1. Tanks has genders
- when the war began tanks were classified according to their "gender"
-male tanks had cannons while females had machine guns.
2. Both African Americans and Native Americans served
-even though they weren't allowed to gain citizenship in America yet nearly 13,000 Native Americans served and over 200,000 African Americans were in the war
3. PTSD
-millions of soldiers suffered from shell-shock
-side effects were loss of sleep, stopped speaking, constant whimpering or twitching uncontrollably
4. Communication
- 12 million letters were delivered to the fronts every week
-by the end, 2 billion letters and 114 million parcels were delivered
5.Plastic Surgery
-WW1 sparked the idea of plastic surgery
-surgeon Harold Gillies pioneered early techniques of facial reconstruction due to bullets tearing soldiers faces
6. 12 year old soldier
- youngest British soldier was Sidney Lewis lied about his age to be shipped off
- one of the thousands of underage soldiers who were either motivated by patriotism or wanted to escape their home lives
- when the war began tanks were classified according to their "gender"
-male tanks had cannons while females had machine guns.
2. Both African Americans and Native Americans served
-even though they weren't allowed to gain citizenship in America yet nearly 13,000 Native Americans served and over 200,000 African Americans were in the war
3. PTSD
-millions of soldiers suffered from shell-shock
-side effects were loss of sleep, stopped speaking, constant whimpering or twitching uncontrollably
4. Communication
- 12 million letters were delivered to the fronts every week
-by the end, 2 billion letters and 114 million parcels were delivered
5.Plastic Surgery
-WW1 sparked the idea of plastic surgery
-surgeon Harold Gillies pioneered early techniques of facial reconstruction due to bullets tearing soldiers faces
6. 12 year old soldier
- youngest British soldier was Sidney Lewis lied about his age to be shipped off
- one of the thousands of underage soldiers who were either motivated by patriotism or wanted to escape their home lives
Use of political cartoons
This political cartoon represents the U.S. trying to trade with Great Britain but a lot of factors are getting in the way. The icebergs represent all of the treaties and other political factor that went into the difficulties.
The next political cartoon portrays Russia as a big bear and it shows the remorse of Russia going into the war. The bear drank too much and now can't do anything about it except wait it out, see how it unfolds and how it hurts them in the end and I think the war went a lot like this.