World War I and the War in Iraq

man War I was the great armed conflict of 1914-18. Until instauration War II, it was often called the striking War because it was the most destructive and widespread war the world had constantly seen. Wold War I began as a local conflict everywhere a minor issue. Eventually it engulfed much of Europe and drew in, instanter or indirectly, the entire major powers of the world. The prototypical declaration of war was do by Austria-Hungary against Serbia (now part of Yugoslavia) on July 28, 1914.Before the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, 28 nations (counting the British Empire as one nation) were directly tenanted in the conflict (Roth, pp. 216-218/ 2003). On one side were France, Belgium, the British Empire, Russia, and Serbia and, later, Japan, Italy, the coupled States, and 16 other countries. They were called the Allied and Associated Powers, or the Allies. The opposing side consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the quilt Empire (Turkey, and Bulgaria. They were known as the Central Powers.After the war, there were cut back to small separate states and Czechoslovakia was created from Austro-Hungarian territory in Central Europe. The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (which became Yugoslavia in 1929) was established, comprising Austro-Hungarian lands in the Balkans and the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro. Poland, which had been partitioned among the Germans, Austrians, and Russians in the 18th century, was re-established along its historical borders (Brook-Shepard, pp. 64-67/ 2002). Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were freed from Russian domination.In the Middle East, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Hejaz, (a territory within modern Saudi Arabia), Transjordan (modern Jordan), and Palestine were form out of the Ottoman Empire. Frances quick defeat in World War II has been attributed, at least in part, to the devastation it suffered in World War I. The vast system of overseas holdings of Great Britain began to transmit from an empire to a commonwealth. The war was at least partly answerable for the success of the Russian revolution and the rise of Communism.The fall in States, after the war, its first experience of being involved in European affairs, declined to take a role as a world leader and retreated into isolationism, refusing to unify the League of Nations (Robbins, pp. 161-164/ 2004). Many stack thought of World War I as the war to end all wars, fought to make the world rock-steady for democracy. Because of an overly harsh peace treaty, the weakness of the League of Nations, a planetary sparing depression, and the rise of fascism, the war had the opposite effect.It made the Second World War almost inevitable. About four years ago, on the twentieth of March 2003, a multinational military force marched in to Iraq. much than 40 countries joined in together to form a alinement force, with the US providing the most number of invading forces to oust Saddam ibn Talal ibn Talal Husseins regim e. Amidst protests and anti-war campaigns around the world, the coalition force led by the United States and United Kingdom plunged in to the Iraq War. Official statements given by U. S. electric chair George W. Bushs administration, as to the reasons for the invasion, were primarily to remove Iraqs asseverate production and accumulation of weapons of mass destruction stop Saddam Husseins support on terrorist activities give freedom to the Iraqi people from Saddams reign of terror (President Discusses Beginning of carrying out Iraqi Freedom)Due to the unpopularity of the governments decision and the attendant turn of events, the public continuous to give other speculations as to wherefore the invasion had to be done. In U. K. initial public support was primarily based on the issue that Britain had a moral case to instigate in behalf of other nations (Moral Case for Iraq War, Key to Initial UK adjudge). But those that consider the possible long-term damage concerning their countrys welfare believed the need to refrain from getting involved that it might at long last endanger civilian lives in case of retaliation by terrorist groups, and the economic cost of war. After the military attack on Iraqi soil, designate to support the Bush governments justification for the invasion was dormant lacking, insufficient, and vague.Had the purported danger been present, it would not have taken only 21 years to topple down Saddams government with minimal loss on the coalitions forces. Saddams Soviet-built armaments were ill-equipped and no match for the invading forces, disproving the US claim. For most, it did succeed to overhaul Saddam, but nevertheless, failed to eliminate the problem in Iraq or helped the plight of the Iraqis, who now have to bang with not one but many oppressive guerilla-group factions that try to master in Iraq.