WW1 Research PaperBy: Tiffani Warner
2/8/16
What if your friend was being bullied by another kid? Would you join in and defend your best of all best friend? But then the bully would get all of his/her friends and then you would get all of your friends. Wouldn’t you think there would be a lot of tension? But then someone makes a stupid move, such as throwing something (or something like that) and then everybody starts to beat each other up! Well that’s what happened with World War 1. There was a lot of tension in between Austria-Hungry, Germany, Italy and Britain, France, Russia. But then someone had to shoot the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his rich wife. That, my friend, is when the stick broke. In 1913, the World War 1 was declared a war! Austria-Hungry was furious that their
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Of Couse this treaty was made in 1919, by the way. This wonderful treaty was involving Brittan, France, and Italy (and of course this treaty did not involve Germany at all!). This not so wonderful treaty for Germany was signed by President Wilson and a whole lot of other very impressive leaders (Germany was of course very upset that they were not involved). This treaty made Germany (not any other country) pay for ALL of the damage and destruction done by all of the countries (aka, that is NOT fair!)! They also separated Germany from the other countries for 15 years!
The peace conference just happened to occurred on January 1919. The ‘’big four’’ (which happens to be Brittan, France, Italy and the United States of America) just seemed to just argue a lot during the peace conference. The United States of America wanted to refuse all allied powers. At first, all italy wanted was Adriatic, but later on they changed their minds. A weakness in all of this was that Russia wanted to join in on this but nobody let them join. They excluded all the central powers all together. All they wanted was Germany to do strict
Which was signed in 1919 even though the actual fighting stopped in 1918. It ended the war between the Allies and the Central powers. This treaty resulted in Germany losing land and Germany getting punished. Which also later led to the Ottoman Empire breaking apart. However treaty really damaged Germany because they were required to pay over 30 billion dollars in damages. Which made Germany impoverished and this created inflations in their economy. There would eventually be a new leader who would make Germany great again. This will eventually lead to the next World War. The United States, and Allies influenced not just United States history but also World History. This probably wasn’t a good idea to make them pay that huge amount just because we thought it’s Germany who started this whole
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Germany was not permitted to attend the treaty. Had they been able to go to the treaty, it could have help resolve issues between the other countries and Germany. Although Germany may have caused great damage during the first war, they should have been treated in a way that caused the other three countries to look upon them as the aggrieved party. Document D sates “Allies saw the treaty of Versailles as an international contract.” It then stated that Germany saw it as a “ atrocious injustice” and that “it must be destroyed.” It is apparent that Germany was resented by the other countries. Document B showed how much land Germany lost due to the financial strain, but Germany should not have been held fully for their actions in the war. The Germans did not fight alone, and as tough as WWI was, the opposing countries should have taken responsibility for the damage they had done too. Together, they would need money for the damages that the war brought. With Germany being the issue from the point of view of the opposing countries, not allowing them to go to the Versailles treaty would only cause greater
Almost all nations desired to completely destroy Germany and make them work almost like slaves (Doc 3). The other nations act as if they had no part or fault in the war when in reality they were part of it just as much as Germany. Great Britain, France, and Italy all wanted revenge and saw this as their opportunity to get it. The treaty caused restrictions to their military and also made Germany lose their territory and colonies. The fault was entirely placed on their shoulders and the weight only became greater with the treaty. Germany was also not the one to start the war but yet were accused of it
World War I was a tragic episode in European history. As with most wars, there were some causes that led to this event. A few of these causes were militarism, alliances, and imperialism. The first spark of the war was on June 28, 1914 when the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand. The Austrian leaders demanded an apology from Serbia, they got upset and Russia said they would help Serbia. With no apology and the threat of Russia, on June 28 Austria-Hungary declared war on them; Russia in return declared war on Austria-Hungary. Germany declared war on Russia, France on both Germany and Austria-Hungary. Finally Britain had joined France and Russia, then all of Europe was at war.
As once Gandhi said “ I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent” associates with the World War I being the evil. World War I began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. The two main sides of the war are the Allies and the Central Powers. The Allies include France, Russia ,Great Britain, Italy and the Central power includes Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire. The motivations for the countries to involve in the war is to advertise the country's military to the enemy, to make new alliances with other countries, to show patriotism and finally to progress their country economically, socially a politically.
World War 1 was a historical period in which the UK, France and the Russian Empire (known as the Triple Entente) went to war with Germany and Austria-Hungry. It lasted for 4 years spanning from July 29th, 1914 to November 11th, 1918. There was much miscommunication between nations, which in turn was cause for much bloodshed as it led to about 16 million deaths in total. Many historians note this War as the deadliest in world history. As the war progressed, many other nations started joining in and taking sides. Soon enough the war would spread over the world. The wars cause is believed to be due to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. Because of this, Austria- Hungry declared war on Serbia. One would lead to the other and we were left with a mess of each nation at war with each other, making up the World War.
An event in World War One where it was significant to William Johnson was when Britain had declared war on Germany and as a result, Canada was obligated to join them in the war since they did not control their own international affairs. This was significant because this event leads William to volunteer and enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Force for service overseas to participate in the war. He had felt motivated to enter the war since he had a patriotic feeling to protect his country and had supported Great Britain and their Empire. He had also believed that the war would be quick and he would be back home very soon. An aspect of World War One which was significant to William Johnson was when the illegal use of chlorine gas took place
In this paper I will investigate the driving variables that prompted to world war 1.In the exposition I will incorporate Weltpolitik, cheddar sandwich, the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and some more. In the war the troopers were living in appalling conditions which could lead them to death. Infections that could be gotten were typhoid, jungle fever and the most widely recognized illness was trench foot and trench fever. The war began in a town in Serbia known as Sarajevo, were a revolutionist assemble known as the Black Hand came and plotted to kill the archduke Franz Ferdinand coming to do a parade on Serbia's national day. This irritated the gathering and the falteringly plotted to execute him with 6 professional killers. After the initial five professional killers fizzled the 6th gravillo princip surrendered and went to purchase a cheddar sandwich and the driver driving the archduke got lost and wound up at
The treaty humiliated the Germans. The war-guilt clause forced Germany to accept sole responsibility for World War I. And although the German military had played a major role in igniting the war, other countries in Europe had been guilty of provoking political crises before the war too.
The Paris of Peace conference was held on January 1919 in Versailles just right outside of Paris. Paris of Peace conference was called to establish reasonable terms to make peace with the countries after World War I. In that conference there was almost thirty nations that were participates. The “Big Four” were there as well, the big four consisted of Great Britain, represented by David Lloyd George, France, represented by George Clemenceau, United States, represented by Woodrow Wilson, and Italy, represented by Vittorio Orlando. David Lloyd George wanted moderate peace he also wants to alienate Germany as a naval threat. Vittorio Orlando wanted the territory was promised by the other countries. George Clemenceau wanted ironclad guarantees against future German military threat and he wanted Germany to pay for all the damages they caused during World War I. Woodrow Wilson wanted peace without Vengeance that were based on his fourteen points. One through five on his points consisted of open covenants, openly arrived at; which means no more secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, and reduction of weapons. Six through thirteen consisted of self-determination of Europeans and point 14 consisted of the League of Nations. Woodrow Wilson was not successful in his goals, but in 1920 the League on Nations was established; after
No, not on the battlefield, I do not have the stamina nor the tolerance to be able to fight in the war, although I would probably do the best I could from the house or city I was living in by making food, making or tending clothes, and even attacking small bands of the British. I am not one to maintain long periods of time away from family and friends. The housing in the winter of 1777 to 1778 was horrendous (according to the Valley Forge: Would you have Quit? Background Essay). The average space was a 16 foot by 14 foot tent housing 12 people in one tent, leaving only 18 ⅔ feet per person not including the space it took for supplies. Each tent had no beds whatsoever, just straw and a mud floor. Cold and smoke, from no ventilation other than
What is World War I? And why is it important? World War I, also known as the Great War, began on July 28th, 1914, and ended in November 11th, 1918. World War I caused much blood shed to Europe leading to approximately 10 million deaths and 20 million badly injured. World War I was caused by many incidents prominent to the July Crisis, which includes of nationalism, militarism, imperialism, alliances, and most commonly known the assassination of the Archduke of Austria and his wife.
France, Italy, Britain and the U.S. met at the Capitol to talk about the terms of peace for the post war. Germany thought this was unfair due to the fact they were not able to attend this talk. The Allied powers told Germany to just sign the treaty and they did not need to know what it was about. Germans refused to sign this treaty and some talked about going back to war.
I believe it was a step forward because we won. There were others wars that followed after, but we won those too. It showed that we were strong although we were very much unprepared due to Jefferson reducing spending on defense. We had a small army. Our navy only had sixteen ships. We had relied on volunteers to join not to mention that they had little training at all due to little experience in battle.