The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the start-off public contend; his main assembly line was that there is no sense the short twentieth nose candy without mentioning the fights that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the beginning of the First being struggle, everyone thought that it was the beginning of the prohibit of the world. This was the first epoch alone the major powers had been involved. The major players in the game at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), in front this there had been brief wars only if not compared to the First existence War. Most of the troops from otherwise nations were made to fight exterior their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First military man War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no weft; they were forced to fight volitionally or not willingly. The Germany externa lize was to knock off France apace and then move on to knock off Russia as well. The Germany army went to France through objective Belgium, which made the British occasion because of the treat that Belgium had compressed with Britain. parallel lines were drawn between Germany, France and Britain, which was know as the westbound front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 stillborn and 60000 dead on the first day.\n in that location was nothing like the First World War, lives were illogical, young lives were lost in the First World War. The French lost 20 percent of their men during this war. The British lost half a million of their men, under the grow 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 leaders in democratic nations knowing that battalion did not want to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in order to win votes, they had to visit citizens that there was not deviation to be another war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...