Before World War one the perfect war tactics were cavalry charge with foot soldiers following. ... Soldiers had to wade through knee deep in mud for days. ... These bombardments were not anything good either. ... This even effected soldiers years after the war was over. ... This meant that the soldiers would go underground, and when the bombing stopped they would step out as they knew the soldiers were coming, and because the soldiers walked across "no man's land" this gave the German's enough time to ready their weapons. ...

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A good leader should affected the war in such the way he/she wants with great leadership skills, making good decisions, and determined the outcome of the war. ... No one loved war or being able to command his/her soldiers as Patton did. ... He had good vision, and clear sense of direction. ... They should trust their soldiers just like their soldiers trusted him. ... He always put up a good fight and takes the offense. ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front is a book about the life of a soldier during World War I. It focuses on a young German soldier by the name of Paul Baumer and the changes and struggles he faces throughout the war. ... The book starts off where the German soldiers are resting right after they had just fought a battle. Paul talks about how they had all lined up for breakfast and that the cook had only prepared for about 80 of the soldiers. ... Paul had become fairly good friends with this forty-year-old soldier who goes by the name Kat. ...

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Remarque is accurately able to portray the many stresses soldiers go through because he was actually a soldier himself, and was wounded in World War 1. ... After the war the soldiers usually never recovered from the war. ... The story is told by Paul Baumer, a German soldier during World War I. ... Good leaders act in the best interest of their people and I believe that we are fortunate to have great leaders who keep all of our freedoms as their first priority. Without good leaders ...

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First, the young soldiers in World War I were a lost generation. ... He and the other soldiers were forced to become ruthless killers in order to survive. ... The war took a heavy toll on the soldiers who fought in it. the terror of death infested the minds of the soldiers until they broke down. ... Lastly, the French girls remark is true in that the soldiers lost touch with their friends and families. ...

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A French soldier jumped in, and Paul stabbed him instinctively. ... But it was too late; the French soldier was dying. In order to lighten the guilt, Paul told the French soldier he would tell his family what was happened on him. ... This indicated that the victims of the war are not the countries, not the leaders of the war, but the soldiers and only the soldiers in the war. ... He felt sorry for every soldier in the war, he knew the reason why they became enemies was because their different nationalities, he had very good relationships with his friends, when his friends wounded, he console...

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Linden was a lawyer and his family belonged to the German upper class, however, "as far as everyone in Upper Street ham was concerned, the only good German was a dead one" (Pg. 137). ... Tarrant fell from the good graces of many and became ignored, despised and shunned by many villagers. ... In the past wars, soldiers would charge and attempted to break through enemy lines on horseback. ... Many corpses of soldiers were "stacked like lumber or buried in mud to keep from smelling" (Pg. 316). ... Most war songs were not composed by professional musicians, but created by soldiers. ...

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I think this poem is very patriotic and though many consider it too romantic compared to the gruesome works of some World War 1 poets such as Wilfred Owen, it gives a very good image of young men's attitudes when entering the world before they had been hardened by the experience of war. ... In "Dulce et decorum Est pro patria mori" describes a soldier dying of poison gas. In the first two lines it describes soldiers who are tired, trudging back home with heavy backpacks. ... The third line down describes the soldier the poem is about, that he is stumbling trying to get his helmet on. ...

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During war, soldiers fight because of their fear of death, causing their survival instinct to take over. ... Meanwhile, on the inside, the soldiers crushed innocence leads them to fight for survival. ... Soldiers are misled constantly about what they are fighting for. Many soldiers join the military wanting to fight for their country and glory. ... After all, it may feel good at first to contribute to one's country out of honor and duty, however, ultimately what is it good for to fight if it just causes them to become distressed and hopeless like in "the lost generation....

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• Has Bibliography
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The soldiers lived their lives in these trenches. ... Halfway up the trench were ledges called "fire steps" where the soldiers could shoot from. ... Almost all of the soldiers suffered from lice. ... During an attack soldiers would fix bayonets and wait for the whistle from their officer that would order the "over the top", aware that minutes later they stood a good chance of being killed or maimed for life. ... Officers and soldiers alike all had a common hatred of civilians "They hated the smiling women in the streets. ...

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Is it the soldiers of a global war or the idiots of a global fight? ... Many of the wars start off as good wars such as World War II in which the Allies tried to stop Hitler from destroying the Jewish population of Europe. ... In the American Civil War, the Confederates and Union soldiers both used spies to gather information. In Ambrose Bierce's "AN Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", Peyton Farquhar was a planter who helped the Confederates by spying on the Union soldiers and also sabotage their plans. ... In general, wars are no good and all they bring is death and misery when...

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Alexandra gave birth to a son, Alexis, and Nicholas was to announce the good news. ... Even some soldiers wanted to join them. ... They stopped at the town square to be greeted by a line of soldiers. The soldiers immediately began shooting and slaughtered all of the rioters. ... The soldiers came in and took the nurse and killed him. ...

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Soldiers who have never been sea sick in their life were on that day. ... On D-Day, he will try to force us from the beaches; to secure the Caen, Bayeux, Carentan, and Normandy, we must blast our way onshore and get a good lodgment before he can bring up sufficient reserves to turn us out. ... Used by the soldiers were Thompson Machine Guns, with a .45 Colt Automatic for back up. ... The landing crafts that the soldiers used were box shaped, 30 by 20 feet. The walls were so low, and it was so dangerous, that the soldiers had to stay crouched or they would get shot. ...

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(pg 271-291) The final chapters of the book are full of irony because the soldiers are on their final stand and are about to fall. ... The second theme is the effect of war on the soldiers. The ware had a major effect on the soldiers they were in constant danger and were seeing people die every day. ... The butterfly is a symbol for the good things in life, that even though there is death and sadness all around them the butterfly is the one thing that reminds them that there are still good things in the world around them. ... This book takes you back to the time where it takes place and makes...

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With the sinking of more American ships and the promise that Germany would help Mexico take U.S. territory, President Wilson, along with a good majority of the American public, felt that neutrality was no longer an option. ... Pershing, and behind him more than 2 million American soldiers that fought on the battlefields of France. ... World War I took the lives of many soldiers 116,000 on the battlefield, and that's not even including the aftermath of soldiers who were wounded in battle. These soldiers that made it back to where they could receive medical attention would later die from ...

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It defines the loss of morality and the aimlessness in the lives of soldiers, their feelings at the time. The War destroyed their idea that if you where good, good things would come your way. ... Hemmingway explains all the feeling that soldiers of his time felt during and after the war. ... The term "Lost Generation" came from Gertrude Stein in a conversation with Hemmingway. the term was later used to name the soldiers from the United States and England. ...

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During this time in world war one the Canadians had earned the title of being brave soldiers in battle. ... "A national spirit was born, and now to be British was not enough; we were Canadian and could do a good job of paddling our own canoe. " Spotlight Canada (82) This was said by a Canadian soldier who had survived the Battle of Vimy Ridge. ... After this battle, these people thought just what the soldier did. "We were Canadian and could do a good job of paddling our own canoe....

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Before the fear and the reality of war sets in on the young soldiers they are enthusiastic and happy about going off to war. This novel takes place in World War I so the soldiers, most of them at least, probably have no idea what they are walking into. Soon however the mentality of the boys changes and they become hardened soldiers: At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. ... It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness It is this other, this second sight in us, that has thrown us to...

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The dehumanized minds of the soldiers will bring about horrible images of death and destruction until they break down and go to pieces. ... During the night a French soldier falls in the hole and Paul has to stab him. ... His group soon has a stroke of good luck when they were assigned to defend a village. ... He was dehumanized by this war when his own soldiers attacked him. ... The dehumanized soldiers from the previous war were desperate for something new. ...

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The memorial is engraved with the names of 11,285 soldiers who were either listed as dead of missing in Francev. ... " This is very important to Canada's independence because Canada can now decide for itself what's good and what's bad. ... We had time to decide as an independent country whether going into war was good for the country or not. ... Juno beach had a rather flat landscape but the Germans planted many stumbling blocks for the soldiers. Barbed wires and mines are some examples of the barrier that stood before the Canadian soldiers. ...

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Although many people criticise Britain's policy of appeasement in the 1930's I think it was a good idea. A lot of people would disagree with this though because there are several reasons why appeasement wasn't a good idea. ... I think there are a lot of good reasons for appeasement, though. It was a good idea to put off war even if it was only for a short time because Britain wasn't prepared to fight again so soon. ... Chamberlain was trying to protect his people from the fate many of soldiers had suffered in the First World War. ...

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Early in the novel, Remarque gives the reader the impression that the soldiers from Paul's troop are everyday teenagers, that what happened to them could have happened to anybody at the time. This resulted in the reader being greatly affected when the soldiers experienced the Horrors and senselessness of war. ... This event causes the boys to realize that young innocent lives are lost for no good reason. As the boys see the agonized look of Kemmerich and the other soldiers in the hospital, they begin to question why they are at the front. ...

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One of the key wars that Ross fights throughout the book is his sensitivity versus his responsibilities as a soldier, and like most of the wars in the book, it is internal. ... The Ross household was generally a good one until the untimely death of Rowena. When this occoured, everything good in the Ross's lives seemed to be in permanent disorder. ... I know that you're going to go away and be a soldier. ... Robert was a good runner and when he decided to run around the block 26 times, in likeness of his hero Longboat, success was close within his grasp. ...

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Expressed as its simplest the ANZAC Legend or spirit is those qualities claimed to represent the typical Australian soldier. ... This is also a good point to ask the children were they all brave? ... In the Gallipoli Gallery we look at the frontline diet as another way of understanding the common experience of the soldiers. ... Do you think the Australian soldiers fought well? ... The All Purpose ANZAC Legend - Museums Australia Conference 3 Why is so important that the Australian soldiers not to found wanting? ...

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The War had won, and would go on winning.""1 These are the words of Edmund Blunden, a British soldier who survived the Battle of the Somme, who came to the realization that nobody could claim victory in the twentieth-century mass warfare, because both winners and losers paid a high price. ... The soldiers that served in the war were hit especially hard by the horror of war. Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier vividly portrays the carnage of World War II: "We have become wild beasts . ... Mustard agent was first introduced during the latter part of the First World War and caused lung and ...

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• Grade Level: High School