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Journal 1

1.  What were the underlying causes of WWI? 
The causes of world war 1 first of all was an expanding Germany and he wasn’t being friendly towards other European Countries.
 Another which was the powder keg of the war was the disputes of the Balkan wars. 
Finally tangled alliances with countries had the biggest role to play because it brought every alliance into a conflict.
2.  What was the specific cause of WWI? 
The Arch Duke of Austria Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian man. 
Austria then Declares War of Serbia.
3.  How did the soldiers react as they went off to war? Why?  
All the soldiers were excited and happy to go to war. 
They thought it would only last a couple months. 
They were excited because they wanted to see new places and get out of their average life.

Journal 2

WWI military training camps – The training camps served food and shelter but the quality of both weren’t the best. 
Most of the officers were also harsh or often mean at times but they had to be in order to get that many of soldiers ready to go fight in the war against their enemies. 

Mustard Gas – Mustard gas has the ability to form large blisters on exposed skin. 
In their pure form most sulfur mustards are colorless, odorless, viscous liquids at room temperature. 
When used as warfare agents they are usually yellow-brown in color and have an odor resembling mustard plants, garlic or horseradish.
Mustard gas was one of the harshest weapons of the war because no one could see it or hear it coming.
If you got caught up in you would be going through extreme torturious pain before you died.
(Use WWI: Trenches on the Web) 

Discuss how accurate Remarque's descriptions of these events are. 

Remarques descriptions of the war are very true. The conditions of the war were very harsh and hostile.
Military camps were strict and hard on the soldiers. The description of mustard gas is pretty accurate too. He doesnt go into great detail but he talks about soldiers caughing up their bloodly lungs.
Being caught up in a mustard gas situation can turn out to be very deadly and dangerous.

Jounral 3
“Whilst asleep during the night, we were frequently awakened by rats running over us. 
When this happened too often for my liking, I would lie on my back and wait for a rat to linger on my legs; then violently heave my legs upwards, throwing the rat into the air. 
Occasionally, I would hear a grunt when the rat landed on a fellow victim.”   
“The water in the trenches through which we waded was alive with a multitude of swimming frogs. 
Red slugs crawled up the side of the trenches and strange beetles with dangerous looking horns wriggled along dry ledges and invaded the dugouts, in search of the lice that infested them.”   

The trenches that soldiers were in were literally hell holes. They were infested with insects like lice and murky diseased water.
The trenches was a dirty undesirable place to live. Soldiers that werent getting killed by bullets or bombardment were dieing because of disease and trenchfoot.   

Journal 4 Saving Private Ryan

Towards the end of the movie they finally find Ryan and not many people like him. 
The company lost many men to the germans just trying to find one man. But soon they get wind that a huge German force is approaching and the whole company including Private Ryan has to work together to get ready for the attack.
During this scene and through the rest of the movie the men get closer to Ryan as a family or brothers in arms family.
If Ryan looked like he was in trouble with the Germans a brother in arms would jump in to save him.
If one of Ryan commrades was in danger he would do just the same.
In tough times soldiers or people need someone else to be beside them to comfort them or help them out of a sticky situation.
This is how it was for Ryan. At first he was friends with no one and later became friends and even closer to everyone. 

June 11: Journal #5:
 Find information on the Internet that discusses prison camps during WWI.  
Describe the conditions of the camps.

Prison camps were just like labor camps. 
The soldiers were forced to hard, back breaking, strenuous jobs like digging pits or breaking down rocks.  
The prisoners when they first got there were given ice cold showers, shaved beards and deloused.
The prisoners were barely given any food and were basically starved and tortured.
The way the prisoners were treated back then was so bad that if someone did that in todays time they would be tried for human rights violations.
Prisoners were often beaten, mocked, and bullied by jail guards.
At the end of WW1 there was about 8 million POWs.