weapons. “Lions led by donkeys.” Submarines made it possible to destroy the enemy‚ without actually endangering yourself. Trenches meant unsanitary conditions‚ where diseases flourished‚ and so many died of disease if they did not die in the trenches‚ like the Spanish flue‚ typhus etc. The British were used to having an advantage of numbers (slaves mainly) but these proved useless when the tanks ‘got in the game’. Armistice 11th of November 1918 THE COST OF WW1 TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE
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untrue but a brilliant way for the British government to make people hate the Germans even more. German Newspaper headlines -English soldiers put plague germs in German wells. -German prisoners blinded by their Allied Captors. Women during WW1 While the men were fighting someone had to do their jobs so this usually fell to the women. Some of the jobs they were given were; nurses‚ working in munitions factories (which often turned their hair and skin yellow due to the chemicals)‚ in public
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Ceremonies. Battles like the Battle of the Somme deserve more recognition and this essay will give an overview of why. Australia’s transformation from the war‚ the soldiers experiences‚ the impact on the soldiers and their families‚ how the Anzac legend is carried on as well as how the army has changed are all things that this essay will
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WHAT IS FILIPINO NATIONALISM? - Mrs. Leticia R. Constantino Nationalism has had a long history in our country. In our struggle for freedom‚ there have been periods when strong nationalist feelings fired our people to action and other periods when nationalism seemed to be forgotten. Not only did nationalism as a sentiment have its peaks and valleys‚ nationalism as a political concept has been espoused at one time or another by different sectors of society which projected particular nationalist
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Valdeir Faria – Filho Prof. Behrooz HIST 644 – Proseminar 11/25/12 Palestinian Nationalism: Hypocrisy‚ Racism‚ and Favoritism shaping Palestine’s future. In order to understand current Palestinian Nationalism (PN) there must be an understanding of the emergence of PN. It is a common belief that Zionism is the main factor for the emergence of PN. A faulty belief originated by ill-read commentators and misinformed TV programs. PN has its roots stemming from three different sources‚ British
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http://www.compoundchem.com/2014/05/17/chemical-warfare-ww1/ 4. Weapons of War- Tanks‚ Michael Duffy‚ Accessed September 21 2014‚ http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/tanks.htm 5. Weapons of War- Poison Gas‚ Michael Duffy‚ Accessed September 21‚ 2014 http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/gas.htm 6. Naomi Pasachoff. Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 1996. 7. Inventions That Flourished Thanks to WW1‚ Accessed September 21 2014 http://www.warhistoryonline
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battle. Therefore Germany assumed the leadership position of the Central Powers. Germany continually brought havoc onto itself and its allies by making poor decisions throughout the First World War. The most significant decisions made by Germany that led to the defeat of the Central Powers were bringing unwanted countries into the war and continuing to fight on nothing. A set of poor‚ yet significant decisions Germany made during World War I brought unwanted countries into the war. The first poor
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Chapter 3 Nationalism in India Nationalism It involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms‚ i.e.‚ a nation. Modern nationalism was associated with the formation of nation-states. In India‚ as in many other colonies‚ the growth of nationalism is connected to the anti-colonial movement under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. The First World War‚ Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement The war played an important role in
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existing and other times it was an illusion. The fear of domination rose from the presence of a majority of what they labelled as undeveloped indigenous races all which were non-white (Wilson and Thompson‚ 365). With this fear rose nationalism. Afrikaner nationalism is a political ideology that was born in the late 19th century around the idea that Afrikaners in South Africa were a chosen people. It was also influenced by anti-British sentiments that grew among Afrikaners especially because of the
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Eritrea; A Dream Deferred Introduction Eritrean nationalism is a very young emotion. It was conceived in the 1940’s following the Italian colonial era‚ founded on the peoplespeople’s shared anti-colonial sentiment. This unifying emotion manifested itself in 1941 to an Eritrean nationalist movement through an anti-colonial coalition. It began with the dream of “a country of one’s own”; one which looked to reverse its people’s history of entrapment‚ isolation
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