A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

892 Ch. 22 • The Great War had planned. The British poured through another gap between German armies, forcing the Germans to ret ...

The Changing Nature of War 893 rows of barbed wire protected the trenches from attack. As the months passed in sectors where the ...

894 Ch. 22 • The Great War Paul Nash’s We Are Making a New World, a tormented painting evoking the pockmarked landscape around Y ...

The Changing Nature of War 895 (Left) French soldiers wearing gas masks prepare to attack. (Right) Victims of a German gas attac ...

896 Ch. 22 • The Great War By the end of 1916, dashing and brave “aces,” such as the German Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, a ...

The Changing Nature of War 897 awaited a major confrontation. Certain that the German fleet was going to sail from Wilhelmshaven ...

898 Ch. 22 • The Great War and Galicia. These actions, reflecting the brutalization of war and the banalization of death, foresh ...

The War Rages On 899 specified by the Munitions of War Act of May 1915. The act forbade strikes and provided for the requisition ...

900 Ch. 22 • The Great War Map 22.4 The Western Front, 1914-1917 Major battles from 1914-1917, and location of trenches at the e ...

The War Rages On 901 The Eastern Front In the wide-open spaces of the eastern front, the Russian armies had advanced into easter ...

902 Ch. 22 • The Great War Map 22.5 The Eastern, Italian, and Balkan Fronts Russian and Austro­ German advances and battles alon ...

The War Rages On 903 the Admiralty, and Lloyd George. Such victories might also even expand the British Empire, thus such a camp ...

904 Ch. 22 • The Great War and in August launched an assault that failed miserably. In the meantime, British, French, and German ...

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906 Ch. 22 • The Great War for a mighty offensive in the vicinity of the Somme River. The assault would have to await the arriva ...

The War Rages On 907 the terrain over which the attackers had to struggle but left intact most of the German barbed wire, too st ...

908 Ch. 22 • The Great War British soldiers wearing gas masks Bring a machine gun during the Battle of the Somme, 1916. On the e ...

The War Rages On^909 To cross the sleeping green between. It seems you inwardly grin as you pass Strong eyes, fine limbs, haught ...

910 Ch. 22 • The Great War Soldiers and Civilians In some ways, life in Britain and in the other combatant powers seemed to go o ...

The War Rages On 911 gas-meter readers. A visitor to Berlin in March 1916 reported “no men any­ where, women are doing everythin ...