Unrealizable+Ideals+of+WWI&WWII

JOSEPH CHO
 * “Every war creates illusions and is conducted in the name of unrealizable ideals.”  **
 * Evaluate this statement by comparing the goals for which the First World War was fought to those for which the Second World War was fought. **

 - Militarism  l New weaponry  l Drafting created a sense of nationalism  - Allies  l If one country became tangled in war, all of their allies joined in  - Imperialism  l Europe's industrialization fueled the race for colonies <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Used colonies for raw materials <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">opportunities for investment <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nationalism <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Right to vote <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 140.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level6 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> u <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Citizens gained greater interest and pride in national goals <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Assassination of Austrian leader by a Serbian terrorist group <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Germany gives Austria a Blank Check <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 140.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level6 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> u <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Austria becomes less afraid to take action <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 180.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level8 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> n <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Austria gives ultimatum to Serbia <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 200.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level9 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> u <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Accused of assassination of leader and wants to annex land <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 200.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level9 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> u <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Russia declares war on Austria <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Germany give Belgium an ultimatum to pass through for Schleiffen Plan <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level4 lfo1; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Britain declares war <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Allies <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">If one country became tangled in war, all of their allies joined in <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nationalism <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Invoked national pride <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Germany’s anger for WWI <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hitler’s passion for revenge <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 140.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level6 lfo2; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> u <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hitler becomes dictator and turns Germany to Nazism <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 180.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level8 lfo2; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> n <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">“Lebensraum”: Living space for an over-populated Germany <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rise of Mussolini <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Makes Italy fascist <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Allies with Germany <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 100.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level4 lfo2; text-indent: -20.0pt;"> l <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Allies with Japan and makes the Axis Powers <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Germany invades Poland and begins WWII
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thesis: **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first and second world wars both had far-fetched ideals that could not be reached such as Germany’s desire to become the greatest country on Earth in WWII or sense of pride for a country that sparked WWI.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">WWI **
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">WWII **

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