The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the offshoot terra firma struggle; his main parametric quantity was that there is no soul the short twentieth hundred without mentioning the warfares that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the beginning of the First being warfare, everyone thought that it was the beginning of the finish of the world. This was the first quantify each(prenominal) the major powers had been involved. The major players in the game at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), forward this there had been brief wars barely not compared to the First universe of discourse War. Most of the troops from early(a) nations were made to fight outback(a) their nations. \nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First mankind War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no resource; they were forced to fight volitionally or not wil lingly. The Germany program was to knock off France pronto and then move on to knock off Russia as well. The Germany army went to France through objective Belgium, which made the British jointure because of the treat that Belgium had firmed with Britain. mate lines were drawn between Germany, France and Britain, which was cognize as the western sandwich front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 all in(p) and 60000 dead on the first day. \n at that place was nothing like the First World War, lives were broken, young lives were lost in the First World War. The French lost 20 percent of their men during this war. The British lost half a million of their men, under the come on of thirty. People who came out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War led to leaders in democratic nations knowing that pile did not want to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in order to win votes, they had to turn back citizens that t here was not expiry to be another war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...