Part one of term paper
On the 28th July 1918 the great powers of Europe went to war in one of the most tragic and bloody events in all of history. The main wars on the western front were between Britain, the ruler of the worlds' largest empire covering over a quarter of the full land mass, and a new country called Germany. The reason that Britain was in the war was ...

Part two of term paper
... made by Britain after it got out of splendid isolation. The armies first form of fighting was by using the cavalry but know with the invention of the machine guns these were quickly mowed down and in this way millions of people lost their lives. The only way for the armies to have some type of protection from the machine guns was to dig trenches. Someone even said that the most important weapon the soldiers had was their shovel. In the following years many waves of charges were made over the top ...