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Question: What effects did World War I have on social classes? Discuss in an essay of no more than 2000 words.
Answer: World War I, the Great War, the War to end all Wars", each of these soubriquets has been used to describe the conflagration that exploded on the world, or more particularly, European stage in 1914 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914. However, why should this conflict have an impact on the world that was greater in its significance than any of the myriad conflicts that had taken place in the preceding centuries, leaving aside the important fact that Europe, in the previous century had enjoyed relative calm when compared to the period that began with Churchill's victory at Blenheim and ended with Napoleon's downfall at the hands of Wellington at Waterloo?...(short extract)
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- Subject: World War 1 and 2
- Course: AA312
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 64%
- Words: 1825
- Date submitted: September 02, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2075
