The First World War Reasearch Paper

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various combatants. What is incontestable, however, is the number of advances in science, technology and medicine, as well as the revolutionary changes in social behavior that occurred as a result of the 1914-18 conflict. The aristocracy was overthrown or its role greatly diminished. The socialist and labor movements seized the opportunity to make considerable advances; but so too did communism and fascism. Germany was at the center of both failed experiments and was unable to achieve a peaceful unification as a democratic state until 1990. But Germany's neighbors have not forgotten Germany's role in both World Wars and hence the burden of history weighs more heavily on German shoulders than for any other nation in Europe. Europeans should contrast and compare today's Germany with that in 1914 or 1939 when they look back on the two calamitous wars of the twentieth century. Today's Germany, embedded in the European Union, is the most successful, progressive, democratic state in its ...

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defeat in World War I and the harsh terms imposed by the Treaty of Versailles led directly to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles became and underlining cause for the next world war: World War II. This also resulted in the creation of the League of Nations. Created in 1919, after World War I, as a part of the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations' task was to prevent another world war. The League was comprised into three constitutional parts: The Assembly, the Council and the Permanent Secritariat.[1]The Assembly was the annual conference of League member states. The Council's main function was to settle international disputes. The numbers ...

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