U-boat

The last words Archduke Ferdinand said to his beloved wife were "Sophie, Sophie, don’t die! Stay alive for our children." (Grant, 29). On June 28, 1914, the heir to the Austro- Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot to death by Gavrilo Princip, a young Serbian in Sarajevo. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a turning point that had an immediate impact on the world, his assassination was the event that sparked World War I. (Webley) There were many factors…

Second example in the English proverb translation is for crops are very important to a country. The third and the forth in the English proverb literally translated as what you want u need to find in the right way or places. The corresponding proverbs in both languages correspond to the words used and the meanings they contain. Likewise, there are proverbs of the same meaning expressed in different…

"The Somme set the picture by which future generations saw the First World War: hapless soldiers; blundering obstinate generals; nothing achieved." -A.J.P Taylor One of the ways the Battle of the Somme had significance in World War One was the attritional wearing down of the German army. The war took a turning point in 1916, up until then some kind of peace could have been reached and an agreement made, this all changed in 1916. Instead of trying to break through each other’s lines the armies…

decides to declare war on Germany and enter World War 1 two days after an 82 for, 6 against vote in the senate. At the beginning of the war U.S. President Woodrow Wilson declared the U.S.’s neutrality in the war, but after German U-boats kept attacking American ships the U.S. joined the war. The first wave of American soldiers consisted of one hundred thousand soldiers and by the end of the war over two million American soldiers had fought on the western front. Not only did the…

Oscar, saying goodbye to Hilda in Tallinn ferried to Sweden and boarded the ship Gripsholm in the port of Göteborg at the beginning of April, 1929 and set sail for the newly opened, and to become famous, Pier 21 of Halifax. On April 14, 1929 he officially became an immigrant to Canada and headed towards Winnipeg. The trip took 3 to 4 days via a locked wagon, sitting on wooden seats, for the 3300 km trip from Halifax to Winnipeg. Once there Oscar was placed in an immigrant barrack which was a…

guns against the more primitive arrows and spears in the many battles between indigenous peoples and european conquerors over the course of the conquest of the Americas, the less advanced weapons did not stand a chance.When the Germans invented the U-boat, or submarine, before World War I they changed marine warfare forever. The innovation of tanks suddenly minimized the efficiency of foot soldiers. Most recently, the United States development of the atomic bomb ended a war and ushered in a…

Visual WWI Memory Project by: Lance Canlas Conditions/ Life in the Trenches Conditions in the trenches were considered horrific and filthy, with many men living in a very small area. Living half underground and being unable to cleanse yourself for days or weeks on end created severe health risks for the soldiers. Rats were a common pest that would spread disease and inevitably infect hundreds of soldiers for months. Lice would also spread disease and would often live in the hair follicles of…

INT. STAIRWAY - NIGHT Yaffna stands with her arms folded across her chest at the bottom of the steps. Sandy pulls Morris’s wheelchair up the stairs. Sandy struggles, sweat drips down her face. Her face is beet red, and she looks exhausted. She is close to the top of the stairs, just two steps away. She pulls with all her strength -- but her hands slip and she drops the wheelchair. Morris’s wheelchair goes flying down the stairs. Yaffna sprints into action running up the stairs, skipping two…

In both World War I and World War II the United States had moments of neutrality before they joined the war and for each war there was a major cause to bring the United States into the war. "MERICANS LIKE TO think of World War II as "The Good War": an unambiguous and unifying conflict that pitted the nation against the forces of evil. Although this narrative rings true, it masks the fact that in the two years prior to the U.S. entry into the war the American people and their political leaders…

Woodrow Wilson came into office of the presidency on March 4th, 1913 with an ambitious plan for America and its relationship with the rest of the world. Wilson’s plan consisted of taking the nation and building up its economy until it was the largest in the world. Along the way, Wilson made claims such as how he planned to keep the world safe through the institution of democratic ideals, but his actions were almost always motivated by economic opportunity. The notion of “Liberal Internationalism…