World War I: A Historical Analysis

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.

World War One, also known as the Great War, broke out across the world in August of 1914. European leaders expected it to be a short war, assuring their citizens that a resolution would occur before the start of the New Year (Stokstad). Those leaders could not have been any more wrong, because World War One lasted until November 11, 1918. The war goes down as one of the most destructive wars in all of history. An estimated ten million people lost their lives due to war efforts such as trench warfare and overall technological advances in weaponry. Because of the duration of the war, countries endorsed food rations and propaganda attacks on ordinary citizens to manage the war effort (web). The point is that the war was brutal on all people,

The quote from Albert Einstein, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts”, suggests to me that although many things have happened in the past not all of them have the same significance. For example the Second World War has a big significance but the true amount of damage inflicted on the world cannot be accurately counted. Whereas events such as the number of storms that happened in the last year can be counted but it doesn’t have the same impact on the world. As well as this quote, history allows us to discover which events were significant, that can be counted, and which events were not as symbolic.

First of all, history is influential because it teaches people in groups, individuals, or as nations how humans perceive a complicated situation. Furthermore, how humans solve these complications is something we are also taught. In this

World War I the first of its kind would mark an entire generation; could what today is known as the lost generation have been avoidable or was President Woodrow Wilson just prolonging the inevitable by his neutrality. The following will guide you through a brief outline of the WWI and how one man 's justifications sent an entire nation to war.

The Home Front is often overlooked when discussing the impact of World War One (WWI), as the impact is often less glorified when compared to the bloodshed of the battlefields. This exhibition looks at life in Australia during WWI and explores the experiences of those away from the actual fighting who are at home. By extensively using primary sources and brief profiles of both notable and everyday Australians during WWI, the exhibit gives a holistic view on life in Australia during the Great War. The exhibit focuses on the themes of the initial excitement of those in Australia when the war began, technology advancements, how the public received news of the war and their reaction to it, as well as the sense of growing disillusionment that developed as the war progressed. It comprehensively looks at these experiences and emotions and describes them with clarity.

Retired venture capitalist Gregg Bemis owns the salvage rights to the Lusitania — and he thinks he can solve the 100-year-old mystery of why it sank so quickly. His biggest obstacle: The Irish government, which has fought him for years over his plans to explore the wreck.

A historian’s role is to inform the human race of the occurrences of the past, for if we forget the past we will repeat the same mistakes in the future. The lessons of the past become the innovations of the now, and it is this very concept that denotes the power of historians. History is all subjects, it is the math, science, and art of the past this makes history the single most vital subject in all of the world, which makes the irony of the fact that history is not a highly regarded area of study quite sad.

According to the article ¨World War I: Aftermath,¨ written by an anonymous author, on the website United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Europe had to have many burdensome reparations imposed and had a general inflationary period all because of World War I. To begin with, the social and economic upheaval that followed World War I powerfully destabilized Germany’s fledgling democracy. After the war, many Germans forgot that they had applauded the fall of Kaiser; therefore, they had welcomed a parliamentary democratic reform and rejoiced at the truce that was made. On the other hand, some individuals like the historian Friedrich Meinecke and Nobel prize-winning author Thomas Mann, had resisted democratic reform. Also, anyone who urges someone

The war brought more than five million casualties. The US and USSR had their own motives behind the war. For the Americans and the many other people around the world, the end of the Second World War meant peace and prosperity. But for the Koreans it was misery. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Koreans were ruled by the Japanese empire. When Japan was defeated in the Second World War, Korea became free. The Koreans wanted a free and unified state. However the United States and the Soviet Union had different plans. The Soviet Union wanted to expand the Communist influence in Korea. But the United States didn’t want that to happen. The US stressed the importance of sontainment (a foreign policy used to prevent the spread of communism).

World War I left an acrimonious taste across the world. One would say it was the biggest gaffe to have ever been made. World War I brings with it the loss of millions of precious lives and much devastation that follow; to this day it is believe that everything bad that happen in the world is a consequence of World War I.

During 1914, the tensions in Europe that had been growing for many years culminated with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist organization. Following the assassination, the Austrian-Hungary government and Serbia entered into what became an difficult chain of political confrontations. Two teams eventually emerged—the Central Powers, which consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Allied Powers, which included France, Russia, and Great Britain. Italy was part of the Central Powers but switched to the Allies during the war. During the last nine months of the war, the United States decided to join the Allied Powers. After many months of fighting, the Allies had won. The

According to the reading passage, history is a selection of events that occurred in the past. This selection is important because there were an incredibly number of events that are impossible to record whole of these. Some events are ignored. As a result, history is a selection of events based on the interpretation of the historian people.

There is no single history, no matter what text you read, what you remember you will never have a comprehensive account of what happened. As a society of individuals we have our own thoughts, motivations and experiences which make different people. So the purpose of history is not about what happened, but what can be proven. (Arnold ¶1-3) History explains that in 1856, James Buchanan was elected president but it is not able to comprehend the reason every voter put Buchanan’s name on their ballot. It can gather reasons, supported by old newspapers, interviews or records of speeches, but to know the mind of every voter is

However, Carr rebuts this, as he states that ‘the belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively and independently of the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy, but one which it is very hard to eradicate.’ This statement explains the misconception that history is made up entirely of facts without the interference of opinion and biases. Carr’s argument is that for facts to become historical facts they must be interpreted and analyzed by the historian. This requires the process of selecting facts, evaluating and interpreting them, which inevitable will contain certain elements of personal prejudices. It is based on this reasoning which he therefore claims that facts can only become historical once they have been selected by a historian and this is what makes them significant. He therefore questions the extent to which a historian could be objective as experience could affect what we perceive as being important, meaning that historians are determining what the facts of the past are according to the own biases and agendas, whether they are consciously or unconsciously aware. Hence emphasising Carr’s point that history is an interpretation. He uses several examples to explain this for example it was the historian that decided Caesar crossing the Rubicon was a significant event whilst ignoring the many others that crossed it before and after him. Thus,