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In 1914 the “Great” War start and it was one of the bloodiest and darkest war of all time. Now they are many events that took place before then to get to that point. In this paper we are going to look at nationalism, expansion, and war in the late 19th century through the early 20th century. These events will all be connected in causing the “Great” War to happen. Now many countries were expanding the United States,the unification of Germany ad Italy, the colonization of Africa by Europeans countries. The United States when through a civil war. However,, they came back stronger than ever. The United States finish their ambitious ideal of manifest and still expanded their borders to into the Carribeans and the Pacific. Including Puerto …show more content…

However, they let them be an independent country. The reason is they understood and saw themselves in Cuba, a country who just wanted independent from foreign rule, this is very important because this show that the USA is ambitious but not greedy. This show the United States can stand with a strong European power after the civil war. However, still havea soul that we are not a power-hungry country. This was first important step in the United States becoming the world’s protector from injustice in the world. The rise of the United States was one of the most important change in this time period. The unification of Germany and Italy was another important change. Before they bunch of city-states before Otto von Bismarck and Camillo di Cavour created countires of Italy and Germany. The biggest thing to take away is Germany and Italy did not have a democracy. Germany actually prospered under have an emperor in the late 19th century under an emperor. This will play a role in the rise of Adolf Hitler because in “Treaty” of Versailles. They force Germans into a democratic under terrible economic condition by this “treaty” that would make the Great Depression look like a good time. The German people blame it on democratic and elected Hitler as sole Chancellor of Germany and even getting rid of the Reichstag which was Germany form of …show more content…

That all change with the second industrial revolution. The United States introduced Japan to the second industrial revolution. The United States brought big ship that were more advanced then anything Japan could ever dream of. Japan were shocked and awe and sign a treaty with the United States to trade. This led Japan to abandoned their isolated way and become an isolated country. Now Japan has always been a smart country open to foreign ways and was quickly adapted to being a powerful modern country at the 18th century. Now Japan become an industry power after 1880. Japan will play more role during World War 2. This was started of the Meigi restoration the process of Japan become a more modern country. To complete Germany unification, the Germans started a war with Francecalled Franco-Prussia War.The Germans won the war and completed their goal in German unification with the land of Alsace-Lorraine they won from French. The “treaty” of Frankfurt was cruel, they force the French to give up Alsace-Lorraine a major land in France they also made them pay for the wars which ended up being 5 billion

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