They attacked with no ammo?!?!

During the battle of Gallipoli, the Allies made several mistakes when they were trying to defeat the Turks. One of the biggest, and uncomprhensible, tactic the Allies used was to run out of their trenches, in a certain time sequence, and head straight to the Turkish trench without any ammo. Now, once I saw this happening in the clip of "Gallipoli" that we watched in class I was flabberghasted to see that the Allies actually did this. First of all, because the Allies made all of their attacks on certain minutes and seconds, this gave the Turks the exact time that they should be ready to shoot at the troops running at them. Another shocking tactic the Allies used was to run to the Turk trenches with an unloaded rifle. And throw in the fact that the Turks had machine guns set up to shoot anyone that ran across. All of these strange techniques really brings up the questions of why did the Allies think that this plan was going to work? And how did they think that men would actually make to the other side using this tactic?

How did the Germans go to such lengths to destroy Britains Empire?

During WWI, Germany's only thought was to gain total domination of the world. The Germans especially wanted to take control over the most powerful nation, the British. The British were mainly so powerful due to their high-class navy. And Germany wanted to attack that navy. With only seventeen cruiser ships spread out in the oceans, Germany found some way to defeat the British. One of the only reasons Germany was able to do this great task was because as the German ship and the British ship were in a race to victory, the British wanted their fastest ship out there, however it was not equipped with the best guns. Thus, the German ship destroyed the small ship. Germans also used a trick against the British and their allies. When German ships were out at sea and a British or a British ally was drawing near, the Germans would put up a dummy funnel to disguise the ship as a British ship. Therefore, when the opponent came near the Germans were able to attack without any warning.With these different tactics, the Germans successfully sunk two British ships.

How was WWI a "Global War"?

WWI was a global war because it spread around almost the entire globe. Great Britain and Germany had settlements all across Europe, through Asia, and even down in Africa. With these settlements mainly connected to either the British or the Germans, help move the war to several different areas around the world besides the Western Europe area. As a result in these alliances, once Britain was in the fight it brought up Japan and all the settlements there, and then shortly after, Japan called on India to help them. Therefore, since the British had numerous alliances and settlements in different parts of the world it spread out the fight to these places. What also did not help the cause was that Germany wanted complete world domination. The country tried very hard to gain the most power and be the most powerful.

French World War One Propaganda

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Why is everyone so cruel?

In the movie, Merry Christmas, that we watched today for extra credit, (which was amazing!), gave me new insight on what was going on in this war. On Christmas Eve, the French, Scottish, and Germans ceased fire and actually talked with each other and spent time with each other and learned from each other. And then on Christmas Day they ceased fire again to have a burial ceremony for the dead that were in "no man's land." All of the soldiers that were fighting, finally realized that they're all pretty much the same, just from a different country. I would say they became close to them and befriended them. You would think that because of this they would see that they should not fight anymore, and that the war was completely unnecessary. However, they still are ready to fight. Yes, most of them do get sent to different fronts, however all of the countries still go against each other. Why didn't anyone try to say something? Why didn't anyone try to rebel and stop the war and make everyone see what they saw Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?

It was Germany! No it was Austria-Hungary! No! You're all wrong it was Russia!

So who really is to blamed for the start of the Great War? And who is the cause of it? When we received this prompt in class I looked over my notes and immediately went to the thought that Germany was the cause for the war and that Kaiser Wilhelm II was to blame. Almost all of the facts lead to this conclusion. By the fact that Bismark's (German) Alliance system was the cause of this because if there was not an alliance system, there would be nobody backing anyone up and the war wouldn't have escalated like it did. And sure enough a lot of the facts point to the Kaiser to blame because he broke apart the alliance system. He is the one that wanted to make a navy that was a threat to Britain's, he mobilized the military on the borders of all the countries around Germany. Some would like to argue that Austria-Hungary is to blame because they were the ones that wanted to fight with the Serbians. But if it were not for the Germans, and Kaiser, on A-H's side so strongly, A-H would not have challenged Serbia the way they did. However, with much consideration and analysis, my new opinion is that the cause of World War One is the alliance system that Germany created however the blame can be traced to the Austro-Hungarians because of their strong "need" to fight the Serbians. Was anyone elses opinions changed during the class discussion?