One World

Chapter 0 Protagonist/s: Marie-Laure LeBlanc/ Werner Pfennig Antagonists: Germans Time: 7th August 1944 Setting: Saint-Malo, France Summary: Hours before the bombs are dropped in the city of Saint-Malo; leaflets are dropped to inform the inhabitants to evacuate. The story’s main characters/protagonists, 16-year-old Marie-Laure and 18-year-old Werner Pfennig both have not yet evacuated. Marie-Laure is a blind girl. She is alone in her great-uncle, Etienne’s house. Werner is a soldier in the…

It wasn’t easy leaving behind everyone I loved, or everything I did. I’ve seen the photos of World War 1. Blood, hatred, warfare. I’ve experienced none of that until now. Why did we have to have a second one? The last of my family that I saw before we left, was my baby sister. Sammy was 5 years old, yet she still knew what was going on. “Jakey, if you die, don’t die please.” She was in tears but I had to go. I remember those words before, creek. I opened the door, surprisingly it was sunny with…

If World War One could be described in one word it could be evolutionary. With the troubling worries of the past reoccurring, the people of Europe never wanted to experience anything like it again. The war to end all wars is what people thought, or at least wanted to think. According to Oxford dictionary the definition of war is, a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country. Through the violent, gory and society changing war, people developed a…

The song is proudly talking about the men fighting in World War I. The speaker of the song is the soldiers and recruiters of the war. The soldiers are calling people to come fight and to make the nation proud and the people around them proud for fighting in the war. The soldiers appear proud, excited and happy to be fighting for their country. The song states, “And we won’t come back until it is over.” This quote shows that the soldiers do not plan on giving up and are going to fight until death…

Almost everyone who has ever truly studied World War 1 realizes the helpful effort that the Americans put into the war effort however it would be obscured to think that the United States efforts would ever come close to what the Allies went through. The United States causality rate only accounted for 8 percent of its 206,000 soliders (cite 145) . With this being said, this was an extremely difficult for everyone who was involved. However, the American and British soldiers both viewed their enemy…

On March 4th, 1921, the burial of an unknown soldier from World War One was approved by Congress. The soldier was exhumed from an American cemetery in France, and brought to the U.S. The World War One unknown is now buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The soldier rests under a magnificent tomb. The tomb is made of white marble and sits atop a hill, overlooking Washington D.C. “The east panel has three greek figures who represent peace, victory, and valor.”On either side of the tomb are three…

When we look back on the five causes of World War One, which are imperialism, nationalism, militarism, alliances and an assassination, nationalism is the most important cause out of the five. This is due to the fact that the other four reasons could be considered nationalism. What is nationalism? Well, nationalism is a feeling of extreme pride for your country, a feeling of patriotism. The whole idea of nationalism can bring many problems into the world, such as alliances and imperialism and so…

World War One was also known as “The Great War”. At this point in modern history, there had never been a war of this magnitude. The war was fought in Europe and featured the Allied Forces: the United Kingdom, France, and Russia against the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. World War One was one of the most deadliest was in the history of the world. More than sixteen million soldiers and civilians perished during the four year European conflict. World War One began on June 28,…

Do we finally know the true role Hirohito played in world war two? What Hirohito lead people, or ticked people to believe that he had zero part in the war. He claimed the Japanese military was doing their own thing, taking commands not from Hirohito but from one of the generals. The truth is that he was the main commander. He was the man behind the bombing of pearl harbor. Not only that but he sent his men to do it earlier than planned so no one would suspect him having any part in it.…

World War One truly was an incredible war. In a matter of four years, there were huge advancements in technology, borders of countries changed, economies changed, and thousands of lives were sacrificed. The event that sparked the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but behind that, there were other reasons. One of them was that many of the nations had treaties with one another, so once one country went to war with another, multiple other countries were dragged into the affair…