Monuments of W orld W ar I

Made by:
Cherkasova A. Form: 8 A Secondary school №1
Pyatigorsk
Teacher: Shalamova I.

2018

anything I have ever read».

Kerry Greenwood

more than four years. About 38 countries were involved in

that war. More than 74 million people fought on its fields, 10 million were killed, and 20 million were crippled. The war led to the downfall of the most powerful European states and the folding of the new geopolitical situation in the world.

First World War and here are some of them.

soldiers. The cemetery is located on the shores of Lake

Norvajärvi, 18 km to the north of Rovaniemi.
German Soldiers’ Cemetery was blessed on 31 August 1963. Its mausoleum contains the remains of over 2,500 German soldiers who had perished on the battlefield during the First World War. The area is bounded by an almost metre-high fence built of natural stone.

memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth

soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern part of the town and marks the starting point of one of the main roads out of the town that led allied soldiers to the front line.

Ottawa, the others in Halifax and Victoria. In Ottawa it

was a competition to choose the best idea for the monument. And in 1925 the National War Memorial was built in the capital.

created the other monument - The Great Response of Canada,

depicts uniformed figures of men and women representing all the services purposefully passing through a granite arch of victory. The memorial was unveiled in the spring of 1939. Each year on Armistice Day a service is held there for the memory of those who died fighting for their country.

called «Tomb of the Unknown Soldier». After World War I,

a movement to remember about that war, had began to commemorate these unknown soldiers with a single tomb, that would contain a body of such one unidentified soldier. That soldier would have been a symbol of the sacrifice of all the unknown soldiers who died in battle.
For example, The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in London, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in France and in such countries, as the USA, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, Italy, Greece and Russia.

War has remained in some ways a forgotten conflict, there

are only a few architectural structures associated with the First World War.
This one is in Moscow.

took part in a ceremony unveiling this monument to the

heroes who gave their lives in World War I. The ceremony was one of the main events marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. The idea to build the monument came from the Russian Military Historical Society, and is the creation of sculptors A. Kovalchuk, P. Lyubimov and V. Yusupov, and architects M. Korsi and S. Shlenkina.

Federation in August 22, 2014 in the center of Pskov,

on the boulevard between the two stations – a bus station and a rail station – took place the official opening ceremony of the monument to the Heroes of World War.

a monument to the soldiers who had perished during the

First World War. A sculptural composition of four meters high appeared in the city park of Azov near the local House of Culture. The opening of the monument was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.

participating countries. Germany and Great Britain spent about 60% of

the money their economy had produced. Countries had to raise taxes and borrow money from their citizens. They also printed money in order to buy weapons and other things they needed for war. This led to the inflation after the war.

went down because millions of young men died.
The role of

women also changed. They played a major part in replacing men in factories and offices. Many countries gave women more rights after the war had ended, including the right to vote.
The upper classes lost their leading role in society. After the war
young middle and low class men and women demanded their right in forming a new society of their country.

the history of the world. We will always remember the

heroes who died for their countries and glorify their great exploits.