HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Peace and getting along with your neighbor.
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Pro-your country, war will be over quickly and we will win.
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Christians should join together and remove non-Christians.
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Women and workers should have the same rights as men and the wealthy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is his argument that long-term patterns of education, the rhetoric of the inevitability of war, invasion scares, and downright fear all contributed to the “mood of 1914, ‘’ a mood that was in part a revolt against the lib-eral values of peace and rational problem solving.
Detailed explanation-2: -To them, war seemed adventurous and a show of bravery that many claimed they “did not want to miss”. Also, a strong sense of nationalism was an important reason that many of the young men in 1914 were excited for war.
Detailed explanation-3: -Europe’s leaders were willing to go to war to defend or extend national interests and their choices were shaped by a combination of long and short-term foreign policy goals, political pressures at home, previous crises, and the system of opposing alliances that had developed over the previous 35 years.
Detailed explanation-4: -When WWI began in Europe in 1914, many Americans wanted the United States to stay out of the conflict, supporting President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of strict and impartial neutrality. “The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men’s souls.
Detailed explanation-5: -Great Britain was with its Empire the most powerful of the major belligerents, the most politically and socially stable, and the best able to endure the strains of the war.