Order the next sentences in a diamond form, selecting the most important for you. Then, try to explain your decision using the adjective box below.
1.12 million letters were delivered to the frontline every week
2. An explosion on the battlefield in France was heard in England
3. The youngest British soldier in WW1 was just 12 years old
4.A primary cause of WW1 was a difference over foreign policy
5. 8 million soldiers died in WW1 and 21 million were injured
6. The peace of the First World War was one of the reasons for the start of the Second World War
7. The first world war was inevitable because of the tensions of imperialism
8.Plastic surgery was invented because of WW1
9.World War I was a ‘total war’ that involved the governments, economies and populations of participating nations to an extent never seen before in history
10.The total cost of the First World War is estimated at $208 billion (equivalent to about $11 trillion in 2020)
11.Around 8 millions horses died in the First World War
12.The Pool of Peace is a 40-ft (12-m) deep lake near Messines, Belgium. It fills a crater made in 1917 when the British detonated a mine containing 45 tons of explosives.
13.The war left thousands of soldiers disfigured and disabled. Reconstructive surgery was used to repair facial damage, but masks were also used to cover the most horrific disfigurement
14.World War I was also known as the Great War, the World War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars.
15.During WWI, American hamburgers (named after the German city of Hamburg) were renamed Salisbury steak. Frankfurters, which were named after Frankfurt, Germany, were called “liberty sausages).
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