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World War 1. Some background information:
-Fought from 1914-1918 and between Germany and England/France/Belgium and other Allied countries.
-World War 1 saw a complete change in the way wars were fought and the attitudes towards them. More advanced technology saw death on a huge scale and there were nearly a million British casualties. This in turn created a new breed of poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who wrote in protest of the war and its dire conditions. They argued that war was pointless. -At the beginning of the war in August 1914, people had no idea of the scale and length of the conflict they were to be involved in and people were eager to enlist in a war that they thought would be over by Christmas.
-Soldiers were persuaded to fight through propaganda (posters/information) which was used to make them believe that fighting in the war would be amazing. This was a lie. In reality, the war was horrible.

-Soldiers fought in the Trenches. The trenches were infested with rats, frogs and lice. Living condit

-Fought from 1914-1918 and between Germany and England/France/Belgium and other Allied countries.
-World War 1 saw a complete change in the way wars were fought and the attitudes towards them. More advanced technology saw death on a huge scale and there were nearly a million British casualties. This in turn created a new breed of poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who wrote in protest of the war and its dire conditions. They argued that war was pointless. -At the beginning of the war in August 1914, people had no idea of the scale and length of the conflict they were to be involved in and people were eager to enlist in a war that they thought would be over by Christmas.
-Soldiers were persuaded to fight through propaganda (posters/information) which was used to make them believe that fighting in the war would be amazing. This was a lie. In reality, the war was horrible.

-Soldiers fought in the

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