WEBSITES TO USE: * Hold down the control key & click on any of the links! • http://www.worldwar1.com/posters.htm • http://www.ultimatehistoryproject.com/military-maneuvers-world-war-i-recruiting-posters.html • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25237878 HONORS ONLY: Do the highlighted questions
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In World War 1 the strategy that the generals adopted is known as attrition. What this means is a process of using up current supplies before buying new ones. A war of attrition is when an army has to fight with the men and supplies it has at hand until it runs out. If one nation has more than the other‚ the outcome of the war will be in his favor. Though this was abandoned later on in the war. Before they began to attack a countries artillery would bombard the enemy. What this means is attacking
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How far was Labour’s election victory in 1945 due to changes in social attitudes during the second world war? (24 marks) After the war had finished Labour enjoyed a political victory in 1945‚ they were now in charge of making the policies and choices that would best suite Britain at this rough time of economic depression. Their success was down to many different factors both during and after the war. factors such as the public wanting rid of the total war memories that are held within the conservative
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German Heritage German Heritage Germans mainly immigrated because their country was being attacked by other nationalities. People who lived in the southern part of Germany were robbed and tortured. Villages were being burnt down. The rulers of Germany tried to keep the people from leaving but did not succeed. In 1709 about 3‚000 Germans crossed the Atlantic and arrived in New York. By 1745 there were 45‚000 Germans living in just Pennsylvania (Immigration: The journey to America). In the 1800s
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gun. The Hiram Maxim who invented the machine gun. Most European countries added them into their inventory. The machine gun was thought and many inventors tried to make one but it wasn’t until 1884 when Hiram made such a weapon. They were heavy‚ the German machine gun weighed 58.31 pounds and the water jacket to keep the gun cool weighed even more 70.5 pounds. Another invention that made the war a massacre was artillery. Artillery was used a lot throughout the war. Artillery claimed many lives in no
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the Russian Empire had ensued with the aftermath of the February/March Revolution‚ the situation seemed to begin to lean in favor for German forces. However‚ the situation was about to become much more complicated as a new power enters the war; with the interception and decryption of the Zimmermann Telegram on March 1st of 1917 by British forces‚ a plot by the Germans
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would expect Germany to invade from the east‚ so would not be prepared for an invasion from the north * Germany would defeat France in six weeks it would supposedly take for Russian troops to mobilise. Then Germany would attack Russia. * The German General Staff Count Schlieffen completed a plan for war * Forced to fight on two fronts (an eastern and western front) * Aims were * To knock out the Western Front by moving rapidly to defeat France * After beating France
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Thomas Mann‚ in his speech “Germany and the Germans”‚ talks about “German world-seclusiveness and melancholy world-unfitness” as a particular German state of mind. He says that Germany and Germans are complex because their character is so puzzling because as he traveled around the world he realized that the original nature of the German is his seclusiveness and timidity to face the world around him. Thomas Mann believes that “ In the seclusiveness of there was always so much longing for companionship:
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Important Factors for the Growth of German Nationalism Political Nationalism Political nationalism grew with the spread of new ideas about Liberalism and Nationalism. also Nationalism was the desire of people with a common national identity to have their own country. furthermore‚ Liberalism was the desire to have a parliament‚ like Britain’s‚ where rulers were elected by the people of the country as opposed to being ruled by a king alone. Especially‚ In the years initially following 1815‚ support
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spring of 1848 ¥ Germans lent their voices to the cry of national unity and equality. Why?? ¥ Germany in 1848 was not a unified state. ¥ It was a confederation of States made up of 39 individual German countries all under the rule of the hatred Austria ¥ Therefore German people were scattered all over Europe with no sense of identity‚ culture or feelings of national pride. The Inspiration: ¥ When revolutions broke out in France in Feb. 1848‚ Germans living in German states throughout Europe
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