The First World War was the first ’total war’ - the whole nation had to be mobilised to fight. Men joined the army while women took over their jobs‚ but was this change lasting or a temporary effect of total war? The population at home - the basics People in Britain were affected by six main ways: 1. Recruitment - there was a huge poster campaign to get people to join up‚ and the government had to introduce conscription in 1916. Conscientious objectors could be imprisoned. Women were recruited
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More than anything else‚ texts concerned with history and memory are reliant on the relationship between purpose and selection. * Points to look out for: * History and memory * Relationship * Purpose - topic sentence * Selection - represent The interrelationship between factual history and factual memory allows a universal understanding to be gained. Denise Levertov’s Libation and A Letter to Marek about a Photograph are showing personal experiences as well as a
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The Vietnam War began in 1966 and lasted until 1975‚ this tragic war was one of the most important events in United States history. The Vietnam War helped shape modern world history by changing the minds of millions of people on how they felt and viewed the war. The purpose of the war was to stop the spread of communism which led to many negative outcomes such as students protesting‚ the Tet offensive‚ a severely damaged U.S. economy‚ and millions of lives lost or wounded. After WWII in 1945‚ France
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Declaration of War to the congress he said that “the world must be made safe for democracy”. Now‚ nearly a hundred years later‚ we know the effects of the decision that were made at this time. Knowing what happened I say that the US involvement in World War I was not a fight for more democracy. The roots of the German dictatorship under Hitler were laid during the peace negotiations of Versailles. So the most important point of what Wilson officially wanted‚ to bring peace and democracy to the world‚ to
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World War I’s Influence on the World World War I was one of the most influential events that mankind has ever seen. World War I was one of the first examples of a wartime economy that affected the way countries went through everyday life. As we see today‚ much of the overseas war has little to no effect on how America functions as a country‚ whereas in 1914-1918‚ America was forced into becoming a full-blown war machine. World War I affected more than just the counties the war was being fought in
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The First World War with Level of Analysis Abstract World War I has been the first global war in the world lasted from 1914 to 1918. It is one of the great watersheds of the 20th century geopolitical history. Due to new military technologies‚ the unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction are caused and more than 16 million people including military personnel and civilians died. This paper will explore about the World War I with level of analysis – individual‚ state and international level
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The First World War has redefined the ways of fighting in wars. The reason is due to the rapidly inventing of new technology especially in developing new types of weapons. Even thought in the beginning of the war the soldiers were still using the 19 central style of stratagem but one clear way to describe the changes in the World War One based on the development of weapons is “The soldiers rode on horses but leaved on air planes”(Libby H O’Connell.). Some examples are machine guns and flame thrower
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The First World War was once thought to be ‘the war to end all wars’. In an attempt to make this so‚ the Allies convened in Paris for the Paris Peace Conference‚ and ultimately created the Treaty of Versailles. Its terms were harsh and sent Germany into hyper-inflation‚ with help from the reparations that had to be paid. This treaty also placed an immense amount of guilt for the whole war and loses on Germany in the War Guilt Clause‚ which created further bitterness within the German borders.
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the first World War still rages on‚ a hundred years after the outbreak of the war. Historians’ views differ starkly‚ ranging from Serbia to Germany to Russia. At the end of the first World War‚ the Allied Powers decided to hold Germany answerable for the war and destruction caused by it. The undue responsibility that Germany had to carry due to the ‘war clause’ in the Treaty of Versailles resulted in resentment‚ which ultimately led to the second World War and the Cold War‚ after that. History pays
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RATS IN THE MUD War‚ a ferocious fight between man that not only physically but mentally damages everyone. Men who have families‚ wives ‚ kids are lucky enough to go back home with all their limbs and wit to them . It was said to be the war to end all wars‚ THE GREAT WAR OF WORLD but there was nothing great about it . I was a young man at the time of my enlistment into the army and had to leave my little town of Clarksville ‚Tennessee . I hugged my mother and father like it was the last time I
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