June 1944 is widely regarded as one of the most significant things that led to the success of the Allies in World War 1. It did not only allow them the start the liberation of Eastern Europe but also reach Berlin to end the reign of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler over Europe. However there are other battles (Stalingrad, the Battle of Britain etc.) that could have been just as significant as D-Day.

Tremendous technological advance and tremendous slaughter leave an artistic waste land of atrocity, emasculation and pointing posters used to manipulate the public into recruiting men to join the military around the globe. Skilled illustrators in America, less inventive but artistic allegory’s in Canada and France and plain typography in Britain leave many artists busy with supporting the war effort. On the outskirts of war were a contingency of international peoples with little means and a negative view of European culture and war that chose to defect to Switzerland where they created the art movement known as Dada.

Like any significant historical event, the Great War has raised many questions and issues. Political historians have researched and theorised about the causes, effects and management of the war. Military historians have studied the strategies, tactics and methodologies use on the war’s fronts and battlefields. Social historians have investigated how the war touched ordinary people and affected social roles, values and attitudes. Economic historians have considered how the war affected national economies, personal wealth, trade, commerce and finance. The first histories of the war were in fact written when the war itself was but a few days old. Since then, historiographical assumptions and conclusions about the war have varied from place to place and changed over

The First World War was a watershed: it deposed kings and emperors, ushered in universal suffrage and workers’ revolution, and changed people’s attitude to war forever.

During the period of World War I (1914-1918), Duchamp became associated with a group of Parisian artists known as the Dadaists. Dada was an art movement that was characterized by a “spirit of anarchic nihilism.” The Dadaists were reacting to the madness of the European culture that had found itself engaged in a bloody, devastating war. In the words of Tomkins, “dada’s organized insanity was a direct response to the nightmare of unending, meaningless slaughter in the trenches.” Another writer, Sarane Alexandrian, describes Dada as “a detonation of anger which showed itself in insults and buffoonery.” The Dadaists also attacked the traditional values of art. As claimed by Hans Richter in his book on the Dada movement, these attacks were meant to mock the pretensions of European culture and the traditional obsession of artists, art critics and art lovers with “all that is holy.”

To appreciate Dada, one must first know the context of its time. To truly understand Dada, one must understand the deep pain of the artists, the ferocity of the disgust toward the bestiality of their supposedly modern world, and the deep longing for change at the hearts of its various contributors. During the onset of the first world war, many European artists were horrified at humanities bourgeois and violent nature, the nationalism that consumed its thoughts, and the authoritarianism that defined it. Early Dadaists were born out of

The art movements that resulted from this period in which times were changing rapidly included Futurism, a movement that embraced machinery and praised war, Cubism, which aimed to display a variety of possible viewpoints of an object or figure, Dada, an anti-war movement created amid World War I, with the aesthetics of the artwork considered secondary to the ideas conveyed, and Surrealism, described as an “impatient interrogation of reality” which aimed to recognise desire. Various artists from various art movements demonstrated elements of this perceived crisis within their works in order to question the world and challenge society in different ways.