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Whereas source B’s author isn’t valuable as the industrialists weren’t the majority compared to the more working class which were the real reason as to why he got into power as he appealed to them more due to them being the majority of his voters. Source A’s date is limited as it’s well after he had came and gone, and so his reflection on how Hitler came into power may not be as clear. Whereas Source B’s date is more valuable as it’s in 1932, a year before he came into power, so this was in the run up to him being voted in, and so they knew how Hitler perceived himself to be able to make his way into power. Source A’s audience is limited as it was at the war trials where people were sentenced to death if they had involvement with the Nazis and Hitler and so this wouldn’t have shown how he got into power. Whereas Source B’s audience is valuable as it is the industrialists which were apart of those who voted for Hitler, despite them not being the majority. Source A’s nature is limited as it’s adapted from an account and so isn’t truly what it read in the first place. This is the same for Source B, apart from that it was adapted from a letter instead of an account, making them both limited in this respect. Source A’s emphasis is valuable as it’s tone is factual and so is able to provide lots of evidence into how Hitler came into power. Source B’s emphasis is limited as it’s

Overtime one change in the home front in britain throughout the war was recruitment. At first many joined, this was because of their attitude towards the war, they thought it would be over by Christmas and Britain would easily win, they also thought it would be an adventure, this lead to many young people to recruit themselves early on in the war. This is seen in source D as through 1914 and 1915 the brown family were happy to see these young boys join the war. They had happy attitudes towards it and thought it was the right thing for the country.

Come 1918, Germany knew they needed a big push for the win. Their supplies were rapidly depleting as all efforts to thwart the continuation of Britain’s blockade via “unrestricted submarine warfare” were unsuccessful. American troops were being shipped in, albeit slowly, and Germany

In 1915, the United States was challenged again, as Germany kept using submarine warfare on

Source 1 was written by a German businessman, Hans Klamroth, who accepted the new Rentenmark introduced by Streseman in 1924. Here he is writing in his diary and explaining how business was slowly improving, ten years after the war, Germany's economic situation was improving. He is writing this during the time so it has a high amount of value as he is experiencing Germany's economic progress first hand. The source is highly personalised and highly generalised: it reads well but it is essentially just one man's experience of the improving Weimar Republic.

Germany has been playing some dangerous games in this war. They went through Belgium's neutrality to attack their enemy. Then use unrestricted submarine warfare to blow up ships. They attacked the Lusitania and killed over 100 Americans. Germany tried to get Mexico to attack us by sending a telegram, promising them to give their land back when they win. Our British allies got the message. President Wilson was the one who declared neutrality at the beginning of the war. This zimmerman not was the final straw for President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany and joined the Allied Powers.

Cooks explores the many ways underage boys were able to join the army, some as young as fourteen. Many when enlisting lied about their age and since a birth certificate was not necessary for recruitment age restrictions placed by the government were hard to enforce. Some boys were honest about their age and consequently were told to “run around the block, think over their age and come back again” (p. 189) resulting in the creation of a more appropriate age. If a young man was turned away at recruitment, they simply had to walk to the next town until they were accepted or show up at the same recruitment facility but a different day. If a boy was sent back from the war after other discovered their actual age, sometimes through letters from home,

Come April of 1917 Germany had a renewal of their unrestricted submarine warfare which led directly to the American entry into the World War. Because of the location of where the war was

France and England were dominant countries, not only in Europe, but around the world as well. Germany, on the other hand, was not quite a world power like France and Britain. Germany, like Britain and France, wanted to be as powerful, if not more, not only in Europe, but throughout the world. This tension and pressure of European and world power was building between these rival countries before 1914. Germany was in competition with France and Britain for several decades leading up to World War I. Both Germany and France would more than double the size of their armies and, at the same time, compete for spreading their ideals and beliefs in Europe and throughout the world. Germany also competed with Britain by similarly wanting to spread their ideals and beliefs in Europe and throughout the world. Britain possessed the largest and most powerful navy in the world at this time. Not to be outdone, Germany looked to build its own navy to be a mighty and powerful as

There have been little-known facts about children being sent to war under 15 until now (during World War II). Most theories suggest that children are sent to war in order to save their country or when there are fewer adults to fight. The conclusion is that when it comes to losing most people, the situation of that person’s life is more important than previously thought.

While recruiting men to fight in World War I, the British Army appealed to ideals of masculinity, bravery, patriotism and nationalism. This form of propaganda was intended to shape the public’s views, and shape their decisions to revolve around political, gender, and social identity. Thousands of young British men like Siegfried Sassoon went into World War I with this idealism. The bloodshed found there came as a tremendous shock, as the war was unlike the image portrayed; the modern war was different and horrifying. It was during the First World War that literature from these soldiers was developed as a result of the increase in education levels amongst the British soldiers and public in the years

Additionally, in the novel, Both Brittain’s fiancé Roland and her brother Edward postpone their studies at Oxford University in order to enlist in the war.  Like Vera, Roland and Edward enlistment in the war seems directly affected by this recruitment of men into the armed forces.  Many of the propaganda produced the targeted men were embedded with ideas about responsibility, protection, shame. For instance, Savile Lumley's famous poster of 1915 portrayed two young children asking their father about his military involvement after the war: ‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?’ (Welch 2013). Savile Lumley’s poster and others like it, blackmailed fathers and made people feel shame if they were not actively involved in the war.  In the novel,

One of the main causes of World War I was the Anglo-German naval race. Britain, as an island empire, always had the navy as one of her top priorities. A key event in Britain’s naval expansion was the 1889 “Naval Defense Act” that established the "two power standard": Britain considered necessary to have a navy that was not only the largest in the world, but also equal to or greater than the sum of the world's second and third largest navies. On the other side of the channel, also Germany saw naval expansion vital and as the only way to succeed in the acquisition of overseas colony; therefore, the “official” aim of Germany’s naval expansion was to reinforce their

The British blockade was a key factor in the defeat of Germany. Starved of supplies, the German army was weakened and the German people lost some of

First of all, the British blockade was a big factor that caused Germany’s defeat. British had been blockading German posts since 1914, it prevented Germany to get supplies. The British blockade strangled German industry, and reduced German trade from $5.9 million decreased to $0.8 million. Germany was forced to kill one-third of all pigs since there’s no fodder, and 300,000 deaths for lacking of nutrition. The naval blockade cut off imports and supplies of nitrates, which was an important resource for explosives for army(Effect 45). The lack of