Essays on World War I

After the end of the destructive World War I, the victorious Allies wanted to ensure that a similar tragedy would never happen again. To achieve this, US President Woodrow Wilson proposed the creation of an international organization, called the League of Nations, the goals of...

War is a very devastating event to have to live through and experience therefore, the chances are very high that people will go almost to drastic measures to ensure that another war doesn’t occur. There are a long list of ‘causes’ that can be argued...

In this short essay I am going to analyse four crisis situations where the League of Nations has showed theirs successes and failures.  The first crisis situation is the conflict that arosed due to Swedish nationalism/self-determination within the Aaland islands as the citizens wanted to...

The second world war broke out on September 3rd 1939 after Hitler had ignored demands from Britain and France to withdraw from Poland. This is thought to be one of the main reasons for the outbreak of World War 2 but the possibility of war...

The League of Nations was an organization for international cooperation. It was established on January 10, 1920, at the initiative of the victorious Allied powers at the end of World War I and was formally disbanded on April 19, 1946. Although ultimately it was unable to fulfill...

Hawaii as an opportunity to then dominate the Pacific. After the Sino-Japanese war the League of Nations condemned Japans invasion of Manchuria, distancing them from the rest of the league and distancing them from the main European powers. With an expanding population on an isolated...

The British LNU became the largest and most influential organisation in the British peace movement. By the mid-1920s, it had over a quarter of a million registered subscribers and its membership eventually peaked at around 407,775 in 1931. By the 1940s, after the disappointments of...

League of Nations was an International organization established by the alliance of the countries which won in World War I. It was established in January 10, 1920. It was established after the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The aims and objectives of LoN were disarmament,...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, otherwise known as “the shot heard round the world”, is widely recognized as the immediate cause of the First World War. However, while Ferdinand’s assassination may have posed as the trigger of the war, without...

In 1920 Germany’s economy began to falter. Germany had been blamed for all that went wrong in the war after World War I. The Treaty of Versailles specified that the German army was reduced to 100,000 soldiers, that they were to pay 132 billion losses...

“We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike.” Hitler, Adolf. Hitler is known for after he entered the parliament. Hitler is still known as one of the...

“Peace was merely an interval between wars,” Erich Ludendorff, a Germany general who was mainly responsible for Germany’s military policy and strategy in the latter years of WWI and later became part of Nazi, once argued. As he once said, not so long after storming...

Many peace settlements are patches on a horrible wound. Sooner or later the wound reopens and the peace disperses. “Peace settlements rarely create a stable peace. ” In reference to World War I, this statement is correct. The Treaty of Versailles was heavily criticized not...

War is one of the calamities that have very adverse effects on the lives of citizens of a country. Some of the main causes of war between groups are power, property ownership, and money (Bonnell, Ward, and Crotty 2006). War causes a lot of confusion...

In the early hours of Sunday the 25th of April 1915 the first contingent of Anzacs landed at a beach North of Gaba Tebe, this was the first of many landing staged at Gallipoli. On the same day over 8 landing were staged. Whilst the...

ANZAC Spirit in Japanese Prisoners of War Camps The Anzac Spirit, as Australian World War One Currespondent, C.E.W. Bean: But ANZAC stood, and still stands, for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship, and endurance that will never own defeat. (Bean,...

The First World War is remembered most clearly by Australians for the public grief it caused; for the new sense of national consciousness it created among the Australian population; and most significantly, for the legend of Anzac which it generated. The Gallipoli Campaign is widely...

The League of Nations was an organization there to maintain the peace in our world by solving disputes. However, have they really achieved their aim? Were they successful? According to historical facts, the League of Nation has achieved six major successes in compromises of disputes,...

Following the end of the Great War, the peace conference that met in Paris from January 1919 to January 1920 and which produced the Treaty of Versailles was both vengeful and idealistic. Germany was stripped of its colonies and had severe restrictions on the rebuilding...