The weaponry that were used to shoot and bomb were definitely effective, " the burst of flame shoots across the fog, the fragments howl and drone, " as said in All Quiet in the Western Front. As Harry Patch who was in world war one had said, " the lice were the size of grains →
It is due to rain; there is a certain stress in the air and as the main character enters the street covered with clouds, one can sense that she is having this very same tension, the suppression the weather has. She is indeed going there to confront the house that she had left since war →
Woodrow Wilson's decision to give his Fourteens Points speech contributed to the end of World War I, was the basis for many peace treaties and paved the road for future nations and alliances." Covenants of peace be quickly arrived at so that this war can end and future nations can begin". The great hope and →
World War 1 saw the implementation of the Machine-gun in 1914, the armored tank in 1916, and, with the advent of the airplane in 1903, the first fixed wing airplane modified for combat occurred in 1911. The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the war.
While the Jews forcefully rejected the White Paper, most of the Zionist leadership postponed the fight against the British in order to support them in the war. In the period leading up to the issue of the White Paper, Britain's attempts to resolve the crisis in Palestine " occurred against a backdrop of developing tensions →
The objective of the Battle of Somme was to help alleviate the pressure on the British that the Germans had been exerting at the battle Verdun." The attack on Verdun came about because of a plan by the German Chief of General Staff, von Falkenhayn." The objective of the Germans during the battle of Verdun →
The Board never really had much control and was disbanded after the end of the war. An adjustment of colonial claims in the interests of both native people and the colonizers was reassuring to the anti-imperialists.
Article 231 in the Treaty of Versailles says the First World War was " the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of →
Americans belonged to all three categories so it took a while for the US to go to war and was the cause of propaganda movement." Peace without victory."Wilson's address in January 1917 presented a plan for postwar order where the US would help maintain peace with a league of nations to construct a new world →
Defence was now the key to winning the war and was far superior than the offensive. This was one of the core reasons for stalemate upon the Western Front because technology was advancing at such a rapid rate and new inventions were being introduced in a hasty manner.
His vivid descriptions of the soldier's conditions and the trauma of witnessing death compel the reader to look at the futile nature of war and the physical damage that is done to its participants. The Gas attack is the main event in this poem " GAS, GAS! " the repetition and use of the exclamation →
The Battle of the Somme In February 1916, after a year of stalemate, the Germans decided to attack France and capture strategic French forts in the area of Verdun, 15 miles west of Paris. On the other hand, General Haig was viewed innocent by some in regards to the poor quality of the shells →
Little did they know the battles they, and the whole world were about to face, would be the beginning of the end." Bourassa's enthusiasm - and those of the soldiers- would soon sour " 1 Six social changes Canada underwent as a result of World War 1 was women's roles at the home-front, relationships and →
The Great War lasted from 1914-1918 simply because of the fighting in the trenches, where taking ground from the enemy was a slow process because when men tried to attack in the trenches they were shot down almost as quick as they emerged from their own trench. Life in the Trenches The first thing a →
In the beginning of his presidency, he was a democrat who wanted to have separate businesses and small government. His one point that he wanted in the treaty was a League of Nations to keep world peace and to end all wars.
The historian John Laffin claims that Haig was an awful leader; he says that " Haig really thought he was doing what the people wanted him to do" which makes us think that he was being a good general. These facts may not be true as it was take nearly a 100 years after the →
There were many reasons why the war started; some were long term causes related with the tensions between the countries of Europe, such as the conflicts between Britain and Germany and Russia and Austria-Hungary. In addition to this, Germany was allies with Austria Hungary, who also wanted to control the Balkans and Germany wanted to →