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 Italians came out of the war on the winning side but failed to gain the territory they had expected to gain, and there's a sense of outrage about this amongst Italian nationalists, a sense almost that Italy has lost the war despite being on the winning side. => 意大利人在胜利的一...
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World War I - Last Offensives, Allies Victory: The Second Battle of the Somme was a partially successful German offensive against British and French forces. The Second Battle of the Marne was the last major offensive launched by the Germans but the count
World War I, international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other regions. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties and, in its destabilization of European soci
in December 1905. A modified version of the plan was used when World War I broke out in August 1914. It is often claimed that the plan was Germany’s response to the threat of a two-front war. Yet Schlieffen’s own writing shows that this was not his motivation. The plan is better...
By the end of World War 1 the allies had suffered 3,049,972 casualties but in 4 long years of war the front line had shifted just 100 yards. (Total casualties for all the allied nations involved in World War 1 was 22,104,209 - about the same as the total population of Australia in...
with more than 100 million people serving in military units.In a state of "total war",the major participants placed their entire economic,industrial,and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort,erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources.Marked by significant events...
1 By Ariane Gauthier Many Canadian war graves and military cemeteries have been established around the world, as a result of the conflicts in which Canada has been involved since Confederation (1867), from the Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa to the conflict in Afghanistan (2001–14)....
This site is dedicated to those men and women who fell fighting for their country. Recorded here are various war memorials within a variety of counties including main sections for Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshi