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Sean Campbell 4/11/14 Period E Humanities Research Paper Strategic Failure in the Great War "You can forget all your training; you have come here to show all your men how to die.” The war to end wars started with many eager young men ready to fight for King and country, or Kaiser and country. War was a chance for a young countryman to show his allegiance and make his family proud. Wilhelm II proclaimed that the troops would be “home before the leaves fell”. Stewart Ross points out, “It was

Trojan war – Laura Gibbons For my historical investigation I am looking to the Trojan War. My main focus question is - did the Trojan war really begin over the love of a women. The Trojan War is known as a significant event in Greek mythology. According to Homer the Trojan War was a battle at Troy between Paris of Troy and the Spartans because Paris stole Helen from her husband Menelaus who was the king Sparta. The battle raged on for 10 years until finally the Spartans were victorious due to the

The Battle of Gallipoli David Cumo Ms. Beck Honors World Cultures Period 7 19 May 2017 The Battle of Gallipoli, also referred to as The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16 or the Dardanelles Campaign, was a decisive battle in World War One during which Allied Powers attempted to take control over the sea route between Europe and Russia. Overall, the battle is largely considered a failure. There were many forces that acted against the Allies during the campaign, main causes of the loss were the repelling

campaign’s ‘failure’ gain a positive place in Australia’s military history and in creating a national identity? The British government desperately sought ways of overcoming the stalemate in the Western Front. So they sent the Naval Force into the Dardanelles and sail through to Constantinople in the hope of surrendering the Turkish troops. An attack using the ANZAC troops on the Gallipoli Peninsular was planned. The inexperienced ANZAC troops were sent to Cairo for training and became part

Did you know without the Nile,The Sahara,and the Mediterranean sea there would be very little civilization in egypt?Maybe even none.First things first and that is the Sahara.The Sahara is what also helps the people survive! How?you’re asking well it helps by keeping all enemies out of sight so they won’t attack.Like who would want to walk that long?Not me I know that.Did you know that the Sahara is the world's longest desert.The Sahara's massive Arid climate makes it a weird place for civilization

the early 1940’s, the United States was monitoring the countries of Greece and Turkey as both were experiencing economic and political turmoil. Turkey was faced with a weak government that faced Soviet pressure to share control of the strategic Dardanelle Straits. Control of this area would provide for travel to the Black Sea. The government of Greece was facing the rise of the Communist-led insurgency known as the National Liberation Front, while it was also experiencing crumbling political and

chose to join World War I. Among them, exterminate Christian Armenians was not what the Ottoman Empire’s principal goal. The Ottoman Empire’s geographic regions made it impossible for the Empire to keep up the neutrality. The empire controlled the Dardanelle and Bosporus Straits—an important route for transportation between Britain and Russia—and Constantinople, a center for German spy networks aiming to destabilize the British Empire, as well as Mesopotamia where they captured British oil fields (Crouse

The city of Troy, which is also known as Ilium, was a city situated in modern day Turkey. The city of Troy was the setting of the Trojan War, event that was described in the poem The Iliad. The Iliad is a poem accredited to the ancient Greek Poet Homer. The poem tells the story of the conflict between an alliance of Greek Cities and those who protected the City of Troy following the kidnapping of Helen of Sparta by Paris. The Iliad focuses only on two weeks out of the ten years the conflict lasted

The Archaeological Site of Troy. The archaeological site of Troy is among the most famous in the world. It is located in Canakkale, the south-west province of Turkey, in approximately 7 km from the Aegean Sea and the Strait Dardanelles. The ancient city has its modern name – Hisarlik or the mound of Hisarlik. A mound or a tell is an artificial hill created by occupation and abandonment of humans over centuries. For example, the site of Troy has been inhabited for approximately 4,000 years, and

“The ANZAC legend does not have to mean that any individual could be an ANZAC, but that the ANZACs represented the values and behaviour and qualities of the whole society.” (Robert Lewis’ account on ANZAC Day Society website, 2004). World War One, the first global conflict, resulted in the death of over 27 million humans from over 32 countries. For Australia, a nation just fourteen years young, a spirit was ignited from those who enlisted. They were known as the ANZACs (Australia and New Zealand