The Western Front had many more horrifying trench warfare than Gallipoli. The soldiers fighting on the Western Front saw more diseases than the soldiers fighting in Gallipoli. They had trench foot, rheumatism and bronchitis. There were rats the size of cats and giant lice. The soldiers would wake up to find a giant rat sleeping next to them.
On August 4th 1914 Britain declared war on Germany for violating Belgian neutrality. Australia as allies soon followed and sent troops who departed to Gallipoli in October 1914 along with troops from France, New Zealand and Britain. As the war continued the troops travelled to The Western front where 5,533 soldiers were seriously injured in only 24 hours, by the end of the year the list of casualties grew 40,000. In 1917, 76,836 soldiers were added to the list of casualties in battles in Bullecourt, Messines, and the four-month operation around Ypres, recognised as the battle of Passchendaele. For Australia, World War 1 remains the most damaging conflict in terms of deaths and casualties.
Trenches were muddy and smelly, many of the dead bodies were buried nearby. Toilets sometimes overflowed and went into the trenches. Millions of rats infested the trenches some were as big as cats and lice spread within the soldiers. Trench foot was one of the most common problems that the soldiers in the trenches faced.
Many of these diseases flourished because of the continual exposure to wet and damp that the soldiers
World War Two was a long extended period of fighting, Grief, and Death. Allied forces slowly gained naval and air fights in the Pacific. Soldiers had to deal with harsh rain conditions, Mud, and Humid heat. US soldiers were not prepared for the heat condition, and they had to carry equipment everywhere they went. The water and food supply was rationed to save food.
Soldiers had to take shelter in water-filled craters. The mud covered rifle barrels and breeches making them difficult to fire. It consumed soldiers as they slept, and slowed down stretcher bearers. “The first day I went in, the mud was six inches deep everywhere, and in most places halfway up to my knees” (Colyer, 137). Another significance of
They woke up, fought, and slept with hope of making it through the twenty four hours in a day, in order to find a way home to their families. The rugged terrain and muddy trenches caused sickness and the compaction of marines resulted in diseases spreading like wildfires. “ We were in mud all the time. We fought in the wet, slept in it, ate our soggy, cold rations in it (Chapter 17 page 76).” The rain and rocky steep floors increased enemy sightings often putting the marines at risk.
The winter was so brutal, that soldiers were dying, of sickness, lack of food, and exposure. Even I, as a soldier, almost faced death because of the coldness. It was a very hard winter. People were saying that if the winter was any worse it could have been considered an Ice Age. The ice was black and shining.
A somewhat frequently discussed question in history is if the United States should have become involved in World War One. The conclusion to this might seem fairly simple, but in actuality, it is a complicated question. In the end, the answer is that we had to join the war, otherwise the aftermath might have been much worse. It was essential we join the allies because Germany was making threats of attack, and Germany killed many innocent Americans.
Compare and contrast strategy (incl. technology/air power/naval power/land power) between WW1 and WW2. The use of air power as a strategy of war was highly contingent on the development of technology and became more and more significant to wars as technology developed. When compared to World War I, the second world war saw an improvement of technological capacities, leading to an enhanced production of aerial power along with the emergence of new tactics and strategies of war.
WW1 is known as the first modern war because it saw the incorporation of mechanical weapons. The Central Powers and Allies both used a variety of weapons such as machine guns, chemical weapons , clothing, biplanes, artillery, tanks, grenades, and rifles. These weapons were state of the art for the early 20th century. These weapons caused casualties to skyrocket as the Allies and the Central Powers were in a stalemate.
WWI (1914-1918) was a disastrous conflict between two sides - the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. It resulted in the victory of the Allies. There were plenty of Central Powers weaknesses, the Schlieffen plan, weak allies of Germany and their hard economic situation at the end of the WWI. However, it was not only due to these weaknesses, Allied Powers had a few strengths, that made them won. The most important of these are : greater army, control of the sea and support of the USA since 1917, while Germany was already running out of supplies and soldiers.
“Imagine yourself in the pitch dark, after two or three days of wet, cold, hunger, sleeplessness, staggering down a trench, knee-deep in mud, carrying various burdens that almost equal your own body-weight” (Ellis, 48). This was the everyday life of the typical soldier involved in the World War I trench warfare. During WWI trench warfare was common. It began in September 1914 with the German army digging themselves in for a battle that would last what seemed like a life time for the soldiers involved. Soldiers on either side alike lived in deplorable conditions.
Comparison between WW1 and WW2. Ali Hamza 5B (4) 1.How and why they began One of the differences between World War 1 and 2 is how and why they began. World War 1 started when assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinandwhich created an explosive reaction from Europe because of years of built up hostility and distrust. When World War 2 broke out it was because Germany began invading neighbouring countries like Austria and Yugoslavia.
The First World War (WWI) was fought from 1914 to 1918 and the Second World War (or WWII) was fought from 1939 to 1945. They were the largest military confrontations in human history. Both wars involved military alliances between different groups of countries. While the WWI involved the alliance system, the WWII involved the Axis Powers and the Central Powers. Periods and duration
