army refers to various military units recruited from‚ or used as garrison troops in‚ colonial territories. It all started on a callous summer day‚ on June 28th 1914‚ the Austro-Hungary Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife‚ Sophie‚ duchess of Hohenberg‚ were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb‚ Gavrilo Princep‚ in Sarajevo. Shadowing this dreadful incident‚ commiserations were given from all over the world. In the background‚ a pull towards combat began in the peaceful month of July. Austria-Hungary sent
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incompetents who sent the ’lions’ of the Poor Bloody Infantry to their deaths in futile battles. Many popular books‚ films and television programmes echo this belief. The casualty list - one million British Empire dead - and the bloody stalemate of the Western Front seem to add credence to this version of events. But there is another interpretation. ...Haig’s army played the leading role in defeating the German forces in the crucial battles of 1918. One undeniable fact is that Britain and its allies‚ not
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two fronts; the Western Front and Eastern Front. The fronts were significantly different when it came to warfare‚ namely the tactics employed to deal with the French and British in the West‚ and the Russians in the East. What was supposed to be a quick victory became a complete failure in military movement and intelligence‚ and an underestimation of military mobilization. On the Western Front‚ Germans ran up against the British and French for over 400 miles. In comparison‚ the Eastern Front consisted
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Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Behind my smile is everything you’ll never understand. For all sad words of tongue and pen‚ the saddest are these‚ It might have been. There’s nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad. Although the world is full of suffering‚ it is also full of the overcoming of it. I had rather have a fool make me merry‚ than experience make me sad. The tragedy
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World War One Summary Sheet - The reasons for stalemate on the Western Front Pneumonic for remembering the reasons for the development of stalemate during exam conditions. (You can make up your own if you wish) Can Schlieffen Pull The Cord? Can = Commanders Schlieffen = Schlieffen Pull = Plan XVII The = Tactical and strategic problems Cord = Communication C Commanders Moltke Was regarded as unsuitable for the pressures of commanding the German forces. Failed to provide the resources
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On June 22‚ 1941‚ the German Army poured across the borders of the Soviet Union‚ initiating nearly 4 years of the most savage and brutal warfare humanity ever experienced. Three Army Groups penetrated Russia on a front extending from the Baltic coast to the Black Sea. One and a half million soldiers of the Wehrmacht obeyed the Fuehrer’s directive to destroy the Red Army and the Soviet Union. "The World will hold it’s breath!"‚ Adolf Hitler told his Generals. And as the world watched in amazement
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World War Il was one of the most tragic wars of all time‚ involving more than fifty countries and an estimate of 55 million lives lost. One of the war’s lasting outcomes was Germany’s separation by a wall put up by the Soviet Union This wall was named the Berlin Wall. The Wall had many effects on people‚ not just in Germany‚ but throughout the world. It symbolized the difference between western democracy and Communism. Germany surrendered to the Soviet Union and the Allies on May 7‚ 1945
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which can change a soldier’s life forever. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque uses the symbols of boots‚ butterflies and horses to advance the main theme in the novel‚ that war takes young men’s innocence away. When a soldier begins his first training camp or when he kills his first man‚ his boots are there warming his feet. Soldiers might not realize it but their boots are with them through their change of heart. In All Quiet boots resemble ageing‚ façade‚ and change in heart. In
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The advent of World War I brought forth new strategies and technology that had never before been seen on the front of war. The rapid industrialism at the turn of the century resulted in a distinct gap between the technological abilities of each nation’s armies‚ and their ability to psychologically deal with the horrors of war. From intensely powerful weaponry to the newly introduced chemical warfare‚ the new war tactics heavily impacted the average soldier and caused warfare as a whole to drastically
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We also had to prevent body lice. They were awful‚ pale fawn in color‚ and left blotchy red bit marks all over the body. They were extremely hard to remove from our clothes since they hid in the seams of our uniforms. A lighted candle was effective but most solders were not thought at the boot camp. I have been trying to show as many solider on how to remove
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