The Close Of The First World War

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.

life in the US since before he had gained entry into Fisk University, his first attended college.

The first world war was one of the most brutal and remorseless events in history; ‘the global conflict that defined a century’. Over nine million soldiers and a large amount of innocent civilians lost their lives. Empires crumbled, revolution engulfed Russia and America rose to become a dominant world power. Huge armies deployed new weapons of devastating effect from rifles and pistols to torpedoes and flame throwers. These weapons were used not only in the trenches but by tanks too. This was an advantage to those who were able to access such machinery as they could easily launch bullets and missiles at nearby enemy bases. The downfall of the tank was the fact it was unable to cross the trenches. Tanks were not the only pieces of equipment that could access this machinery but U boats and planes too. The British carried ‘bolt action rifles’ in which fired 15 rounds per minute at a minimum range of 1,400 metres away. This allowed the British to take out foes at a far greater range. By using machinery in which rules out the need for getting up close to the enemy was a great advantage during world war one. Soldiers ran from trench to trench attacking with all that they had. This resulted in a massacre as the soldiers running toward the trenches were shot down. Machinery such as machine guns and heavy artillery were the weapons used in the trenches. In modern day society, machine guns are the main weapons used by soldiers. This wasn’t the case around the 1914s. They took four

Attended Harvard and he graduated 21st of 177. He studied in the fields of sciences, German, rhetoric, philosophy, and ancient languages. (1876-1880)

Throughout his life, he was a leading scholar who in 1916 earned his Ph.D. in Semitic Languages from John Hopkins University. After a short time in the Army, in 191, he became a Thayer Fellow at ASOP, he served as a director from 1921-1929. Then in 1929 he became a professor at John Hopkins University from

He earned a B.A. from Stanford University and had his M.S. from Columbia University in 1969. He had his Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Warburg Institute in London and Has received a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He has worked as a teacher , journalist, and educational consultant along with different books he has written such as “Hunger of Memory, Mexico’s Children and etc. (pg. 173)

Elie Wiesel: Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania, s a boy Wiesel pursued Jewish

when he was a teen and then later on became a professor at Texas A&M University.He written

“How does it feel to be a problem,” (W.E.B Du Bois 3) asked W.E.B Du Bois. The activist was born during President Andrew Johnson’s term and eventually died during Lyndon B. Johnson’s term. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he graduated from a black liberal arts college in Nashville called Fisk University, and taught in a rural school during the summer. His experiences with the school were documented in his book, The Souls of Black Folk. Du Bois became the first black folk to receive a Ph.D in history from Harvard University. To earn his post-doctoral degree, he studied in Germany. However, he ran out of funds. With the Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, Du Bois established himself as an impressive scholar of black life present in America, and the study was of the initial black communities in the United States. Between 1898 and 1910, he taught sociology at

W. E. B. Du Bois was. Du Bois grew up in Massachusetts, but then moved south where he attended Harvard University. Moving south he began to realize the problems of racial prejudice. Du Bois did much documentation of African Americans and their fight for equality. He had learned so much to mention in The Souls of Black Folk that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Du Bois devoted much of his life to

On November 11, 1918 the war to end all wars came to an end with a ceasefire between the allied nations and Germany. One year later, the anniversary of this official end to World War I was marked to be an honorary day, Armistice Day, for all military personnel who had died defending the United States of America. Armistice Day was the first national recognition and important step towards the care and honor of those who had served protecting the country. Years later in 1938, Congress passed the 11th of November as a legal holiday; in 1954, the holiday was renamed Veterans Day to include an honoring to all military personnel and committees (“Office of Public Affairs”). Veterans Day was a highly respected and celebrated day; there were

November 11, 1918 marketed the end of World War I. During the 2 yeas the United States fought, women became part of the labor force as well as African Americans, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed and factories were booming. Even After the war men returned to the work force and quality of life started to improve. October 1929, the stock market crashed as a result of many buying goods on credit. The Great Depression was the worst in American history and lasted until 1939 before America started in War preparations for World War II. It was after 1945 when men came home and reentered the work force that quality of life improved and we begin to see the rise of the middle class.

Later moving back to the US, he had a career in laboratory physiological research and as a professor at UCLA Medical School. He is particularly interested in the science of history and social science. (<>>>>)

Marxism derived from German philosophers Karl Marx (also a political economist/ sociologist) and Friedrich Engels in the middle of the 1800s. ‘Marxism is based on the idea that society is defined by the conflict between the ruling class (Bourgeoisie) and the working class (Proletariat) and these beings the two main classes’ (Hart, 2013). It

Disowned by Stalin as revisionists and expelled by Hitler, one wonders where Marcuse and Reich would have fled after having destroyed America. “Flynn put Marcuse's entire philosophy in a nutshell when he contended that Marcuse "preached that freedom is totalitarianism, democracy is dictatorship, education is indoctrination, violence is nonviolence, and fiction is truth." As this suggests, Marcuse was a genius at "granting positive connotations to negative practises. This trick reached the height of doublespeak when Marcuse preached that tolerance is actually intolerance, and visa verse. ‘’