Militarism In The Somme Essay

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The war started because of MAINA. It was a spreading phenomenon in the power countries it was an acronym standing for Militarism: the mass production of war related things, Alliances: an agreement to assist one an other, Imperialism: countries controlled by a leader, Nationalism: ones devotion to their country, Assassination: The act if murdering a person in a secretive fashion. These started conflict then eventually chaos. There's multiple reasons why the Somme started, the French were under attack at Verdun and needed some assistance, the land itself was a vantage point and it was planned as a quick way to end the war. It was deemed at the time to be one of the most important fights of the war. The British began planning in April of 1916, Douglas Haig originally planned a quick way to end the battle, his plan was to flush out the Germans via bombardment with 1.5 Million shells fired put by mortars — which was revived by Germany …show more content…

They were fully trained and organised by summer of 1916 and Douglas Haig wanted to use them to the best of their ability. This is an example of militarism in the …show more content…

"On Saturday July first - we set off for the trenches about 10 o'clock. As soon as we got on the road we saw an awful sight for there was wounded men by the hundreds coming from the line", This shows even though it was the beginning there was an extremely high casualty rate. "When we was going across the marsh, German shells were dropping all around but none of them hit" This tells us that no where was a safe area, the fight continued even past no man's land. "We landed to a communication trench but before we had time to get in the Fritz sent us tear shell, that was our first taste of gas" Chemicals warfare was used very early on in this

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