Reflection, Week 6

This weeks wanted to talk about the discussion part of World War 1 that America had end up being involved in. This week I feel indifferent about the topics of this week. I look at this week more of a learning experience for me, something’s in the reading that I forgot about from high school so it was like a refresher for me seeing the information. 

So the words that stuck out to me was one imperialism, nationalism, militarism, and aliance. The definition for imperialism is when one country extends its control over the territory, political system, or economic life of another country, most likely involves the establishment of colonies. Also the word nationalism is devotion to the interests in one’s nation, great feelings of pride in one’s nation. Then you have militarism which is a glorification of armed strength, nations competing to develop military strength to discourage aggression & protect colonies. Next we have Alliances which is basically like a connection of equal understanding of having each other backs among European nations.

All the previous words were important because it played into the reading of WWI in someway. Previously reading into WWI it was a deadly war economically and body cont wise. For example  The Great Depression, the Cold War, and the collapse of European colonialism can also be traced, at least indirectly, to the First World War. World War I killed more people (more than 9 million soldiers, sailors, and flyers and more than 5 million civilians), involved more countries (28 nations), and cost more money ($186 billion in direct costs and another $151 billion in indirect costs), than any previous war in history. It was the first war to use airplanes, tanks, long-range artillery, submarines, and poison gas. It left at least 7 million men permanently disabled. 

This war was just a crazy event for something wasn’t supposed to be apart of.