Austria Hungary *Aug 1914 ~ Spring 1915 - Several battles settled nothing both sides settled down to a long siege of Trench warfare -Space between the 2 trenches - no man’s land -Heavy casualties -Example: first battle of the somme (July 1‚ 1916) - Mid November British lost 60‚000 men first day (Nobody won) -Total 1‚200‚000 casualties for the whole battle *Opposition to the war -Socialists → Eugene V. Debs - War just involves Great Britain + Germany -Pacifists → William Jennings Bryan
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Georgia o’keeffe Auto-biography | Rochque’l Watts Art Appreciation | Georgia o’keeffe Auto-biography | Rochque’l Watts Art Appreciation | Georgia O’Keeffe was born November 5‚ 1887 in Sun Prairie‚ Wisconsin. . Her parents‚ Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O’Keeffe‚ were dairy farmers. Her father was of Irish descent. Ida Totto’s father‚ George Victor Totto‚ for whom Georgia O’Keeffe was named‚ was a Hungarian count who came to America in 1848. Georgia was the second of seven
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to join his battalion in France on 17th November (1915) just after the Battle of Loos‚ serving as a transport officer. In March 1916 Siegfried was finally able to secure a front-line placement. In April 1916‚ he attended 4th Army School at Flixecourt. He displayed courage and calm under fire‚ receiving a Military Cross for his actions during a raiding party in May 1916; in fact he displayed such bravery that he attracted the nickname ’Mad Jack’. He spent the
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immediately began a massive recruitment drive with posters‚ leaflets‚ recruitment offices in every town and stirring speeches by government ministers. The recruitment campaign was highly successful‚ gaining half a million recruits in the first month. By 1916 over 2 million British men had been recruited. Why were so many so keen to join? The year 1914 witnessed a heady rush of patriotic optimism nationwide‚ fuelled further by tales of German atrocities. Many people also believed that‚ even if the war would
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unique and their outcomes are unprecedented. Although it is impossible for historians to ascertain which specific elements are contribute to a successful rebellion‚ analyzing the contributing factors is important in understanding independence. In the 1916 Irish Rebellion‚ the Great War had a significant influence on public opinion‚ rebel military plans and the British response which greatly impacted the outcome of the rebellion. An integral aspect of any revolution is public opinion because support
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Descriptive versus Narrative This essay is to compare-contrast a narrative and descriptive essay The essays I chose were‚ “Are the Rich Happy?” written by Stephen Leacock (1916) for the narrative essay and “Homeless” written by Anna Quindlen (n.d.) for the descriptive essay. The title of both essays is what caught my eye and the reason why I read them. Although‚ I enjoyed reading both essays‚ I felt the descriptive essay “Homeless” had more value and was the better read. Therefore‚ in this essay
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in Feb – Nove 1916. “They shall not pass” is the saying aligned with it. It involved generals‚ Falkenhayn for Germany and Petain for France. It was Germany’s aim to “bleed the French white” through a war of attrition. Using heavy artillery bombardment and diphosgene gas. It resulted in an early German advance later re won by France. The failures of Verdun lead to Falkenhayn replaced by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Another battle was the Battle of the Somme. This was from July – Nov 1916. It is in the
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suffering from the strains of waging war. In the previous year‚ battles at Verdun (February-July 1916) and the Somme (July-November 1916) on the Western Front had each claimed around a million lives. In the spring and summer of 1917‚ the rank-and-file soldiers in the French army staged a series of mutinies‚ refusing to go on the offensive. Austria‚ with a new emperor after the death of Franz Josef in November 1916‚ was constrained politically and militarily to follow Germany even as its empire was falling
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Rasputin is likely to have undermined the image of the Royal family through his lack of class‚ uncouth appearance and the rumours he made no effort to deny of his orgies and wild drunken parties. Also‚ if he did sleep with the Tsarina and her two eldest daughter as was rumoured‚ then that would make the Tsar look very foolish. Also‚ one of the reasons the Tsar had been respected up to this point was that he was meant to be God appointed. If this was the case then he would not be assimilating with
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1914‚ but by Christmas 1916‚ this figure was down to around 300 wagons. Therefore‚ there was not enough food to feed the people of Russia despite the rationing that had been brought into place. This resulted in the people of Russia becoming upset and hungry and taking part in more strikes and demonstrations on the same issue of workers conditions. Furthermore‚ the First World War crippled the Russian economy. The country mobilized 9% of the population in 1914 and by 1916 15.3 million men had
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