Civil War Veterans Come Alive in Audio and Video Recordings Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. Every once in a while, you will hear of veterans who served in two major conflicts. For example, due to their relatively close proximity to one another, there were several people who served in both WWI and WWII. For example, Gen. Patton was a tank commander in WWI and would go on to lead the Third and Seventh Armies in WWII. Then they sank the British ship RMS Lusitania. Several wars in antiquity would also probably qualify, as there were less obstacles to rulers dedicating an entire country's manpower to war. As soon as you got over the top, he told an interviewer, fear has left you and it is terror. One thing that is pretty obvious however, is that joining the war would more than likely not have benefited Mexico whatsoever, and is why they didn't join. All of the major warring countries used conscription. Direct link to Alexis's post The Zimmermann Telegram i, Posted 7 years ago. Some examples of wars I can think of which had the entire societies of two nations fighting against each other to an extent of being a total war like World War one could be World War 2 (of course), and perhaps the American Civil War, with Sherman's march to the sea. But in those miles of country lurk (like moles or rats, it seems) thousands, even hundreds of thousands of men, planning against each other perpetually some new device of death. Corrections? All Rights Reserved. Not only does it capture one of the few moving images of an African-American Civil War veteran, but it may be the only one ever made of a soldier who fought with the famed 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made famous by the 1988 film Glory. Amy Elizabeth Robinson is a freelance writer, editor, and historian with a Ph.D. in the History of Britain and the British Empire. The mass murder of Armenians in 1915 [see reading, Genocide Under the Cover of War], and the [Spanish] influenza epidemic that began while the war was still being fought, were two of its destructive by-products. Our headquarters are located at: 89 South Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA 02111. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Serbia replied to the ultimatum on July 25, accepting most of its demands but protesting against two of themnamely, that Serbian officials (unnamed) should be dismissed at Austria-Hungarys behest and that Austro-Hungarian officials should take part, on Serbian soil, in proceedings against organizations hostile to Austria-Hungary. Stanford, California 94305. It also served as a research institute on mental health in the 1900s. It helped them understand how the roles of soldiers and civilians became difficult to separate. Four imperial dynastiesthe Habsburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Hohenzollerns of Germany, the sultanate of the Ottoman Empire, and the Romanovs of Russiacollapsed as a direct result of the war, and the map of Europe was changed forever. After 1945, the hospital closed and doctors reintroduced patients to a non-military environment, while the Ahwahnee once again became a hotel.