HIST 1001 FATher ZEPS Section 102 date Revolution in weapons: initiated by machine guns and the trench warfare Europe remained in peace for the whole century after Napoleonic invasion in 1814 mainly due to balance of power and principle of intervention‚ proposed by Metternich during a congress in Vienna 1815. By the end of 19th century however‚ high pressure and drive for conflicts were accumulated around major European powers‚ mainly due to sense of nationalism and universally appealing theory
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The fighting of the western front was very interesting because it all happened through trenches this is called trench warfare. The trenches were shaped in a zigzag so that you can’t shoot straight done. the trenches are about 8 miles across these trenches are connected and so that they can move around. This war was nonmobile because they fought through. the battles
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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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In World War One the weapons that they used were machine guns‚ poison gas‚ and tanks. BOOM! BAM! The dreadful sounds of the dangerous guns in WW1. Those sounds are the scariest things anyone has ever heard! It was never different back then because when people heard those shots they were terrified. Most likely if you were out in the open you were the first to be killed. Then the houses‚ and more. The last place they would need to check is underground. It would take days even weeks to hunt down every
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World War 1 is the war that was fought in Europe and spanned for almost five years‚ toward the end of WW1 they considered as a part of the military staff that were influenced by the new progressions of innovation‚ more than 9 million individuals passed on from the definitive new strategies on both of these sides. One of the new items that was presented was the mustard gas. This kind of overwhelming weapon was equipped for spraying so as to execute anyone in a long meter range fuel in each heading
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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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Honors History DBQ World War 1 World War 1 or ‘The Great War’ was a conflict between the central and allied powers in 1914-1918. It took place mainly in Europe and Italy but was later expanded into France‚ Germany‚ and the South of Turkey. The causes of World War 1 are still debatable today. However‚ some points of the War are more important to note than others. Likewise‚ not only did the Serbians assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ but the development of militarism also proves to be a main
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History Essay There were few valid reasons for the start of WW1. The reasons I am about to explain to you are IMPERIALISM‚ MILITARISM and ALLIANCES. WW1 started because the greed of other countries. Imperialism started to be a big factor in 1848 because a new‚ very big and very strong country called Germany was made. It was made up of Prussia‚ Oldenburg‚ Schaunburg-Lippe‚ Mecklenburg-sterhitz‚ Hessen‚ Hohenzollern and Waldeck. A few days after they became Germany‚ they attacked France
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alliance composed of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and Italy. The second association was made up by France‚ Great Britain‚ and Russia and were known as the Triple entente. These alliances may have been one cause of the outbreak of WW1. Therefore the underlying causes of WW1 were militarism‚ alliances‚ and imperialism. Militarism is defined as “a belief or desire that a government or people should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively.” In the London times History
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