Introduction
The First World War left massive destructions in the world since many people lost their lives and even property. These massive destructions were as partly as a result of the introduction of new war weapons, for example, machine guns and gas warfare. This war was majorly between Germany and the Allied power but Germany was blamed for the destructions that came about because they are said to have initiated the war (Kissinger, 2014). These destructions made people have a lot of fear towards any kind of war and nobody wished for any war to start again because people feared losing lives and property once again. It is said that hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Western Front particularly lost their lives in this war.
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Among the contents of this treaty is that Germany was forced to share its territory with other countries like Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland which led to a reduction in the territory of Germany by about ten percent. This nation was also forced to return Alsace and Lorraine to France. All the overseas countries that had been colonized by Germany were placed under the mandate of the League of Nations and Danzig city which had a larger population of the Germans became a Free city (Kissinger, 2014).
The “War Guilt Clause” in this document forced Germany to admit that it was responsible for starting the First World War. For that reason, Germany was made liable for all the losses that resulted from the war and as a result, they were required to pay reparations to the allied nations to act as a compensation for the losses that had been realized. It was clear that Germany could not be in a position to pay for these losses because they were lots although the actual cost of these losses had not been made. The Allied nations insisted that Germany was supposed to pay for the losses and if they failed they were to be judged for the same. Clemenceau who was one of the “big four” wanted to ensure that Germany could not be in a position to start any other war in the future. For that reason, there were measures put in place. The number of the German men in the army was greatly reduced; there was an elimination of the general staff, the making of
This was millions of dollars that Germany had to pay. Second, Germany had to reduce the size of their army. Third, Germany’s colonies were to be divided among the Allies. The treaty had many mistakes. The main mistake was it restricted Germany so much. It made Germany mad and they didn’t like the treaty one bit.
There were many territorial changes to Germany after the war, due to the treaty. The most relevant one was the decision to give Poland a coastline, the Polish Corridor. This was a piece of land running through the centre of Germany, splitting
World War II, intensified tensions between two of the strongest countries in the 1940s, the United States of America and Japan. On December 7,1941, Japanese planes and submarines attacked the American Naval base at pearl harbor, one of America’s largest bases and the largest base in the Pacific Ocean.The attack caused serious damage to the base, taking out America’s strongest battleships, killing thousands of people, and destroying hundreds of planes. America officially enters World War II. The Battle of Midway was a crucial battle in a long line of other battles fought for dominance in the Pacific Ocean. The Battle of Midway was a turning point in World War II. It was the first decisive American victory and provided a morale boost for American troops after the Pearl Harbor attack.
World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, is considered the largest armed conflict in human history. This war was fought over six different continents, in every ocean, and ultimately resulted in fifty million military and civilian deaths; including the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Within the course of the seven-year span of fighting in the war, two decisive battles changed the tide of the war in each theater: The D-Day landings and the Battle of Midway. The invasion of Normandy occurred in the Atlantic theater whereas the Battle of Midway took place in the Pacific Theater of the war. Although these battles happened in different theaters of the war, the Allied victories sent both the Japanese and the Germans marching
On December 7, 1941, the fate of the United States of America changed forever. At the time, the global conflict known as World War 2 had been brutally raging on for over two years. American forces had managed to stay out of the war. However, when the Japanese bombed the naval base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor, the Americans could no longer hold out. On December 7, 1941, the United States of America entered WWII (“Origins of the Normandy Landing”).
World War II is one of the most prolific events in American history. While soldiers were away on foreign soil, thousands of Americans at home were doing their part as well. For example many citizens worked in factories across the nation producing the supplies the military needed to accomplish their goal. When people think of the places that most frequently furnished these products the common perception is that most products were manufactured in the northern industrial states, although this is not always the case. Throughout the war Louisiana played a critical role in adequately preparing for the war. Andrew Higgins has become famous for his role in inventing the Higgins’s Craft, which played a critical role in the beach landings in
the “war guilt clause”, which stated that Germany accepted sole responsibility for the war and was responsible for all damage caused by the war.
Going through the different levels of the educational system most everyone has talked about the Second World War in great detail. The European and Pacific Theaters were the main focus of many historians and their writing, because war pertained to the audience of the time. WWII revolved around the idea of freedom and liberating the fascist governments of Europe, the homefront back in the states was the war machine that kept the war churning. Millions of pages have been written about the experiences and battles during WWII, and still continue, not much in the way of the American homefront history has been written.
Before addressing the changes themselves, it is important to fully understand the circumstances leading up to - and following - the launch of Sputnik 1. Following World War II, of which had officially ended as of 1945, many of the world’s previous powers -- namely Britain, France, and Germany -- were in a state of ruin, struggling to recuperate following the bloody war. However, despite being largely strained for economic and military resources, Britain was not finished with challenging other nations. In British leader Winston Churchill’s famous 1946 remarks regarding communism, he spoke: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an ‘Iron Curtain’ has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the
September 3, 1939 was the day that many people’s lives changed. That is date of which Great Britain entered World War II. Great Britain would fight alongside the allied powers, which consisted of USSR, France, and US. The axis powers, which consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan, would try and bomb the allied powers into surrender. This brutal war would go on for nearly five and a half years, finally ending on May 8, 1945. The end of the war marked both celebration and mourning. For Great Britain some major turning points during the war were the Battle of Britain, and the invasion scare. Many families had to make sacrifices during the war, some of them life changing. The people of Great Britain refused to go to war and were in denial, many of them would not listen to future Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill warned the people about Hitler and Nazi Germany . Because of everybody’s fear of the war, Britain was not prepared when it came time for the country to enter the war.
The powerful question still haunts people 70 years after the war’s end: could Adolf Hitler have been deterred from launching the Second World War? Only two decades after the Great War, the greats of the globe were launched once more into a world war. As Germany’s primary opponent, France and Great Britain felt the brunt of casualties of the deadliest war the world had seen by far. They were weakened economically, politically and militarily and unable to stop the nihilistic, yet charismatic, leader of Nazi Germany.
Is it really worth letting your family suffer, while you fight for your country’s freedom? The love for family appears, in most cases, to be less important than victory against another country. In hope for fighting hard for their country, the soldiers have forgotten all the fears that their family faces. According to the Untold Stories of Loss: Mourning the ‘Enemy’ in Second World War, the families would experience “a constant dread of receiving a telegram announcing the injury, missing status or capture, or death of a husband, son or father." Why help to fight World War II when you know the pain that it endures on your family? In the middle of World War II in 1939, a photographer captured a commemorative picture of a soldier/father kissing his daughter goodbye before her dad leaves Britain. Not only does the photograph show the impacts that World War II had on families, but also the strong bond between a father and a daughter. The soldiers need to reflect on which is more important, the love for your family or victory for your country. A family bond is unbreakable and should be placed above war victory in all situations.
World War II has been considered one of the worst things to ever occur in history. Violence, death and aggression took place in the 1930s and 1940s in certain European nations. German leader, Hitler played an important, yet a very big role during this time. With the rise and domination of fascism in Germany and Italy, the goal was to maintain peace, established by the Treaty of Versailles ended up in major disaster. World War II began with the poor economic conditions in Europe after World War I and the confrontation of clashing forms of governments and in the end it brought about positive and negative changes of the world. World War II began on September 1st, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland; this invasion led to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, The Great Depression, and the Holocaust.
War is a standout amongst the most unfortunate things in our reality today. It is considerably sadder that for the most part it comes around in any event once in our lifetime. In the twentieth century alone we have as of now had two enormous wars. These wars are known as the World Wars just on the grounds that they included a large portion of the huge nations of the world. Numerous individuals have died in these wars particularly in the World War 2. War II was a standout amongst the most dangerous wars we know ever, having upwards of sixty million losses, the greater part of whom were regular folks. It affected a great deal of nations, all the world, which is the reason the name is given. This war affected numerous nations on the planet, and harmed the majority of the nations included enormously. It additionally prompted the destruction of Western European nations as world forces, abandoning it to the Soviet Union, and the United States. The war began in 1939 and finished in 1945, with the attack of Poland and the Axis surrender, separately. It changed the economy and the development of huge nations, including Germany, Great Britain, United States, Japan, Russia and France.
The world has experienced many wars. However, two of them have particularly influenced the world history, World War I and World War II. However, the most pronounced among the two is World War II. World War II was a global war, which took place between 1939 and 1945. This war grew out of issues left unresolved by earlier conflicts of World War I. It involved virtually every part of the world. The primary combatants were the Axis powers- Germany, Italy and Japan and the Allies- France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and China.