In result of this, this cause loads of deaths. To conclude the actions from the officers were a very important factor in causing a high death toll in World War One. This was mainly down to their naivety, ineptness and how out of touch they really were. There loss of seeing things for how they really were, was another reason why there army lost so many of their men. In some cases it seemed the army were being sent in blind, as the officers refused to change their old fashioned
This insidious war The Somme was the most tragic moment for Britain and British history. Sir Douglas Haig was one of the most important general/soldier in the First World War; under his command the British army defeated the German and won the First World War. Although a great victory for his country he is not remembered as a great hero, in fact he was remembered as the butcher of the
Also, the Germans were able to get their support trenches and reserve trenches full of men waiting for the British. They also managed to hide in concrete bunkers built deep underground with machine guns so when the British were ordered to go over the top towards the enemy trenches, they were slaughtered. 19,000 men died on the first day alone. A further 34,000 were injured. It was particularly disastrous at the Northern end of the battlefield, where the first Battalion, Essex regiment was virtually wiped out and the 1st Newfoundland Regiment suffering a 91% casualty rate.
They also believed that the battle symbolised all the horrors of warfare in World War One. There has been an ongoing debate whether Douglas Haig, Britain’s commander-in-chief during the war, was right in leading many British men and young boys to their deaths. Numerous opinions are held by each individual. Some people believe that Sir Douglas Haig rightly deserves the nickname ‘Butcher of the Somme’. They think that Haig should be blamed for the torture and deaths of many British soldiers.
How does Owen portray the horrors of war in Dulce et Decorum Est? “Sweet and honourable it is, to die for one’s country” World War I was an abominable ordeal that shocked the world, caused over 16 million people to lose their lives and millions more to suffer for years. Wilfred Owen has described so horrifically the horrors of war, each one seems to grow in significance until everything blurs together into a foul and futile torment that will haunt the dreams of every man for all their lives. Throughout the poem Owen attempts to eliminate the misconception that it is “sweet and honourable... to die for one’s country”, as the title of the poem suggests, through his use of vivid imagery, descriptive language and first person narrative. In the first stanza, Owen presents the idea that the personal struggles faced every moment on the front line are extremely underestimated, immeasurably terrifying and “obscene”.
Another example of bad leadership is Haig refused to believe that the British shelling was not working. This is bad because he should have listened to the warnings in order to make the battle successful. Another reason the Battle was a disaster because not all the British technology was efficient enough. One third of the shells that were meant to ruin the German trench line were duds and did not explode. This meant that the German trenches stayed in good condition so some of the soldiers could survive.
Most of the tanks used in the First World War had different strenghs and weaknesses so if the Germans had thought of a stratergy to stop tanks from penetrating their lines it would not work in all cases. An assult tank called the MK1 was produced and took the Germans by surprise and due to its success bough fear to the Germans eyes. However, these tanks had weaknesses. They were very slow, did not have strong armour and would consistantly break down due to mechanical faults. They were susceptible to German artillery.
However it was Asoka’s campaign against Kalinga that suddenly changed the emperor’s values . It is said to have been swift, brutal and successful but he was so horrified by the carnage inflicted by himself and his men that he began to question his violent ways. The battle caused the deaths of more than 100,000 soldiers and many civilians who rose up in defence; over 150,000 were deported. When he was walking through the grounds of Kalinga after his conquest, rejoicing in his victory, he was moved by the number of bodies strewn there and the wails of the kith and kin of the dead and cried out “What have I done? If this is a victory, what's a defeat then?
Any genocide in history is important because a lot of people died in cruel and unusual ways and it’s wrong. Victims of any genocide did not deserve to be discriminated against and did nothing to deserve to be killed from pure hate, and that is exactly what happened in the Ukraine Famine. The Ukraine Famine was headed by Joseph Stalin during 1932-1933. Millions Ukrainian people starved to death and as a result, it oppressed the national pride of the Ukrainian people. In 1929, Stalin arrested over 5,000 educated Ukrainian people and they were either shot without trail or sent to prison camps in remote areas in Russia.
Was the League of Nations a failure? The League of Nations is thought to be a failure by many, because of hard irony and limitation on military might. The League accomplished very little in stopping wars and conflicts while having very little power. Often they just shook fists at ruthless, evil dictators such as Germany’s Adolf Hitler and his conquests, without intervening. Another Major flaw was that “the country, whose president, Woodrow Wilson, had dreamt up the idea of the League - America -, refused to join it.” The league’s most powerful militaries Britain and France not only suffered casualties, but also economically as they were greatly in debt to the United States.