The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The get on of Extremes, with the premier(prenominal) globe warfare; his main argument was that at that place is no understanding the trivial twentieth century with expose mentioning the wars that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the blood line of the world-class World War, everyone vox populi that it was the beginning of the end of the world. This was the prototypic time all the study powers had been gnar conduct. The major players in the gage at that time creation (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), before this at that place had been brief wars but not compared to the First World War. to the highest degree of the troops from other nations were do to fight outside their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First World War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no option; they were laboured to fight willingly or not willingly. The Germany plan was to smash-up off France quickly and thence move on to cuff off Russia as well. The Germany forces went to France finished neutral Belgium, which make the British join because of the report that Belgium had signed with Britain. Parallel lines were bony between Germany, France and Britain, which was known as the Western figurehead. The Western front costed Britain 420000 dead and 60000 dead on the first day.\nThere was zip like the First World War, lives were mazed, young lives were lost in the First World War. The french lost 20 portion of their men during this war. The British lost half a million of their men, under the age of thirty. mickle 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 classless nations knowing that people did not want to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in auberge to win votes, they had to assure citizens that in that location wa s not going to be another war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...