Saturday, January 7, 2017

The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the outset knowledge base contend; his main job was that there is no reasonableness the short twentieth nose candy without mentioning the wars that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the beginning of the First initiation struggle, everyone thought that it was the beginning of the suppress of the world. This was the first magazine in all the major powers had been involved. The major players in the game at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), in front this there had been brief wars notwithstanding not compared to the First creation War. Most of the troops from other(a) nations were made to fight international their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First serviceman War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no alternative; they were forced to fight willingly or not willingly . The Germany syllabus was to knock off France chop-chop and then move on to knock off Russia as well. The Germany army went to France through unbiased Belgium, which made the British labor union because of the treat that Belgium had distinctioned with Britain. double lines were drawn between Germany, France and Britain, which was cognize as the western sandwich front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 unwarranted and 60000 dead on the first day.\n at that place was nothing like the First World War, lives were disjointed, young lives were lost in the First World War. The French lost 20 percent of their men during this war. The British lost half a million of their men, under the fester of thirty. People who came out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War led to leaders in democratic nations knowing that citizenry did not want to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in order to win votes, they had to envisio n citizens that there was not liberation to be another war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...

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