The Impact of Imperialism and World War I
Consequences of Imperialism
: * The limits of the colonies were orbitrarias and artificial: The metropolis had been separated tribes gathered together, or tribal lands enemies * Loss of cultural values, cultures autoptonas These are replaced by the culture of the metropolis * The infrastructures to take raw materials from the colonies: Roads, railways are conditioned by the taunts of the economic impsocion metropoli.Las commercial companies were the real power exhibitionists. * The social pyramid: In the colonies the power is on the officials sent by the metropolis, then the heads of the tribes that local power holders, and finally the native population + A transiccion between a barter economy to a market economy monetary taken to the colonies by the metropolis + Health improvement with the construction of hospitals to improve the conditions of tribal life and the reduction by catastrophic death bacunas
Art: Realism as a reaction to the idealism of the earlier romantic era, sought an objective and truthful representation d ela reality. Courbet and millet * stressed naturalism was a more gritty version of realism, from 1875 with his description of the more hard and sordid aspects of social reality. * Impressionism also originates from realism, per his vision of nature and landscape to urban and industrial times, is more anecdotal and inconsequential, and is concerned over aspects of reality as presented in the environment and fleeting changes as light and movement.
World War 1: Causes: German French 1.Revanchismo: Alsace and Lorraine 2.Colonialismo: France and Britain against Germany (military and economic power) 3.La Balkan war: Serbia and Bosnia (try to separate from the Austro-Hungarian Empire) ultra-nationalist 4.Tensiones: two major alliances are formed, Serbia, Russia, France, Great Britain (Allies) Germany and Austro Hungary (Central Powers)
* The Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, it strengthens the military and colonial expansion. * The Marshal Foch, French soldier who assumed the supreme command of Allied forces. * The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria * D. British Prime Minister Lloyd George.
The Treaty of Versailles: lasting peace is embodied in five treaties were signed in a palace near paris and all is known as the Peace of Paris, the principle of collective segurdiad led to the creation of the security of nations. Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles, were taken economic agreements, military and territorial rate meant the loss to Germany, terriotrios in Europe and in its colonies. The harsh conditions imposed on Germany were taken as a humiliation that produced a feeling of injustice that I was in the origin of Nazism and the causes of World War II.
Development of War: The First World War broke out following the assassination of Crown Prince of the Austrian Empire, Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia. Serbia threatened to annex Austria, and Russia came out in defense of this. Germany attacked France and Britain and France decided to defend Belgian neutrality. 1914 The first phase is called war of movement, a fast attack on france germany to master in a short time, Germans and Austrians defeated Russia on the eastern front, the war stopped along the river Marne, the war was tight, with terrible human peridas both the British and French side in the German, the second phase is called trench warfare positions 1915-1916 or complex systems of trenches to survive enemy fire, North Sea to Switzerland a front of thousands of kilometers became a death trap.The military attempts to break led to bloody battles fronts: Verdun, Somme and Lubeck. The war spread to other parts of the world due to the intervention of Turkish rule in favor of the Central Powers. The watershed year was 1917, triumph of the Russian revolution, which saw the signing of peace with Germany, (Brest litosk) intervention of the United States in the uneven battle the forces in favor of the Entente, in 1918 next to the war, the president of the Woodrow Wilson proposed a peace plan, wilson 14 points, where the armistice was signed.
Consequences of War: * loss of life: the dead soldiers diex million must be added the enormous number of wounded and maimed, France was the most affected country with almost 1 million and a half dead * economic losses: imbalances caused post-war economy began to grow wildly and lead to economy crisis in 1929. * Political implications: The new map of Europe led to nuevosestados Czechoslovakia and Hungary, Yugoslavia and Poland. The Austro-Hungarian Empire disappeared in the middle east iraq formed Palestinian and Syrian hegemony in Europe lost d ela usa world politics and transformed into the new world power, the German Empire was reduced due to the need to address the payment of war reparations * The female workforce to replace men and opened the door for d ela incorporating women into the workplace, the different countries began to recognize the female vote.
Major agreements in the Treaty of Versailles: * The territories of Alsace and Lorraine which belonged to Germany, spend again at the hands of France * Germany was to pay a hefty monetary damages in compensation for damages, Sarre * demilitarized zone was created in the territory German, the army was limited to 100,000 men * Germany lost its overseas colonies were divided between Britain France and Japan.