World War 1
Men of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders wearing cotton-waste pad-respirators, 1915. © The rightsholder (IWM Q 48951)
The meaning behind this photo is representing how gas became a great terror in the first World War. The time sets as far as 1915 when the first gas attack was ignited by the Germans. The gas wreaked in the air, causing panic and confusion towards the British and French troops. The Germans continuously threw bombs, killing over thousands of men. Until one day, the Germans failed to exploit their plan for a gas attack. After the gas attack was over the banks were filled with gassed men
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This was a car who held Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife Sophie who were killed on June 28, 1914. The couple were on the way to a hospital, when a nationalist shot the couple. The man who shot Franz Ferdinand was Gavrilo Princip, who happened to be apart of the "blackhand group." Princip disagreed with the Ferdinand's heir to the throne so he shot and killed him. This event took a major start of World War 1.
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Cyanide was a big partake in World War 1 , as France used in the chemical warfare. Many members of the blackhand group planned to swallow cyanide after making a plan to assassinate certain people.
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In World War 1 only men were allowed to be drafted into the War. This meant many number of women had to take on a variety of traditional male roles. Taking parts in different industries, governmental departments, and agricultural positions. When the war had ended, 8.4 million women were granted to vote.
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This helmet belong to a french soldier who is yet to know to be alive. It shows there is a bullet hole and the exit of the bullet on the hat, it was sent directly from the battlefields of France by Major Dana Wright. No one knows how it got in Wright's possession nor if this french soldier survived. This helmet shows the dangers and physical pain WW1 went through.
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