In addition, in Congress few voices spoke out against the war, since they wanted to use the war to end the IWW and socialism.
Johnson and Tindall/Shi's books were sometimes difficult to get through, because of all the names and facts. I found myself reading and rereading parts of Johnson's book to get the gist of what he was saying. Despite the fact that Tindall's was to be a narrative, it did not seem like that in most cases. Although there are photos to break up the copy, in many cases it is jam packed with too much information. The paragraphs should have been broken up more, since they were long and with small type. Like Johnson, it was necessary to reread sections to truly get the underlining message.

Zinn's book, despite its definite editorial slant against the war, was an easy read. The quotes from a variety of people, as…...

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References

American Destiny. Book 12: Making the World Safe for Democracy. Great Britain: Orbis, 1986.

Johnson, Paul. A History of the American People. New York: Harper Collins, 1997

Tindall, George Brown and Shi, David. America: A Narrative History. New York: Norton, 2001.

Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.

WWI Overview
World War I was the first war fought on not only an international scale, but on a global scale. eginning in 1914 and ending in 1918, this global conflict involved not only various counties in Europe and Asia, but ultimately also ended up including the United States of America who formerly entered the conflict on April 6, 1917, almost two years after the attack on the RMS Lusitania by Germany.[footnoteRef:1] There are several reasons that can be considered in determining the root cause of World War I and the political and historical issues that led up to the conflict between various neighboring countries. [1: "U.S. Enters World War I," History Channel, accessed June 22, 2013, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-enters-world-war-i]

The event that will forever be remembered as the catalyst for beginning World War I is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.[footnoteRef:2] The assassination further…...

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History Channel. "U.S. Enters World War I." Accessed June 22, 2013. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-enters-world-war-i

History Channel. "World War I." Accessed June 22, 2013.  http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i 

Strachan, Hew, ed. World War I: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

World War I was believed to be the last general war that this world had to go through. Due to massive losses during the first major conflict, people believed that no country will ever want such an event to happen. However, twenty years after the Treaty of Versailles, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Second World War caused the death of many more people than the first. Unlike the First War, which had Europe as a battlefield, the Second World War affected almost all the world. The war had three battlefields: air, sea and land.
In September 1939 Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany, invaded Poland. This event determined the beginning of World War II. "Hitler had attained power in 1933 after years of attacking the terms of the peace agreement that ended World War I, the Versailles Treaty, with its harsh treatment of Germany." (Adriane uggiero, page xvi)…...

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1. Tong, Neil, Battles of World War II, The Rosen Publishing Group, September 1, 2008

2. Ruggiero, Adriane, World War II, Marshall Cavendish, November 1, 2002

3. Hastings, Max, The Second World War: A World in Flames, Osprey Publishing, Mars 25, 2004

4. Hatt, Christine, The Second World War: 1939-45, Evans Brothers, April 1, 2007

These states included Germany -- whose aggressive policy of expansion and investment in a powerful navy -- and Great Britain -- which had territorial holdings throughout the world. Other parties in the conflict included France, with strong imperial ambitions in northern Africa, and Russia, whose imperial expansion complicated matters in the MIddle East and even East Asia. In short, with so many great empires in Europe, it was only a matter of time before a major conflict erupted. That it took as long as it did to occur is perhaps the one surprising aspect in the history of orld ar I. It took an appropriate political excuse -- the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand -- to motivate the great empires into the first orld ar.
hen considered in terms of the imperial ambitions of these states, the aftermath of orld ar I begins to make much more sense. The Treaty of…...

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Works Cited

World War I." The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed. The Columbia University Press (2000): 41532.

orld ar I
At the beginning of the First orld ar, the United States was determined to be neutral. Then President oodrow ilson pledged that this was a European war and that the United States would not take part in the fighting. The majority of the American people were against involving their nation with the war overseas, much like how the situation was preceding the Second orld ar. ithout the public opinion in favor of war, the politicians in ashington, D.C., did not feel that entering into the war was the right thing. However, even though they had declared themselves neutral, the U.S. had been providing supplies and weapons to Great Britain and the allies for some time. Almost since the war began in early 1914, American manufacturers had been increasing production and preparing just in case the United States became embroiled in the action.

Following the 1915 sinking of the British…...

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John J. Dwyer. "The United States and World War I." (Lew Rockwell, 2004).

C.C. Gill. Naval Power in the War (1914-1918). (New York: George H. Doran, 1919).

Larry Pletcher. Massachusetts Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival. (Guilford, CT:

Insider's Guide, 2006).

The strike at Heligoland ight was not intended to seriously hurt the German fleet. Rather, it was intended to distract Germany from the landing of marines at Ostend in elgium. Catching the German fleet completely by surprise in its own port, German light cruisers engaged the Royal Navy without proper cover. The Germans lost 3 light cruisers and a destroyer, as well as more than 1,000 men. In great contrast, the ritish lost only 75 men and sustained few damages; no ritish boats were sunk. This was obviously a win for the ritish and would likely have encouraged future naval actions like it. However, Heligoland ight was the only such action of World War I.
Though Jellicoe's forces met few German ships in their time in the North Sea, the threat of German U-oats had become a serious one. U-boats threatened not only military ships, but merchant ships carrying everything…...

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Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 1998.

German Admiralty Declaration, 4 February 1915." In Naval Operations, Vol. II, ed. Julian Corbett, 260-261. New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1920. Reprint, New York: Battery Press, 1997.

Denhe, Phillip. "From 'Business as Usual' to a More Global War: the British Decision to Attack Germans in South America During the First World War." Journal of British Studies 44 (2005): 516-535.

Excerpts From a German Conference Concerning Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 31 August, 1916." In Official German Documents Relating to the World War, Vol. II, ed. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1154-1163. New York: Oxford University Press, 1923.

World War II or the Second World War occurred between 1939 and 1945 between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers (Wikipedia 2006). The Allied Powers were led by the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the U.S. The Axis Powers were led by Germany, Italy and Japan. World War II claimed 12 million lives and began in response to the military aggression of Nazi Germany under Adolph Hitler and Japan's imperialist ambition in Asia. Nazi aggression was aimed at the conquest of Lebensraum to increase the German Empire but at the expense of the peoples of Eastern Europe and the destruction of the Jews. Records say that approximately 62 million or 6.2% of the world, perished in this War and that 60% of them were civilians, who died because of disease, starvation, genocide, massacres and aerial bombing. After the War, power shift from Western Europe and the ritish Commonwealth…...

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1. Smithsonian. The Price of Freedom: Americans at War. National Museum of American History, 2006. http://americanhistory.is.edu/militaryhistory

2. West, Woody. The Systematization of Everything. Policy Review, Oct-Nov 1999 # 9.  http://www.policyreview.org/oct99/west.html 

3. Wikipedia. World War I. Media Wiki, 2006.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/world_war_1#Aftermath 

4. -. World War II.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

esultantly, a great portion of 1915 was controlled and dominated by Allied actions against the Ottomans. France and Britain reportedly launched an unsuccessful attack on the Dardanelles, and this campaign was subsequently followed by the British invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
The longest battle of the war, the Battle of Verdun, resulted in approximately one million casualties. The Battle of the Somme reportedly resulted in an estimated one million casualties as well, but offered no real breakthrough for the Allies. The tank was introduced by the British, and was considered an effective weapon but there weren't enough of them to make a significant difference. In 1917, United States President Woodrow Wilson announced America's entrance into World War I as a 'crusade to make the world better'. Wilson is also credited with developing a program of progressive reform, asserting leadership on an international level and building a new world order.

The Allied…...

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Paxton, Robert & Julie Hessler. Europe in the Twentieth Century (5th Edition). Boston:

Wadsworth, 2005. Web.

orld ar I Tactics and eaponry
In many ways, the "ar to End All ars" was fought with a wide range of increasingly modernized weaponry that was matched with obsolete tactics that resulted in millions of deaths and casualties on both sides of the conflict. Indeed, during the period between 1914 and 1918, the full brunt of early 20th century technology was brought to bear on the battlefields of Europe and the ghastly results were truly impressive, but the initial results of these weapons were insufficient to completely turn the tide of the war. Consequently, the belligerents became increasingly bogged down in trench warfare that demanded even more destructive weapons. To determine what happened during orld ar I in these areas, this paper details the type of techniques and weaponry used throughout the war and looks at how these changed technologically to change future wars. An examination concerning the reasons why…...

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Bundt, Thomas S. 2004. "Gas, Mud and Blood at Ypres the Painful Lessons of Chemical

Warfare." Military Review 84(4): 81-83.

Childs, David J. A Peripheral Weapon? The Production and Employment of British Tanks in the First World War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Geneva Protocol. 1928, February 8. U.S. Government: Department of State. Retrieved from  http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65521.pdf .

According to Henry Kissinger, treaty was nothing but a "brittle compromise agreement between American utopism and European paranoia - too conditional to fulfill the dreams of the former, too tentative to alleviate the fears of the latter."
Making a conclusion, it's important to note that despite all attempts of W. Wilson, his fourteen points were not ratified. France and Great Britain could not confess that their colonial systems were doomed to collapse, so reparations of Weimar Germany were provisional panacea for their economies. Political instability and further social revolution was apparent from the first days of the Weimar epublic: strikes, workers movements, crisis and depression were evidence that people were not satisfied with the conditions of life and they were ready to act. Peace treaties signed after WWI only created fertile soil for revenge and new war. S. Tucker writes, that unofficial outbreak of WWII was annexation of Manchuria by…...

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Tucker, S. The Great War 1914-1918, Indiana University Press 1998

Gay, Peter Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider W.W. Norton & Company 2001, p.14

Eyck, Erich History of the Weimar Republic Macmillan Pub Co 1970

Before the War America's strained neutrality, Article at  http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/war/intro/neutral.htm

All of the poets write of the sheer horror of war and warfare, and this colors their words and their outlook. They all speak of fighting a terrible war at a terrible cost.
Many of the poems also speak of dying. In "Anthem for a Doomed Youth," Wilfred Owen writes, "What passing-bells for those who die as cattle? / Only the monstrous anger of the guns. / Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle / Can patter out their hasty orisons" ("Anthem"). Sassoon writes of death in "The General," "Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead," ("The General"), and obert Brooke writes in "The Soldier," "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is forever England" ("The Soldier.) Thus, all of the poets write of their experiences, their fears, and the war itself. It was…...

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Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth," p. 2066;

Dulce Et Decorum Est," p. 2069;

Disabled," p. 2071, from "Owen's Letters to His Mother," p. 2072

Sassoon, Siegfried. "They," p. 2055;

World War I
Dearest Albert:

Hopefully, this letter finds you in better health and fully recuperated from your wounds. How very proud you must be of your medals and of your heroism in the line of fire. The boys here at home all wear theirs to social affairs, and I must admit to my private jealousies at the attention they get, not just from the ladies, or during parades, but also from admirers in general.

I am beset with a nagging guilt at not having participated and at having missed the last glorious opportunity to prove my mettle in action in this final, Great War that has surely ended all war amongst nations and men. Sometimes I feel ashamed in comparison to you, and to the other lads at home who had such a fantastic opportunity. Nor it is it my imagination that the fellows who were soldiers all see me differently, as…...

Xenophobia against people from the ethnic groups America was fighting rose in intensity. Much as French Fries became Freedom Fries for a brief period during the contemporary 'war on terror,' so frankfurters, a German dish, became the more America-sounding hot dog. More seriously the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, anti-immigrant and anti-African-American sentiment as a result of new migrations of people within the United States created the paradox of the government engaging in censorship and civil rights violations, ostensibly to make the world 'safe' for democracy. However, given that anti-immigration sentiment had shared a less-than-noble place in the Progressive Movement, along with support for the American working man, perhaps these actions do not completely counter the idea that the movement to war was progressive, encompassing the ugly as well as the noble progressive sentiments of past eras. However, progressive intellectuals like alter Lippmann, author of Drift and Mastery, would…...

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Works Cited

Lippmann, Walter. Drift and Mastery. Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 1914.

Norton, Mary Beth. A People and a Nation. 7th Edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Queens and Kings preferred to fight using allies' lives. In the beginning of 20th century frightened by Germany British empire asked old enemy - ussia to become an ally. British monarch wanted to push off Germany, ussia and France and when they will suffer a lot from the bloody war become the strongest winner of this absurd fight. ussian and French soldiers had to die for Britain.
British rulers dreamed of separating dying Turkey, capturing German colony in the Middle East and terminating German threat.

All these countries had own interests and wanted to realize them in any case. This war had to solve all international problems as leaders of great countries thought. Now we know how they were wrong.

War began between Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia. Everybody knew then that other European countries would not stay out of this conflict, politicians were sure that this war wouldn't be local. When analyzing…...

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References

Robert O. Paxton Europe in the Twentieth Century by, fourth edition

Leslie Derfler and Patricia Kollander An Age Of Conflict

("My History Lab") In order to gain influence with the Europeans, who had ignored American pleas for peace, ilson came to the conclusion that America must involve itself in the war. It was Germany who was ruled by a totalitarian Kaiser, who attacked neutral ships on the open seas, while the Allies both were trading with, and owed a great deal of money to, America. Therefore, ilson concluded that in order to fulfill his progressive world vision, the U.S. had to join the war on the side of the Allies. ("My History Lab")
Getting the American public to support joining the war was not going to be easy, for years Americans had harbored antiwar feelings and isolationism was a way of life for most. But once America joined the war on the side of the Allies, despite the large numbers of German-American citizens, anti-German sentiments emerged. Americans of German decent,…...

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"The Causes of World War One." firstworldwar.com. Web. 7 July 2012.

 http://www.firstworldwar.com/origins/causes.htm 

"My History Lab.(Video file)" Pearson.com. Web. 7 July 2012.

 http://media.pearsoncmg.com/pcp/pls/course_connect/gen_ed/american_history_2/assignments/mhl_videos/VP_Longman/simpleviewer.php?projectID=RT022

One of the more shameful moments in American history was the establishment of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.  Ostensibly started because the United States was at war with Japan, it is interesting to note that there were no similar internment camps for people of Italian or German descent, despite the fact that Italy and Germany were also part of the Axis powers that fought against the Allies in World War II. 

Prior to World War II, Japanese began immigrating to America for work opportunities.  They initially immigrated to Hawaii, which was annexed by the United....

One of the most interesting issues in international relations is the role that nuclear weapons play in the effort to obtain peace.  Many people suggest that nuclear weapons can preserve peace.  The United States was the first country to actively deploy nuclear weapons in an effort to shorten a war by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The widespread destruction, which was unlike anything ever experienced in a war up to that point, is often credited with ushering in the end of World War II, at least in the Pacific....

You came to the “write” place for tips on how to write an essay.  We have a comprehensive guide to writing essays, as well as a number of shorter guides on how to complete some of the steps (like writing an outline) that you might need to take in order to complete your essay.  The first thing to do is to figure out what type of essay you are being asked to write.  When you know what type of essay you need to write, you can figure out how to approach it.

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Visual communication covers a wide array of topics and has become increasingly important in the modern world.  With people constantly attached to a smart device of some sort, marketers and others have a means of continuously influencing people through visual communication. Visual communication involves the use of graphics to quickly and efficiently effectuate communication.  If you have ever heard the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words,” then you understand a little about visual communication.

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