The Great War: WWI And Trench Warfare

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The Great war, also known as World War 1, had a great deal of tragic death. All because the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. This was the candle that was to close to the gas, tensions grew, armies united, and devastating alliances were made. These alliances were the Allies and the Central Powers. This war was most popular at first because of trench warfare, which is when both sides dug deep trenches for shelter from oncoming artillery and range fire. These trenches were surrounded by fencing such as barbed wire. In between these trenches there was a considerable amount of distance, that created a “suicide plane” for any who dared cross to take control of the trench. At this time in history chemical …show more content…
The trenches were a hot zone for disease and sickness. Among the experiences diseases were Trench Fever, which gave rashes, headaches and conjunctivitis (pink eye). Also Trench Foot, where they suffered from gangrene, and Trench mouth, where they suffered from acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis. These all led to nearly two million deaths. Both sides came to realization and agreed on the Treaty of Versailles which ended the war on June 28th 1919.
After the war, there was a generation of young adults in their twenties and thirties that was known as the “Lost Generation.” This name was given to them because of the lack of purpose or meaning of the war that was fought. Anyone having seen the size of the pointless death, had lost all faith in their traditions and values such as courage, patriotism, and masculinity. Others having seen what happened became aimless, reckless, and focused on material wealth, unable to believe in abstract ideals. (This coming from the novel “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest …show more content…
In fact, the population of Europe (outside the U.S.S.R.) grew from 295 million in 1900 to 393 million in 1950 despite the impact of two world wars. While this figure is a slower rate of growth than in the previous half century, the difference is almost entirely attributable to radical fertility decline rather than increased war-related mortality, which was comfortably compensated in most cases by radical improvements in ordinary life expectancy.
So if the lost generation was not about actual deaths, what was it about? It is interesting that the term has a particular and specific resonance in the United States. The Americans took to the term in a sense that did not relate to the war dead at all, unsurprisingly because, however personally painful, American deaths in the war bordered on the demographically trivial. Instead the “lost generation” explicitly referred to the survivors, or rather a small subset of survivors: the American émigré writers in Paris. The application of the term to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, alive and prolific, shows the degree to which the word lost was being used in a different sense, indicating drift, confusion, and
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