Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Remembrance
- Remembrance Day
- Is on the 11th of November
- To commemorate the First World War
- At 11o'clock
- A Two Minute Slience to
not forget the millons of
people who were killed,
injured and affected.
- People wear poppies on
Remembrance Day
- People make Rememberance
Day wreaths with poppies on them.
- World Wars
- World War One
- Began on the 28th
July 1914
- The two main sides were the
Allies: Britain, France and Russia
and on the other side were
Germany and Austria-Hungary
- Ended on 11th
November 1918
- 30 countries involved
- 9 million were killed;
21 million were
wonded
- In the Battle of Somme,
30,000 were killed
- World War Two
- Began on the 3rd
September 1939
- 50 to 70 million people were killed
- 80% of the Soviets born in
1923 didn't survive World War
Two
- Women were first in the
Military in WW2 in
Britain
- The leaders of the Aliies were
Franklin Delavo Roosevelt (America),
Winston Churchill (Britain) and
Joseph Stalin (Russia/USSR)
- The leaders of the Axis were Adolf Hilter
(Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy) and
Emperor Hirohiti (Japan)
- 911
- On the 11th of
September 2001
- Nearly 3,000 people were
killed and 400 of them were
police officers and
firefighters
- It was a terrorist attack on The
World Trade Center Twin
Towers
- Up to 50,000 employees worked in the
World Trade Center and a additional
40,000 passed through the complex.
- The rescue and the clean
up of 1.8 million tonnes
took 9 months.
- Only 18-20 people were rescued
alive out of the site.
- 3,051 children lost at
least one parent.
- It took firefighters 100 days
to get rid of the fire caused by
the attack.
- The second biggest loss of life was the
British nationality after the American
nationality (first)
- The total time of the
collapse of World Trade
Centre Towers was 102
minutes.