February 4: Germany uses submarines to try and create ablockade, a surrounding that no one can enter or exit, of any ships heading to Great Britain. 1916 1917 1918 Lesson Summary Register to view this lesson Are you a student or a teacher?
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1 Jan 1935 Werner Mölders began receiving fighter pilot instructions at the flying school in Tutow, Germany and the Jagdfliegerschule near Munich, Germany. [Werner Mölders | CPC] Admiral Canaris was appointed head of the German Abwehr (Military Intelligence Department). [Wilhelm Canaris |...
The Young Plan, which set the total WW1 reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58 1/2 years, was finalized. [CPC]5 Sep 1929 Japan Masafumi Arima stepped down as the Vice Chief Gunnery Office of battleship Haruna and was assigned to the gu...
The Bosnian War began in 1992 when Bosnia voted to breakaway from Serbia as part of the disintegration of Yugoslavia. The bloody war that ensued also saw the targeted killing of ethnic Muslims by the Serbian army. The war ended in 1995 after a NATO bombing campaign forced Serbia to withdraw...
Germany and the Soviet Union signed an agreement at Rapallo, Geona, Italy, renouncing all territorial and monetary claims against each other as the result of WW1. [Treaty of Rapallo | Genoa, Liguria | CPC]18 Apr 1922 S-33 was commissioned into service. [S-33 | CPC]19...
1 Jan 1918 The British Cabinet, hearing false rumours of Bolshevik atrocities at Irkutsk, Russia, sent a telegram to US President Wilson asking that he reconsider the proposal to land an Allied force in the Far East to safeguard the 600,000 tons of supplies and other interests at Vladivostok...
Over 1000 armoured vehicles tore into each other near the site of the WW1 Vimy Ridge battle in 1917. 31 July 1958 AANW 25 After 2 days of round the clock air battles (which included the first use of airborne, radar directed fighter direction by the Americans and their EC-121...
1 Jan 1933 China Japanese troops attacked Hebei Province, China. [First Battle of Hebei | Hebei | CPC] Germany Ernst Vogelsang was promoted to the rank of midshipman (Fähnrich zur See). [Ernst Vogelsang | CPC]4 Jan 1933 Franz von Papen and Adolf Hitler met at the home of arist...