important difference from seasonal influenza is that healthy people in all age groups may be at higher risk for serious complications from the pandemic virus. Pandemics are‚ fortunately‚ rare but can have devastating effects as was seen during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic when an estimated 50-100 million people died worldwide.1 The Community Preventive Services
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and new ways of management and production were a big part of that. Probably the most notable change was in the Armed Forces. They had “evolved into a modern‚ combat-tested army recognized as one of the best in the world.” (The Stars and Stripes‚ 1918-1919). In less than two years the United States had equipped their troops with machine guns and tanks and created an entirely new way of moving supplies and troops thousands of miles in a timely manner. This new knowledge would become the center for
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The extent to which a country can establish and retain a state of ‘Total War’ inevitably leads to victory. In World War 1‚ the allied forces ability to achieve this resulted in their success. The production of munitions and American funding‚ resource allocation and the British Blockade‚ gave the allies a clear advantage on the home front. The utilization of the superior weaponry and manpower as well as improved tactics on the battlefront gave the allies an upper hand in this war of attrition. The
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A multitude of military‚ economical‚ political‚ and psychological factors are considered to have contributed to Germany’s loss in World War I (WWI)‚ including‚ amongst others‚ their defeat in the U-boat campaign. However‚ it is widely regarded that the entry of the USA into WWI‚ and its military‚ economic‚ and morale implications was the was the key contributor to this outcome and the end of WWI. Figure 1 above shows the German troops striding in Berlin after their defeat. Germany’s U-boat
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CHAPTER X THE PARIS PEACE SETTLEMENT‚ 1919-1920 The military disaster which befell the Mid-European Confederacy in the autumn of 1918 was the signal for immediate political revolutions within its members. The revolutions‚ though precipitated in several instances by Socialists‚ proved to be uniformly mild and more conducive to democratic nationalism than to any basic social change. In Germany Prince Maximilian‚ the Chancellor on whom the Emperor William II imposed the unpleasant task of opening
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poem about gender roles‚ gender definitions‚ and what it means to be a woman that has stood the test of time for forty years. As Celeste points out‚ Bishop investigates these topics by inspecting her own life‚ from her pre-women’s suffrage youth (1918) to fifty years later (1970’s)‚ during the summit of the Women’s Rights Movement when the poem was written. She does this in one swift movement‚ by “collapsing her life’s experiences” into a one seemingly insignificant memory from her childhood (Celeste
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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
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MODERN HISTORY STUDY NOTES NATIONAL STUDIES Germany 1918-1939 WEIMAR REPUBLIC: Revolution and The Birth of the Weimar Republic Emergence of the Democratic Republic and the Impact of the Treaty of Versailles THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND - Prior to World War II‚ Germany had a parliamentary system with two houses‚ but it was not a democracy. Only the lower house (The Reichstag) was elected by all German males over 25 years of age. The upper house (The Bundesrat) was appointed by the Kaiser. - The Kaiser
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America‚ Brazil‚ Asia‚ Europe‚ India‚ Africa‚ and Taubenberger in the South Pacific. The 1918-1919 Spanish influenza name was established consequently because of the massive deaths in Spain where the flu had struck first‚ was known as the most devastating pandemic in history. The general flu season is late fall to spring. Additionally‚ the epidemic began in 1918 and had three terrifying waves. In the Spring of 1918 the Spanish
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Timeline of W.W.1 1914 1. Assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand: (June 28‚ 1914) the archduke visited Sarajevo to audit the armed forces. While travelling through Sarajevo in an open car a Serbian nationalist threw a bomb at their car which ended up bouncing off the car and injuring an officer. The archduke later visited that officer at the hospital where he later took off again‚ unfortunately‚ the driver took a wrong turn. Gavrilo Princip (Serbian nationalist) spotted him and took a shot
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