World War 1 essay

The start of the World War 1 was Sarajevo terror. A young terrorist from Serbia murdered Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. After the funeral of them, Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia to ask about the terror. By this war, other countries around the world start to join to it and make it huge. This becomes the start if of the World War 1. If one nation needs to be blamed, Serbia needs to be blamed about it. It was just a small group of terrorist but they were from Serbia and that means Serbia affected them to make a terror. All of the nations around the world were looking for the reason to have a war against each other. They were just about to fight each other and Austria-Hungary was one of them. In this situation, terrorist from Serbia murdered Archduke Ferdinand and his wife and it became really good reason for them to attack Serbia. We cannot blame the other nation’s fault about the World War 1, they just went to help the nations that they are close to each other.

ln World War 1, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Germany, Britain, Japan, Italia, Portugal, Osman Empire, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Iceland, and Norway. And in these nations, Germany and France was against each other the most. The start of the war was Serbia and Austria-Hungary but it seems like it changed to war of Germany and France. All of the nations that could do a war that time all came and made the war huge. There was a nation that stopped doing the war at the middle of it too. Some nation disappeared from Earth by this war, Russia stopped fighting in the War because in that time, lots of serious things such as revolutions happened in Russia. Also, Osman Empire disappeared from Earth by this war. They could not stand any more doing the war and other nation’s keep attacking Osman Empire wanted to get their land and at last, Osman Empire lost their land.

During World War 1, there were lots of important Alliances between the nations. Alliances are a group of nations, political parties, and people who decided to work together for their aims. In the World War 1, the alliances were for the nations that want to get good things for them. In Triple Alliances Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy participated. They did the triple alliance to protect and help each other in war and make the war does not happen between them. France, Russia, Britain had Triple Entente to support each other and defense Triple Alliance nations. These alliances were the main two alliances in World War 1 that affected the huge following of it.

After the war started, Russia was same Slavs with Serbia so they send the armies to Serbia to help them from a war against Austria-Hungary. And right after one month, other nations starts to participate in the war and help each other the nation that have alliances with. (Triple Alliances and Triple Entente) At first, Serbia did not want Russia’s help. It might be because of they did not wanted to make the war bigger anymore but Russia argued about it saying that Russia and Serbia are both same Slavs so they need to help each other. I cannot understand why Russia did that foolish thing because by helping Serbia, they became hard too. Russia became poor and lots of revolutions and fights happened in the country.

During the war, MAIN affected the war a lot. M is Militarism, A is Alliances, I is Imperialism, and N is Nationalism. These did a really important job in World War 1. These effected huge in the war like the huge amount of the powerful armies won the war. And this is often made by militarism in the country. Alliances, alliances between the countries make them be friendly each other and help each other. And two main alliances fought each other a lot during the war and one side of the alliance won the war at last and countries that were in the imperialism of that country won the war either and got prizes. Countries that are in the imperialism in the powerful country then them wanted to be independent and get their own nationalism. Few of the countries that were in the imperialism of other country became independent at the end of the war.

For an example, in World War 1, there were 2 main alliances. These 2 main alliances are Triple Alliance, and Triple Entente. Triple Alliance and Triple Entente, two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I. In 1907, three countries made an alliance first during the World War 1, it is an alliance that France, Britain, and Russia. It is made for to make the power of Germany’s army to be less and it worked in some ways. By this alliance, the countries that were against them thought they need to find a way to defend them also so they also made and alliance named Triple Alliance. In 1915, the Triple Alliance is made between three countries. Triple Alliance is an alliance that Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy made and alliance to defend and attack the other countries that are in the other side of them and they are the members who made Triple Entente.

During the war, the countries wanted to increase their armies more than the other countries. So they started to increase them and make them powerful, it was only few countries at first but the amount of the countries that are increasing their army became many and the arm race began. The strong countries began to recruit young males by saying they can be a hero. Especially Germany and France were really energetic in doing this. Lots of young people died by arm race and it made the war worse but in the other way, end it faster.

The war ended in 1918, when the Germany surrenders to end the war. The war was for 4 years since it started in 1914 after the Sarajevo incident happened.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

http://www.worldwar-1.net/index.htm

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/worldwari/tp/causes-of-world-war-1.htm

http://www.bbc.com/ww1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1882)

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Triple_Alliance_and_Triple_Entente.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Entente

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_race

Written by, Victoria Hwang

Grade 9

Humanities

In language art class, I read a book named ‘The Serpent’s Children.’ It is a book about the story of a young girl of ancient China living with her family. In the book, it shows the life of the Chinese family that is poor. I made a comic about the book relating the culture and explaining about it. I made 3 pages of it and while I am doing it, I searched lots of things about the Chinese culture. I could learn about lots of new things that I did not know about the ancient Chinese culture. After I finish doing it, I presented it in front of the class explaining why I chose to do comics to explain the book, what I learned during the project, and what I feel after I finished it. It was fun to do this project, I learned lots of things and this was a good experience.