3. W O R L D W A R
I
T H E W E A P O N S O F A D V A N C E D T E C H N O L O G Y MA D E W O R L D W A R I MO R E I MP E R S O N A L A N D
MO R E D E V A S T A T I N G T H A N A N Y P R E V I O U S L Y F O U G H T W A R . - F I E R O P 3 8 5
4. • Combatants made use of
machine guns, heavy
artillery, hand grenades,
poison gas, flame throwers,
armored tanks, submarines,
airships, and airplanes. -
Fiero p385
A WAR OF NEW AND
TERRIBLE TECHNOLOGIES
• Millions of people from
many countries were left
dead as a result of the
Great War that lasted a
handful of years.
6. While Nicholas II was engulfed in war,
his country was suffering. This
ultimately led to the Russian
Revolution, the end of the autocracy in
Russia, and the beginning of the
communist experiment which claimed
millions of lives thanks to people like
Vladimir Lenin.
7. - R . C O N Q U E S T
“The minimum number of starvation victims in
1932–1933 was about five to six million people.”
9. “I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps
two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.”
- Albert Einstein
D B Y T E C H N O L O G I C A L A D V A N C E S I N C L U D I N G A I R C R A F T S U C H A S T H E P- 5 1 MU S T A N G . N O N E O F T H E S E A D V A N C E S W E R E B I G G E R O R MO R E S I G N I F I C
12. In conclusion, there are numerous
landmarks that demonstrate
modernism as an assault on tradition in
the era before the 1950’s.
13. W O R K S C I T E D
• Fiero, Gloria K. "Chapter 14 Modernism: The Assault on Tradition." <i>Landmarks in Humanities</i>. 3rd ed.
Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2012. Print.
• Shubin, A.V. "Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik Dictatorship." <i>EBSCO Discovery Services</i>. 1 Nov.
2001. Web. 2 May 2015. <http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=1bb8f625-c4cd-4d53-
8c81-16c3847e5ee0@sessionmgr4004&vid=13&hid=4105>.
• Milam, Michael. "Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Sixty-Five Years Later."
<i>Http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=df66b96f-8551-4769-9f26-
bbbbb630ed3d@sessionmgr4005&vid=6&hid=4105</i>. 1 July 2010. Web. 2 May 2015.
<http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=df66b96f-8551-4769-9f26-
bbbbb630ed3d@sessionmgr4005&vid=6&hid=4105>.
• "Boeing: Historical Snapshot: P-51 Mustang Fighter." <i>Boeing.com</i>. Boeing. Web. 2 May 2015.
<http://www.boeing.com/history/products/p-51-mustang.page>.