had good business. When Haig was younger he went to a good school and in 1884 went to Royal Military Academy at Sand Hurst. He first served as a Calvary Commander; however this experience was not useful in the battle of Somme because it was trench warfare which was a new kind of war so he couldn’t use the same tactics. He was also a celebrated commander of the Boer war‚ but the Africans were weaker and were poorer equipped. The Battle of Somme started in July 1st 1916. It was planned as a joint
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"gas" (actually an aerosol or vapor) was used effectively on numerous occasions by both sides to alter the outcome of battles. A significant number of battlefield casualties were sustained. The Geneva Protocol‚ prohibiting use of chemical weapons in warfare‚ was signed in 1925. Several nations‚ the United States included‚ signed with a reservation forswearing only the first use of the weapons and reserved the right to retaliate in kind if chemical weapons were used against them (the United States did
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In the final year of World War Two‚ the Allies prepared for what was anticipated to be a very costly and devastating invasion of the Japanese mainland. This was preceded by a U.S. firebombing campaign that destroyed 67 Japanese cities and the Battle of Okinawa‚ wherein almost 100‚000 civilians died. Having developed the world’s first nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project‚ the US Government made the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan. On August 6‚ 1945‚ the United States dropped the first
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History Prep 2/4/15 Why did the Western Front end up in a stalemate between 1915 and 1917? In August 1914 after the murder in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand of Austria‚ 2 main alliances set off to war. 2 of the nations of the Triple Alliance‚ Austria and Germany went to war against the Triple Entente‚ Britain‚ France and Russia. In this essay‚ we will focus on the development of the events on The Western Front where Germany faced France. All the powers had thought and planned their war strategy
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soldiers retreating back in to Paris ii. Damaged the German troops in number d. Resistance from Belgium i. Leading Britain in to the war ii. German delay ( food supply) e. New technology favoured the defensive side. The nature of trench warfare and life in the trenches dealing with experiences of both allied and German soldiers. The Germans retreated back to Aisne‚ choose the most advantageous position a. permanent trenches protect by barbed wires‚ mines and sandbags German fortifications
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War on the Western Front * THE REASONS FOR THE STALEMATE ON THE WESTERN FRONT * War began August 14th * Both sides thought it would be a rapid war‚ ‘all over by Christmas’ and that their side would be victorious -> views were unrealistic Schlieffen Plan * Based on the idea that Germany would eventually have to fight France and Russia but should avoid fighting both at once * France would expect Germany to invade from the east‚ so would not be prepared for an invasion
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kilometer-square complex in the city of Harbin (now part of Northeast China) those behind the sickening ‘research’ developed some of the most cruel and sadistic experiments ever to be conducted on human victims. These included vivisection‚ amputations‚ germ warfare tests‚ explosive weapons testing‚ and much more. Sheldon H. Harris‚ one of the foremost historians on Unit 731‚ explained in a History Channel documentary how the people tortured and killed were treated as objects: “These scientists had a weird sense
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with dead bodies; their faces concealed with primitive gas masks. It was one of the only conflicts where the tactics failed to keep up with technology and‚ as a result‚ had a devastating effect on human life. The elements of WWI including chemical warfare and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are illustrated in Ernest Hemingway ’s "Soldier ’s Home". Soldiers were exposed too much during the war‚ but chemical weapons were most likely the most horrifying and remembered. Despite the Hague Convention
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fission device‚ and they can be dropped from an airplane‚ fired from an artillery gun‚ or attached to various types of rockets. N uclear Weapons are waste of space that cause too much pain. Nuclear weapons are inhumane; they should not be used in warfare‚ or at any other time. The damage they cause is irreversible‚ and the pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons is inexcusable. When a nuclear weapon is dropped‚ everything is destroyed‚ and the radiation left over makes the place uninhabitable
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a useful method and killed a lot of people. Source C has informed me about the use of gas attacks in the trenches in 1917 and it also gives me evidence of other key information about trench warfare in world war one. All though it only shows me the German trench‚ I can still predict that British trench warfare is similar and therefore it is a useful source. Source a shows a British trench in July 1916‚ during the battle of the Somme. From the source‚ I can interpret that the soldiers are wearing
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