World War One Synthesis Essay

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After a war so tragic, many people lost faith in God or a higher power, because they questioned weather one would have something so terrible onto humanity. Robert Hughes, historical thinker writes, “While philosophers and scientists were responsible for asking many of the puzzling questions, they were also leaders in looking for the answers.” In a time of chaos, academic minds seized their opportunity for discovery by thinking up questions, and later going to solve them. They gained the public trust when they found logical solutions that satisfied the need to understand the inexplainable. Sigmund Freud, a medicine doctor, had theoreticized that people weren't thinking about everything they did, but rather it came from the subconscious mind. He added to this theory stating …show more content…
Nations part of the Central Powers alliance, Germany specifically, acquired loads of debt. There was money to be paid to the Triple Entente, and those world powers, and more money was dedicated to building a strong military to ensure national safety. Unemployment rates skyrocketed to a shocking 30 percent unemployed population. Heinrich Hauser, German writer said there to be "an almost unbroken chain of homeless men [that] extend[ed] the whole length of the great Hamburg-Berlin highway.” Because of the transition into a war based economy for World War 1, many people lost their jobs, and could not find work. As the transition from war to interwar periods, all of the old factories have been destroyed, and nations don't have enough trade between one another to receive the resources necessary to produce goods in the manner they used too. This leaves many generations unemployed and their economy weaker, leading way to the rise of Hitler. Hitler was in serious economic trouble, and relied on a strong leader to get them out. Hitler’s incredibly public speaking skills had "the audience breathlessly under his