Ypres

The European experience of WWI was a unique and different because it was the first war that really brought the whole entire world on every single front. WWI was a new and unique experience because it was very devastating from the trench warfare on the west, constant moving warfare in eastern Europe, propaganda, and the effects the war had on the world through its many fronts. The thesis of rites of spring says a crucial movement in modern history and consciousness. Eksteins main argument…

supplies and food into Britain. One commander in the British military named General Douglas Haig proposed that if the Allies defeated German front lines in Belgium, they could advance to free the Belgian ports. Haig argued that capturing areas near Ypres, Belgium (such as Passchendaele Ridge) would allow the Allies to push through to the Belgian coast and halt the Germans’ assaults on ships. These ideas were approved by the British War Cabinet and thus began the battle. Francis was part of the…

World War One, the very War that Germany started, the very war that encouraged everyone to make weapons of destruction in order to win. This common task will be on what I find fascinating about World War One, and what I find fascinating are all the weapons used during this war. Here I will be naming Three different kinds of weapons used during the war and different facts about them along with what I think is interesting about them. One of the three weapons I find interesting is called a…

1. According to Chickering, and Empires and Citizens, there were multiple reasons for the outbreak of the war of 1914. Some were long and some were short term causes. Such as the effects of Militarism and Imperialism. However, in Chickering, the assassination of Archduke Fran Ferdindad in June 1914, contributed greatly to the outbreak when a Serbian student shot him and his wife to death. This event created extreme tension between the main powers in Europe and probably the most important…

The company was based in Ypres, Flanders, in what was then called the Flanders Language Valley. Lernout & Hauspie was founded in 1987 by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie. After a difficult start, it quickly grew, and, in 1995, it went public on the NASDAQ (LHSP), and was also quoted on…

Organized Massacre What just happend? That was the question of many people in the early Twentieth Century. No one expected that a war of this great of magnitude would take place. The death and destruction the Great War brought was painted a vivid red colour with in the minds of almost every citizen who had any ties to this war. Why was the death toll so high and unlike anything the world had ever seen up to that date? World War I was the result of the changing of the world due to…

I think that technology influenced World War I warfare negatively, because of the horrible and unnecessary massive slaughter that it brought. New technological advances in metallurgy, chemistry and engineering among others, made by that time weapons extremely more deadly and powerful. This changed completely the way that wars were fought in the past, now causing devastating damage faster and easier. The leaders of such wars needed necessarily to change their strategies to adapt to this new…

Our soldiers had their heads held high and they were all so excited for the battle, but the first experience of trench warfare had brought horror upon all of us. The first sight of the trenches showed that they were in the worst conditions and didn’t give privacy. The officers had told us that these “ditches” were going to remain as our homes for the rest of the war. These “worse” conditions were proved as we remained in the trenches for numerous days. It was the home where we were going to live…

Those who have to, “pile them high at Gettysburg, And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun,” (Sandburg, Grass, 4-5), see the real destruction that war causes. Regular civilians hear about the death tolls, but they are just numbers, whereas the people who pile up the bodies of the dead, witness the real loss of war. Many, many…

most importantly it made war a horrible suicide camp. There was no way a man would survive if he was exposed to such gases and he would simply die in agony. Germany was the first country to use chlorine gas as an offensive weapon during the battle of Ypres on April 22nd, 1915. There were about 30,000 men involved in the battle and 6000 were killed. The gases made it easy for Germany during their offense and were successful until a Canadian medical officer recognized the gas as chlorine and came…