conscripted replacements. What began as a rapid war of movement soon settled down to static trench warfare and became a brutal war of attrition. Both the Germans and the French and British began digging trenches to stay alive. Eventually parallel trench systems stretched from the Swiss border to the English Channel. There were about 40‚000 kilometers of trenches on the Western Front alone. And so Trench warfare became the biggest part of World War 1... Conditions in the Trenches The condition of the
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The Liberals’ policy towards State Control before the First World War was ‘laissez faire’‚ a policy of the government having a very limited impact on life in the country. However‚ the First World War forced them to scrap this policy and increase the restrictions placed on civilians in order to successfully fight the war. They did this in a number of ways‚ and this answer will include: Conscription‚ Censorship‚ restrictions on women and food rationing. It will be argued that the most extensive increase
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Women’s Role in WW1 A typical day for women: Wake up‚ cook‚ feed children‚ clean‚ teach children‚ clean‚ cook‚ sleep‚ while their husbands were off at work making money to support his and his wife ’s family. That all changed once World War One started and the men were conscripted into the war leaving‚ the wife ’s at home to do all of their normal tasks‚ as well as what the men used to do; providing for the family. Women‚ who previously worked in domestic service‚ were encouraged to take on jobs
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Describe the nature of trench warfare and outline the life in the trenches for the soldiers. The characteristics of trench warfare are that it was a static war due to the impregnability of a side’s frontline once trenches were dug. Within these trenches‚ soldiers lived and often died in conditions that began as horrendous‚ but as the war progressed the trenches developed into a comfortable living space. Often the soldiers were not alone as they lived alongside large rats and lice. For the soldiers
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Medieval European Warfare Weapons In early to mid Medieval Europe‚ the armies had nothing very complicated. The nobles had solid iron weapons‚ and the not as rich had brass coated in iron. There was the lance‚ the spear‚ the pike‚ throwing axe‚ battle axe‚ short sword‚ the horsebow‚ the longsword‚ broadsword‚ dagger‚ shortbow‚ longbow‚ crossbow‚ mallet‚ mace‚ greatsword‚ serrated sword‚ halberd‚ throwing knives‚ and the wrist knife. The lance‚ dagger‚ longsword‚ and horse bow were generally used
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nine-teen century WW1 broke out with a serious disease called Trench Foot‚ was more common to encounter within soldiers than any other disease. This disease was caused by a combination of wet feet with lacerations which allowed infections to worsten within the insanitary conditions. This effected the men who stood for hours in waterlogged trenches without being able to remove wet socks or boots. Trenches were dug often at or near sea level. Conditions made it easier to get Trench Foot with the common
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they created more powerful weapons‚ like tanks‚ machineguns‚ airplanes‚ landmines‚ and poison gas. There wasn’t any war like this before‚ this was now called trench warfare. But it went much farther then that the Germans created U-boats which threatened freedom of the seas‚ sunk battleships‚ and supply ships. There was a stalemate in the trench ware for 4 years‚ eventually in 1918 Russia suffered through a communist revolution so they decided to sign a document called the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which
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“A brief history of chemical warfare” By Harold Maass For more than 2‚000 years. As early as 600 B.C.‚ the Athenians poisoned the wells of the Spartans‚ who later tried lobbing burning sulfur pitch over the walls of Athens‚ hoping to fill the city with toxic smoke. Genghis Khan used that same trick‚ catapulting burning sulfur pitch during his siege of fortified cities around A.D. 1200. Over the centuries‚ various armies put poisons on arrows and in bullets to make them more lethal. But it wasn’t
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Cyber Warfare: The New Battlefield What is Cyber Warfare? During the summer of 2010‚ the US and Israel bilaterally conducted an attack on Iran. It was not‚ however‚ a deadly air strike or a special operations task force‚ but a cyber attack. The file or‚ worm‚ was named Stuxnet and is known today as the first cyber attack led in partnership by the United States (Sanger; “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power‚”). As the world has become more reliant on
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Trench Life As no one expected the war to last as long as it did‚ the first trenches were hurriedly made. They were holes in the ground dug by soldiers to protect themselves from the enemy. These constructions were hastily made and often flooded and collapsed. As the front line movement began to slow down these trenches became deeper and more sophisticated. Trench construction was difficult. It took nearly six hours for 450 men to construct 250 metres of trenches. After the initial trenches were
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