Week 8 - Science and War

Question 1

Identify and recognize the term anachronism and where there is a debate over the name of the Great War.

Answer 1

Anachronism, simply, a term that means belonging to a period other than that which is being portrayed or written about. If we were to term it the First World War, that would mean that we are projecting our chronological marker on a population of people who did not refer to it as the first of the wars. They called it something else–usually the Great War–or the war. You may refer to it with any of the names included above, though my personal preference is to use Great War, or the Chemist’s War, as a nod to Ede & Cormack’s (2012) viewpoint that the Great War was a war of national, imperial, and technological might.

Question 2

Summarize and describe how the Great War (WWI) began and ended.

Answer 2

Causes:
- the breakdown of the European alliance system;
- competitive arms build-up leading into the conflict;
- secret treaties;
- increased tensions between rising nationalism
-the power structures of imperialism;

Question 3

Identify and recognize the collateral damage of warfare, including combatant fatalities.

Question 4

Identify and recognize the major technological advancements of the early twentieth century and WWI.

Question 5

Identify and recognize the ways in which the Great War disrupted stable conventions of time and space.

Question 6

List, identify, ad recognize the sources that historians use to research and write about the Great War.

Question 7

Identify the timeline and history of the Canadian Nursing Sisters.

Answer 7

In addition to the professionalization of medicine and nursing during this period, other medical advancements that were developed as a result of the Great War included:

developments in blood transfusion;
new methods for treating broken bones;
new developments for cleaning wounds;
new standards of medical and surgical practice;
improved standards of medical hygiene and evolving ideas about disease transmission. 

As a result of their gender and social roles, historians have outlined that women faced possibility and restriction in scientific trades leading into the twentieth century (Ede & Cormack, 2012). However, the twentieth century marked an important turning point for women’s participation in politics and professional occupations. The contributions of nurses were particularly critical during the global flu pandemic that followed the tail end of the Great War, which tens of millions of people globally. Nurses were also critical personnel on the front lines of the multiple war efforts in the modern era

These women dressed in blue uniforms with white vails, and were called bluebirds