America and the Great War

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America and the Great War

Introduction

The aim of the paper is to discuss the overall scenario of the World War I. the paper extricate the roots reasons behind the Great war as well as it discusses some crucial aspects of the war such as rise of Pan-Slavism in Eastern Europe as well as concept of alliance system. The paper highlights the implication of the of nationalism, imperialism, and militarism as well the role of ethnicity in the participation of America in the World War I. the paper highlights the role of the president Woodrow Wilson on the defeat of the Treat to Versailles. As well as it discusses how the Americans remained Neutral during the first three years of the Great War.

Discussion

World War I or the Great War was a global war that embraced all the great powers of the world. The war was initiated from Europe and began from July 28, 1914 and ended at November 11, 1918. The war was between the two conflicting alliances. First were the Allies that embraced powers of the United Kingdom, France as well as Russia. On the other hand, Central Powers were opposing the Allies; these Powers included Germany, Hungary as well as Italy.

Assassination of Archduke Franz

The immediate cause behind the start of the World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. There was a pre planned political objective behind the assassination of Archduke Franz (The Guardian. (n.d.), 2008) . The intention was to break off the south-Slav provinces of the Austria Hungary in order to combine these provinces with either Serbia or Yugoslavia. The after math influences of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand were worst and eventually led to the disastrous great war between the world powers.

Impact of nationalism, imperialism, and militarism on World War I

The most crucial triggers behind the World War I were nationalism, imperialism, as well as militarism forces. The execution of these extreme behaviors from the great powers of the world led to the inflammation of the Great War. Nationalism is basically the execution of the extreme national arrogance or it can be defined as the extreme involvement in the culture of one's country. This approach supports the concept of independency rather than collectiveness for the betterment of the nation. On the other hand, the concept of Militarism embrace the idea that the military force is the crucial assets of the nation and the independence of the nation is heavily based on the power of the military forces of the country (Hamilton, R. F., & Herwig, H. H. (Eds.)., 2003). In addition to it, the concept of imperialism exert emphasize on the establishment of efficient economic as well as political acquisition to the other's country for the survival of the nation. According to this approach, the nations can survive if they acquire the control of the other government of the other nation.

All these extreme behaviors heated the conflicts between the ...