All quiet on the western front

Nationalism can be defined as having a sense of belonging and loyalty to ones country or nation state. Of all the European nations, France was the first to sport the idea of nationalism. Many countries became influenced by the French's ideas of nationali sm, As a result nationalism had spread throught out Europe by the nineteenth and twenteth century. One result that nationalisn had on Europe was, the wanting of unification. The people of nation …showed first 75 words of 1355 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1355 total…Europe. The result of these conflicts eventually lead to World War I. During the war, the peoples view of nationalism of ten contradicted what the soildiers had to face in the war. These views showed how inexperienced the people were in modern warfare. In Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front, we can see depite all these contradicting views, that the G erman soldiers continued to fight a war could not win.