World War I Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (395) essays
World War I essays:
European Warfare in the First World War
... dark and lonely life of trench warfare, used for the first time in WW1, shone a light on what was to become the new European warfare. Very early into the war German troops were ordered to "dig in", in order to stop their retreat and prevent the Allied advance. The Allies ...
World War I, military conflict.
... War I did not come into general use until a second worldwide conflict broke out in 1939 Before that year, the war was known as the Great War or the World War. World War I was the first total war. Once the war began, the countries involved mobilized their entire populations and economic resources ...
Schlieffen plan: What it was, what happened and it's consequences.
... plan was devised by Alfred von Schlieffen (hence the name) , when he devised it he was German Army Chief of Staff, in 1905, the plan was German which they would use to avoid a war on two fronts (Russia on the Eastern front, and Britain + France on the Western front). Schlieffen ...
World War I: The West in Despair
... European nations. Economic and imperial competition and fear of war provoked military alliance, which further raised the tension contributing to the outbreak of war. These factors had contributed to the war but not one sole factor was the cause of World War I. There were many causes of World War I ...
World War I From Both Trenches.
... and a German respectively, each published memoirs of their World War I combat experience. While some descriptions were similar, each author also had unique attitudes towards the war. Through combining their accounts, we can gain a full perspective of the atrocities of the Great War ...
A review of the book "The Berlin Diary"
... war. In order to win this war, the Allies must've had a great leader to offset the "Abbott and Costello" of politics. That man was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. THE UNITED STATES AND FDR President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was the catalyst for America to enter World War ...
What were the background causes of World War One and which nations were responsible for it?
... of the 20th Century, a place where "Europe was the centre of the universe" (Petrie), World War I resulted from a number of factors: nationalism, imperialism, militarism and he alliance system in Europe. All the European powers bear responsibility. Germany in particular, risked war, but did not plan ...
"The First World War was the first modern war" discuss and evaluate this statement
... World War was the first modern war, in terms of the weapons that were used. The weapons used were far more advanced than those used in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and are similar to weapons still used nowadays. However, the top level commanders of the fighting armies ...
Relativley Speaking...The Causes of America's Declaration of War on Germany
... seas. Wilson's statement that "(t)he present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind", portrays his idealism in reference to Germany's naval policy and American economic interests. His idealistic feelings were further expressed in his characterization of World War I ...
Summary of world war 1
... resources and manpower) into the war on the side of the Allies. World War One was truly the first 'total war' - not only was warfare conducted on land and sea but, on 31 May, London witnessed its first attack from the air as bombs were dropped from the great German ...