World War I From A Modern Day Perspective

From 1890 to 1914 the increase of standing armies in Europe was tremendous, proving how militarism was the main cause of World War One. For example, from 1870 to 1914 Germany doubled the size of their already large standing army. Germany did this because they were worried that they were “in between” France and Russia, so they made a decision to make a drastic increase in their army size. This shows how the European powers each wanted to have the strongest army, and that eventually led to conflict. Secondly, in 1914 Russia surpassed Germany and had the fastest growing army(but not the biggest). Russia worried about the force the Germany was gathering, so they acted quickly and starting increasing their standing army size. This shows how the competitive nature of militarism led to conflict. Lastly, conscription was introduced and this forced young men in a certain age range to join their countries army. The introduction of this concept shows that European

Before World War I occurred, friction was building up in Europe and it was only a matter of time before conflicts finally erupted. One of the reasons that WWI was so grand was because the nations did not put limitations on how aggressive or violent war may be. There had never been a war so drastic before, causing Europeans to fight even if they were being demolished. Backing down was thought of as weak and unhonorable. Competition between nations was magnified by Europe’s desire to fight leading to WWI.

World War 1 has created a complex debate which has lead us to a maze of interpretations on what caused the war to occur. The advancement of Imperialism and Nationalism are long term causes which allowed the war to come together yet the short term causes such as the alliance system Europe built themselves upon set off the war to take place in 1914. Countries wanted to expand because they thought they were the best and powerful while getting the help from their alliances if needed. “It brought down four European empires and weakened the colonial powers that ended on the winning side, Britain and France; It spawned communism and fascism, and changed relations between europeans and non- europeans, town and country, government and peoples, men

An arms race had begun as the world entered World War I. The armies of Germany and France had more than doubled and there was aggressive competition between Britain and Germany for control of the seas. Germany had the greatest military by 1914 which gave them an advantage. Great Britain and Germany both greatly increased their fleets in this time period. The military began to have a greater influence on public policy in Germany and Russia. The British had introduced the “Dreadnought” that was an effective battleship in 1906. German soon followed with their own battles ships. The increase in militarism helped push the countries that were involved in an endless war.

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).

As we take a look back in history we will look at not only the controversies and issues that were a prelude to World War I, but also to events that led to the US joining the war and what happened at the end of the war for nations to try and regain peace.

World War I acted as a ripple effect rooted from conflicts between the five major powers and surrounding areas, each dispute within Europe during the 18th century formed alliances and created jealousy amongst the countries. The quote “World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation” is disagreeable as many factors contributed to the war. Each nation had a desire for dominance and control, a resilient confidence in their own nationalities, and wanted to create stronger armies and navies, making this war inevitable and non-negotiable. The five major powers during this time had a strong sense of nationalism, in which they wanted to expand their territory, and conquer lands in Africa, the Balkan Peninsula, and overseas, for more power, trade, and resources, and overall create the most powerful and influential country in Europe.

In 1914, the start point of World War I, the countries had divided into three major groups, Communism, Fascism, and liberalism. When these groups came into play, that is when countries started to show their true political beliefs and also how they wanted to treat one another. Some had different views, along with some with a complete different beliefs on how to organize their ideas, whereas some were completely against one another. For these major ideologies many philosophers and important people came into play in bringing the right idea forward, where as some took off in a complete different path. Which already made them go through WW1 and then based on how things were going took them two decades to go through WW2.

Either it is from the perspective of European history, or the point of view of world history, World War I was seen as an extraordinary event being as a turning point in history. First, World War, known as the World War I, began on July 28th, 1914 and end on November 11th, 1918. Powers involved in this war includes Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Great Britain and thirty others. The overall civilian populations exceeded fifteen hundred million, which was about 75% of the population at the time of the war. World War I was officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles, where one of the clauses states very explicitly that this war was caused by “Germany and its allies’ invasion.” Such statement led the Germany and its allies to an enormous

“The conflicting fears and desires of many States and peoples did not create a European war, but they served as a set of multiple fuses waiting to ignite, should war between two States.” (Gilbert 6). World War 1 is a very complex war that had definitely caused many adversities to the world. WWI had begun erupted in the summer of July 1914 to November 1918. The grand total of 8,528,831 civilians had died during the war. Many European nations have involved in this global conflict, which upset the European balance of power. There are several of reasons that the war had escalated to conflict. The Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination caused by the Black Hand had culminated in the first global war. There are many other contributing

World War I, also called First World War or Great War, an international conflict that in 1914. The World War I continued for four years. Millions of people lost their lives in the battlefield and several others were mutilated. No war before it had been so very extensive. It was a total war. The deadly weapons used in this war were unprecedented and horrible. The cause of World War l was several things like were militarism, secret alliances and treaties, imperialism and nationalism. World War I was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties (in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey), resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and, in its destabilization of

WWI was it truly a global conflict? Yes because even if the country was not “in the war” they technically would be because the major powers would force their way through a certain country and if the allies were to here that a army there fighting against are invading a country they were to have a alliance with they would go to the country and start a war with the invading country and cause a conflict in the “Neutral” country and an all-out war would begin in the country either hurting the people of the land or damaging the country itself crippling towns and peoples business with the point it shows that everyone in the war would be affected even if they wanted nothing to do with the war with this info its should help us with our current status showing people that want to go into WWIII that if its only with two countries it’s never truly just two other country’s will end up getting involved even if they don’t want to so at all cost we should avoid any more World War in the future.

Some may think war Is dumber and pointless but war shapes our world whether people want to admit it or not. But I know that war drastically affects the economy of all nations which is one reason I like history. Mainly the history about war. I remember a show I watched about World War 1 that called it the first modern war. Which it brought up several good points like how it was the first war to have airship raids, chemical warfare, submarines, and my favorite ….. tanks. While WWI was tragic it did sow the seeds for how we fight to day.

The First World War was one of the single most momentous developments in European history, so much so, that many actually consider World War I the moment where the nineteenth century ended and Europe transitioned into the twentieth century. There are many different reasons for World War I, no event as complicated and important as a war and especially a World War has one cause. One of the most important of these reasons for World War I was an escalation of tensions between Great Britain and Germany in the first couple of decades of the twentieth century. These tensions were fueled by an increasing naval arms race between the two countries. The Anglo-German arms race in the lead-up to World War I was a very good display of the problems associated with the security dilemma and the reason why preparing for war might actually make it more likely. In short, the Anglo-German naval arms race, precipitated by the introduction of the Dreadnought Class battleships increased tensions in Europe demonstrated by the security dilemma which directly led to World War I.

“The outbreak of World War 1 was greatly influenced by the increase in military power, imperialism and nationalisms. The European nation believed in the economic and military supremacy of their country. The attitudes and overconfidence in their country assured them that their government and military were fair and without blame” (Lohr, 2014). The love of one’s country was partly responsible