...has been covering the events leading up to World War I exactly 100 years after they happened. But today he's here to discuss some inventions of The Great War. 1. TANKS In 1914, the “war of movement” expected by most European generals settled down into an unexpected, and seemingly unwinnable, war of trenches. With machine guns reinforcing massed rifle fire from the defending trenches, attackers were mowed down by the thousands before they could even get to the other side of “no-man’s-land.” A solution presented itself, however, in the form of the automobile, which took the world by storm after 1900. Powered by a small internal combustion engine burning diesel or gas, a heavily-armored vehicle could advance even in the face of overwhelming small arms fire. Add some serious guns and replace the wheels with armored treads to handle rough terrain, and the tank was born. The first tank, the British Mark I, was designed in 1915 and first saw combat at the Somme in September 1916. The French soon followed suit with the Renault FT, which established the classic tank look (turret on top). Despite their later prowess in tank combat in WWII, the Germans never got around to large-scale tank production in WWI, although they did produce 21 tanks in the unwieldy A7V model. 2. FLAMETHROWERS Although the Byzantines and Chinese used weapons that hurled flaming material in the medieval period, the first design for a modern flamethrower was submitted to the German Army by Richard...
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...advanced weaponry and technology. But World War I (WWI) likely had the largest surge of advancements in weaponry and technology when it came to high-end warfare. Flamethrowers, mortars, tanks, and machine guns were all-new to the battlefield, providing niche uses, or completing tasks faster and more efficiently than other technology at the time could. It changed how wars played out forever, even if some of the more usual weaponry was more consistent, reliable, and abundant (Weapons of War - Rifles 1). Still, due to WWI’s advancements in technology and weaponry, war would never be the same....
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...World War I Soldier Joy Lisak HIS120 March 6, 2013 Rodney Cavazo World War I Soldier World War I was a tremendous and horrifying event that lasted four years from 1914 to 1918. It caused the death of millions of soldiers and innocent civilians, and an unknown amount of property damage. In the beginning, America tried to stay neutral but eventually it was necessary to join the Allied troops in battle against Germany. In 1915, a German U-boat bombed the passenger ship Lusitania, and many Americans were among the victims. This event was one of the main reasons that American’s public opinion turned in favor of entering the war against the Germans. Congress declared war in 1917. The Second Battle of the Marne was fought from July 15 to August 5, 1918 on the Western Front in France. This was the turning point of World War I when the Allies gained ground against the Germans and eventually won the war. It began with a German attack at the Marne River and the Allied defense that led to a win over the Germans. The victory came from 85,000 fresh American troops joining the battle along with the British and Italians (Duffy, 2009). The presence of fresh American troops, unbroken by years of fighting, boosted the Allies resistance. The Germans were successful in crossing the river to the west of the French town of Reims, and pushed forward for nine miles before the French, American, British, and Italian soldiers stopped their advance. This loss was the...
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...The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields (including the South Field and the Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.[2] This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. After the heavy losses incurred in the battle, the strategic value of the island became controversial. It was useless to the U.S. Army as a staging base and useless to the U.S. Navy as a fleet base.[4] However, Navy Seabees rebuilt the landing strips, which were used as emergency landing strips for USAAF B-29s.[5] The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and 18 km (11 mi) of underground tunnels.[6][7] The Americans on the ground were supported by extensive naval artillery and complete air supremacy over Iwo Jima from the beginning of the battle by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aviators.[8] Iwo Jima was also the only battle by the U.S. Marine Corps in which the American casualties exceeded the Japanese, although Japanese combat deaths numbered three times the number of American deaths...
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...warfare, during World War I, left a great impact on the soldiers, physically and mentally, that participated in this war. This kind of warfare left soldiers with physical and mental trauma. The conditions in the trenches and the battles played a large part in their physical trauma. In document 1, Sergeant A.Vine, a soldier from the trenches in WWI explained, “The stench of the dead bodies now is awful as they have been exposed to the sun for several days, many have swollen and burst. The trench is full of other occupants, things with lots of legs, also swarms of rats.” Soldiers lived with piles of dead bodies that likely could be holding their friends. These bodies were never just there for them to look at; they also had a smell and...
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...According to most modern statistics, the first world war resulted in the combined deaths of almost 10 million soldiers out of about 65 million died, most of which died during battle, unlike most previous wars during which most died of disease, and 1/3rd of those deaths were caused by an outbreak of Spanish flu, killing more people in one year than did the black plague in four. Contrastingly, the American civil war caused almost a million deaths or more than 2 percent of the entire population of the entire north American continent at the time as opposed to little more than 1 percent of all of the armies put together, not counting civilians. The number of casualties from world war 1 and many others afterwards could have been much larger, but...
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...World War I began on August 4th, 1914. The war was anticipated to be finished by Christmas, however, it unexpectedly lasted for more than four years - finally ending on November 11th, 1918. The war was fought between two sides: The Central Powers, which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, and The Triple Entente (Allies), which included France, Russia, and Great Britain. During this war, 9 million soldiers 20 million civilians tragically lost their lives. Causes of World War I There were several factors that led to the outbreak of World War I. Some of these factors include: Intense competition to obtain the largest army and navy between fearful countries. Increasing issues regarding trade. Different empires wanted land in...
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...What were some of the weapons used in world war one or abbreviated (WW1) to help keep the country’s safe and also help win the war and save their territory and people of the land. Firstly, Weapons are used in are everyday life they could be good and bad when someone is behind the gun with their finger on the trigger. When I say bad I mean how people are killing people for the meanest of it and it's messed up because nobody has a big enough reason to take a life away from someone, although the good reasons they can be used is to protect ourselves and our family as they were used in WW1 they used the weapons to preserve and keep their country from losing the war and also to help protect themself from being hurt or killed. Secondly, many weapons were used in the war there were rifles, flamethrowers, machine guns, mortars, artillery, poison gases, tanks, and aircraft and these are just a few of the weapons know we could go into detail about every little weapon but that's not exactly worth wasting time....
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...Technological advancements in the nineteenth and twentieth century were incredibly powerful, and they undoubtedly changed the world forever. However, I believe that the effects that developing and differing ideologies have on the world are permanent and are more significant in the way they affect the world. Ideologies are sets of political beliefs that people hold. Before the enlightenment, ideologies formed naturally, but since then, people have studied them and developed them as well. People hold their ideologies dearly, and when they encounter others with different ideologies, conflict will often occur. There’s no doubt that technology is incredibly important and impactful, especially in the twentieth century. The changes that technology brought to the world caused two of the biggest wars to be multitudes more dangerous than they would have been one hundred years prior. The impact of technology on the death toll in war can be seen in the development of military tactics like trench warfare in World War I. Technology lead to the introduction of tanks, chemical warfare, flamethrowers, and other weapons that were much stronger than anything previous. After World War I, the invention of submarines, better airplanes, more dangerous guns, and the atomic...
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...role of American soldiers in the Second Battle of the Marne, and in subsequent engagements with the Germans. 2. Discuss the weapons used in WWI, such as bayonets, flamethrowers, machine guns, pistols, mustard gas, rifles, tanks and trench mortars. 3. Discuss the soldier’s experience, such as fighting in the trenches, boredom, lice, rats, food, common injuries, and battlefield engagement. The Second Battle of the Marne marked the turning of the tide in World War I. It began with the last German offensive of the conflict and was quickly followed by the first allied offensive victory of 1918. The American Expeditionary Force with over 250,000 men fighting under overall French command played key roles both in the initial defense and the later advances. In the Second Battle of Marne with 30,000 killed and wounded, the United States started suffering casualties on the enormous scale usually associated with the battles of the Great War. In what began as the last major German offensive of the First World War, the Second Battle of the Marne developed into a significant Allied victory. After it became clear that the Germans had not only failed in their aim to win the war in this offensive, but had in fact lost ground, a number of German commanders, including Crown Prince Wilhelm, believed the war was lost. the war could best be won by an attack in Flanders. To that end he determined to lure Allied forces from Belgium to the Marne in a huge diversionary attack, preparatory to...
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...many health issues to those who breathed in the gas, Americans and Vietnamese. Napalm was also used in the Vietnam war to stop the Vietnamese. Napalm was a mixture of plastic polystyrene, hydrocarbon benzene, and gasoline. Both of these very poisonous and caused a lot of damage during the Vietnam war. From 1961-1972 the U.S. wanted to do a wide-scale damage on the forests in Vietnam where all the Viet Cong and soldiers were to cause damage. For Agent Orange the U.S aircrafts used this to spray the area, affecting the forests and everything in it. Agent Orange had many herbicides in it and many other poisonous components in it, it was highly toxic having affected Vietnam’s crops and water sources so anyone eating or drinking water were affected by the poison. It had caused many health problems such as: muscular dysfunction, birth defects, nervous system disorders, etc. It...
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...Why World War 1 was the worst world war? World War 1 was one of the worst world wars ever because of the new innovations of that time which made war more deadly and dangerous that previous wars. New inventions such as tanks, gas attacks, and trenches brought in more deadly. WW1 also started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It eventually would start with Germany invading Belgium. WW1 would shape Europe and the world forever. How did WW1 start? It started in Sarajevo, Bosnia Sunday, June 28th, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand who was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary rode in a parade to the town hall of Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip a Bosnian-born Serbian and six others had plans to assassinate the Archduke. The six of them...
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...Previously used infantry tactics were barbaric, idiot and resulted in huge losses of life. This is where the problem stemmed from. The Germans were pioneered modern infantry tactics and they did so out of necessity as the allies stranglehold on the german empire increased as the war went on. This became even more apparent with the onset of trench warfare, machine guns and hydraulic recoil artillery. This modern advancements highlighted the need for a change in infantry tactics as time went on and casualties mounted. Originally infantry tactics consisted of a stand assault on a trench line with a lengthy artillery barrage along that line attempting to destroy enemy positions. This would then be followed a by a swarm of forward infantry in...
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...Fahrenheit 451 A Cautionary Tale (there may be grammar and or spelling mistakes.) By: Class: English 3 Honors Teacher: Fahrenheit 451 is a novel set in a futuristic America focused on a “fireman” named Montag Montag. In this world firemen like Montag set the blazes rather than extinguish them. Books are banned and if they were found in your house your home was burned with the books in it. As a result of owning a book you would languish for the rest of your days in a government facility. Montag had no problems with his job after all who wouldn’t love getting paid to burn things? Then one day they got a call about a woman who had a whole library of books in her house. When they arrived to do their job only one thing was wrong. The police hadn’t taken the woman away yet. It is here the story begins, with a woman who refuses to leave even as they are dousing her home with kerosene. When they try to remove her she reveals a kitchen match in her hand scaring them out of the house, she then lights the match committing suicide. Shaken by this incident no one talks on the ride back to the station. On his way home Montag runs into his new neighbor, seventeen year old Clarisse McClellan. A chatty, young girl who opens his eyes to the world of nature and not being one of societies stooges. After this meeting Montag returns home to find his wife overdosed on sleeping pills and promptly calls for help. Instead of paramedics he gets two technicians who are nothing more than plumbers...
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...The use of of napalm in the period of the now infamous Vietnam War is prolific, to say the least. Napalm has now permeated the cultural form so much the sole fact that it is mentioned still raises heads today. Because of the adamant use of napalm as a weapon of mass destruction wiping out entire kilometers of houses, plant life, and really just wiping out entire villages and small cities among the heat dreaded jungles of Vietnam, were under great leaves the Vietnameses would hide to surprise the American soldier who came to slap the communist hand away from the rest of the major part of Capitalist Asia, of course America did not do this out of pure will and generosity, the white man had his hands dipped deep into the mud of Vietnam , mud in...
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