Essays on Civilization II

Chapter 22: The Great War

The twentieth century marked the onset of the World War I in 1914. This Great War lasted for 4 years and came to an end when the empires of Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman were defeated. People called it the Great War since it was the first war they had ever experienced. This first modern war had many important causes and consequences that marked its place in the world history. The most popular reason for the start of the war is the assassination of Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the empire of Austria-Hungry. However, to summarize it in a ...

Essay for Exam Chapter 25

World War II had left huge sections of Europe, especially Eastern Europe devastated. Many belonging to these states believed that communism and Joseph Stalin’s USSR was the much sought answer to their woes. Stalin used this to his advantage and built a communist buffer zone by seizing territories. This led to the fall of an iron curtain separating Eastern Europe from their western counterparts and the formation of the Soviet bloc. The cold war that resulted saw enormous changes in the social, economic and cultural life of people in both Western and Eastern Europe. Welfare states emerged to protect ...

Introduction

Thesis: The French Revolution transformed not only the French society, but also had a huge influence and marked impact on what the purposes of the arts and their expression were now, making profound changes in what they would supposed to be used for, in the form of the Neoclassic works of art that made their appearance prior to the French Revolution, in which very special emphasis is given to the patriotic, the nationalist feeling, together with a strong sense of self-sacrifice that should be present in every person’s heart. The French Revolution, indeed, changed the structure of economics and social ...