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“All the horrors of all the ages were brought together; not only armies but whole populations were thrust into the midst of them… Merchant ships and neutral ships and hospital ships were sunk on the seas and all on board left to their fate… Every effort was made to starve entire nations into submission, without regard to age or sex. Monuments and cities were smashed by artillery. Bombs were cast down from the air indiscriminately. Poison gas stifled or seared the soldiers. Liquid fire was projected upon their bodies. Men fell from the air in flames, or were smothered in the dark recesses of the sea” This statement by Winston Churchill very accurately describes the destruction, totality, and modernity of the First World War. The First World War is often referred to as the first modern war and as paving the way for the totality of the Second World War. World War One was the first “total war”, a term coined by German General Paul von Ludendorff in that it involved the various governments, populations, and economies of the nations entrenched in it like no war had ever before. It was a total war in regards to its use of civilians as targets/combatants, its utter destruction of anything/everything in its path, and its global scope and reach across continents. It was the first war where the wide-scale use of machine guns, tanks, airplanes and chemical weapons replaced rifles, cavalry horses, swords and daggers. In other words, war was becoming impersonal. The way the First World War was fought one hundred years ago portended today’s use of drones manipulated by joysticks from the comfort of a gaming chair thousands of miles away to wage war. In this paper, I discuss the First World War through the eyes of two opposing s... ... middle of paper ... ...orld War I. http://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/germany/ (accessed April 18, 2014). • Lualdi, Katharine. Making of the West 4th Ed. + Sources of the Making of the West, 4th Ed., Vol. 2. Boston: Bedfords/St. Martins, 2012. • Sassoon, Siegfried. Counter-attack, and other poems,. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1918. • Poetry Foundation. "Siegfried Sassoon." Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/siegfried-sassoon (accessed May 6, 2014). • "Siegfried Sassoon: Declaration against the War." IT Services (Banbury Road). http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/sassoon/declaration.html (accessed April 30, 2014). • Strachan, Hew . "Overview: Britain and World War One, 1901 - 1918." BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/overview_britain_ww1_01.shtml (accessed April 30, 2014).
World War I is marked by its extraordinary brutality and violence due to the technological advancement in the late 18th century and early 19th century that made killing easier, more methodical and inhumane. It was a war that saw a transition from traditional warfare to a “modern” warfare. Calvary charges were replaced with tanks; swords were replaced with machine guns; strategic and decisive battles were r...
Everyone knows what war is. It's a nation taking all of its men, resources, weapons and most of its money and bearing all malignantly towards another nation. War is about death, destruction, disease, loss, pain, suffering and hate. I often think to myself why grown and intelligent individuals cannot resolve matters any better than to take up arms and crawl around, wrestle and fight like animals. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque puts all of these aspects of war into a vivid story which tells the horrors of World War 1 through a soldier's eyes. The idea that he conveys most throughout this book is the idea of destruction, the destruction of bodies, minds and innocence.
Clifford R. Backman, The Cultures of the West: A History. Volume 1: To 1750. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Bard, Mitchell G. The Complete Idiot's Guide to world War II, Macmillan Publishing, New York, New York, 1999
For the great lesson which history imprints on the mind…is the tragic certainty that all wars gain their ultimate ends, whether great or petty, by the violation of personality, by the destruction of homes, by the paralysis of art and industry and letters…even wars entered on from high motives must rouse greed, cupidity, and blind hatred; that even in defensive warfare a people can defend its rights only by inflicting new wrongs; and that chivalrous no less than self-seeking war entails relentless destruction.
"Everywhere in the world was heard the sound of things breaking." Advanced European societies could not support long wars or so many thought prior to World War I. They were right in a way. The societies could not support a long war unchanged. The First World War left no aspect of European civilization untouched as pre-war governments were transformed to fight total war. The war metamorphed Europe socially, politicaly, economically, and intellectualy.
World War 1...what is it? Normally when you think about it you must be wondering how on earth am I still alive! World War 1 was also known as The Great War that took place from 1914-1918 within most parts of Europe. Within this informative essay I will be talking about the features, the results, the end, and how World War 1 changed the lives of the Europeans.
Katharine J. Lualdi, Sources of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (Bedford/St. Martins: Boston, MA, 2012) 194. (Named as Primary Sources for the Middle Ages on our angel for History 102.)
McNeill, William H., 1998. How the West Won. New York: The New York Review of Books, 2-4
World War 1 was called “The Great War”, “The war to end all wars”, and “The first modern war”. It had many causes and a few repercussions and I will describe them in detail.
World War I is known as a war that occurred on extremely cruel terms; there were not many restrictions on what and when certain weapons could be used. Unfortunately, the Industrial Age brought with it many new ways to kill; the soldiers of World War I came in contact with many new weapons that they had never seen in combat.
War is a howling, roaring creature, using its power to ignite destructive and fatal consequences among the masses. Conflicts have risen between nations yet no one seems to understand what breeds the conflict. While destruction may be the end, deception is its mean. War ...
Lynn Hunt et al., The Making of the West: peoples and cultures, a Concise History (Boston:Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003), 43, 45, 132, 136, 179-180
Anthony C. Yu, translated and edited, The Journey to the West Volume I (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 16, 21.
Childress, Diana, and Bruce Watson. "The fall of the west." Calliope 11, no. 5 (January 2001): 27.