How Did World War Cause Ww1

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Several key events lead up to the First World War coming to an end in 1918, including the naval blockade that British Navy lead to German ports, the eventual plummet of Germany’s economy and the Kiel mutiny, as well as other unified mutiny’s across Germany that eventually to their surrender. Britain also however suffered great loss of its men, losing 908,371 soldiers during the war with a total of 8,904,467 soldiers, sailors and pilots deployed in the war. Source A shows that we won because it says the British invented tanks and that we were smart for creating them, and not that the Germans were at fault. This is shown in the poster when the military describe the tanks as “a travelling fortress that clears the way for our soldiers.” This is a good example of British propaganda and is also a primary source, which means it is from the time of the war and in this case it is true that the British invented the tank. …show more content…

He was accredited for several large successful pushes against the Germans between August 8th and November 11th of 1918. The article in Source C was written by a Professor and senior historian from the Imperial War Museum, a highly accredited establishment that specialises in historical wars. The article is portraying the war as a British victory by yet again showing of how "intelligent" our military was and that we had much better resources and men, like when the article begins talking about Haig's forces "employing tanks; aircraft; armoured cars; motorised machine gun units; wireless radios and ammunition drops by parachute" and then continues to talk about how well connected and organised the unit

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