Chapter 20
The discussion of this chapter was centered around the world wars. To introduce the section, the author reviewed the impactful industrial resolution, and followed up by describing how the first World War came about as well as the second. Next comes the different alliances that was made between countries at this time. This included: an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Hungarians as well as, the second triple alliance between Russia, France, and Britain. Because of these alliances and the means of protecting whom the countries were aligned with, world war 1 happened. This brough out a fight against the other team for things like control of weapons and colonies. The first War was involved with Germany, Britain, and the French, but the US. I found this section really interesting due to the fact that I didn't know exactly why the US had joined this world war. I liked that I finally got to read on it to learn the backstory of this war.
Documents
I picked the phot on page 1029 that represented the need for the French to use African Americans in the war. This picture was described to have represented the reaction of the African Americans during a time where they were finally able to play a part in the war. At this time black were not trusted to hold any type of weapon due to the fear the French felt for them. With weapons people had no idea how any of the African Americans would react so therefor it as hard for them to make a decision. Due to dire circumstances, the French had to go with the option that could save their people as much as possible.
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