WW1 Essay

for the Holocaust, which many people know today that he forced Jews into concentration camps where he would kill them off. As a child he lived on a small farm. His parents had big dreams for him to go to war, which he later did when he fought in WW1. He had a plan to take over the…

gained a lot of sympathy and publicity for the cause. Also, as argued by historian Marwick’s Reward Theory, women received the vote in 1918 as a ‘thank-you’ for their work in WW1. Overall, changing attitudes towards women prior to WW1 was one reason for women receiving the vote but it is also evident that the suffrage movements and WW1 had a role to…

Bennett's class, we additionally talked about the dark life in this time. Awful things after ww1 is red summer, the KKK, the Scottsboro Boys trial, and the lynchings. After ww2, there was white flight and prohibitive agreements. Great things amid these circumstances were the Harlem Renaissance and Truman's forces, Eisenhower helping the Little…

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria. He served as dictator of the Third Reich from 1934-1945. Hitler was a WW1 veteran, outraged about Germany’s surrender. Hitler’s actions led directly to World War 2, which has shaped the modern world. Hitler should be chosen as the most valuable person in history because of his indirect and direct contributions. Hitler has contributed more to this world than you might think. One of Hitler’s contributions is the creation of…

Indiana. His parents are Kurt Vonnegut Sr. and Edith Vonnegut. His father was an Architect and his mother owned a family run brewery. He could not be exposed to his German heritage because of all the anti-German attitudes that went America around after WW1. When he was a child, his family lost most of their money when the depression hit them. His mother and father were distraught with the whole situation because they went from having a large sum of money to not being able to have a large amount…

when John Simpson was seventeen years old. He then took on his dad’s job as a merchant marine, this job lured Simpson into Australia. His role included being a cane cutter, ship’s hand and a coalminer. John Simpson, enlisted to become a soldier for WW1. Simpson changed his surname from Kirkpatrick to Simpson due to merchant marines not being accepted into the army. He joined the…

had adverse effects on morale but army generals had accepted the inevitability mass death adapting tactics to account for this. Trench warfare in ww1 created an environment where "the weapons of defence were stronger than the weapons of attack" with the machine gun dominating the battlefield. Trench wa tactics exploited the strengths of "the master of the battlefield" giving soldiers crossine No…

The Sorrow of War, I assumed that the only reason the Vietnam War was so rejected was because in America the public were absorbed in a hippie phase. I always thought that Victims of PTSD only transpired from the most global and gruesome wars, such as WW1 and WW2. It wasn’t until a fellow classmate recited a section from the novel where a fellow veteran named Vuong fell into a cycle of drinking, and sleeping. He was used as the example of what many soldiers became postwar when they didn’t know…

The United States joined World War One on April 6, 1917, three years after WW1 originally began. Before that day, America would try to stay out of the war. President Woodrow Wilson tried to keep the United States neutral, but Germany continuously violated their conditions/neutral status. Based on the facts, The United States did have good enough reasons to join the war with the allied powers, against the central powers. Unrestricted submarine warfare was one of the most important reasons on why…

time. Instead, it ended four years later in 1918. At the beginning of the war, America chose to stay neutral, however the country was never really neutral as it mainly helped the Allied side. The Americans public attitude changed negatively towards WW1 during the years 1914 to the 1920’s shortly after the war because of the unstable issue of neutrality, the actual joining of the war, and the aftermath of the war. The public’s attitude changed with unstable issue of neutrality. President…