Machine Guns were very successful weapons that were used throughout WWI. They would be set up on front line trenches and were able to fire over 150 rounds a minute and was able to sweep the landscape whilst still firing. This added excellent and accurate fire power against the enemy. Machine Guns were responsible for the deaths of thousands of soldiers
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Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden to train and recruit an army for overseas service. At the time‚ Canada had a regular army of only 3‚112 men and a fledgling navy.[1] However‚ within a mere two months‚ Canada could boast of an army of over 32‚000 men as men flocked to recruiting stations. Most of the militia trained at CFB Valcartier‚ just north of Quebec City and within two months the First Contingent‚ Canadian Expeditionary Force‚ was on its way to England in the largest convoy ever to cross the
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Joey Padon Juana Collegio 2-28-13 Hell Where Youth and Laughter Go During WWI‚ many citizens were oblivious of the war and its imminent consequences. War poems and literature were the only effective methods to remove the distance and reveal the some of the truth. Siegfried Sassoon wrote “suicide in the trenches” as an anti war poem in the 20th century. Sassoon creates a dark atmosphere for the loss of innocence taken place during WWI in “Suicide in the Trenches” using a three-part structure
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got the wire cut we were in the trenches of the enemy seeing that they had the same scenery as us. Our group found some maps and damaged some of their supplies‚ but there a German heard us and we had to start the far run for our lives back to the front line trenches. As we ran bullets were flying past us bombs were exploding all around us. I jumped in to our trench and then looked back to see the other 7 follow behind me‚ but 3 of them got shot 50 yards from me and one was hit with a bomb 100 yards
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meant that time was of the essence to Germany. When war broke out Germany wanted to make sure that they would not be fighting a war on to fronts so capturing Paris was the goal of the plan. When the Schlieffen plan was put into action‚ 90% of the German army was sent to capture France leaving only the German Eighth Army to contain any Russian threat on the Eastern Front. Germany believed that Russia would take at least six weeks to mobilise and in that time Paris would have been successfully captured
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amount of people hurt. He didn’t care because I he did he would have made different tactics. Haig also never visited the front line but instead presumed it would have been like old war. This is shown in the quote from Haig in 1916‚ ‘The machine gun is a much overrated weapon.’ Haig said this because he had never actually seen one in action‚ showing that he had never even gone to the front line to see what he men were doing and how they were dying but instead didn’t care. This proves that Haig did deserve
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thousands‚ as many of our citizens felt obligated to help the motherland. By 1919 a total of six hundred thousand Canadian men and woman participated in the war effort as nurses‚ soldiers and chaplains‚ this number does not include the people on the home front who contributed to the war effort. 3 Canada’s first great mark on World War I was at the second battle of Ypres. The 1st Canadian division moved to reinforce the British and allied lines. In April of 1915‚ the Germans unleashed canisters of poison
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that the Allies could use this low morale and go across Flanders without much trouble. b. British were afraid that the Russians were going to pull out soon so they had to attack soon before the German forces only had to focus on the western front c. Aim of the campaign was destruction of German submarine bases on the Belgian coast 2) Key Events/Battle Strategy: a. July 18th 1917: a ten day long artillery barrage was launched at the German lines. i. This
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