How Does Warfare Effect People's Life?

The Allies endeavoured to damage German morale enough so that the troops did not want to fight against the Allies, and a future possible uprising against the Nazi Party. But to a large extent, this did not occur. This point deserves greater emphasis because it would beneficially alter the future for Germany and as Stalin said, ‘the only way to break German morale is by bombing.’ One main aspect of harm caused to morale is due to a distraught civilian population. In March alone 1942, there were 305,000 deaths, 1.8million homes destroyed and 20 million deprived of basic utilities from raids at Nuremberg, Lubeck, Augsburg and Munich. February 1943 saw the damaging bombing of Dresden whereby buildings were obliterated and over 150,000 civilians were killed. Likewise, on the 27th July 1943, Hamburg was bombed killing women, children and leaving 30,000 people for dead. People’s lives were forever changed, 5 million people were evacuated in 1942, water supplies were ruined when the allies dropped ‘dam-busters’ and many restaurants and services were closed. Despite greatly impacting the population, people continued to fight the war and get revenge on the Allies for what they caused which shows that the aim of disillusioning people from fighting for Germany. The mentality of the generals changed when 23% of the Luftwaffe

Between 1914 and 1918, over nine million soldiers and five civilians were killed and seven million men disabled permanently (Mintz). This tragic phenomenon is known as World War I. Leaving the world with $186 billion direct costs and $251 billion indirect costs, this World War is known to be the most expensive war in history (Mintz). These four years also impacted the civilians not involved in the war severely. Women were given a chance to have a job in the workforce, children had to work in order to feed themselves, and an influenza epidemic was brought into communities (Mintz and Wotherspoon). World War I soon turned into a “group effort”; it turned into a Total War. Initially starting off as an encouraging and positive experience, World War I eventually turned into a brutal, selfish, and chaotic battle, and left millions of

World War II was the last total war in American history, meaning that it was the last war in which the United States mobilized all of its resources, civilian and military towards winning a war. Because of this, World War II affected civilians on the homefront more than any since. It is a worthy endeavor to analyze the primary documents from civilians of the time to get a better understanding of their perspective.

The psychologist Sigmund Freud once said, “Because every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.” He initially stated this when he was corresponding with Albert Einstein via letter. This quote is also a great explanation of the events that take place during war that people chose to not recognise. War is terrible, and no matter how hard we try, nothing will change that. Erich Maria Remarque shows us that soldiers have endured dreadfully throughout World War I in his book “All Quiet on the Western Front”. The character in the book, Paul Baumer, endures through the tragedies of war with some of his old schoolmates as well as new comrades that he meets along the way. They survive through all of the tragedies together, but in the end, the war made them lose their friendships as well as their lives. The reality is that war comes with consequences while it destroys people, and there is nothing that will ever be able to change that. The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” shows how war comes destroys people's lives with its consequences through three of its themes: the importance of comradery, the loss of innocence, and the horrors and brutality of war.

War causes death, poverty, diseases, destruction, and many more devastating and unavoidable consequences. The government drafted men into military service, giving them no choice but to separate them from their daily lives, friends, and families. Soldiers fight in wars while putting their lives on the line and are only rewarded with physical or psychological injuries. Countries wage war against one another in order to resolve disputes and disagreements between them. Individuals, such as nurses, soldiers, and civilians undergo traumatic events when they are caught in the middle of a war. Although some may argue that war does not impact the self the most, based on the informational text, “War Escalates” by Paul Boye, the short story, “Where

From 1939 through 1941 millions were faced with the violence and devastation of World War II. Life on the Homefront in the United States and Great Britain was difficult and overwhelming.World War II was one of the most bloody battles in history, and most of whom were civilians.In this paper, we will explore what life is like for people during a terrifying war.

In Susan Grayzel’s *The First World War: A Brief History with Documents is a collection of different reports and accounts of experiences of civilians throughout World War One. Grayzel successfully creates a narrative that focuses on the most important and shocking accounts that civilians experienced. In chapter 27, Berlin Police Reports filed on February 17 and October 17, 1915 describe riots for potatoes and the destruction of butter shops. “Women had their possessions ripped from them and children were trampled on the ground as they pleaded for help… Women who got away from the crowds with some ten pounds of potatoes each were bathed in sweat and dropped to their knees from exhaustion before they could continue home.” (Grayzel 94) This expert illustrates how dire the situation was for the people of Germany, women were risking their lives and their children for

Throughout the centuries of time, war has affected everyone. this truth is evident in Tim O' Brian's "The Things They Carried". however even to this day war affects more than the soldiers and their families, war affects t civilians that are caught in the crossfire. Many children and families are killed or wounded. children are left as orphans expected to fend for themselves. this is depicted in both the articles and the book.

I knew this, but I wanted to know what type of hardships soldiers faced, this narrowed my research even more. In my research, I found that the likely hood of a soldier in WW1 losing a fellow comrade, a friend, was very high. Enduring situations like that was something men did with one another and brought them very close. I also found soldiers faced more than emotional hardships, they were fighting physical ones as well which consequently played a roll in building strong relationships. One of the physical challenges faced was the trenches the soldiers in WW1 fought from. They were a host for all kinds of diseases and infection. Most of the men urinated and dedicated in the trenches and there was countless numbers of festering bodies and body parts scattered about in the

At the end of World War II, too many people were homeless. The world economy had collapsed, and much of the world’s industrial had been destroyed. That was the horrible time of all time. Besides that, for more specific examples about how bad of war is, I will analysis this article “Aftermath of War” was written by Robert L. Wieman, and it was written about his looks back on experiences when he was a bomber pilot in Allied-occupied Japan.

When examining the physical damage to the land after the end of the war, it was obvious that much of the country had been brutally trampled and scarred by the battles and rampages of the war. As troops had

The effect that World War I had upon civilians was devastating. WWI was a war that affected civilians on an unprecedented scale. Civilians became a military target.

Whether you are businessman or a construction worker, war has some far reaching effect on us. Though the evidence provided above is substantial enough to sway even you, the reader, to believe children are the true victims of war, there are many who think soldiers are the victims. Their logic can be backed up by many things. Modern media rarely covers anything else besides soldiers fighting in war. News reporters capture soldiers, strapped up in military equipment, fighting for their nation. Soldiers do directly take part in wars and they do get directly impacted by it. They are the ones who are fighting and dying for their country. Soldiers look out for each other in the battlefield. Many people argue that soldiers are the primary victims of war because they suffer physically and psychologically after the war. There are many wounded veterans who have received their physical scars from serving in the army. Soldiers will often face opposing fire and bomb explosions. Those who are lucky make it out of war alive, those who aren’t so lucky die or get wounded. According to Robert Naiman, more than 500,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were treated for wounds and disabilities (Naiman, 2010). Half a million veterans now face difficulties dealing with day-to-day tasks such as walking, driving, or working. These former soldiers would now find it difficult to provide for their family and purchase their bread and butter because they are now limited to the jobs they can perform. Along with physical disabilities comes mental illnesses, such as PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder arises from experiences from shocking or traumatic events. Those diagnosed with PTSD, are mostly soldiers who have experienced unspeakable events during their service. This disorder causes diagnosed people to experience enormous amounts of stress and may be frightened in some situations. PTSD is a long-term illness that has no permanent treatment.

During the war it was a terrible time for not only my family, but for

At first, I believed WW2 to be a devastating disaster that caused a number of humans to lose their lives, due to weaponry allowing man to kill each other. Conversely, my opinion changed after reading this short story. I realised that the loss of life was not the only problem, so was the destruction of everything else including; properties, businesses, and jobs. The war was horrible, I believe that the aftermath had an affect on everyone’s jobs, livelihood, and the living conditions degraded. Drioli was one such ordinary man,