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6 pages in length. The writer discusses capitalism, power hungry leaders and the battle of Verdun as they relate to World War I. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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subjected Europe to such a dismal state, there was not one in particular that stood out as more detrimental than the next; rather, as each one occurred -- often on
the heels of one previously -- it created a catastrophic domino influence upon an already damaged European system. Acting as a structural force for the twentieth century, the blood
that was shed throughout the capitalism crisis proved to be "the hinge of the twentieth-century history and its decisive moment" (Hobsbawm, 1995, p. 7) instigating the course of things to
come. World War I began what was to ultimately come to be known as The Age of Catastrophe. While having started as
"an inter-imperialist conflict" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139) among capitalist leaders, it eventually came to incite "a series of huge blows" (p. 139) that would endanger the very presence of capitalism
as it existed in Europe during that period. The grave combination of "senseless slaughter and deepening economic exhaustion" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139) took a substantial toll on European politics,
which created a tremendous sense of governmental insecurity throughout all of Europe. Eric Hobsbawm, author of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, claims that such political
insecurity "swept away all regimes from Vladivostok to the Rhine" (Hobsbawm, 1995, p. 67), which originated in Central Europe. Because of the outcome, capitalism was now forced to endure
both domestic and international jeopardy with regard to its current status. States Hobsbawm: "The tragedy of the October Revolution was precisely that it could only produce its kind of
ruthless, brutal, command socialism" (Hobsbawm, 1995, p. 498). At the time of World War I, totalitarianism was taking a stronghold upon Europe, while the Great Depression proved to threaten
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