THE WORLD WARS

The World Wars

The World Wars

The First World War produced Great War between 1914 and 1918, was known to his contemporaries under the name Great War. One of the causes that produced this war was:

The German foreign policy, in which Bismarck intended to prevent the creation of coalition's antialemnas and isolate France, all this is achieved through two sets of alliances: the Triple Alliance formed by Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary and the Treaty of Reinsurance, consisting of Germany and Russia. All of this happened until 1890, but starting this year, the fall of Bismarck led to the initiation of global policy of William II, who led the conquest of the colonial empire. The objective was to Germany in 1890, compared to the UK, global leadership. This led to a naval competition did they occur formed the Triple Entente of Britain, France and Russia (Walters, 2006).

On the other hand, there were a colonial crisis in Morocco and the Balkans. In Morocco there were Germans because of opposition to the French protectorate in Morocco and the Balkans due to the competing interests that existed between Russia, Austria-Hungary and a rivalry between Serbia and Austria. Later, Japan and the United States expanded across the Pacific and Austria-Hungary and Italy remained in the Triple Alliance with Germany.

In Europe, 1919 to the First World War peace treaty on Germany's Treaty of Versailles was signed, Versailles system was formed. Germany and Austria are part of the territory lost in the Treaty, the area is self-determination under the principle was born in Poland, Czechoslovakia , Lithuania was incorporated into such territory. But these areas are inhabited by many ethnic Germans, ethnic problems in the treatment of Germany was relegated to the position of ethnic minorities had the potential to be the seed of a new ethnic conflict. Also, in the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was a huge war reparations were imposed. Required to pay reparations to France in 1922occupied the rule was enforced by, and caused social unrest in Germany, hyperinflation occurred (Walzer, 1971).

United States, the 1920 has established itself as the world's largest industrial nations on behalf of the United Kingdom, had been enjoying an economic boom after the First World War. But in 1929, the U.S. economy fell into over-production, employment and complex suppression of chronic depression and rationalization agriculture before that big stock market crash , spill over into Europe and the Great Depression ...