The motivation for countries to enter WW1, were from recent attacks or rumors about attacking. Not only was it fear and attacks, but also joining for the safety of their own country. For instance the U.S joined because of the attacks from Germany. The Triple Alliance (also known as Central Powers) was Germany, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire and Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Then on the Triple Entente (better known as The Allies) was, France, Russia, Japan, Belgium, Serbia, Great Britain and Italy. When entering the war many of the countries hoped to gain power, money, and a more jobs for everyone to make money. A book that best represents the effects of war and on it’s people would be All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It explains
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PTSD stands for post traumatic stress disorder. It’s very rare that soldiers come back home without PTSD, if they even go back home. The immediate negative consequences for soldiers who are involved in the war are very tragic, as well as the loss of each other’s humanity as to whom they once were. As men, they are known for unreasonable arguments including where people had slept, for instance in the book All Quiet on the Western Front, when Himmelstoss yelled at Tjaden about sleeping in the gutter, “He has no idea what to make of the situation. He didn’t expect this open hostility. But he is on his guard: he has already had some rot dinned into him about getting shot in the back” (Remarque 32) he yelled at him for no reason about sleeping in the gutter when he shouldn’t even care where Tjaden sleeps. They don’t just argue about pointless things, but also they think of themselves like animals because of how much their so entwined with war. Paul describes in detail how soldiers are only trained to kill because that’s what he learned fighting in it so much “The blast of the hand-grenades impinges powerfully on our arms and legs; crouching like cats we run on, overwhelmed by this wave that bears us along, that fills us with ferocity, turns us into thugs, into murderers, into God only knows the devils; this wave that multiplies our strength with fear and madness and greed of life, seeking and fighting for nothing but our deliverance.” (114). It’s sad to see how soldiers think, especially when they think of the devil as God’s only
PTSD stands for post traumatic stress disorder. It’s very rare that soldiers come back home without PTSD, if they even go back home. The immediate negative consequences for soldiers who are involved in the war are very tragic, as well as the loss of each other’s humanity as to whom they once were. As men, they are known for unreasonable arguments including where people had slept, for instance in the book All Quiet on the Western Front, when Himmelstoss yelled at Tjaden about sleeping in the gutter, “He has no idea what to make of the situation. He didn’t expect this open hostility. But he is on his guard: he has already had some rot dinned into him about getting shot in the back” (Remarque 32) he yelled at him for no reason about sleeping in the gutter when he shouldn’t even care where Tjaden sleeps. They don’t just argue about pointless things, but also they think of themselves like animals because of how much their so entwined with war. Paul describes in detail how soldiers are only trained to kill because that’s what he learned fighting in it so much “The blast of the hand-grenades impinges powerfully on our arms and legs; crouching like cats we run on, overwhelmed by this wave that bears us along, that fills us with ferocity, turns us into thugs, into murderers, into God only knows the devils; this wave that multiplies our strength with fear and madness and greed of life, seeking and fighting for nothing but our deliverance.” (114). It’s sad to see how soldiers think, especially when they think of the devil as God’s only