https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k World War 1 en-us 2019-02-11 16:55:19 UTC 2024-12-19 23:42:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329970445 Herbert Henry Asquith]]> 2019-02-11 16:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329970445 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329973566 Britain were fighting against the Central Powers. Britain declared war on Germany.Belgium's ports were close to the British coast and German control of Belgium would have been seen as a serious threat to Britain. Britain refused to ignore the events of 4 August 1914, when Germany attacked France through Belgium in the end.]]> 2019-02-11 17:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329973566 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329975443 The Home Front saw a massive change in the role of women, rationing, the bombing of parts of Britain by the Germans, conscientious objectors and strikes by discontented workers.]]> 2019-02-11 17:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329975443 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329979516  Machine guns could shoot hundreds of rounds of ammunition a minute and the standard military tactic of World War One was the infantry charge.]]> 2019-02-11 17:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329979516 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329980718 Tanks were used to cut through barbed wire to clear the way for infantry, and were even driven through houses to destroy machine gunner's emplacements.]]> 2019-02-11 17:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329980718 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329981002  Submarines was easier to attack enemies from under the water. Submarines were allowed to attack non-military ships.]]> 2019-02-11 17:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329981002 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329983066  Germany might collapse and USSR spread to Central Europe.]]> 2019-02-11 17:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329983066 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329987747 Poison gas effect on masked soldiers, and was to produce terrible blisters all over the body as it soaked into their woolen uniforms.]]> 2019-02-11 17:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329987747 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329990876  Trenches were used to protect solders from machine guns from the opposing side.]]> 2019-02-11 17:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329990876 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329992212 The Anglo-French War was a military conflict fought between France and Great Britain with their respective allies between 1778 and 1783. In 1778, France signed a treaty of friendship with the United States.]]> 2019-02-11 17:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329992212 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329995702 The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of the River Somme. It was part of a series of successful counter-offensives in response to the German Spring Offensive, after a pause for redeployment and supply.]]> 2019-02-11 17:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329995702 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329995870 28 September–10 October 1914 ... But the siege also revealed the Belgians' refusal to bow to German demands and their determination to carry on fighting on the Allied side. After the German invasion of Belgium, most of the Belgian army fell back to the fortress city of Antwerp.]]> 2019-02-11 17:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329995870 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329996307 First Battle of the Marne, September 6–12, 1914, an offensive during World War I by the French army and the British Expeditionary Force  against the advancing Germans who had invaded Belgium and northeastern France and were within 30 miles of Paris]]> 2019-02-11 17:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329996307 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329996613 begins in 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the Western Front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres in Belgium. At the outbreak of World War I, the Germans began to actively develop chemical weapons.]]> 2019-02-11 17:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329996613 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329996749 The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 in an effort to take German pressure off of the French at Verdun.]]> 2019-02-11 17:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/329996749 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330020950 Belgium had a treaty to support each other if they were attacked. in 1914, Germany attacked France by moving through Belgium.]]> 2019-02-11 18:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330020950 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330023484 Before World War One, Britain was the world's economic superpower. It wasn't ready for the economic impact war would have. Germany's 1912 budget had approved rising military expenditure until 1917 – effectively militarizing their economy ahead of the conflict.]]> 2019-02-11 18:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330023484 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330025375 After British occupation of West Germany from 1945 to 1950, they became close allies in NATO, which continued after reunification.]]> 2019-02-11 18:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330025375 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330027868 Britain might be forced to take sudden action if Germany and
France were drawn into the war.]]> 2019-02-11 18:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330027868 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330028572 A far more pressing reason to fight was to prevent Germany from dominating the continent and winning control of the Channel ports.]]> 2019-02-11 18:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330028572 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330029466 Britain joined France to form the Triple Entente . They were  known as the Entente Powers because they began as an alliance between France, Britain, and Russia called the Triple Entente]]> 2019-02-11 18:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330029466 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330030722 2019-02-11 18:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330030722 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330031768 World War One ended at 11 am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918. Germany signed an armistice  that had been prepared by Britain and France. At the start of 1918, Germany was in a strong position and expected to win the war]]> 2019-02-11 18:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330031768 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330873848 WW1 had a very big impact on the families. As most soldiers had gone to fight in the war, women had to replace men in the workforce.Many of the men who came back from the War were suffering from serious injuries, the effects of Mustard Gas and or shell shock.]]> 2019-02-13 16:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330873848 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330882818 By 1914, Europe's six major powers were split into two alliances that would form the warring sides in World War I. Britain, France, and Russia formed the Triple Entente, while Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy joined in the Triple Alliance.]]> 2019-02-13 16:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330882818 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330885760 2019-02-13 16:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330885760 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330886507 2019-02-13 16:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330886507 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330887848 2019-02-13 16:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330887848 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330890112 World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States.]]> 2019-02-13 16:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330890112 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330892531 women’s standard roles were being blurred by wartime demands. In propaganda they are gentle, vulnerable home-makers, both objects of men’s affections and victims of barbarous enemy acts – and yet also as resilient, active participants in the war effort. ]]> 2019-02-13 16:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330892531 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330897072 During the First World War, posters were used to transmit information directly to the population. Following the outbreak of war in 1914, the conflict rapidly grew to be the dominant issue in British society.]]> 2019-02-13 16:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330897072 620867 https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330900694 8,905,000 troops deployed and 908.371 were killed]]> 2019-02-13 16:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/620867/gqo4prp5g57k/wish/330900694