Germany's use of submarine warfare proved to be the key element in provoking the United States' entry into the war. In 1915 a German submarine had torpedoed without warning the British passenger steamshipLusitaniaoff the southern coast of Ireland. Nearly 1,200 persons died, including 128 U.S...
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While to the German general staff these rights were insignificant, they became the direct cause of British intervention in the war.On 1 August, the Germans declared war on Russia; two days later they declared war on France; and on 4 August, they invaded Belgium, which had rejected Germany’...
The USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a German submarine's torpedo on December 6, 1917. Aug 15, 2022 7 WWI soldiers buried after remains found during pipeline construction The evolution of DNA technology has allowed for the identification of more and more unknown soldiers from World War I. ...
The 'First World War' refers to a global conflict that lasted for 50 months and involved industrialized imperial powers. It was characterized by the mobilization of resources from around the world and resulted in the highest number of combat deaths in comparison to previous wars. The war was pr...
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airships and aircraftand the unrestricted use of that ‘ungentlemanly weapon’, the submarine. (Stuart citesPaul Virilio‘sBunker Archaeology, which identifies the emergence of ‘volumetric’, deep three-dimensional warfare with the Second World War, but the genealogy is clearly older than that)...