The Treaty of Versailles happened post World War I in the palace of Versailles in France. The League of Nations came together saying they wouldn’t go to war any time soon and blamed Germany for the war. Because of this, Germany suffered a lot of hardship. The terretories Germany had won in the Franco-Prussian war were taken away, they were forced to ddemilitarize and reduce their army, and were heavily taxed leading to a horrible economy. This all made way for Hitler’s rise, promising the people to bring back Germany’s national pride. At the same time as Hitler’s sort of rising, Italian nationalist, Mussolini was as well. Mussolini was the creator of fascism or the toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. Mussolini and Hitler had both signed the Pact of Steel in 1939 and led fascist movements in the 1930s and 1940s. Hitler also began to take more and more lands for example Czechoslovakia. At the same time, America was attempting to impose trade on Japan which was an isolationist country. The Japanese were forced into unequal treaties and now had limited resources. Because of this, they began to expand taking over Northern China and surprisingly winning Russia. They expanded into the Pacific and became a threat to the West making the Western countries force them back. These factors, expansion and social revolution, are what arguably led to WW2.
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Many things came as a result of The First Big Fight. Countries were basically able to better ally themselves as it allowed for countries to better understand who was with who. From World War I, we also see the rapid advancements in new technology. With free-thinking, philosophy, etc., it led us to the Enlightenment Era which then leads to the Industrial Revolution and then eventually the scientific revolution and inventions. This is important to note because the First Big Fight was considered the first scientific war. Scientific advancements were happening at a rapid pace and it was all going toward the war which led to many new technological advancements as well as resources. Some of the scientific and technological advancements introduced were tanks, automated machine guns, submarines, as well as chemical warfare. This is very important because it completely changed trench warfare as well as Indian/Open warfare. Prior to these advancements, especially chemical warfare, it was nearly impossible for soldiers to cross the borderlines on foot. However, with the use of these weapons, they were essentially able to kill many people in the trenches which then allowed for them to cross. Many deaths resulted from the use of these weapons. Although this modernized warfare caused many deaths, disease is truly what killed many people even after the war. Three times more people died from disease than the number of soldiers who actually died in the war. This brings about the Malthusian Flux which is a theory by English economist Thomas Robert. His theory states that populations tend to increase at a faster rate than its means of substance (resources) and that unless people are able to practice moral restraint--have fewer children--or some sort of disaster occurs in order to “check” the population, poverty and degradation is inevitable. This is very important to note because we could very easily see how this theory explains the cause of World War I; which is the conflict between Bosnia and Serbia which was about land. |
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