How did it start? Why was Britain involved? Who were our allies? What were the major battles? The reader will find this concise book valuable in grasping many of the important facets of the war. Spread across different continents were many different armies fighting for one alliance or another...
Why did both sides want to find new allies and widen the war? Each side hoped that new allies would give them an advantage Discussion Question Entry of the United States The United States tried to stay neutral in the first years of World War I. This became more difficult as the war drag...
•By1914allthemajorpowerswerelinkedbyasystemofalliances.•Thealliancesmadeitmorelikelythatawarwouldstart.•Oncestarted,thealliancesmadeitmorelikelytospread.Imperialism •Allthegreatpowerswerecompetingforcolonies/territory.•TheBritishfearedGermanyinAfrica.•TheAustriansfearedSerbia/RussiaintheBalkans Nation...
Why did Austria-Hungary create a dual monarchy? Why didn't Henry Clay support the annexation of Austria? Why was the Battle of Megiddo in WWI important? Why did the Crimean War start? Why did Napoleon III enter the Franco-Prussian War? Why did the Treaty of Verdun happen? Why was nation...
How did the First World War start and why? What was it like being a soldier in the trenches? What did it mean to go over the top? The first fully interactive timeline to learn about the First War, narrated by children. World War One was a military conflict lasting from 1914 to 1918...
The answer involved going through the battalion war diary day by day. I started recording what it was doing, but this quickly evolved to capture more data – where did it start and end the day, was it in action, were there any casualties, and how many men transferred in and out? This...
United Kingdom (1915-1918) Prototype – 1 Partially Completed Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton had been there right at the birth of the British plan for the machines which were to become known as tanks. In 1915, this veteran of Victorian campaigns in India and acknowledged expert in both ...
There is a full-fledged weather system, while movement is a simple process of drawing a line from start to destination, then allowing the AI to figure out the best way to get there. And believe it or not, all of this is done in semi-real time. The detail in the game is fantastic ...
Austro-Hungarian Empire (1915-1921) Armored Car – 5-7 Built The Junovicz was the most-widely produced armored car in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War, although this does not imply much, as just seven (or five) were built. The vehicle was named after its designer,...
impressed us with her great, in-depth knowledge of not only the sites visited, but also the strategic rational of the battles waged, the reasons why such scale of loss occurred, emphasising the issues of the planning timescales involved, the organisation...