WW1 Essay

While World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted four years, ending in 1918, tension had been stirring long before throughout Europe; specifically, in the southeast Balkan region known as the “powder keg.” European powers such as the Ottoman Empire, the Russians and other parties had a number of alliances that were threatened by political instability. The murder of the heir to the Austro Hungarian…

The years 1914 to 1918 were highly influential to history. This period of time became known as World War One, often referred to as “The Great war.” These four years would lead to drastic upcoming events centered in Europe. Creating a balance of power was not enough to prevent combat. More than 10 million lives of combatants and civilians lives were taken. In addition to the assassination of Archduke sparking the war, Alliances, Militarism, and Imperialism were the underlying causes of WWI. One…

WWI Monologue For most of my life, I’ve been subjected to discrimination due to historical oppression, along with the ones I call family. For far too long, the system has marginalized my community, the Anishinabek, failing to recognize the rights of our Indigenous communities. I refuse to remain silent as our lands and cultures are laid to waste as their laws and policies seek to strip us of them. I’ve been educated in our history. The Federal Government thought that they could take on a…

On April 6th 1917, in defence of its allies Britain, France and Russia, the US declared war on the Central Powers and officially entered World War One (WW1). The war had both positive and negative effects on the US economy and American society as a whole. This essay will evaluate the impact the war had on the US economy through analysing its effect on industry and agriculture. It will also show the impact it made on society in the US through the impact on race, gender, health and Progressivism.…

will always come back one way or another. I am not happy with what I saw but as a P.F.C. in the U.S. Army, I am supposed to be trained to have a thick brain with these types of environments. Even after witnessing all the horrors in the trenches of WW1, we were all in a huge state of shock. The things that were done to these people are so inhumane that it took a while for most of us to process what was going on and what had happened to these innocent people. “I will continue to wonder what this…

A new type of technology during WW1 is the machine gun. The machine gun was the best new invention during the war. The 1914 machine gun, usually was positioned on a flat tripod. A tripod helped aim more steady and took pressure or weight off the gunners arm. The gunner would not have to hold the gun up, only aim and fire. A machine gun would require a gun crew of four to six operators. They could fire 400-600 rounds of ammunition per minute. The machine gun could fire so many rounds because it…

front. The Role of Women and the direct affects of WW1 had social impacts on the home front during the war, the impact was both on them being at home and when the soldiers returned from battle. Trade and impacts of WW1 had economical impacts on the home front during the war partially caused by anti-Germanism. The conscription debate and the law had political impacts on the home front due to political and social division. The Role of Women in WW1 had a huge social impact. Women from a young age…

Because of the lack of American action, Germany decided to take the matter into their own hands utilizing a new weapon of war: the Unterseeboot, or submarine. In March 1915, the a German U-boat sunk the HMS Falaba, which had on board an American, the first killed by either side in the conflict. German U-boats sunk other ships, the Arabic, Lusitania, and the Sussex throughout the war. Each time Germans inflicted major American civilian casualties, the United States government warned Germany of…

World War I was one of the first major wars in which intelligence was a key aspect of strategy and success on the battlefield. Throughout Europe many nations began to establish covert operations to gain access to the military secrets of their opposition. Germany was a nation that participated in this trend. However, their collection of intelligence did not involve much covert action. Rather, German intelligence officers used overt intelligence collection methods, including using both personal…

In both world wars, Australians became prisoners to the Germans and their allies. The Turco-German alliance of the First World War meant that the Ottoman Empire supported the German war effort. Members of the Australian Flying Corps, sailors of the AE2 submarine and soldiers in trenches were captured in the Dardanelles campaign in Gallipoli. But majority of the prisoners under Turkish captivity were light horsemen; captured in areas such as Egypt and Sinai-Palestine where fighting was more…