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    Adolph Hitler, a dictator of World War II, was once an artist. Despite his artistic skills and passion towards art, he was continuously rejected by art academies, and therefore, came to be an unsuccessful artist. This was one of the main causes of the Degenerate Art Commission, also called the Nazi art theft. Hitler’s personal antipathy towards modern art created the Degenerate Art Commission which destroyed and concealed thousands of modern artworks (Allsop). Starting from 1937, the looting…

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    documentary writer “The great wars started in 1914 and ended in 1918.” The methods during the war were using gas grenades in trenches or guns or explosives. The gass was considered a cheap tactic to both sides of the war. Even so they still used these methods in order to defeat the enemy. They also used methods with warplanes and tanks and other vehicles like it. These are what methods they used during the war. First, when it is this is something that might happen with future wars this is one…

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    During World War II, in 1939, it was obvious that the Germans had a machine that changed how the war was fought. The enigma machine designed by the Germans was thought to be unbreakable. It was used to send secret messages to the other German military forces. The code changed each day, so the Germans thought they were unstoppable, however, the code was cracked by the British with the help of Alan Turing’s machine, “The bombe”, on January 23rd 1940. The enigma was a very well thought out machine…

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    Die In Bed

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    Generals Die in Bed, first published in 1930, chronicles the life of a young soldier facing the horror and inhumanity of war. This novel is based off the author, Charles Yale Harrison’s, experiences in World War 1. Shortly after World War I began, Harrison joined the Canadian army and was immediately sent to fight on the Western Front. Harrison’s accounts were altered in some forms to make the novel more entertaining, and more of a fiction novel. There are still some similarities from what…

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    boats caused real trouble for the larger combat vessels known as battleships. Torpedo boats did this by either overwhelming them with their sheer numbers combined with their tremendous speed and maneuverability which was proven during the Chilean war. Since the invention of the torpedo boats there was a clear call for the creation of small warships that could defend the larger battleships from this little terrors of the sea. There was a development of several prototypes by many European…

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    Summary: Trench Warfare

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    WWI: Trench Warfare World War 1, also known as the “ Great War”, was a global conflict that lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11,1918. It was a battle between the Central Powers ( Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) and the Allies ( France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan and the U.S who later joined in 1917) caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Great War also lead to the fall for each of the Central Powers and a Russian rebellion. Furthermore, Trench warfare…

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    During the time period of World War 1 many inventions were created. Most of these inventions helped soldiers when injured or during the fighting. Many were created in different countries, but then shortly became popular throughout the world. According to this website American born inventor and chemist Hudson Maxim once said, “Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention”(www.quotabl.es.com). Hudson created varies explosives including…

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    Room 1 The World War 1 which began in July 28, 1914 was one of the greatest wars in history. World War 1 did not occur due to one event, but a variety of long-term and short-term causes led to this war. Some of the long-term causes were: imperialism, the Alliance System and militarism. Also, one of the short-term causes that led to this war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Before the war, France increased its defence expenditure by 10%, Britain by 13%, Russia by 39%, and…

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    World War I, the first war in the world that involved multiple countries in many parts of the world to be involved in warfare broke out in Europe year of 1914 when the royal prince of Austria was assassinated. Mobilization upraises the conflict between the Allies and Central Powers, also known as the Ottoman Empire. The Allies consisted of United States of America, Great Britain, Japan, and France. The Ottoman Empire countries were Austria, Hungary, and Germany. During World War I, United States…

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    1.) The source is a physical item; specifically a button that indicates President Wilson’s campaign platform. 2.) This item’s message revolves around the maintenance of peace and prosperity in the United States during the First World War 3.) This source is produced during World War I, and it relates to the 1916 Presidential Election. Indicating by the button’s message, Americans were not in favor of war and the United States still remained militarily neutral. The conclusion that Americans were…

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