The Great War Professor Berk HST 152 Office Hours: MWF 3:00 - 5:00 Lippman 222 Class time: 10:30 - 11:35 This course covers the Great War (WWI)‚ the seminal event of the 20th century. T causes of the war‚ the evolution of the conflict‚ and the impact upon stat and society are topics tot be discussed. The Russian Revolutions of 1917‚ the Peace Settlement of Versailles‚ the rise of fascism in Italy and of the Nazi in Germany will also be covered. Several films will accompany the lectures and
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Armored Warfare: Tank Development in WWI “No present day army could fight against an army consisting of say 2‚000 tanks‚ and it therefore follows that all large Continental armies will have to make use of tank armies in the future” - British Captain Giffard Le Quesne Martel The tank might be one of the most important innovations in weapons technology during World War I. The use of armored vehicles in warfare was not only an amazing innovation in weapons technology but also revolutionized
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Do you know how bat it was for the many soldiers in the civil war? In the extensive battles of the civil war there were hardships not only faced in the battle but between them as well. These hardships were Bad food‚ health‚ sleeping conditions‚ and hygiene. In the civil war‚ many harsh conditions were faced aside from the war. One of them are disease. There were many illnesses that spread throughout the military camps. More people actually died from illnesses and disease than in the actual war
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Doc 7 illustrate the Soviets’ desire to spread communism‚ not just to their satellite nations around them‚ but even farther to Vietnam. It would have been helpful to add a map of the communist and non-communist countries in Europe before WWII to compare to Doc 1 in order to highlight the amount of control the USSR gained trying to beat the US in the Cold War. Documents 3 and 9 suggest that‚ aside from a few rebels‚ Hungary and Nicaragua welcomed the Soviets’ help in switching to communism and training
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Is ww2 film evidence any use to an historian wanting to find out about key events in ww2? There are many different types of film evidence created during and after world war two these can include propaganda movies‚ still action images and Hollywood productions. There can be many problems relating to finding out about ww2 including understanding the point of the film being created‚ being able to link it to factual events of ww2‚ the reliability of films etc. Propaganda film Propaganda films are
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Analyse the Causes of WW1 There were a number of causes that played a key role for WW1; however the most significant was The Alliance System due to the fact that it had the most direct impact on the war. In this essay I will explain how this specific historical event was the main cause of WW1. On top of that I will talk about how the other causes effected the decisions made and their impact at the time. The Alliance System was the most significant cause of WW1 due to the fact that all the great
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WW2 was a very bloody war and it was kind of good for America because it gave women the chance to have jobs and not just be a stay at home mom/wife. On september 16‚1940 congress passed the first peacetime military act‚ This act ordered men from the ages of 21-35 to be trained for battle in 12 months but that was before Pearl Harbor had gotten attacked. After Pearl Harbor congress passed the Selective Service Act which extended drafting to 18-38 years to join the military‚ But men 18-65 had no
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The World Wars are extremely interesting to study and learn about. There are huge amounts of information that most people don’t know or think that happened in both Wars. They have War ending weapons in World War one‚ but in World War two they were about taking the world. The Wars had reasons for beginning‚ they had type of weapons that caused the massacre‚ they had the invention of the tank‚ and how they ended. The first World War also known as “The Great War”. It was the war to end all wars. It
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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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BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE 1914 One of many important battles in 1914 in which both sides attempted to fight a war of movement which would see the war ended by December 1914. It was also important in contributing to the stalemate which eventuated at the end of 1914. It heralded the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The importance of this battle is that it was the culmination by both sides of any attempt at a war of movement‚ as it was realized that frontal offensives were impossible. Thus the ‘race
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