World War I n. the war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on Nov. 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries...
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The reasons for the beginning of World War One all start with a wrong turn taken on a road in Sarajevo.On 28 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Countess Sophie, were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia. It was the couple’s fourteenth wedding anniversary. They were utterly devoted...
[Gunshot] the British army digs in [Gunfire] Since the beginning of the war, nearly 400,000 British soldiers have been killed just to be replaced by new arrivals. => [枪声]英国军队在[枪声]中挖掘战争开始以来,已有近四十万名英军士兵被杀死,以换取新来者。 Among the new recruits is a man b...
The Treaty of London of 1915 was a secret treaty between the Allied forces and Italy, who had remained neutral at the beginning of World War One. Although the majority of Italian citizens wanted to remain neutral, Italy joined the war after being enticed with new territories offered ...
S1 E13-The Tide Begins to Turn (October- December 1942) - Countdown to Victory: World War II September 1, 2009 55min 13+ After so many years of German supremacy, as 1942 drew to a close, the Allies were really beginning to make headway. The British made a crucial breakthrough in Nor...
For most Europeans, the Great War, which began innocuously with a Serbian nationalist’s assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in June 1914, represented the end of splendor and the beginning of mediocrity. “This is going to be our evil inheritance,” wrote Italian soldier Paolo ...
that his latest film, The Boy and the Heron, will be his last. And, as Caryn James points out in her BBC Culture review, it feels as if he has put all of the key motifs from his previous work into one overarching masterpiece. Beginning with the bombing of Tokyo during World War ...
When a photographic retoucher is commissioned to fix the abnormalities on a Great War portrait, he finds his own past and that of the subject beginning to connect. Are his personal nightmares returning, or is it something more? A short ghost story in the M.R. James tradition, The Last Pho...
6. Verdun was the longest battle of the war, beginning in February 1916. The Germans were led by a prince. True or false? 7. The Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 was such a disaster for the British that the governm...