Militarism In World War I

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World War I was the first of two world wars, including mainly European countries, beginning July 28, 1914 and ending November 11, 1918 . World War One was cause by many problems in the European nations, militarism being one of them. Militarism is “the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests”. The reason for the obsession over militarism was the Europeans countries’ thirst for power. As a result, out of nowhere competition came out to be the biggest baddest country in Europe, leading to the creation of new military weapons and advancements, and ending with the making of military alliances out of …show more content…

Although they tried not to show it, countries would try to outdo each other because of the competition militarism instilled in them . Men would sign up to join their military, in hopes of helping their country be the best. Woman would try to help by encouraging their husbands on their decision to join their country's Navy, Army, or Air Forces. They would also take the place of jobs who had gone to fight in the war, back then none of them had experience with such jobs but they eventually learned how everything worked. Men would sacrifice their lives to join the military just so they could help their country be the best. Woman would give up their normal lives and do jobs men did. Both genders would put their normal lives on pause simply so they could say their country is the best. Militarism would make people do crazy stuff, it made anything having to do with the army a competition. Eventually people realized by simply joining the military they wouldn't be the best country, the weapons they had would make them the best. This lead to new technological advancements in the military world as well as new weapons, which helped to contribute even more to World War …show more content…

Out of all the countries involved in war, Germany was pretty much in the lead for military advancements. They were the first country to utilize flight as a weapon, which was very dangerous considering the ideal of flying an airplane hadn't been around for a long time. No other country had though to do this which have Germany a huge advantage, they could fly over their enemies land to create maps of what it looked like. This was extremely useful one day for the Germans but not so much for the French, while a plane flew over French land they saw flowers planted in the middle of nowhere, thus giving away the hiding spot of french soldiers. It turned out the soldiers planted those plants to make the place feel more alive. The plane was not only used to spy on enemies but also to ambush them, machine guns could be attached to the planes and later used to shoot soldiers from the opposing sides. Inventors realized that if they could put machine guns on a plane, they could also bring bombs up there to surprise their enemies. We soon learned the biggest downfall from using flight as a weapon was sometimes innocent civilians would get killed by either machine guns or

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