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When people come across photographs featuring young children holding weapons with a fierce look in their eyes, or a fallen soldier who just had his or her legs blown out by a landmine, are the viewers disturbed with the human race suffering as a whole or are the photos having viewers question his or her political support that makes wars possible? Surely such vulgar and emotive images must move the public in some way. When war hits or disaster strikes, people are motivated to assist for a variety…

(Modern Marvels). Starting in January 1915, the Germans bombed Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn, and then began to repeatedly bomb London beginning May 31. Ordinary civilians in London were minding their business in school or at work incendiary bombs and grenades rained down on them. “There was a blinding flash and a roar,” Cyril Helm, a doctor and diarist during World War I in London, writes. “The next thing I knew was that I was leaning up against a wall in pitch darkness with the air full of dust…

to accomplish this goal as a way to take away our privacy and control us. While the initial idea of authorities that are meant to protect citizens gaining access to others’ personal information with little to no permission, using tanks and assault rifles, etc. is alarming and irrational, valid reason for the use of these tactics can be found. According to the Small Arms Survey, in the year 2007, civilians worldwide owned an estimated 650 million out of the approximate 875 million firearms that…

The Western Front: The most important battlefield from World War I was the Western Front. This was home to fighting soldiers from Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Australia. This battle eventually resulted in trench warfare with 700 kilometres of zig zag trenches spread from the “Swiss Frontier to the English Channel, cutting across northern France and into southern Belgium.” This trench warfare started a stalemate and was home to some of the most gruesome suffering and horrible conditions…

Cold-blooded killing was part of the Vietnam War and no boundaries or rules were followed. Soldiers were constantly paranoid of getting shot by a sniper rifle or being blown up into pieces by all kinds of trap explosives that were used against them. The Vietnam War was not a conventional war, their experience with deadly traps and South Vietnamese oppositions of war threatening US soldiers, caused paranoia…

turned away. Later in the war as the Soviet Union’s army was beginning to fall they needed reinforcement and Joseph Stalin was willing to change the traditional role of women. Universal training schools were set up, women began to learn how to handle rifles and fight; some received top score in marksmanship. Women were beginning to fight on the frontlines, but only in few battles. Although they were not fighting in all battles this was a huge step for woman’s equality. In Britain, training…

"European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion." The war causes men to be disillusioned by the experiences and horror seen in war. As men enter war they see life open and filled with opportunity. However, the war changes and destroys believes men have about…

Vietnam Tunnels Imagine living your life in constant fear, living in the darkness with dangerous things all around you and constantly been bombed. Now imagine trying to fit in a small hole where you were there is barely any air and you can’t see what is in front of you. Well, this was the life of the Vietnamese and the American troops during the Vietnam war. During the Vietnam war, Vietnamese villagers created thousands of tunnels in order to protect them self from the enemy. This…

The resistance fighters or underground during World War II existed in every country that was occupied by German soldiers by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda, to hiding crashed pilots and even outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. World War II began when German Dictator, Adolf Hitler, started attacking and taking over European countries with a method known as Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg is a German term for “lightning war” and is a military…

Throughout time, when borders between different countries were established, differences among nationalities were often more accentuated than the similarities; however, when war erupts, differences become more obscure. Both Erich Maria Remarque and John McCrae highlight the ways war draws attention more to commonalities among the soldiers and men from different nationalities than differences. Erich Maria Remarque in All Quiet on the Western Front and John McCrae in the poem “In Flanders Fields”,…