World War I
If your country were in a war, wouldn’t you want to know exactly what was going on out there while you were sitting at home? The people during World War I were not aware of what was really going on out on the battlefield. World War I, also known as the Great War, was an atrocious war with casualties summing up to millions and an abundant amount of people who did not perceive the war correctly.
The views of people during the war varied depending on whose view it was. Soldiers and civilians had completely different concepts of the war. Civilians were not told the entire truth about what it was like joining the military and fighting in the Great War, and women were given job opportunities. The people were misled and believed that serving …show more content…
Explanation of Evidence: A man who spent exhausting days and nights in the trenches stated and acknowledged the civilians’ misunderstanding of the war, saying that it was due to the papers who only think they understood it. The soldier drew a comparison to a fish believing that living on dry land was easy, until the fish actually experienced it and died a gruesome, painful death (Letter 3, Letters from the Trenches). They watched each other go crazy, and whoever went insane had to be wound up and tied so that he couldn’t get away (All Quiet on the Western Front). This emphasizes the fact that even the military service and soldiers knew that the people did not have a clear concept of what the war was really like and what they were enduring, and that the civilians were being …show more content…
Germany hit and demolished neighborhoods and places that were not even military targets, and British civilians were forced to hide underground, where it was safe. Germany took advantage of their new weapon and dropped 27 air raids on them. Finally able to fight back in 1916, Britain’s planes were enough to challenge the Zeppelins. Britain and Germany went on battling through air attack, and eventually, the Allied forces won because the United States joined the war and inhibited Germany from receiving food (The First Modern War Video). This shows how the improvement in technology changed the war and pushed it into modern
If your country were in a war, wouldn’t you want to know exactly what was going on out there while you were sitting at home? The people during World War I were not aware of what was really going on out on the battlefield. World War I, also known as the Great War, was an atrocious war with casualties summing up to millions and an abundant amount of people who did not perceive the war correctly.
The views of people during the war varied depending on whose view it was. Soldiers and civilians had completely different concepts of the war. Civilians were not told the entire truth about what it was like joining the military and fighting in the Great War, and women were given job opportunities. The people were misled and believed that serving …show more content…
Explanation of Evidence: A man who spent exhausting days and nights in the trenches stated and acknowledged the civilians’ misunderstanding of the war, saying that it was due to the papers who only think they understood it. The soldier drew a comparison to a fish believing that living on dry land was easy, until the fish actually experienced it and died a gruesome, painful death (Letter 3, Letters from the Trenches). They watched each other go crazy, and whoever went insane had to be wound up and tied so that he couldn’t get away (All Quiet on the Western Front). This emphasizes the fact that even the military service and soldiers knew that the people did not have a clear concept of what the war was really like and what they were enduring, and that the civilians were being …show more content…
Germany hit and demolished neighborhoods and places that were not even military targets, and British civilians were forced to hide underground, where it was safe. Germany took advantage of their new weapon and dropped 27 air raids on them. Finally able to fight back in 1916, Britain’s planes were enough to challenge the Zeppelins. Britain and Germany went on battling through air attack, and eventually, the Allied forces won because the United States joined the war and inhibited Germany from receiving food (The First Modern War Video). This shows how the improvement in technology changed the war and pushed it into modern