Poison gas in World War I

one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of the trench and gas warfare he started doing poetry to tell the stories of the trenches he also was heavily both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke . his poetry gave such a detailed view on the war he described the life in the trenches and the horrors of gas warfare. From his works Dulce et…

World War I started in 1890 because Austria and Serbia wanted the same piece of land. Serbia wanted the land because the people of this land spoke their language. The Serbian Nationalist organization called the black hand, which was a secret organization in Serbia that was in charge of terrorist actions, to assassinate the heir of the throne of Austria. This lead to a war between Austria and Serbia. Then the allies joined in causing World War I. This lead to the modernities of World War I, and…

history to have a mark on the world in such a way, World War One, started with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended in the death of tens of millions of men. I personally believe World War One is the most important event in the 20th century, because without it, there is no Hitler or Stalin. No Facism or World War Two.We probably wouldn 't have a Cold War, or see the conflict in The Middle East like we see today. The Great War ushered in the modern world as we know it. Born…

The War On War Author Haruki Murakami once said “Listen up- there’s no war to end all wars.” For as long as people have lived on earth there has been war, whether it is over food, land, or supplies. Every human has greed and eventually it will come out. Ever since the invention of chemical weapons and automatic weapons, war and terror has become much more of a evident problem with World War Two causing around 60 million deaths. In the book Interface Text by Joan Green she asks the…

“As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not” (Pearson). World War I took the lives of millions of people, but was this war preventable or not? World War I was not preventable because of Militarism, Alliances, and Imperialism. Militarism is one of the most reasons that made World War I unpreventable. Firstly Militarism lead to organized armies and new powerful weapons were created by the largest European countries. Also most of the countries at the time had military…

World War I World War I started in the summer of 1914. Most of the war took place in Europe. The war was long and lasted four years. World War I was unlike any previous wars. New weapons such as machine guns, tanks and poison gas made fighting deadlier than ever. Submarines changed naval warfare because they could sink ships without warning. Since, fighting was set all across the world they called it the World War. The United States kept neutral from the war until multiple threats to America…

Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque is a war novel that reveals the intense physical and emotional struggles of the real people behind the uniform during the intense fight of World War 1. This story’s main protagonist is a young soldier named Paul. The plot follows him from the time he enters the military to his unfortunate death at the end. The story starts with a joyous high school graduation, then slowly spirals to a dark, emotional, bloody war leading Paul to lose many friends…

to why they treated the Jews the way they do. “The Jews disrespect the Germans because they felt like they were being neglected and attacked by the Germans which in reality they were. Because at the end of World War 1 of November in 1918 Hitler became involved in German Politics.” After World…

Front, a war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, incorporates a plethora of similar and contrasting ideas to many other renowned war texts. With new machinery and combat techniques introduced for the first time during WWI, the battle Remarque writes about had far more casualties than anyone had ever anticipated. Machine guns, flamethrowers, and particularly poison gas took millions of lives on the battlefield. All of this, in turn, caused conditions to be vile in WWI. The authors of other war…

named the greatest war novel of all time for a multitude of reasons. These reasons do not include his ability to tell an enticing story or describe key points in great detail, but because it changed the perspective of millions of people all over the world and their concept of war. In Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, he shattered the idea of war everyday citizens had by telling the story of a platoons journey in gruesome detail and unveiling the truth about the horrors of war. Erich…