World War 1 Research Paper

War will always exist in our world no matter what the reason. There are many causes to why war is caused and why it continues to this very day. War is a conflict between two or more nations. The problems could be something as simple as misinterpretation or complex as conflict between religious parties. The reason for war revolves around geography, economics, and politics. War is never a good idea and should be abolished.

Geography is one of the main conflicts that cause global conflict. Dating back to the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon wanted to capture territory to expand his own empire. Although, in the end he was imprisoned on an island. In the long run he was able to expand his territory to the start of the Russian territory. He only cared about

his personal gain and that’s why he started a war with the entirety of Europe. The expansion of territory is usually followed by the desire to gain resources and power. But, also sometimes war is also started due to certain territorial barriers bypassed. A war that dates to our current period would be the annexation of the Crimean peninsula (which is also considered a war). It was started because Russia believed that the Crimean peninsula belonged to them when in actuality, it belongs to Ukraine. Russia doesn’t care about their territorial gain but rather to showcase their power to the world. By capturing the Crimean peninsula without the interference of the United Nations, Russia was able to capture the world’s attention and show how strong they really are. In the past Russia has been known to have many dictator-like rulers that only benefitted their cause. War has many reasons on why they occur whether it is to expand territory or gain power, it’s still the reason we have the continuous calamity to this very day.
Economics is the second leading factor to why we have constant bloodshed happening.

We can all imagine when our planet Earth becomes scarce on resources; rivalry will be bred between countries. Economies of some countries aren’t doing well such as Russia, and the Middle East. Due to Russia’s invasion (as described in the last paragraph) of Ukraine, their oil and other resources aren’t being bought causing economic problems within Russia. The same goes for the Middle East, except it’s a little more sophiscated than that. We Americans are in constant conflict with the Middle East either due to resources such as oil or terrorist organizations. World War 1 drastically changed the economy of many countries. The reparations of the European countries put a heavy toll on their economies. To combat this, the countries forced Germany to pay for their repair costs. This forced Germany into debt which would also be a factor in the next war, World War 2. In Russia the heavy debt after the war helped factor to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Wars put a heavy toll on any country afterword’s, so why start a war? Many empires have been brought to their knees due to their crippling debt. The Han dynasty for instance, fell to inner economic problems. These problems included peasant revolts due to low pay, and trade being disrupted by bandit skirmishes. Even though that wasn’t a war, it is an example of what economic problems cause. But, an empire that fell due to war and crippling debt was the

Ottoman Empire. After World War 1 the empire fell because it had problems keeping it’s empire working, it had to repair all of the damage done. Would you really want wars causing all this destruction? Countries have been known to go bankrupt after wars or even worse, destruction of the government.
Politics is the third leading factor of the cause of wars.

When it comes to politics, things can get complicated. One such idea involves a religious group having hostile threats towards another religious group. An example of this is the Protestant Reformation. This was a time period when Martin Luther (the one who jumpstarted the Reformation) had a conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. People starting becoming antsy about the way the Roman Church individuals were promising them of divine life in heaven for money. This obviously sounds sketchy because in order to get in heaven, shouldn’t you do good deeds? Instead even the ones who perform terrible acts of crime can get into heaven by paying an ample supply of money to the Roman Catholic Church so that they can construct various buildings. The Protestant Reformation mainly occurred in France and England, where people were the most influential to the Protestant ideas. As you know, this sparked many different civil wars in numerous countries that were affected by the Reformation. Instead of being greedy, the church officials should’ve used their own money to support any projects that they had in mind. The church officials’ being greedy is ultimately what led to the sparked outrage amongst the majority of people. Another factor that deals with politics is, the Korean War. This was a war between South Korea and North Korea. North Korea was backed by the U.S.S.R. and China against South Korea which was backed by the United

Nations. What was the purpose of this war? Well it was a war that involved the conversion of South Korea into a communist nation. Of course as well all know, The United States didn’t want this, and the United Nations headquarters being in New York, started the war. To this day us, the United States, have political conflicts with Russia because we don’t want them gaining increasing communist power. If it was up for decision, it would be best just to not invade any more countries. Like c’mon, China and Russia already have enough power, why try to dig yourself into more problems? So the end result being, it would probably be best if we didn’t have this constant back to back donnybrook.
As the information was described in the last paragraph, these wars brought nothing to our futures other than more needless conflict. It would best if we as a nation could unify ourselves and set aside our differences and live in peace. Of course, this would be near impossible but at least trying to obtain that should be our next objective. Well maybe the future of our generation can fix these problems and finally learn to live in eternal peace.