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    guns who mowed the British infantry down in their thousands. The Maxim machine gun was Germanyʼs best offensive weapon and was most effective in the battle of the Somme‚ resulting in 90% of Allied victims. Coupled with poor communication between the front line and the higher ranked officers‚ miles away and the better established and well equipped

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    Countries in Europe struggled when WWI came to an end in 1918. This was a time when global dominance was shifting around the world. Powers‚ namely‚ Germany and Italy were punished brutally in the post-war era as they were left politically and economically devastated by the Treaty of Versailles. This led to great resentment among the German people toward Great Britain and France. But the worst was to come as the U.S. stock market crashed. The devastating impact of the U.S. stock market crash and the

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    The Christmas truce which was a not official truce. The truce occurred along the Western Front. The truce occurred during the Christmas of 1914. World War 1 had been going on for many months but the soldiers on both sides stepped out of their trenches. They walked across no mans land which is where they shook hands and agreed to have a truce so that any of the dead from either side could be buried. As well some of the soldiers also used the truce as a way to chat with each other. Some of them even

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    There are two major fronts in WWI. The Western Front and the Eastern Front. These two fronts were both alike in many ways and different in many ways. The Western Front was the region in France and the Eastern Front was a part of battlefield along the Russian and German border. It was a difficult thing to face war on two fronts‚ especially when both sides were hard to adapt and battle through on. For example‚ the Germans or Alfred Vin Schlieffen created a Schlieffen Plan ‚ which called for a

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    American Western Film Western films are truly an American genre. The Western genre is usually based on the American cowboy hero‚ and usually involves conflicts with things such as outlaws‚ bandits‚ Indians‚ and many other things. Other conflicts included in the Western genre include societal conflicts and problems during expansion or travel. Overall‚ all the elements and things such as cowboys‚ Indians‚ robberies‚ gunman‚ sheriffs‚ and other things make up the Western genre. Through several examples

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    Gallipoli was a 1981 fil produced by Peter Weir that shows that Gallipoli and the war in general was not as pleasant or fun as it was all cracked up to be‚ the film shows that even though some causes are worth giving a life for‚ some others are not worth it‚ the Gallipoli campaign was one of them‚ which was a short lived campaign and a fail‚ which resulted in the loss of many lives that could’ve been avoided. While the first thing I will explain isn’t directly related to the book‚ I will include

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    All Quiet on the Western Front Study Guide — Study and Discussion Guide Chapter 1 1. Where are the men “at rest”? Five miles behind the front 2. Why is there such an abundance of rations? Miscalculation – did not count on so much of a lose of life on the front. 3. Who is the narrator? How old is he? Paul Bäumer – 19 years old 4. Identify the following: A. Tjaden - skinny locksmith; biggest eater (19) B. Albert Kropp – clearest thinker; lance-corporal C. Muller G. Detering – smart; dreams

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    United States Marine Corps Professional Reading Program Written by: LCpl Rodriguez‚ Jazmin Submitted: 13 Feb 2013 1. Title: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT 2. Author: ERICH MARIA REMARQUE 3. Published: 1929 4. SUBJECT: This book is written by a German veteran of World War I‚ who describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental stress during the war‚ and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the frontlines.

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    Gallipoli Essay Gallipoli is a movie directed by Peter Weir that was released in 1981. It stars Mel Gibson as Frank Dunne and Mark Lee as Archie Hamilton. The film is about several young men from rural Western Australia (WA) who enlist for the Australian Army in May 1915‚ around the time that Australia first entered the great war. The film has three main settings and three main acts. Act one is set in WA‚ act two is set in Cairo‚ Egypt during the Australian Army training camps. And the third

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    World War 1 was a terrible and deplorable part of history. More than 38 million military and regular citizen losses happened amid this war which kept going from july 28th 1914 to November 11 in 1918. I find that life in the front lines were critical to how the war was played out "there had been overwhelming setbacks... Was involving line of trenches close by... Three feet high above water". In the letter from Skipper F.A.C. Scrimager you could see a portion of the conditions that the troopers

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