15.+Events+and+Battles

//Issue// 1. The battle of the Somme.

British and French infantry forces attacked German defensive line along a front about 25 miles long near Somme River in France. Each soldier carried almost 70 pounds of equipment, including a rifle, ammunition, grenades, a shovel, a mess kit, and a full water bottle. In the first day of the Battle Of the Somme, about 21,000 British soldiers died. After four months of fighting, British had advanced five miles. About one million Allied and German soldiers lay dead or wounded (Spielvogel).

Modern day war #1 The diffreneces from the "Battle of the Somme" and today are that in that battle they did not have any type of mobile transportation. They had to walk each place they went carrying 70 lbs of equiptment. War today we have vehicles such as air planes, humvees, tanks... to get our troops around alot easyer.

Issue 2: The Second Battle of the Marne

In what began as the last major German offensive of the First World War, the Second Battle of the Marne developed into a significant Allied victory. The second Marne offensive was launched on the back of an earlier push towards Paris which recaptured the Chemin Des Dames ridge en route, a formidable position held by the Germans in 1914 and lost at great cost to the French during the 1917. On 20 July the Germans ordered a retreat. By 3 August they were back where they had started at the launch of the great spring 1918 offensive at the Aisne-Vesle rivers. The Allied counter-offensive was finally halted on 6 August by the now solidly entrenched Germans.

Modern War Today #2 The difference between the "Second Battle of the Marne" and the war today is that the war today we have alot more high tec equiptment and weapons. The war today we now have weapons that can shoot a enemy that is 5 miles away.

Issue 3: War in Kosovo



The NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia beginning on March 24, 1999 did not occur in a vacuum but rather followed ten years of regional conflict and aggression inspired and orchestrated by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. After the Kosovo War and the 1999 NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia, the territory came under the interim administration of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, most of whose roles were assumed by the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo in December 2008. In February 2008 individual members of the Assembly of Kosovo declared Kosovo's independence as the Republic of Kosovo. Its independence is recognised by 75 UN member states and the Republic of China. On 8 October 2008, upon request of Serbia, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the issue of Kosovo's declaration of independence. On 22 July 2010, the ICJ ruled that Kosovo's declaration of independence did not violate international law, which its president said contains no "prohibitions on declarations of independence."

Conclussion- The way that WWI is different than todays wars, are because in todays wars we have more equiptment to help protect the soldiers and better weapons and more ways to still complete that job but not put as many soldiers at risk.

Work Cited

Spielvogel, Jackson J. //Glencoe World History.// New York, NY: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2005. Print.

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