Barbed wire

dug into the ground." Trenches are long dug-out ditches in the ground used to protect soldiers from new weaponry. The Carlisle Army website informs, "On the Western Front, Germany, Austria, and Hungary faced down the Allies, France and Britain over barbed-wired No-Man's Land running north to south over nearly the entire continent." The trenches in WW1 were used in the Western Front near France. For each soldier during World War 1, life in the trenches was very different. Additionally, the…

In his TED talk “Why I Love a Country That Once Betrayed Me,” Takei uses his emotions and life experiences to convey his message and thoughts about America’s democracy and a youth that was spent behind barbed wire in the country of his birth and citizenship. Takei takes the image of the barbed wire confining them and soldiers with bayonets and juxtaposes that with his ideas of freedom and pride in a country that provides its citizens with inalienable rights. Gaining the listener’s sympathy…

gain terrain, infantry needed to advance crossing open fields and then cutting through barbed wire and obstacles before being able to get close…

the duration of the war. Toxic gases used in the trenches severely impacted the rising number of casualties and lead to the invention of gas masks, which helped to reduce the death toll once more. Barbed wire defended the trenches, causing the need for a machine powerful enough to penetrate the barbed wire and conquer the trenches, which influenced the invention of the tanks. This technology had the most significant impact on the war, as it became the weapon that ended the stalemate on the…

truck drivers, artists, writers, etc. However, the escape from East Germany was not impossible. Even though at least 117 people were killed, fugitives managed to cross the border by jumping out of windows adjacent to the wall, climbing over the barbed wire, flying in hot air balloons, crawling through the sewers and driving through unfortified parts of the wall at high speeds. After 28 years from the construction of the Wall, a series of protests have erupted across the East Germany in November…

concentration camp. Bruno has no friends at the new house and he feels very lonely so he starts to explore, one day while he is exploring he comes across a barbed wire fence and finds Shmuel, a jewish boy his age. They become friends and Bruno is very oblivious to what is going on, and why this friendship could get them in big trouble. Despite the barbed wire fence they start to build a friendship, but never go past their side of the fence. Until one day, Shmuel cannot find his father and Bruno…

propaganda. History.com stated that on the night of August 12-13, 1961, East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin. East Berlin citizens were forbidden to pass into West Berlin, and the number of checkpoints in which Westerners could cross the border was drastically reduced. On August 15, they began replacing barbed wire with concrete. The wall, East German authorities declared, would protect their citizens from the pernicious influence…

the Star are positive words that represent what the Jews experienced after the Holocaust and envelopes that have positive messages on them. This poster is meant to look like the wall to a ghetto which is why there is broken glass sticking out and barbed wire at the top. This memorial in real life would look like a big grey concrete wall about 10 ft tall and 15 ft wide, and the Star of David will be engraved a gold color in the middle.…

condition resulting from days spent standing in freezing water and muddy trenches; gangrene could set in and result in the amputation of a man’s foot. soldiers went out at night to cut sections of wire to make it easier for the soldiers in morning raids. Minor cuts and grazes caused by the barbed wire often became infected in the unsanitary conditions of the trenches. Snow, rain and freezing temperatures drastically slowed combat during the winter months. In hot, dry summers, lack of fresh water…

The reason why World War 1 lasted so long is because, a multifaceted one, with most historians attributing the length of the war to, inter alia, and the similar strength of the two sides. The famous German war plan aimed at avoiding fighting a war at two fronts by attacking France from the north, encircling Paris, quickly defeating the French, and then moving towards the eastern front to face the Russians who would not have been able to mobilize in time to help their ally. There were a few…