Events Between 1500-2000 that Changed the World (Term Paper Sample)

Events between 1500-2000 that Changed the World
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Events between 1500-2000 that Changed the World
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There have been various events happening in the twentieth century. These events have been most influential to the changes which have been being experienced in the world by 20th century. The events can be attributed to the current improvements and transformations in the world. The main of this work will be to investigate various events that have happened in the world between 1500-2000 and have been the cause of the changes being experienced in the current world.
Imperialism was one of the events as it was a created the in the European continent. It led to rising unrest within Balkans. This led to the expansion the conflict that existed European nations. The initial imperialism led to the competition and tension within the imperial European powers. France and Britain military was against Russian imperialism in the Crimean war which occurred in 1853 between Ottomans and Russia, therefore Britain and Russia started war with Afghanistan which wanted the nation geographical location to be in India (Lichtheim, 1971). 
The most and vital war which were foreboding were those between the in the days to come rivals. The creation of new states of Germany and Italy in 1870s and 1860s respectively lead to the attest of Great Britain and France supremacy. Therefore, Germany and Italy which become new states in power their main aim was that imperial expansion can be a way of legitimising there status in European continent.
From the year 1905 to 1906 the crisis arose in the Moroccan conflict, when Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Morocco supporting Moroccan independence gained from France. This led France to become annoyed and both armies of the two states were ready for war in their boundary. France was supported by Britain, Russia, United States and Italy which were allies by then and Germany was under the support of Austria-Hungary.
Imperialism also led to the sparking of powder keg of Europe commonly known as the Balkan Peninsula. In 1908, Slavic nationalists attempted to unify all the Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula, Austria lead also to Bosnia and Herzegovina annexation. The annexation of this huge Slavic folk by Austria’s mainly annoyed the Serbia founders and leaders who were also fighting to control the area. In 1914 the Heir of the Austro-Hungarian kingdom, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were in the visit of capital of Bosnia were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip (Lichtheim, 1971).
Nationalism was another critical factor which led to most of the changes in the world. Nationalism led to economic and territorial struggle and it also helped the initiation of Balkan conflict. Nationalism led to increased tension in Europe due to economic struggle. In 1880, Britain managed to control about 23% of the global manufacturing outcome compared to Germany output of 8.5%.
However, for a period of 33 years Germany would have overtaken of Britain. In 1913 the eve of the war Germany had managed to control 15% of the worldwide production output as compared to 14% of the output controlled by Britain. The pressure for Germany to have the same production output as Britain after which Britain was under threat by Germany it led to creation of alliances (Kedourie, 1993). 
The Versailles treaty presented in article 231 placed the role of the commencing of the war on the Germany’s shoulders which made them to repay billions of dollars for the reparations. This was the reason why Great Britain joined the war to weaken the economy of Germany.
Franco-Prussian conflict in 1871 led to France losing the control of Alsace-Lorraine region, Germany was in fear France would revenge back. Germany formed dual alliance in 1879 with Austria- Hungary. This contributed to the increase of tension between the European states which led to belligerence pre- war among European states.
The Versailles treaty which gave back France the area of Alsace-Lorraine took land from Germans and then gave the land to Italy. This was a indicator of most of the state’s joined the war to regain regions in the previous wars such as Germany Chancellor Ottoman joined the war. The proof of the nationalistic land Italy joined the allies so as to expand its empire and they succeeded as they demanded under the Treaty of Versailles. The Balkan Crisis under the world supper power Russia having close ties with Serbia due to the huge Slavic populations in each of the nation (Tagore, 1917).  The refusal of Serbia of the Austrian ultimatum led to declaration of war by Austria which was defended by the Russia.
Militarism or concession was readied as a war for the nations, it created tension with in depth and detailed military plans and also lead to arms race and in the end of it all it played a minimal role in the cause of the World War 1. The militarism it only created and space for a surrounding and environment for the Great War. It mainly called for the recruitment of more weapons and more advanced ones ( Ferrero, 1972).
For the case of arms race, European nations had the belief that for them to be great they needed to have very powerful military. In the year 1914, all the powers which were recognised as great with exception of Britain had armies which were standing and large. The building up of this troops lead to build up of warlike tensions on the continent which would eventually lead to eruption of war.
Risk fleet theory which was on the basis of admiral Tirpitz was on the need to develop a navy which was strong enough in dealing with crippling to navy of the British. Wilhelm II used the Tirpitz’s theory in the building f dreadnoughts which was a threat to the Britain’s navy supremacy. Britain later joined in an entente with France in order to spite Germans. The alliance later lead to the dragging of Britain into the war. Wilhelm II under the declaration of that everything must always be arou...