Q8. In my opinion‚ I believe that it is fair to say that neither side had won the battles of Somme or Verdun. In other words‚ there was so much bloodshed and lives lost that there was no real winner. Both sides sustained major casualties and loss of supplies. The amount of death is something that we as humans can not even begin to fathom. The worst part about it‚ nothing was gained in the process of these battles. There was such a tremendous and horrific amount of loss that there was no possible
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So it’s my first day on the battlefield it’s September 16 1916. Yesterday was the first day that the British and French used their tanks they are slow but can take somewhat of a beating and do some major damage to the germans. Well i could not finish yesterday’s entry we had to take cover because the germans started to bombard us with artillery fire and we lost about 30 people in about two minutes and we found their body covered in rats this morning. So today we are going to use the tanks and artillery
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Joyeux Noel is a historical fiction that captures the Great War ceasefire on Christmas‚ this event pushed the boundaries of war and nationalism. On Christmas Eve 1914 a Presbyterian Mass the held on the night of the cease fire‚ it was given to everyone Scots‚ Germans‚ French they all climbing out of their trenches and sang Christmas song. Palmer the Scottish clergyman who gave the Mass said “I sincerely believe that Our Lord Jesus Christ guided me in the most important Mass of my life.” At that
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Regeneration by Pat Barker‚ is an attempt to illustrate the lasting psychological effects the helplessness and terror of no man’s land had on survivors of the First Great War. Rather than focusing on the battlefields of World War I‚ Barker sets Regeneration in Craiglockhart hospital‚ a real hospital treating soldiers for war neurosis during the period dramatised in the novel. Regeneration revolves around Capt. Siegfried Sassoon’s (Dec.) protest of the war (an historic event)‚ and Dr. W.H.R. Rivers’
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Horrors Of World War 1 War is a horrible phenomenon‚ war is caused by conflict which usually turns into death. All Quiet On The Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” both have many instances of Horrors Of War including what happened in the trenches with the rats and the Mustard Gas that was spread out in World War 1. In World War 1 soldiers would throw grenades full of Mustard Gas and threw the grenade across the enemy lines. During the war people would scream “GAS! Gas! Quick‚ boys!--An ecstasy
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British Air Warfare The use of the airplanes changed greatly during WWI. People started to realize that they could be used not only for entertainment and sports but also in wars as powerful weapons. Air warfare was all about planning and looking at the few key factors of the flight and looking at the opponent’s weakness. Strategories and tactics‚ civilian population‚ Development of Aircraft and lastly weather were key factors in the development and expansion of Air Warfare. The British Air Force
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facet of war that could be considered most detrimental chemical warfare. "Chemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill‚ injure or incapacitate the enemy" (Chemical Warfare). But not only does it leave its mark on society and the people of the world‚ chemical warfare can destroy the unique qualities of nature as well. The practice of chemical warfare dates back to 1000 B.C and is still used today (Smart). Its impact
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Factors and Motivations That Influence Biological Warfare Maham Ahmed November 11th‚ 2010 Modern World History Katie Ehrlich Many troops during the years of World War I met their demise in what is arguable the most terrifying and inhumane of all military tactics - biological warfare. Soldiers inhaled a deadly acidic gas that burned them from the inside out‚ suffocating them in an excruciating and unimaginable pain. Kurth Audrey‚ a professor of strategy at the U.S. National War College in
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World War I Chemical Warfare On April the 22‚ 1915 at the start of the Second Battle of the Ypres‚ the first poison gas attack and the first use of chlorine gas in a battlefield started‚ even though the Hague declaration and Convention forbade the use of poison weapons in the warfare. The Germans attacked France with the chlorine gas‚ but the French were not prepared at all for this attack. The effects of the chlorine gas to the soldiers was very severe; within seconds it destroyed their respiratory
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The end of the cold war‚ and later the collapse of Soviet Union‚ triggered the new type of warfare‚ labeled as “hybrid war”. Conducted by the Russia‚ mostly in eastern European countries. For the Russia‚ as a main inheritor of the Soviet Union‚ hybrid warfare is a geopolitical approach. The objective is to have a high leverage on former Soviet nation’s political decisions. The hybrid warfare as a strategy‚ orchestrates the military and nonmilitary systems‚ seeks to operate in multiple domains‚ to
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