Where was most of the fighting?
The majority of the fighting took place in Europe along two fronts: the western front and the eastern front. The western front was a long line of trenches that ran from the coast of Belgium to Switzerland. A lot of the fighting along this front took place in France and Belgium. The eastern front was between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria on one side and Russia and Romania on the other.
Major Battles
A lot of the war was fought using trench warfare along the western front. The armies hardly moved at all. They just bombed and shot at each other from across the trenches. Some of the major battles during the war included the First Battle of the Marne, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Tannenberg, Battle of Gallipoli, and the Battle of Verdun.
How did it end?
The fighting ended on November 11, 1918 when a general armistice was agreed to by both sides. The war officially ended between Germany and the Allies with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
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i thought it was interesting that there was so any battles and so many people died i cant imagine what their families felt like
ReplyDeleteYeah it was sad when that guy died after being in the trenches for 30 minutes.
DeleteIt was interesting that during the Battle Of Ypres, people where first exposed to chemical gas and that the solders already made makeshift pee gas masks to prevent it. I wonder, if there was no World War I would the inventions of the War still be made?
ReplyDeletefrom the battle of Somme video I thoguht it was crazy that 20,000 men died on the first day, thats super sad. it was cool to see real footage of it cause i never knew they had video stuff n things back then O.o
ReplyDeleteYeah, me neither. And it made me wonder how many people filming got injured during the battles? Or what it was like to be with the soldiers after or before the random explosions.
DeleteI thought it was very sad that so may people died int his war. It's terrible! I think if I was a soldier in the war I would be mad at the people taking the videos because I would be thinking "I'm in this war fighting for your freedom and you are just filming away!" This was such a terrible war.
ReplyDeleteI agree, such a awful loss of life...and for what? I liked the quote they had in the first video: "One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
DeleteFilming was good though, because it helped people back in America know what was truly going on. ;(
DeleteI agree! If I was fighting for my life and country the last thing I would want would to be filmed! I didn't even know they could even film the war back then.
DeleteYeah, the soldiers may have thought the filming person should be fighting not videotaping, but I think it was good of the people who filmed portions of the war, they were apparently thinking of the future, maybe they knew someday this war would be taught in schools and such. I think it would be a privilege to watch something someone brave enough to stand in the middle of a great war without a gun made. But yeah, the soldiers could have thought that the man filming should fight not film. But maybe some realized the good out of filming the events
DeleteI learned that the poison gas was heavier than the air, so it dropped down into the trenches.
ReplyDeletei think it was kind of gross tat they had to where "pee masks"
ReplyDeleteYeah just imagine the gross smell. Ewww. But I guess it was a better alternative than dying from chlorine. :/
DeleteThe fact that 20,000 people died on the first day gives you an idea of just how many people died in the whole war! Super sad to think about.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how many men fought and died in WWI to help keep democracy and things America agrees with in the world, basically they fought for what they believe in, which is very noble. But I think it is sad how so many had to die over just the argument of views, how so many countries wanted things to happen one way and others disagreed. But I guess the world was taught a lesson after WWI...but that statement is sort of useless when we mention there was a second one, with equal or greater loss.
ReplyDeleteEven though using urine as a counter for chlorine is really gross to us, to a frantic soldier standing in a trench watching the intimidating gas lurk towards him, you'd agree that it's either your urine or death!
On the Ypres video I thought it was odd how the Germans had the time to bring in chlorine gas and even figure out how it works. Wouldn't you think if it was easy to make, someone else would have made it a while before?
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DeleteI just think that there wasn't a need for it, as WWI was the intro to mass destruction. I think it would have been invented and experimented on earlier if there was a world war prior to that. Also, because of the crazy arms race between nations, each side was coming up with bizarre, brutal things like poison gas.
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