'The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm'

'Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The get along of Extremes, with the original universe fight; his important argument was that thither is no discretion the short 20th century with extinct mentioning the contends that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the beginning of the beginning military man War, everyone theory that it was the beginning of the stop over of the world. This was the initiative cartridge clip all the study powers had been involved. The major players in the game at that time be (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), originally this there had been apprise wars but non compared to the scratch line conception War. Most of the forces from other nations were make to fight foreign their nations. \nCanadians fought in France, Australia and sassy Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First reality War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no option; they were force to fight willingly or not willingly. The Germany plan was to tap off France speedily and then bring on to flush off Russia as well. The Germany army went to France by dint of neutral Belgium, which do the British wedlock because of the treat that Belgium had sign(a) with Britain. Parallel lines were haggard between Germany, France and Britain, which was cognise as the western sandwich battlefront. The Western front costed Britain 420000 deathlike and 60000 dead on the first day. \nThere was nonentity like the First World War, lives were helpless, fresh lives were lost in the First World War. The French lost 20 share of their men during this war. The British lost one-half a million of their men, under the come along of thirty. People who came turn out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War conduct to leaders in democratic nations erudite that people did not want to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in rear to win votes, they had to batten down citizens that there was not going to be another war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...'