https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o Made by Bocchetti D., Ciccarelli A. en-us 2019-01-08 14:36:05 UTC 2026-02-23 22:40:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318360366 World War I caused more damage than any other war before it. 9 million soldiers and as many civilians died in the war. Germany and Russia suffered most, both countries lost almost two million men in battle. Large sections of land, especially in France and Belgium, were completely destroyed.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318360366 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318360703 World War I cost the participating countries a lot of money. Germany and Great Britain spent about 60% of the money their economy produced. Countries had to raise taxes and borrow money from their citizens. Economy all across Europe broke down. Companies had to close because men left their jobs to fight in the army. When they came back there were no jobs left for them. The United States entered the war very late. It did not suffer destruction the way European countries did. Because they had played a smaller part in the war, America remained economically stronger than the others.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318360703 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318363901 World War I brought an end to four monarchies: Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, Emperor Charles of Austria and the sultan of the Ottoman Empire had to step down. New countries were created out of old empires. Austria-Hungary was carved up into a number of independent states. Russia and Germany gave land to Poland. What was left of the Ottoman Empire became Turkey. In the course of the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union emerged, together with a new ideology: Communism.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318363901 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318365464 2019-01-08 15:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318365464 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318366579 World War I changed society completely. Birth rates went down because millions of young men died. Civilians lost their homes and fled to other countries. The role of women also changed. They played a major part in replacing men in factories and offices. Many countries gave women more rights after the war had ended, including the right to vote. The upper classes lost their leading role in society. Young middle and lower class men and women demanded a say in forming their country after the war.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318366579 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318370261 2019-01-08 15:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318370261 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318370784 World War I devastated the lives of a generation of young men; but the trauma of war didn't end when the guns stopped firing. Thousands of soldiers returned from the battlefields and trenches of World War I reeling from the sheer horror of the conflict. By the end of the war, 20,000 men were still suffering from shell shock. Thousands more had experienced its symptoms during their military service. Across the country, doctors were mystified by a condition that they hadn't seen before. Soldiers were returning from the trenches blind, deaf, mute or paralyzed, but doctors couldn’t find any physical damage to explain the symptoms. 80% of shell shock victims were never able to return to military duty. The term 'shell shock' was coined in 1917 by a Medical Officer called Charles Myers. It was also known as "war neurosis", "combat stress" and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). At first shell shock was thought to be caused by soldiers being exposed to exploding shells. Medical staff started to realize that there were deeper causes. Doctors soon found that many men suffering the symptoms of shell shock without having even been in the front lines. The symptoms were hysteria and anxiety; paralysis; limping and muscle contractions; blindness and deafness; nightmares and insomnia; heart palpitations; depression; dizziness and disorientation; loss of appetite; many soldiers found themselves re-living their experiences of combat long after the war had ended.
At the time there was little sympathy for shell shock victims; many shell shock victims felt shame on their return home, and some were treated as deserters. Shell shock was generally seen as a sign of emotional weakness or cowardice. Many soldiers suffering from the condition were charged with desertion, cowardice, or insubordination; the unlucky ones were subjected to a mock trial, charged, and convicted. Some shell shocked soldiers were shot dead by their own side after being charged with cowardice. They were not given posthumous pardons.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318370784 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318372412 2019-01-08 15:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318372412 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318372900 2019-01-08 15:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318372900 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318373376 World War I literature also presents a range of perspectives. Rupert Brooke’s patriotic sonnets  became hugely popular in the early years of the war. At the outset of the war, many Britons were touched by the heroic sentiments of the poems, in particular, “The Soldier.” This poem’s combatant speaker assures the reader that his death in battle will mean that “there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Brooke’s poems pictured military service and death as purifying and noble. At the start of the war, when such nationalistic feeling was strong, many British soldiers departed for training with a copy of Brooke’s poems tucked into their kits. However, after years of devastating losses and with no clear resolution to the seemingly endless fighting, poets depicting the hard reality of the soldier’s experience gained more recognition. Wilfred Owen’s gloomy 1917 “Anthem for Doomed Youth” pictures the war’s fallen “d[ying] as cattle,” for example. Siegfried Sassoon’s “Counter-Attack,” offers us the gruesome vision of a battlefield “place rotten with dead” where corpses “face downward, in the sucking mud,/Wallow…” Sassoon’s shocking verbal image recalls the horrible tableau of Nevinson’s dead soldiers lying facedown in the mud.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318373376 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318374388 If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.  There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

]]> 2019-01-08 15:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318374388 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318376465 If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.  There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.]]> 2019-01-08 15:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318376465 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318377928 We’d gained our first objective hours before
While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes,
Pallid, unshaven and thirsty, blind with smoke.
Things seemed all right at first. We held their line,
With bombers posted, Lewis guns well placed,
And clink of shovels deepening the shallow trench.
The place was rotten with dead; green clumsy legs
High-booted, sprawled and grovelled along the saps
And trunks, face downward, in the sucking mud,
Wallowed like trodden sand-bags loosely filled;
And naked sodden buttocks, mats of hair,
Bulged, clotted heads slept in the plastering slime.
And then the rain began,—the jolly old rain!
 
A yawning soldier knelt against the bank,
Staring across the morning blear with fog;
He wondered when the Allemands would get busy;
And then, of course, they started with five-nines
Traversing, sure as fate, and never a dud.
Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst
Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell,
While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke.
He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear,
Sick for escape,—loathing the strangled horror
And butchered, frantic gestures of the dead.
 
An officer came blundering down the trench:
“Stand-to and man the fire step!” On he went ...
Gasping and bawling, “Fire-step ... counter-attack!”
Then the haze lifted. Bombing on the right
Down the old sap: machine-guns on the left;
And stumbling figures looming out in front.
“O Christ, they’re coming at us!” Bullets spat,
And he remembered his rifle ... rapid fire ...
And started blazing wildly ... then a bang
Crumpled and spun him sideways, knocked him out
To grunt and wriggle: none heeded him; he choked
And fought the flapping veils of smothering gloom,
Lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans ...
Down, and down, and down, he sank and drowned,
Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed.]]> 2019-01-08 16:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318377928 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318414833 WORDLD WAR I
George V succeded his father in 1910, Edward VII, after his death, his reign saw the first world war.
Also before the first world war there were many politic problems and the war was unevitable, the " excuse" that took the world in war was the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914.
Europe was divided into two rival camps: Triple Alliance ( Germany, Austria, Italy) and Triple Entente ( Britain, France,Russia).

Britain declared war to Germany in august 1914, in Britain there was such a patriotic enthusiasmus for the war, in this aspect played an important part the british government, because persuaded men to join the war up using propaganda.
British government played an important part even after the begin fo the propaganda, because after the death of many men the government introduced the coscription for all men aged 18-41. In that period women replaced men in their civilian jobs, thus contribueted to bring women's suffrage.
By decembere 1914 the war ceased to be a war of movement, both side built a huge line of trench, s the war became a trench warfare, huge number of men were killed by machine guns, barbed wire, gas and shells.
At sea side Britain recived important supplies from USA, Geman decided to use submarines.
On 11 November 1918 the war ended and the peace treaty war signed in Versailles in 1919.
After the war the president wilson devised the League of Nations, that was and organisation in wich the representatives of the world's nations could spoke about and settle their differences instead of restoring war, only United States never joined the Leauge of Nations.

]]> 2019-01-08 16:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318414833 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318461140 2019-01-08 18:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318461140 dariabocchetti https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318461407 2019-01-08 18:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dariabocchetti/6t3sipk0671o/wish/318461407