Historical World Events

In the 18^th century, various world events occurred that made lasting effects on various nations. The American and French revolution transpired in this century. Moreover, the war of the Spanish succession, act of Union 1707, first great awakening and the partition of Poland ensued. This century bore the reign of Nader Shah, Fredrick the Great and Catherine the Great. However, the first segment of this paper focuses on the French revolution, its importance, it relevance to history, its lasting impact and the lessons learnt.

            Another name for the French Revolution is the Revolution of 1789. It took place since 1787 to 1799. In 1789, the revolution reached its climax. This term signifies the completion of a primeval administration for the French. Other revolutions took place in 1830 and 1848. The insurgency attested to be the most ferocious and unanimously substantial in all insurrections. The societal organization of the west was among the manipulating dynamics for this mutiny. The hoi polloi were increasing their wealth at very alarming rates. The bourgeoisie desired to possess the highest political rank in the region. Most peasants owned pieces of land hence had a significant increase in their economic status and subsequently their living standards. Since most of them had acquired education, they aspired to do away with the preceding relics of medievalism and consequently acquire full privileges of land ownership, accumulating their prosperities. Mortality rate among adults among adults reduced from the year 1730 due to increased affluence.

            The revolution signaled the conquest of egalitarianism over autocracy. The insurgency inaugurated a reformed dogmatic ethos founded on fundamental tenets of the civilians, sociopolitical rationalization of legislations, realm and archetypal consensus. There was a significant triumph of capitalism over primitivism. It is the eradication of the nobility by the bourgeoisie. According to the Marxist theory, administrative and legitimate vicissitudes vicious circles integrate with more pinched out pecuniary fluctuations in insurgencies. Finally, the French overthrew absolutism and embraced the contemporary municipal. According to Tocqueville, there was significant hatred of the jerrybuilt structure of absolutism. An establishment of a more administrative and consolidated modern municipal occurred that expressed more control and freedom.

            The revolution is important to modern history because of its significant impact internationally having continental ramifications in the society. Among the lasting effects of the mutiny was the acquaintance of the metric structure. This brought about the alteration of the French’s time, money and calendar. There is usage of the rational system on multiples of ten instead of the traditional illogical units, which later calculates more complex arithmetic than just simple weight, length and volume.

The lessons learnt are that the riots began because there was huge spending on the military leaving the country bankrupt. The solution of fair taxation ought to have taken place. Some believed that the numerous diamonds belonging to the Queen caused all the challenges since they were starving. Killings occurred, an initiation of price stability started and executions of anyone who defied the government.

In the 19^th century, the treaty of Amiens occurred. It was simply a peace treaty between the King of Spain, the Indies and the French republic on one side and the other side contained the Ireland and the King of the United Kingdom of the Great Britain. The French, British and Irish held the opinionated desire of ending wars having in mind the underpinning of armistice in view of the introductory apprenticeships embalmed in October 1, 1801. The agreement reached was that the representatives ought to be part of each nation, influence overhaul to Amiens, and make necessary arrangements of initiating a conclusive truce in performance with cronies of the astringent supremacies.

Jean Schimmelpennick represented the Batavian Republic; Don Joseph Nicolas d’Azara epitomized the King of Spain and Indies and the French republic obtained a representative of the citizens to be Joseph Buonaparte. The governments agreed that they would embrace peace in their nations. This would be maintained at all costs and admonishing any signs of restlessness that may provoke peace in a nation. The citizens and security offered to them all. The governments reached the consensus that all prisoners to be set free without any payment.

The British subdued themselves and returned all the chattels belonging to the French and its associates and the Batavian republic that dispossessed from them during war. The British took over the Island of Trinidad while the port of the Cape of Good Hope remained under the Batavian republic. These are just a few of the treaties showing that nations were willing to live in peaceful co-existence with each other enhancing peace, love and unity.

War brings about lasting negative effects. Economic, social, political and individual effects start manifesting over the period of turmoil. The British stood to lose in the conquest of seeking peace.  In order to regain a stable ground for peace and enable economic thrive in the nation, all the nations needed to read on the same page and reach a favorable consensus that will aid in reduction of taxes hence enable citizens to create wealth locally and internationally.

At first, Henry Addington failed to lead the nations to come to a truce. It seemed to be temporary and failed to hold the leaders together. He was the speaker of the House of Commons between 1789 and 1801. Later, he became the British prime minister since 1801 to 1804. From the treaty, the lessons learnt are that, countries need each other in all their endeavors. If the nations had nothing to look up to in the future, then the present generation would not be in existence. They admonished war and decided to make a bright future for themselves and the other generations.

In the 20^th century, the first and second world war took place. The First World War occurred between the year 1910 and 1919. The warfare started on 28 July 1914. There were various causes of the war such as economic, political and, territorial conflicts. The French, British, Americans, Russians, Japanese and Italians combined forces and fought against Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Territory. The treaties that these countries had signed ensured that they protect each other in case of any calamity. A complicated net of imperialism, nationalism, materialism and alliances instigated the war. Breakdown of power was evident. The nations were competing for wealth, prestige and power.

The Germans initially attacked Belgians then France, in the west. The bold attacks and troop movements brought about many retaliatory attacks. The United States joined the war in 1917 because their ship was bombed in the Atlantic by the Germans. Later the same year, Russia exited due to the Bolshevik Revolution. The Germans later retreated since they had lost a number of individual battles and their troops were demoralized. At the end of the war, the participating countries signed the ceasefire settlement one at a time. Hungary’s division into several other nations occurred. Germans faced disciplinary actions and lost some territories, strict development of its military and substantial pecuniary compensations.

The Second World War took place in 1939 to 1945. The great were nations involved forming two conflicting sides that is the Axis and the Allies. A hundred million people were involved coming from thirty countries. The civilians and military formed an association that received support from their nations that invested their complete scientific, industrial and economic competences in the confrontation. Eleven million individual lot their lives at the Holocaust and the strategic bombings that took place left one million people dead. The nuclear missiles thrown at Hiroshima and Nagasaki affected a populace of eighty five million. This was the deadliest war ever seen on the face of the earth.

The social structure and political alignment of the world changed after the Second World War. In order to prevent future conflicts, the formation of the United Nations was to ensure cooperation among nations internationally. The United States, United Kingdom, France, China and the Soviet Union took the position of the permanent members in the United Nations Security Council. They are the super power nations in the world. Later, countries embraced reform strategies towards economic recovery. The first and second world war led to the loss of a million lives, a scenario that the world would not want to see again. Through historical times, the battle enabled citizens to understand what happened.

Conclusion

            In conclusion, the various world events during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries had lasting effects to individuals. They form the basis of historical studies hence enable history learners to comprehend the events that transpired in the past. This paper has analyzed and highlighted some of the historical events that transpired and the aftermath reults.

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