History is often thought of as a set of facts, or numbers and dates. These numbers are supposed to help the people who are alive in the present to understand what happened in the past. But how can someone who is alive in ... born? The reality is that people cannot understand the past unless they have something with which to connect it to their present. In order to make this connection, the numbers and facts which make up history must be brought to life in the present, through emotions which are timeless, and can be understood and experienced by both historical characters ... reader. In war, ...

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... unrestrained warfare, belligerents had to intervene in the economies, diverting production from peacetime goods to the manufacture of munitions and military equipment. Technological advances also took place, which increased the number of "mechanical contrivances-3 such as heavy artilleries, tanks, submarines, and airplanes, which made war an "untrammeled, absolute manifestation of violence-4 as Carl von Causewitz so eloquently put it. Total war ... expanded their activities. The growing needs of the military created an enormous demand for workers. To compensate for the millions of men w...

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... submarine impact was seen in the cutting of the British lifelines as was done in the First World War. The German submarines also recorded large numbers of victories in United States waters. The German submarines were controlling the wars in the Oceans until the allied forces began to attack back with ... system (HAH-WEB). During the Second World War the allied forces used the convoy system to defend a large group of merchant ships with a limited number of armed escort ships (HAH-WEB). This tactic became necessary in order to increase the amount of merchant ships that made there way thro...

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... sent away over seas in the American Expeditionary Force. Led by General John J. Pershing, the AEF landed in France on June 14,1917, coming in slow numbers at first then later they came in huge numbers in the spring and summer of 1918( Lawson, 46). Pershing told the U.S. he would three million troops. These men were called the "doughboys". The doughboys fought ... States extended ten billion dollars worth of U.S. Treasury loans during just the last two years of the war. The actually fighting the American's did was not as important as the number of troops that they sent to support the All...

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... speak of going to meet death. Most proclaim they would rather greet death like a friend than to suffer endlessly laying out in no man's land dying by inches. The sheer numbers for the death counts are staggering. The descriptions of the cemeteries that of course appeared instantly are horrifying. So many died and were buried, and then suddenly the burial sites ... in large mass graves. Gilbert presents General Douglas Haig as a man whose original plan was to simply wear down the German infantry and exhaust their reserves, at which point a large number of soldiers would be able to breakt...

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... and Serbia, the conflict could have been avoided The arms race During the years previous to the war in 1914, there was a development in new and powerful armament in industrial numbers. That is why this war is known as the first industrial war. The countries were eager to buy and test the weapons, and the increase of armament of this time ... the danger of a war was becoming imminent. "The war will be over by Christmas"- Ignorance of the war conditions When the war was declared, most of the countries had a great number of young men who volunteered to become soldiers and protect their mot...

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... , became the first to make military use of the airplane, dropping grenades from a German-built monoplane. In 1912 they also dropped bombs from an airship. When war broke out the number of aircraft on all sides and all fronts was very small. France, for example, had less than 140 aircraft at the start of the war. By the end of the ... stability had given way to manoeuvrability. The famous Sopwith Camel was a difficult aircraft to fly, but supremely agile. Not only did aircraft become faster, more manoeuvrable and more powerful, but a number of technologies that were common at the start of...

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... these men to fight in Europe. However unlike French Black Africa there were people here who supported the war in Europe and actually signed up, this helps explain the large number of men who served for France. It also helps explain why there was only one small revolt, in the remote region of the Aures Mountains in1916 . The Algerians were so ... May 1915 and although the Germans continued to fight after its capture, they knew the end was near. So instead of continuing against an opponent at least three times its number, in one of the most desolate and inhospitable areas in the world, th...

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... , Ernst RÖhm joined the German Workers Party. He had been involved in far right wing politics for some time. RÖhm was member 555, which in reality was member number 55. The party had started numbering from five hundred to make the party seem larger. It was here he met the thirty-year-old WWI veteran, Adolf Hitler. Hitler had ... , the constitution of the Weimar Republic had installed an incredibly complex system of preferential voting known as proportionate representation. With each certain number of votes, a party could install someone in parliament. This allowed many minor parties to ...

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... , bombing civilians and creating mayhem through out the streets. The Luftwaffe was superior in quality of aircraft, and in tactics of ground- air operations. They were also considerably superior in numbers, and far better in fighting experience to the Armee de L"Air and the advanced air striking force of the RAF combined. The German army used different types of aircraft for ... and Germany's armed forces weren't bigger than that of Britain and France but they were put to better use. Both the British and the French used their tanks in small numbers, and they were spread thinly throughout ...

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... , flags flying, drums sounding led by officers in full dress. With the invention of new weapons such as the machine gun and long range-artillery these battles resulted in huge numbers of casualties. To avoid the firepower of these new weapons soldiers dug trenches and within a few months the two sides had dug 466 miles of trenches opposineach other and so ... the war nearly 50 percent of people working for the government were women11. Many women also contributed to the war effort serving as nurses at the fronts helping save countless numbers of lives. By the end of the war women made up ...

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... soon acknowledged by the Allies; if either side were to win, they would have to resort to new, and advanced tactics and weaponry, uphold team morale, and ship in large numbers of troops, unfazed by the realities of war and its brutality. Allies also came to believe that innovative ideas would also be needed not just on the Western Front, but ... Germans tried again with an improved tear gas concoction at Nieuport against the French in March 1915. Below is a table to give a sense of how much Poison Gas affected the numbers of soldiers on both sides of the war. Country Total Casualties De...

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... reasons for the three consequences of the Great War. The first consequence that the war caused was increases in casualties. The use of machine guns and mortars automatically increased the number of men that died in battles. "At Loos, in September 1915, twelve attacking British battalions- about 10,000 men- lost 8,246 in just three and a half hours, mainly because of ... fire of a few shells an hour kept the infantry on edge and caused a steady drain of casualties." (Windrow, 21) These quote shows that even in quiet battles that lasted hours, numbers of death slowly rose. One can clearly...

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... who were forced to move away from the only lives that they knew and to live in the camps. Just before the turn of the century, there was an increased number of Japanese immigration to the United States. Fifty years before this, many Chinese immigrants arrived to take advantage of the Gold Rush in California. Their arrival and the mining skills ... Chinese faced many challenges and many laws were put into place to give mining advantages to the whites. One of these laws was the Miners" License Law (1850). The limited numbers of licenses were primarily given to the white miners in the area...

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Adolf Hitler made Germans the number one importance of the world and this thinking is what caused the holocaust. The holocaust is something which still haunts people today. It is a memory that will continue to burn ... their ribs and every other bone was visible through their skin. Women's hair was cut and used for things. They were made to wear uniforms and were known by the numbers on those uniforms. To the Nazis they were not people, they were just objects to be destroyed. By the end of 1943 the Germans closed the death camps. The death ... ...

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... Christianity in 301 AD and kept their independent church during centuries to come. They have their own country who declared its independency in 1991 from former Soviet Union. The total number of Armenians throughout the world exceeds 7 million with some 3 million living in Armenia, some one million living in former Soviet Union republics and some 1 million living in U.S. Armenians now live ... officially recognize the Armenian Genocide since it does not want to lose a strategic ally in the region. Some encyclopedias claim that the Armenian deaths were around 600,000, but the numbers do ...

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... , one with the pilots and one with the mechanics, explaining to them that they both needed to step up their performance. Rickenbacker's speech worked and the 94th became the war's number one fighter unit, with more victories and more hours over enemy lines than any other American outfit. On September 25,1918, Rickenbacker put his words into action. During a solo mission ... of actual combat he had an impressive and unmatched twenty-six air victories. Eddie Rickenbacker had the ability and skills, but not the time in which to amass as high numbers as the British and French pilots, or his ...

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... Expeditionary force to be sent to the line to get the US directly involved in the war. When the Americans Finally made it to Europe, they showed up in flooding numbers. By November 11, 1918 over 2 million military personnel had arrived in France and half of then were combat effectives and the remaining men had already become casualties. At the busiest ... some of the poisonous gas he would be much more susceptible to a flu or pneumonia. It is unknown how many troops died as a result of post gas inhalation but the number must be high. A major factor in the war was the moral of a countrie...

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... group of poets consisted of Robert Frost, Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Wilson Gibson, and John Drinkwater (Wikipedia, 1). This group of writers and poets created an Annual called New Numbers. Lascelles Abercrombie was separated both geographically and eternally by war. His insatiably loved partner in literature, Rupert Brooke, died in Greece as an effect of World War One (Ourworld, 1). In ... write this poem using third person. He also chose to utilize no specific stanza form. Throughout this poem, the author continues a tone of caution and instruction. Abercromb...

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... able to last for a few days if they entered the war. This brings us to the main point of this article; Wilson had to get his armed forces up in numbers without breaking his campaign promise to his people. How was Wilson suppossed to do this? The answer was Pancho Villa. Pancho Villa was a very predictable man. After the events down ... of Mexico's President, General Victotiano Huerta, because he had suppressed a left-wing revolution. This hatred led Wilson to try to provoke a war with Mexico. He got his chance when a small number of Americans where arrested in Mexican port of Tampico. K...

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... contemporary America. The human race gives life, and then at the first hint of a disagreement, takes it away at the speed of a bullet. Throughout mankind's history there have been quite a number of these "disagreements" that seemed to have sparked the wick for warfare. Whether or not religion was the soul purpose of the conflict or if it was a mere fraction of ... " "official" presence in this war, Germany immediately declared War on America. Over the next several months, with the help of the Russians, Germany's forces were slowed. Russian's (though less in numbers) were able to keep Ger...

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... completely not comprehendible to the men in the trenches. They could not believe that the people in charge had any idea of what was actually happening. They only saw the numbers and had calculated a certain amount of death to be acceptable. Another scene that portrays the low levels of humanity that the men were forced to go into because of their ... to carry him back. On the walk back, Kat is shot in the back and killed. Everything that Paul had was taken from him yet the officers just call Kat's number and add it to the list of the dead. His death is as insignificant to them as it cou...

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... the end of 1918. Both the men on the side of the Central Powers as well as the men on the side of the Allied Powers were surrendering in large numbers. The men stopped fighting because their only option in most cases, even though dangerous, was surrender. A sign that the war was coming to an end was in 1918 when, "According ... it also proved as decisive as the First Battle of the Marne because it destroyed any remaining German hope of winning the war," (Lyons 280). German soldiers surrendered in large numbers towards the end of the war to the point that "the war could no longer be cont...

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... , it is rather difficult for us to really comprehend and appreciate the horrendous loss of life that took place. The danger in studying the war is that we allow the numbers to desensitize us to the reality that is taking place. We thus have the potential to become like many of the generals whose disregard for the common soldier's life prompted ... ...

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... to get across the ocean, back into Great Britain. If Hitler had sent in foot soldiers to kill the troops, it would have been easy. He outnumbered them with massive numbers and hundreds of thousands of allied troops would have been killed. If it was not for constant military mistakes like this throughout the war, it may have had an entirely ... ...

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