The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the graduation exercise conception War; his briny argu workforcet was that there is no on a lower floorstanding the short 20th century with come forth mentioning the contends that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the inception of the start- finish collide with beingness War, everyone thought that it was the beginning of the end of the world. This was the initial term all the study powers had been involved. The major players in the game at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, regular army and Japan), before this there had been design wars but non compared to the start-off World War. Most of the armament from other nations were made to excite outside their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and peeled Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The get-go World War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no option; they were forced to bout w illingly or non willingly. The Germany plan was to knock off France quickly and then guide on to knock off Russia as well. The Germany army went to France by means of neutral Belgium, which made the British join because of the treat that Belgium had sign(a) with Britain. Parallel lines were drawn amongst Germany, France and Britain, which was known as the western front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 gone and 60000 dead on the first day.\nThere was nothing comparable the First World War, lives were broken, offspring lives were lost in the First World War. The French lost 20 percent of their men during this war. The British lost half(a) a million of their men, under the age of thirty. People who came out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War led to leadership in democratic nations acute that people did not urgency to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in order to develop votes, they had to assure c itizens that there was not going to be other war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...