World War I was a conflict spanning the years 1914 to 1918. The conflict wounded or killed 38 million people. New weapons of war were created to make either side exhaust the amount of men they had. This is the definition of total war, a war on a global scale that utilized all infrastructure of all involved countries for production that benefited the war. Many say that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the cause of the war. Many historians like G. Herschfeld, J. Remak, and R.J. Evans have different ideas on how the war started. I decided to study G. Herschfeld’s view of how this horrible conflict started.
The destruction of World War I.
G. Herschfeld’s theory of how World War I started revolves around the idea of how a fear of loss of prestige from the various kings and a complex chain of military alliances only created for military protection from other nations, winded up Europe to the point where any small incident could have triggered the start World War One.
A map of the Central and Allied powers.
The filming project happened at the most random time. I worked with classmates Luciano and Spencer on this and on that day, Spencer just happened to be in his Halloween costume and Luciano is a funny man. This all manifested to the idea of a viking cooking show that explained G. Herschfeld’s explanation for World War I. The cooking show idea came up when I thought of doing a recipe and Spencer chimed in on how we could do a cooking show.
The creating this project really opened my eyes to different ways of presenting an idea. Instead of doing a very mainstream slideshow, the teachers forced us to use more creative methods of presenting. The content of the project gave me a more concise view of World War I started. Instead of the assassination of the Archduke being the cause, it was actually a spark that caused a chain of events to unravel into a world war.
The assassination of the Archduke.
This was a new thing to me but I am definitely doing my projects in more creative ways like this in comparison to before.