Technology's Part in World War I
Technology's Part in World War I
The technology and many interweaving alliances of WWI resulted in a war that was pricier and coasted more lives than it should have. And on top of that, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were mercilessly killed and the boundaries of the land were altered. I believe it was very accurate the way the historical content depicts everything that happened during that war. Many were killed, land was stolen, land was given back, and new weapons and technologies were put into action. Also, many countries came together and formed strong lasting alliances. All four documents show this opinion adequately.
According to document #1, alliances played a vital role in the Great War. The Central Powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. The Allies were France, Russia and Great Britain. Also soon to be an allied power was the U.S. the Allies has a common goal which was to preserve democracy and liberty for all the countries who had it and to defend any country like that which is being attacked. The Central Powers only wanted land and control of all of Europe and probably the world sooner or later. The 2 powers battled more often than not on the western and eastern front.
The Allies saw the Central Powers as a messed up country and the Central Powers saw the Allies as the same thing. This is shown nicely in document #2. Because of the great alliances, the war turned out a lot differently than if there were no alliances and every country was for themselves. In document #3, the U.S. expresses its hatred for Germany and the Central Powers.
An American newspaper reporter told what “happened” when Germany attacked Louvain. It was described as a massacre that even money couldn’t fix. Everything was destroyed that meant anything to anyone. It became a wasteland. It was a “…war on churches, on the defenseless, colleges, shops of milliners and lace makers, against women and children…“ it was more of an opinion than a fact what happened their but it was close enough to the truth to make people angry at Germany as well as patriotic towards the democratic system. Clearly, this person was anti-German and was an American.
Document #4 shows the American government’s hatred for the German government and how immoral Germany was towards other smaller and larger countries. President Wilson’s war message to...