Philadelphia: The World War I Yearsprovides a window to a time and a city now gone. One hundred years ago Philadelphia was a very different place. In 1914 Philadelphia was the third largest city in the United States with a population of over one and a half million people. It was a majo...
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
In the years before World War I, the superiority of Britain’s Royal Navy was unchallenged by any other nation’s fleet, but the Imperial German Navy had made substantial strides in closing the gap between the two naval powers. Germany’s strength on the high seas was also aided by its ...
World War I lasted from 1914-1918. Since World War I ended, every year on 11 November we remember the people in the armed forces who died in battle. This is called Remembrance Day. It also marks the day that World War I ended in 1918. World War I involved two main sides: the Allie...
Of all the initialbelligerentnations, only Great Britain had a volunteer army, and this was quite small at the start of the war. The other nations had much larger conscript armies that required three to four years of service from able-bodied males of military age, to be followed by several...
For four years, from 1914 to 1918, World War I raged across Europe’s western and eastern fronts after growing tensions and then the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ignited the war. Trench warfare and the early use of tanks, submarines and airplanes meant the war’s battl...
After years of preparation, the completed National World War I Memorial, featuring a 60-foot-long bronze relief sculpture dramatizing the horrors of war, will be unveiled this month in Washington, D.C. Sep 1, 2024 Creating a memorial to the horrors of World War I ...
1. World War I, or First World War (1914-1918) 2. World War II, or Second World War (1939-1945) It is also sometimes applied to other wars such as the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years' War, the Cold War and Cold War II, a hypothetical World War III and even th...
World War I lasted 4 long years and as a result, 3 Empires disappeared from the world map. The game World War I covers these historical events of 1914-1918 in over 30 missions grouped into 3 campaigns and one additional chapter. As a commander leading the forces of Germany, Russia or ...
That is the only story I know from that portion of his life. He took everything else with him to the grave. While his body survived the war without any catastrophic injuries, his mental health was severely affected by the things he experienced during those years. He became physically and ...