The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The mount up of Extremes, with the surfacegrowth terra firma struggle; his main argument was that at that place is no understanding the dead twentieth century without mentioning the wars that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the fountain of the premiere World War, everyone estimate that it was the beginning of the end of the world. This was the setoff time all the study powers had been intricate. The major players in the blue at that time macrocosm (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), before this in that respect had been brief wars but non compared to the First World War. some 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 labored to fight willingly or not willingly. The Germany plan was to flush off France quickly and consequently move on to shock off Russia as well. The Germany the States went to France through with(predicate) neutral Belgium, which do the British join because of the process that Belgium had signed with Britain. Parallel lines were haggard between Germany, France and Britain, which was known as the Western scarer. The Western front costed Britain 420000 dead and 60000 dead on the first day. \nThere was nix like the First World War, lives were bewildered, young lives were broken in the First World War. The cut lost 20 part of their men during this war. The British lost half a meg of their men, under the age of thirty. hatful who came out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War conduct to leaders in egalitarian nations knowing that people did not want to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in regularize to win votes, they had to assure citizens that in that respect w as not going to be another war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...