Europe Before World War I Britain France Russia Germany Austria-Hungary Europe During WWI After the War Lesson SummaryShow Frequently Asked Questions How were alliances a cause of WWI? The system of alliances made a major war not inevitable but definitely more likely. In particular, Austria-Hun...
What is the history of Germany?Germany:The fourth-largest economy in the world, Germany is today a major power whose activities and politics influence Europe and the world. Germany itself is a fairly new nation, although its history dates back far longer....
The Tondern raid or Operation F.7, was a British bombing raid by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force against the Imperial German Navy airship base at Tønder, Denmark, then a part of Germany. The airships were used for the strategic bombing of Britain. On 19 July 1918, seven Sopwith...
The continuation of the blockade after the fighting ended, as Robert Leckie wrote in Delivered From Evil, did much to "torment the Germans ... driving them with the fury of despair into the arms of the devil." The terms of the Armistice did allow food to be shipped into Germany, but t...
Germany was Europe’s most powerful state. United only since 1871 (before that it had been a congeries of kingdoms, principalities, duchies, free cities, and confederations), Germany was an industrial superpower, with the second-largest manufacturing economy in the world (behind the United States...
It was engaged in combat for less than a month before the 1918 Armistice with Germany. After the armistice, the squadron returned to the United States in June 1919 and was demobilized. At Rembercourt, the 185th was designated as a "Night Chase" Squadron, the first of its type organized ...
Before a decade passed, Germany had supplanted Russia as the main threat in the Pacific and the treaty continued to be beneficial to both the British and Japanese, so it was extended. When the war started, Japan had one of the largest navies in the world, including twenty-one battleships ...
Causes of WW1: Militarism Militarism means that the army and military forces are given a high profile by the government. The growing European divide had led to an arms race between the main countries. The armies of both France and Germany had more than doubled between 1870 and 1914 and the...
When and why did Britain declare war on Germany WW1? Britain declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914, to defend Belgium's neutrality. Belgium's neutrality was guaranteed by various nations of Europe. Why did Great Britain declare war on Germany during WW1? Great Britain declared war on ...
November 6, 2018Chinoiseries2014 Education, History 1 Comment Germany produced many Mathematicians and Physicists who succeeded the 18 CE Newtonian England, and the 19CE Napoleonic France before WW2, after which the Americans (mostly the Jewish German immigrants) take over till now. German names ar...