Beware: World War I

World War One, also known as the Great War, broke out across the world in August of 1914. European leaders expected it to be a short war, assuring their citizens that a resolution would occur before the start of the New Year (Stokstad). Those leaders could not have been any more wrong, because World War One lasted until November 11, 1918. The war goes down as one of the most destructive wars in all of history. An estimated ten million people lost their lives due to war efforts such as trench warfare and overall technological advances in weaponry. Because of the duration of the war, countries endorsed food rations and propaganda attacks on ordinary citizens to manage the war effort (web). The point is that the war was brutal on all people,

At the precipice of World War I (WWI), the United States Army enlisted the help of women nurses resulting in a growth of economic opportunities for women in the nursing field. Before the war women were confined to their stereotype of a being delicate, motherly, and fragile. The war served as an opportunity for women, including nurses, to prove themselves to be more than their stereotype and be involved in the community rather than always sitting behind a man. Propaganda encouraged women to be more involved in the war and soon the concept feminism was reinvented. Female nurses, however, were still struggling to change the minds of people against women taking an active role in society or the military. Nursing had always played an important

World War I the first of its kind would mark an entire generation; could what today is known as the lost generation have been avoidable or was President Woodrow Wilson just prolonging the inevitable by his neutrality. The following will guide you through a brief outline of the WWI and how one man 's justifications sent an entire nation to war.

The carnage of world war one was the result of the clash between new technologies, but old strategies. Blitzkrieg warfare would be the first form of modern military tactics for it fully utilizes the technological advancements of that time. The term “Blitzkrieg” was not invented by the Germans, but by an English magazine that described the invasion of Poland (Showalter). While many accredit the invention of Blitzkrieg warfare to Heinz Guderian, Germany's Chief of Mobile Troops during WWII, it was actually invented far before that. In fact, it was developed right after WWI after seeing the devastating effects of trench warfare(Showalter). Ironically, the basis of Blitzkrieg warfare was also laid by German Field Marshall Alfred von Schlieffen of the famous Schlieffen plan of WWI(Showalter). The basic essence of Blitzkrieg warfare was built upon the belief that Germany was always going to be out resourced and out numbered in every war and thus in order to win it, the Germans must strike hard and fast and penetrate deep behind enemy lines(Showalter). Thus, Blitzkrieg warfare was the most effective military tactic of its time because it utilized all of the technology of its time, it not only utilized physical warfare, but also psychological warfare, and because Germany’s opponents were not prepared for this kind of warfare.

Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw “succeeds in its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head” (Gladwell xv). I believe this book is brilliant in that it describes issues and ideas in our subconscious mind and brings those to the surface. In each story in this novel, Gladwell integrates himself into different communities in order to show readers the world through someone else’s eyes. Therefore, causing readers to think again, think differently, and eventually take away broader lessons from these stories.

During World War I, there were two main powers fighting against each other, the allied powers and the central. The allied powers consisted of; France, Britain, Russia, Italy, and the United States. The central powers consisted of; Germany, Austria- Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. The war all started because new Germany wanted to become a global power, but Britain was ahead already, and there couldn’t be two global powers at once. Both Germany and Britain saw war as an opportunity; to countries, war could have been a positive thing.

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Music is a way of uttering how one feels through melody. For many centuries people have listened to music to fit the tone. Even in World War One, when many were being killed, there was music written about the war. In 1914 the great war began, many creating and recreating songs to fit the war time. Many made songs to reveal the connection of the to nature and people of that time, These songs would include “I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now,” “Oh Moon On a Summer Night (Tell My Mother Her Boys All Right),” “When Yankee Doodle Learns To Parlez Vous Francais,” and “Throw No Stones In The Well That Gives You Water.” and many more. Find out more detailed and analyzations of these songs in the following paragraphs.

Retired venture capitalist Gregg Bemis owns the salvage rights to the Lusitania — and he thinks he can solve the 100-year-old mystery of why it sank so quickly. His biggest obstacle: The Irish government, which has fought him for years over his plans to explore the wreck.

Would you believe me if I said that WW1, the most horrific war humans have ever fought, started because of two bullets? No? That’s fine, however on June 28th 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife Sophie were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. This event brought forth a wave confused, and frantic actions all over Europe. Alliances were forged between the great powers of the day, all the ways to peace were missed, and within a month over a million soldiers would die in a hellfire of unimaginable proportion. The Great War was caused by two bullets, here’s how it all

“World War I [1914-1918] brought about many significant changes in the aviation field. At the start of World War One, aircraft were very basic and crude. By the time World War One had ended, aircraft had become far more sophisticated and had differentiated into fighters, bombers and long-range bombers. The development of aircraft was stimulated by the war’s requirements, as was the way aircraft were actually used” (“Aircraft and World War One”). At the start of the war, aircraft was thought to be an insignificant asset. Because of this, planes were typically only used for monitoring, rather than attacking the enemy, as well as the world’s first ever aerial photography. If ever enemy aircraft came in contact, by chance, the encounter was typically crude due to lack of training, but deadly.

World War I left an acrimonious taste across the world. One would say it was the biggest gaffe to have ever been made. World War I brings with it the loss of millions of precious lives and much devastation that follow; to this day it is believe that everything bad that happen in the world is a consequence of World War I.

When reading chapter 101 of the novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, the main

There is no doubt that World War I, beginning in 1914 was the most important war of modern times because it if the foundation for so many conflict to come in the 20th century. The Great War is responsible for World War II, its predecessors, and wars that followed the Nazi regime. However, it not only affected the world on a militaristic level, but it eternally impacted policy, economics and society as a whole. The war stemmed from long-term competition in regard to trade, colonies, allies, and arms. Especially between the two main alliances, the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy and the Triple Entente made up of Great Britain, France and Russia. Short-term instigators of the war include the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne by the Serbian terrorist group the Black Hand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. Murdering Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife resulted in the German declaration of war on August 1 and many of the great world powers in outrage. Uniting the world with a war will inevitably lead to a radical change in society but there are some unique elements understand how it came to be known as “the great seminal catastrophe of the century.”

Another area of knowing that the trade-off between simplicity and accuracy can be examined is history. History is the past that we cannot directly observe because it is taught as a collection of facts. To be accurate about history, you must learn the depth and the details and it is impossible to know history to the most accuracy because we only encounter collected facts that is written in records and when this is the case, there is no correlation between accuracy and simplicity. For example, I remember learning about the First World War I in elementary school but then when I got to high school, the event becomes more complicated considering that history is subjective. To know and understand the First World War I, I must first know the possible