For a while Armenians and Turks lived in harmony in the Ottoman empire for years. During these years, Armenians weren't equal and had to deal with certain hardships, but they were pretty well accepted and there was little conflict. Things began to change for a number of reasons. Nationalism, ...

Modern History oral task. The word at the beginning of the 20th century – Russian Revolutions. Tsar Nicholas II  Nicholas inherited the role of Tsar off his father in 1855, when his father Nicholas I passed away.  Tsar Nicholas did not have the abilities to be a natural...

Chapter 23 1. The Great War: World War I to a generation unaware of World War II. Began in August of 1914 when forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded Serbia following the assassination of the Archduke. (#3) Within weeks a bi-country dispute became a world war that encompassed almost all of...

World War I or "the Great War" as it became known, occurred due to many causes, some of which are still unknown. The obvious trigger was the assassination of the heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on the twenty-eighth of June 1914. But a great port...

The strength of the liberal forces desired a stronger treaty and conservative isolationists and opposed the treaty on all grounds combined. This was done to help defeat the Treaty of Versailles. The final blame for the defeat of the treaty lies with Woodrow Wilson's stubborn resistance to compr...

After World War I there was a controversy over the Balkan region. The countries that supported the allies wanted more land and to unify the region. Yugoslavia was the name that came up and it was made up of Serbia and southern parts of Austria-Hungary. Italy did not want Yugoslavia to gain lands ...

The motivations behind imperialism imposed by the growing superpowers include strategic and cultural imperialism, nationalism, economic considerations, and the idea of "survival of the fittest". Strategic imperialism is the concern of a nation for the control of key waterways, ports, an...