Document 1 Source: Historical Context - Refers to the historical circumstances that led to this event/idea/historical development. 1. Explain the historical circumstances that led to the historical development in the document. The above photographs present the circumstances in German trenches during World War I whey they were fighting against the Russians, WWI or the Great War rofers to the global war that took place from July 28,1414 to November 11, 1918, between the Allied and with the victory of the Allied central powers. The war onded Povers and the formation of the League of Nations. The Key cause of WWI was MAINAL However, the factor that to Document 2 - Excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front Historical Context: All Quiet On the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of Vorld War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and he detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in a German newspaper and in book form in ate January 1929. The below excerpt from the novel describes a gas attack. The dull thud of the gas-shells mingles with the crashes of the light explosives. A bell sounds between the explosions, gongs, and metal clappers warning everyone-Gas-Gas-Gaas. These first minutes with the mask decide between life and death: is it air tight? I remember the awful sights in the hospital: the gas patients who lay in day-long suffocation cough up their burnt lungs in clots. Cautiously, the mouth applied to the valve, I breathe. The gas still creeps over the ground... like a big, soft jelly-fish...... Inside the gas-mask my head booms and roars-it is nigh [almost] bursting. My lungs are tight, they breathe always the same hot, used up air, and the veins on my temple are swollen. I feel I am suffocating. Source: All Quiet On the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1929

Document 1 Source: Historical Context - Refers to the historical circumstances that led to this event/idea/historical development. 1. Explain the historical circumstances that led to the historical development in the document. The above photographs present the circumstances in German trenches during World War I whey they were fighting against the Russians, WWI or the Great War rofers to the global war that took place from July 28,1414 to November 11, 1918, between the Allied and with the victory of the Allied central powers. The war onded Povers and the formation of the League of Nations. The Key cause of WWI was MAINAL However, the factor that to Document 2 - Excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front Historical Context: All Quiet On the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of Vorld War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and he detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in a German newspaper and in book form in ate January 1929. The below excerpt from the novel describes a gas attack. The dull thud of the gas-shells mingles with the crashes of the light explosives. A bell sounds between the explosions, gongs, and metal clappers warning everyone-Gas-Gas-Gaas. These first minutes with the mask decide between life and death: is it air tight? I remember the awful sights in the hospital: the gas patients who lay in day-long suffocation cough up their burnt lungs in clots. Cautiously, the mouth applied to the valve, I breathe. The gas still creeps over the ground... like a big, soft jelly-fish...... Inside the gas-mask my head booms and roars-it is nigh [almost] bursting. My lungs are tight, they breathe always the same hot, used up air, and the veins on my temple are swollen. I feel I am suffocating. Source: All Quiet On the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1929