This page contains a list of events that occured in Luton and surroundings 1914-1919, as well as global events that affected Luton's people. When you add an ancestor to this site, it is always a good idea to try and connect them to an 'event' that happened in their life. E.g. if...
War? What war? ; New history explores deeper contexts by looking at other major events of 1914David Shribman
Albeit some may contend that the other three patrons were the fundamental elements prompting WW1, none would have happened without the acquaintance of colonialism with the Get AccessRelated Essay on Imperialism In World War 1 Imperialism was one of the four contributing factors to the cause of ...
The International Criminal Court began an investigation into Russia following their invasion against Ukraine. The goal was to find any possible war crimes committed by Russia against Ukraine. In the months that unfolded, countries across the globe would curtail trade to and from the nation in protes...
What happened to Siam during World War II?Siam to Thailand:Siam became Thailand in 1939 under military rule, and was a country that had previously been under absolute monarchs for most of its history until a bloodless revolution in 1932. Led by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thailand was part of the...
What happened at the Battle of Ypres?The Schlieffen Plan:It was October of 1914, and the First World War was in full swing. The Germans were fighting against Imperial Russia on one front, and the French on the other. The British had only just entered the war on the side of France, ...
What happened on December 7th, 1941?December 7th, 1941December 7th, 1941 is famously known as 'a date which will live in infamy,' and was uttered in a speech by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was a major turning point in 20th-century history and is a date that is somberly...
character of the war. I think that [Barbarossa] would not have happened in 1941 but for the really heady sense of victory that was generated by the events of 1940, the fall of France and so on, that gave the sense that the Wehrmacht was invincible and that Hitler was a great leader....
What caused the War of the First Coalition? What were some of the political effects of World War I? How did the First World War lead to the Second World War? Who was the first world war between? What led to the Onin War? What key events happened on the Western Front during World ...
whose name was changed in 1914 to Petrograd so as not to sound too German (at the time, Russia was fighting the Kaiser in the First World War). In 1924 Petrograd became Leningrad, which then went back to being St. Petersburg again in 1991. Today many of the city’s inhabitants simply...