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World War 1 (Effects (Treaty of Versailles uploaded image ((The treaty was…

- - - - The treaty was drafted during the Paris Peace Conference in the spring of 1919. It declared that it accepted the Fourteen Points he had formulated as the basis for a just peace. The three most important politicians there were David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson. Was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris between Germany and the Allies. The Allies demanded “compensation by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea and from the air." Some measures (BR)
    - - (SO) peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920.
- - - - The Allies began developing these armoured ‘landships’ in 1915, but the first tanks didn’t make their way into battle until the Somme offensive the following year. (PP)
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        Poison gas was used by both sides with devastating results (well, sometimes) during the Great War. The Germans pioneered the large-scale use of chemical weapons with a gas attack on Russian positions on January 31, 1915, during the Battle of Bolimov, but low temperatures froze the poison (xylyl bromide) in the shells. The first successful use of chemical weapons occurred on April 22, 1915, near Ypres, when the Germans sprayed chlorine gas from large cylinders towards trenches held by French colonial troops. (CP)
        
        Tracer bullets are rounds which emitted small amounts of flammable material that left a phosphorescent trail. The friction of air molecules against the fast traveling bullet was enough to ignite the pyrotechnic coating.
        · The first attempt, in 1915, was not actually that useful, as the trail was “erratic” and limited to 100 meters, but the second tracer model developed in 1916 which emitted a regular bright green-white trail which was successful. (PP)
        
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        Airplanes had been around for just a decade when WWI started, and while they had obvious potential for combat applications as an aerial platform for bombs and machine guns, it wasn’t quite clear how the latter would work, since the propeller blades got in the way. In the first attempt, the U.S. Army basically tied the gun to the plane (pointing towards the ground) with a leather strap, and it was operated by a gunner who sat beside the pilot. This was not ideal for aerial combat and inconvenient because it required two airmen to operate. (CP)
    - - Before WW1, the most popular automatic rapid-fire weapon was the Gatling gun, which resembled a cannon and weighed about as much, limiting its use in 20th-century warfare. While most of the war’s casualties were caused by heavy artillery, the portability and power of the machine gun made it an effective addition to arsenals on both sides. (PP)
    - - First used by the Germans during the Battle of Second Ypres in 1915, gas actually proved largely ineffective as a traditional weapon; its success depended not only on the type of gas and the sophistication of its delivery method but also often on the weather conditions on the day. (PP)Link Title
    - - Less than fifteen years after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, those new-fangled flying contraptions called aeroplanes were being used for reconnaissance in WW1, along with balloons and airships. The initial plane builds were primitive, but necessity did its job, and soon both sides were racing to design mono and biplane fighters that could hold heavy bombs and machine guns while maintaining (or, at this point, having) manoeuvrability. (PP)
  - - - Poison Gas:The unknown gas appeared to be a simple smoke screen, used to hide attacking soldiers, and Allied troops were ordered to the front trenches to repel the expected attack. The gas had a devastating effect, killing many defenders or when the wind direction changed and blew the gas back, many attackers. Because the gas killed the attackers, depending on the wind, a more reliable way had to be made to transmit the gas. It began being delivered in artillery shells.(DC)
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      - Tracer bullets are rounds which emitted small amounts of flammable material that left a phosphorescent trail. The friction of air molecules against the fast traveling bullet was enough to ignite the pyrotechnic coating.
        · The first attempt, in 1915, was not actually that useful, as the trail was “erratic” and limited to 100 meters, but the second tracer model developed in 1916 which emitted a regular bright green-white trail which was successful.(DC)
- - - - Testament of Youth: An autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
        A famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived the period. (NO)
        
        Sagittarius rising It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. (NO)
      - Goodbye to All That
        An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English Society following the First World War. (NO)