Haig’s strategic choice of a massive frontal attack was in furtherance of his notion of a “Big Push” that would break the trench war stalemate. The greatest artillery barrage the world had ever known preceded it. The 3‚000‚000 shells were supposed to destroy the German barbed wire so Allied troops could walk through virtually unmolested. That did not happen‚ and because Haig had no effective intelligence capability‚ the first to learn that truth were attacking troops who died by the thousands on
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Timeline of W.W.1 1914 1. Assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand: (June 28‚ 1914) the archduke visited Sarajevo to audit the armed forces. While travelling through Sarajevo in an open car a Serbian nationalist threw a bomb at their car which ended up bouncing off the car and injuring an officer. The archduke later visited that officer at the hospital where he later took off again‚ unfortunately‚ the driver took a wrong turn. Gavrilo Princip (Serbian nationalist) spotted him and took a shot
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WHY DID STALEMATE DEVELOP ON THE WESTERN FRONT IN 1914? By 1914‚ stalemate had developed on the Western Front‚ caused by the failure of the Schlieffen Plan‚ the French Plan 17 and the use of modern technology. Stalemate was inevitable due to these factors. The Schlieffen Plan was implemented by the German General Staff‚ who prepared German troops to attempt to attack France by advancing through neutral Belgium‚ before travelling southwards to encircle Paris. This plan was inflexible and unpredictable
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Explain why attempts to break the stalemate failed in the period 1914-1918. SOURCE 1: “That was a stupid action‚ because we had to make a frontal attack on bristling German guns and there was no shelter at all… There were dead bodies all over the place where previous battalions and regiments had taken part in previous attacks. What a bashing we got. There were heaps of men everywhere – not one or two men‚ but heaps of men‚ all dead. Even before went over‚ we knew this was death. We just couldn’t
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Augustus insisted on restoring temples‚reviving ancient Roman cults‚ reformed priesthoods‚ and even encouraged attendance of public religious festivals. His man focus was restoration of the relationship between God and Roman destiny. Not only did he make reformation towards religion but towards the restoration of traditional Roman virtues within the family structure. Marriage was being strongly encouraged and procreation to have large families were greatly rewarded by Augustus. He actually penalized
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The Immune Killer The influenza pandemic broke out in 1918 around the end of World War 1 and spread around the world reaching islands and villages. The virus infected anyone it could and killed millions of people. People say that since the virus targeted the immune system it was harder to treat and get antibiotics to help people. This article describes how it was just not the right time for a flu breakout due to getting over war and not having the cure for it. Weird enough people with the strongest
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Why did the Korean War break out? Reasons as to why war broke out in Korea can be debated due to the fact that a number of factors contributed towards the war. The viewpoint of North Korea starting the war can be seen as Kim ill sung had the intention of reuniting Korea under communism‚ however there was hostility within South Korea as Syngman Rhee also aimed to reunite Korea under his nationalist views. The two superpowers of the time can be seen as responsible for the outbreak of war because the
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One chilly night on March 5th‚ 1770 war broke out between the Patriots and the Loyalists. It occurred on King Street in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Before this event took place‚ the British had decided to tax the colonists for many manufactured items acquired through trade. This caused an outrage in the populace of Boston‚ mostly for the impoverished people. Ever since then‚ the colonists have been boycotting and protesting against these inequitable laws. Then on this day the Patriots and Loyalists were
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WHY DID WORLD WAR ONE BREAK OUT IN 1914? World War One or ‘The Great War’ as it became known ‚ started in late summer of 1914 and lasted until November 1918. It was the first long-lasting war that the world had experienced until then‚ as millions of people got killed. The factors that started the battle were numerous and are still being debated; Alliances‚ imperialism‚ the arms race‚ nationalism ‚ and miscalculations were some of them. However‚ at the end the war broke out because of
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unfavorable for the colonists because of his tyrannic dictatorship and unjustly taxations. The mere thought of an island ruling an entire continent thousands of miles away with poor communication and lack of supervision of the colonies by the king‚ did not work in favor of the colonies nor for Britain. Three contributing factors for the outbreak of the American Revolution were (1) the king’s taxes‚ (2) neglect of the 13 colonies and (3) England’s mercantilism policy. King George III and his decisions
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