In fact, it was the huge boom of big guns, called artillery, being fired on the Western Front. 75% of all men who died in World War 1 were killed by artillery. The largest battle of the World War 1 – the Battle of the Somme –is known as one of the bloodiest battles in ...
The Western Front in World War I, located in France, was fought using trench warfare. WWI started on 28 June 1914, and by the end of 1914, both sides had built trenches that went from the North Sea and through Belgium and France. Neither side made much ground for nearly three and a ...
signed at the end of WW1, placed some very harsh restrictions on Germany, which created a feeling of resentment among the Germans. Due to the financial depression of the 1920’s, Germany simply did not have the funds to pay the reparation fees demanded by the treaty. ...
World War IA British soldier inside a trench on the Western Front during World War I, 1914–18. 1914–1918 Also known as: First World War, Great War, WWI Written by Dennis E. Showalter Professor of History, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo. Author ofThe Wars of Frederick the Grea...
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, published in 1929, takes place during World War I. Remarque used his experience as a German soldier to tell the story of Paul Baumer as he endures the horrors of war. Its unflinching realism has mad
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World War IMen of the Royal Norfolk Regiment undergoing a course of revolver training while wearing gas masks. After poison gas was introduced to the Western Front in spring 1915, troops had to be prepared to work and fight with gas masks on. ...
All Quiet on the Western Front, American movie (1930) set during World War I and regarded as one of the most effective antiwar films ever made.
First Battle of the Somme (July 1–November 13, 1916), costly and largely unsuccessful Allied offensive on the Western Front during World War I. The horrific bloodshed on the first day of the battle became a metaphor for futile and indiscriminate slaught
Christmas Truce, (December 24–25, 1914), impromptu cease-fire that occurred along the Western Front during World War I. The pause in fighting was not universally observed, nor had it been sanctioned by commanders on either side, but, along some two-thir