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and of the branches of military that came from it. I’ll start with the first war using American troops. The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) was the expeditionary force of the United States Army during World War I. It was established on July 5, 1917, in France under the command of General John J. Pershing. The AEF fought alongside the British, French, Canadian, and Australian Armies on the Western Front, against the German Empire. A small group of the AEF troops also fought alongside the…

Analysis of “Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)” (1917) and “Leaves and Navels” (1929) by Hans Arp This art analysis will define the fundamental modes of artistic production and aesthetics in the Dada Movement that opposed bourgeoisie art and the elements of pre-meditated art production in “Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)” (1917) and “Leaves and Navels” (1929) by Hans Arp. The Dada movement sought to oppose the…

There are many ideas, movements, events, and people that shaped the history of sex and sexuality in the twentieth century. The three most influential are Margaret Sanger, Alfred Charles Kinsey, and the Homophile Movement. Margaret Sanger made birth control accessible to the public, which altered the way in which people of the twentieth century understood sex. Margaret Sanger’s impact on contemporary society was tremendous. Sanger enabled women to control their fertility and made birth…

Blood stains the lifeless, barren battlefield that is Passchendaele, where just two days ago, 16,000 Canadian soldiers laid dead or wounded. Assigned the task of capturing the ridge from German control, many fell victim to the thick, gluey mud surrounding the ridge. The soldiers fighting at Passchendaele were under constant shellfire and suffered through a torrential downpour of rain. With Passchendaele’s ancient drainage system destroyed, the vast field soon became a flooded, muddy swamp.…

spoke happily to in the previous week were now dead. The soldiers who have survived thus far are discouraged and angry at the plans of the leadership, which are inefficient. This sentiment of this poem seems appropriate as we study The Great War in 1917, because it was about this time when the first mutinies took place. Instead of the traditional view that soldiers were to defend, protect, and earn honor, they were seeing the fight as…

“At a mile distant their thousand hooves were stuttering thunder, coming at a rate that frightened a man - they were an awe inspiring sight, galloping through the red haze - knee to knee and horse to horse - the dying sun glinting on the bayonet points…” Trooper Ion Idriess. Ultimately, Australians in the Middle East fought against the Ottoman Empire being able to move freely and quickly, however, the conditions were completely different from the muddy and stagnating Western Front. The Middle…

Dee Dee (GPS) COMMUNISM The Communism is an ideology, social and political movement to direct pose up a communist society. The direction of organizing society the government owns all the means of production, no privately owned property. The goal is to create a classless society, then it will set the people free to find the higher meaning of life. It believes this can happen if the people bring away the power of the ruling class, who own the means of production (bourgeoisie) and to create a…

now the bribe for Mexico, it was time to join the war. On April 2, 1917, President Wilson went to the joint session of congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. His argument for the joint session of congress was that Germany violated the Sussex Pledge with warfare in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, along with the attempt to recruit Mexico into an alliance against the United States of America. On April 4, 1917, the U.S Senate voted in support of the war and the House agreed…

after the October Revolution of 1917. Many groups didn 't like the Bolsheviks so they formed an army against him. They were called the Whites because white was the traditional colour of royalty. The wanted the czar back in power.The whites also had other countries fighting with them. Including Britain, France, Japan, and the United States. Lenin and the Bolsheviks were called the Reds because red was the colour of revolution. The civil war started in October 1917 and ended in October 1922.…

The Pulitzer prize has been the dream of lots of people since 1917. Mostly writers, journalists, and photographers. The Pulitzer prize is an American award established after the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American and it represents the incentive to excellence. The Pulitzer prize is a serie of prizes awarded each year regarding someone who accomplished an excellent work in one of the 21 categories such as journalism, arts, literature, newspaper, drama, music, photography.…