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The Causes and Effects That Led to World War I
Sep 22, 2014 100 summers ago the countries of Europe collapsed quickly into war: it was sudden but also strangely inevitable. Countless books have been written since about the causes of The Great War, but in this video essay, delve.tv offers an alternative history. By tracing the story backwards in time, they stumble upon a very unexpected cause and discover that sometimes the most harmless of things can have terrible consequences. Story Design & Direction: Adam Westbrook Additional Photography: Brett Walsh Animation: Adam Westbrook
Smithsonian's History Explorer Lessons & Activities
"Seeing" Music Grade Range: K-4Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 5 MinutesDate Posted: 3/8/2012 Dance is just one way to turn music into something you can see. 101 Questions Grade Range: 6-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 60 MinutesDate Posted: 9/24/2012 The 101 Questions activity includes reading and responding to the current USCIS Naturalization test, determining a hypothetical 101st question on the exam, and displaying their final product in a classroom or online gallery walk. 1880s Agricultural Nation Classroom Activity Guide Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Worksheets, Primary SourceDate Posted: 1/22/2011 In this set of classroom activities developed for the exhibition America on the Move , students will use visual, analytical, and interpretive skills to examine primary sources including historical maps to answer ques... 1920s Industrial America Classroom Activity Guide 1930s and 1940s Highways Classroom Activity Guide A Hero's Gear
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Why our WWI casualty number are wrong
Illustration: John Spooner Search for details of Australia’s dead and wounded in the First World War and the figures thrown up are remarkably similar: of the 331,000 men who embarked from Australia with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), 60,000 were killed and there were 155,000 admissions for wounding. These statistics are presented, with minor variations, on the websites of the National Archives of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the Australian War Graves Commission, the Australian Parliamentary Library, and in the records of the British War Office and Australia’s official history of the First World War by C.E.W Bean. Winning this war came at too high a cost for this young nation; for Australia, the First World War was indeed a pyrrhic victory. This means superficially around two out of three soldiers died or were wounded in the First World War. So how many men were killed or wounded? Advertisement But it does not finish there.
The Fog of War
In this grimly compelling film, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris tackles one of his most perplexing and ambiguous subjects: former defense secretary Robert McNamara, widely identified (and in many quarters reviled) as the architect of the Vietnam War. The octogenarian McNamara, a former head of Ford Motor Co. whose government service began during World War II, is filmed via Morris's invention, the Interrotron, a device that allows interviewer and subject to look into each other's eyes while also staring directly into the camera lens. This enables the subject to maintain eye contact with the audience, and given the frequently disturbing nature of McNamara's revelations, it makes for quite an eerie viewing experience. He discusses at length the Allied campaign against Japan in WWII, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the costly, protracted conflict in Vietnam. This documentary is available for preview only.
War Poetry: Ted Hughes: 'Bayonet Charge'
I have already said my piece about the AQA GCSE poetry syllabus and what it calls the 'Conflict' cluster. (I take 'cluster' to be the AQA's decorous abbreviation of a more accurate military term which, alas, cannot be used on a family-friendly blog.) Now I will do my best to help those unfortunates brought to this site in search of information about one particular poem: Ted Hughes's 'Bayonet Charge'. What follows is a set of loose notes. Anyone inclined to explore Hughes's treatment of war more generally can read my essay on that very subject here. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Hughes wrote far better poems than 'Bayonet Charge'. Postscript: for an account of Jane Weir's 'Poppies', see here.
Our War: 10 Years in Afghanistan
Series marking the ten-year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, telling the story of the conflict through the words and pictures of the young soldiers themselves. Ambushed - This opening part of the series tells the story of a close-knit group of friends from 3 Platoon, 1st Battalion Royal Anglian regiment, who were sent to Helmand province in 2007. For most of them it was their first experience of war. The whole tour was filmed on a helmet camera by the platoon's sergeant, who captured the moment when one of his men, 19-year-old Private Chris Gray, was killed in a Taliban ambush. The film explores the effects of his death on both his mates in the platoon and his family back in the UK. The Invisible Enemy - The second episode focuses on a young platoon from the Grenadier Guards and their terrifying struggle with landmines, also known as Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). They struggle to train a local force, the Afghan National Police, who fight in a reckless and dangerous way.
WW1 Poems
Robert Laurence Binyon For the Fallen (1914) William Noel Hodgson Before Action (1916) Ewart Alan Mackintosh, MC In Memoriam (1916) Inspiration for In Memoriam John McCrae In Flanders Fields (1915) Inspiration for In Flanders Fields Moina Michael We Shall Keep the Faith (1918) Inspiration for We Shall Keep the Faith John William Streets Further Reading The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Paperback) Published by Penguin Classics (26 Oct 2006). 448 pages. In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem (Illustrated paperback) by Linda Granfield, Janet Wilson (author, illustrator), John McCrae (author) Published by Stoddart Publishing, Canada (new edition 13 Sep 2000). 32 pages. Violets from Oversea: Portraits of Poets of the Great War by Tonie Holt and Valmai Holt An illustrated collection of poetry from the First World War, which includes biographical details of the poets in addition to examples of their work. A Deep Cry: First World War Soldier-poets Killed in France and Flanders by Anne Powell
