Wilson's torment in deciding whether to send U.S. troops into WWI. It is well known among reasonably informed students of American history that Woodrow Wilson resisted getting American forces involved in World War I, right up to and after the time when British ships with Americans on board were...

The mobilization of America for war was both an arduous and dispute ridden process. With many in the United States still opposed to intervention at the start of the war, financing it and managing it on a material level, as well as gaining public support for an overseas campaign were at the very le...

IT BEGINS... The economic and technological changes that accompanied the Industrial Revolution fundamentally altered the nature of "modern" warfare. Unprecedented advances in machinery and mass production made the development and production of new weapons an inevitable component of the pr...

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE INTRODUCTION: Genocide is the deliberate extermination of a people or a nation. The twentieth century will always be remembered for the genocide that Adolf Hitler perpetrated against the Jews of Europe. But there was a lesser-known genocide during the First World War which may ...

The 1920's and early 1930's found Germany unstable socially economically and politically. The government was more often in a state of disarray than not, the populace was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock markets crash of 1923 saw the economy crumble before the population...

Germany's invasion of France via Belgium was the initial act of war that brought about the commencement of war. However, is it fair to say that it was Germany and Germany alone who acted to bring about this first step? I would argue that a series of events led to the German ...

Germany and the Origins of the First World War 1 Between 1866 and 1871, thanks to the skilful diplomacy of Prussia's great minister, Prince Otto von Bismarck and to the unexcelled military genius of his generals, ...

There is no single answer as to why the Nazis were able to gain so much support during the 1920's; there are several, and people still argue about them. Some people - especially during the Second World War - suggested that the Nazi movement grew out of something basically wrong in the German charact...

Discuss the reasons, which led to the failure of parliamentary democracy in Germany and Hitler's rise to power (1920 - 1934)German history is seen as a 'painful issue for thousands of Germans and other Europeans' . However it has interested many historians over the years into inquiring how and why ...

Discuss the reasons, which led to the failure of parliamentary democracy in Germany and Hitler's rise to power (1920 - 1934)German history is seen as a 'painful issue for thousands of Germans and other Europeans' . However it has interested many historians over the years into inquiring how and why ...

World War 1: German Guilt. Introduction Few historical areas can have aroused as much debate as that of the origins and causes of WW1. The thousands of documents and eyewitness testimonies collated have allowed historians to construct exceedingly detailed illustrations of what happened in the days...

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE INTRODUCTION:Genocide is the deliberate extermination of a people or a nation. The twentieth century will always be remembered for the genocide that Adolf Hitler perpetrated against the Jews of Europe. But there was a lesser-known genocide during the First World War which may not h...

azis Ideology stated, "The ideology is intolerant and cannot be content with the role of a party among parties. It imperiously demands its own, exclusive and unqualified recognition as well as the complete transformation of the whole public life according to its views. Despite these very clear ex...

Gallipoli How it was Lost Mike NevinMs. PetersenWorld Civ.1/30/99Period-4As nineteen-fourteen came to a close the western front had quieted down to trenchwarfare, and in the east the Russians had suffered two great military defeats. Facinganother cold winter Rus...

World Struggle Comes to DivisionIt is thought that this war that is been ongoing for over a year, began with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand; however, many other reasons led to this war. Some occurring reasons date as far back as the late 1800's. Nationalism, militarism, imperial...