World War 1: The Effects of U-Boats and Machine Guns Growing tensions between world powers for dominance and resources helped bring about one of the deadliest wars in human history. It was the first major war in an industrializing world‚ and technology was beginning to grow exponentially. New weapons such as the machine gun‚ tank‚ U-boat‚ advanced lethal chemicals‚ and airplane completely changed the face of battle. The machine gun and U-boat ultimately had a larger strategic effect‚ but overall
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Was World War 2 America’s fault? Most know about Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. After all‚ nearly 2‚400 people were killed. On top of that‚ 1‚200 people were injured. But what all led to this chaos? How many people were involved and what could’ve prevented this? On September 1st‚ 1939‚ World War 2 began. Initially‚ Japan was not involved. Japan was already at war with Asia in 1937‚ but got involved after they bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Even though a vast majority of the conflict was between Japan
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During 1914‚ the entire Europe was a powder keg filled not with gunpowder‚ but pride. Finally‚ it blew up with the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in the 28th of June. While Franz Ferdinand was on his way to examine Serbia‚ he was assassinated by the Serbian nationalist (Sowards). In response to this action‚ Austrian angrily announced an ultimatum to Serbia‚ which strictly demanded Serbia to end all anti-Austrian agitation and punish any Serbian official whoever involved in
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How did Medical Care change during the First World War? First World War presented medicine with many challenges. The number of wounded men was increasing every day and the need of medical specialists and innovations as well. Millions of people who could have been saved died. The war had effects on people and their minds that lasted till the end of their lives. Medicine and medical care had to be improved in order to save lives and live further. There were different problems and solutions to them
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Economy in Texas changed very much during World War 1 and the Great Depression. Many efforts were made to support the soldiers at war. For example‚ victory gardens‚ wheatless wed. and meatless mon.‚ training camps‚ and liberty bonds are a few examples of economic support for the soldiers in WW1. In order to feed the troops at war‚ citizens participated in Meatless Mondays and Wheatless Wednesdays. On Mondays‚ they did not eat meat and on Wednesdays they didn’t eat anything made of wheat. The food
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Music During & Post World War II Highlife music has always been in the Ghanaian scenes‚ taking different names and different forms. The name “Highlife”‚ which was coined in the 1920s has already become a household name prior to the Second World War. During the world war‚ the British employed local popular music such as the Konkoma highlife marching songs in recruiting the Black servicemen and increasing their morale for war. Ghanaian dance orchestra musicians who are proficient in the reading of
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There are many different causes that started the dreadful World War 2. It all began with World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles which was a document signed by the leaders of Britain France and the USA. It had several terms about what Germany had to do for its punishment because Germany was blamed for starting World War 1 (It was not entirely Germany’s fault but actually it was because of the military alliances which were the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente). It was very harsh as some of
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Argument: The main cause of Japan joining World War 2 is because they wanted to expand their territory. Short Background of Japan’s involvement in WWII (500 words): Japan participated in World War 2 and was part of the Axis Powers. Before World War 2‚ Japan had struggled and wanted to expand their territory. There are many reasons for this‚ one of which was to establish itself and gain equality with the Western Powers. Japan wanted to be considered as an equal amongst the Western powers which
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• World War II started on the third of September 1939 and ended in April 1945. Over these years the were many significant events in World War Two such as Germany declaring war on the U.S and the invasion of Poland. A few that is of some importance that will be discussed in detail in following are the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour‚ when Germany surrenders after Hitler commits suicide and when the U.S drops a bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • The attack on Pearl Harbour was a horrific ordeal
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World War 1 “The war to end all wars.” This was the common name used for World War 1 but truthfully I do not believe there will ever be a war that ends all wars forever. This war struck fear into the hearts of not only soldiers in the war but citizens caught in the cross fire of the hatred that was plaguing our world. This war started for many reasons such as nationalism‚ imperialism‚ militarism and the formations of alliances. But the main reason this war was fought was because of a countries
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