The First World War

One of the major events involving the world conflicts is the First World War. To be real, we know what happened in that time, it begin in Sarajevo Bosnia, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed by a Serbian nationalist in the end of June and this became the immediate factor of the First World War to explode, but actually many that know the war will still begun even if this never had happened. The power of the world was divided into two; which is the Allied powers that made of the Great Britain, United States, Russia, France, Italy and Japan, the second one is the Central powers including Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. The war started when Serbia and Austria-Hungary are having some conflicts of their own, but when one declaring a war, the others must do the same and the surrounding countries that are ally of any of those countries would also get involved.

The war was so horrible because it is the first time they use the high technology weapons such as machine guns, tanks, airplane and even chemical weapons such as poisonous gas. During that time, the airplane was also being carried by the big ship crossing the ocean. The politician will only care about the conflicts, it is sad to think about who will care for those who died? By the end of these four years of dark time, more than 9 million of soldiers had died and 21 million were wounded, reading this we only looking at numbers and words, it’s really nothing, but if we look thoroughly by our hearts we know that it is a tragedy, a great horror and the saddest events of the entire human existence. People died everywhere during that time, not only by the bullets of a gun but also by the spreading of diseases, weather, condition of their surroundings, damages and the destruction of everything. We didn't cry to heard this matter, it is sound more like a story than the truth, but that is why there are some people in this world such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, John McCrae and others, that making poems from this true events for us to reflect the real things that happened, for us to understand it better, judge and choose for the rights in this world.

These war ends in November 1918 by the defeated of the Central powers, Germany begin to crumble and some countries having a revolution including Berlin and France. It has ended, but we will still learning and remember the significance of everything that happened through some stories written about the war through fiction or poetry. People nowadays need to understand that a war would have happen again if we can’t find some peace between one another and didn't bother to believe in the peacefulness of the world.

References

"World War One." BBC News. BBC, 2013. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/>.