WWI: A Global Conflict

At the start of World War One president Woodrow Wilson announced to the people and the world that the U.S. will be in a state of neutrality in which the U.S. will not get involved in this conflict. But tension started to rise as the German army announced the quarantine of the British isle and when U.S. ships were sunk by German mines. Many ships kept disappearing and many of them were by the Germans. As tensioned rose president Woodrow Wilson was afraid he would not be able to keep the people of the U.S. out of the war for

WWI was an international conflict between the Central Powers and the Allies that lasted four years.The Central Powers consisted of the Ottoman Empire, Germany, and Austria-Hungary and the Allies consisted of Great Britain, France, Russia, and the United States. WWI was a traumatic event for soldiers involved, transformed societies, and the world. For something to be transformative, there must be a change from its original state. This relates to All Quiet on the Western Front (AQWF), by Erich Maria Remarque because the novel tells the story of a German soldier, named Paul Baumer, who naively enlists in the military after being recruited by his literature teacher. Throughout the novel, Paul endures the traumatic realities of

World War II was a global conflict between the Allied and Axis powers which began to consume countries of the eastern hemisphere in 1939. At this point, Americans were isolationist. To keep the U.S. out of future wars, congress passed a Neutrality Act. On september 1, 1939, World war II broke loose. German tanks destroyed everything in its way. Congress passed the “cash-and-carry” provision allowing warring nations to buy U.S arms with paid cash and transported with their own ships. Six weeks after, congress passed the neutrality act of 1939, and the cash-and-carry policy went into effect. By summer of 1940, Roosevelt provided Britain with “all aid short of war”. On September 27, Germany, Italy, and Japan had signed a mutual defense treaty, The tripartite pact. The three nations became known as the Axis Power. After German submarines fired on the U.S. destroyer, Greer, on september 4, 1941, Roosevelt ordered the navy to shoot German submarines on sight. The United states was now in an undeclared war with Hitler.

WWI began on July 28th, 1914. This war was between the allies which included Britain, Russia, France, Italy and the United States and the Central Powers which were Germany, Austria, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.  In the beginning of the war when men were beginning to get drafted there were too many job vacancies. Many companies were facing a significant loss of employees due to the fact that men held most of the jobs because the women were at home performing their domestic duties. Many women had a love hate relationship with the war, they were upset because many of their husbands were going to fight in the war, but many looked at it as an opportunity to be independent and get real jobs of their own. It was a lot easier for a woman to get a job now, many filled in positions in munitions factories and made the necessary materials needed in the war, while others took jobs as railway guards, police officers, postal works, etc. The working conditions that many women faced in the munitions factories were horrendous, and they weren’t provided with any protection gear and many fatalities occurred. “These women risked their lives working with poisonous substances without adequate protective clothing or the required safety measures. Around 400 women died from overexposure to TNT during WWI.”1 During WWI the rate of women’s employment increased 23.6%, but they were still facing inequality when it came to fair pay. Employers didn’t see women as strong workers so they were paid

World War 2 was a global war from 1939 to 1945 between the Allies and the Axis powers. During the war, over 120,000 American prisoners of war were captured by the German forces. World War 2 started through the bomb in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945. Around 8,000 people died because of radioactive from the bomb. The German prison camps were for mostly Jews since Hitler, the Chancellor of Germany, was against the Jewish religion.The internment camps were in very harsh conditions and many prisoners were vulnerable to diseases and were malnutritioned. The prisoners of war were forced to walk many miles; which caused the POWs to become more sustainable to diseases. About 27,000 american pows died in captivity throughout the war.

“World War I [1914-1918] brought about many significant changes in the aviation field. At the start of World War One, aircraft were very basic and crude. By the time World War One had ended, aircraft had become far more sophisticated and had differentiated into fighters, bombers and long-range bombers. The development of aircraft was stimulated by the war’s requirements, as was the way aircraft were actually used” (“Aircraft and World War One”). At the start of the war, aircraft was thought to be an insignificant asset. Because of this, planes were typically only used for monitoring, rather than attacking the enemy, as well as the world’s first ever aerial photography. If ever enemy aircraft came in contact, by chance, the encounter was typically crude due to lack of training, but deadly.

World War II is often seen as one of the great wars of the modern era. The allies and axis powers both accomplished major scientific advancements and brought about projects of great engineering marvel. Both sides place enormous efforts into the research of new and improved war machines, firearms, and weapons of mass destruction. Nazi Germany jump-started their nuclear project in the mid-1939, a whole three years in advance of the British and the Americans joint effort. Despite Germany’s head start, the Americans still managed to surpass them and eventually dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. Consequently, the Japanese surrendered and it effectively ended the war in the Pacific. Why did the Germans fail in spite of their head start? Questions are often raised about the confidence of German scientists more specifically regarding the well-respected physicist Werner Heisenberg. The play Copenhagen by Michael Frayn acts out two conversations Heisenberg has with another respected physicist Niels Bohr. It brings to light the different possible reasons for Germany’s failure in developing a nuclear weapon.

World War I was the beginning of a new era in world history. It marked the downfall of empires and the growth of new democratic nations. Although it was a violent war and cost former empires in lives and resources, after the war the world saw more independent nations and, as the title of the Clements text says, “The Emergence of the Americas” (Clements). Although each nation had different paths to, during, and after the war, in general the nations of the Americas benefit greatly while those in Europe had to deal with its consequences. Due the various paths each nation took, the various sources (Clements, Oxford, Zinn, Jackson, and Keylor) also reflect this divergence in consistency of WWI accounts and effects. The five sources can be compared

World War I, a catastrophic clash between the Central Powers and the Allied powers played a significant role in the social shift across Western countries. Lasting from 1914 to 1918, the war had social consequences that greatly affected gender roles in Europe. Women replaced men in the workforce as hordes of men left the country for war, while men faced harsh gender expectations in the battlefield. Gender roles had existed long before the Great War, which began with the Separation of Spheres, an ideology that emerged in the Industrial revolution, prescribed distinct roles to males and females after 1850. The separation created two spheres or divisions of labor: the public sphere, roles assigned to males that included wage earning and

World War I began in 1914 and lasted until 1918. Originally a war between Russia and Germany it eventually involved several countries and territories. It was a battle of militarism, nationalism and imperialism.

World War II would shape the minds of a countless number of individuals whether they knew it or not. While war itself is horrible there are times where people feel that they have no other choice but to fight in one. WWII became one of those wars. The war was necessary and worth fighting at the time due to the aggressive nature of the German and Japanese cultures. However at the same time the war would produce a greater number of problems throughout the post war years with the invention of the bomb and Soviet tensions. Ultimately it appears as though Terkel takes a similar stance.

To me, and our country, WWI was a major event in our history. It was obviously one of the first times where almost the whole world was at war at once, but it was more than that. We sent our troops across the ocean, to help another country. This was a major feat for the United States. Our army may have not been in the best shape in the first place, but we did our best to help our our allies in western Europe. What really was astonishing was the fact that we actually got a group of soldiers to band together in order to create the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces).

world War I was the most horrific world wide event up to that time. Nearly an entire generation of young men were killed in Europe on both sides. The devastation on the civilian population was unprecedented as well. It was a "modern war" without the benefits of medical advances, such as antibiotics, that were in effect by World War II. This week I would like you to read and view the films about World War I. Then post your feelings and opinions on the war. Could it have been prevented? What were the "modern" weapons used in the war? Why did the U.S. get involved and what was the outcome? What was President Wilson's role, and why did he change his mind about getting involved? How did some of the soldiers feel about the war? What type of warfare

The cause of WWII was simple: Fascism, a form of government where the people are led by a dictator, or a small group of people. The dictator has a vision of what he wants his country to be like and pushes the population towards his goals.

WWII is said to be the last total war of the modern era and there is clear evidence as to why. Many countries, including the United States, were solely focused on winning the war. Roughly 17 million new jobs became available to civilians in the United States to help the war effort, from ordinary factories changing their production to start producing military vehicles to making ammunition. Every country involved in WWII had their resources going directly toward the war efforts. Civilians were also targeted on both sides to obtain power in the war, leading to civilian casualties ranging from 50 to 55 million. There were no restrictions on what weapons could be used or who/what could be targeted. Both the Axis powers and the Allied powers did what they deemed necessary to win the war.