Though initially reviewed by critics, literary scholars treating West's work tended to focus on her later novels and dismiss The Return of the Soldier until the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty first. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in ...
The US did not enter the war at the beginning but later joined the war to reinforce the Entente Powers. However, no battles were fought in US territory so they didn't suffer destruction like their European allies. After the war, they rose to the top of the world economy as a new power...
The 61st Artillery Brigade boarded a flotilla of ships leaving Saint Nazaire beginning on February 25th. By March 11th, they had all left France. After a stormy transatlantic journey, the Brigade was in Newport News, Virginia and eventually back in Texas. The 61st Artillery Brigade was inactiv...
the U.S. emerged from WWI as an economic world power.8Going into the 1920s, the national debt decreased, the government had a budget surplus, and stock market returns increased. The effect lasted until the economy crashed in 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression. ...
Who were the central powers Germany6 and Austria Hungary What countries teamed up to get mad at Germany towards the end of the beginning of WWI Britain and France What region did France want to get back because they lost it Alsace and Lorraine Powder keg of Europe Balkan states that were ...
His role as a puppeteer pulling the strings between the press, government, royalty and military and at the same time himself being a puppet in the web of even mightier circles, is in my opinion completely underrated in the history of late 19th century, beginning 20th. Log in to Reply ...
Treaty of Versailles Ended WWI Dealt harshly with Germany Main Points: 1. Germany lost territory 2. Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire were broken up into separate nation-states 3. Germany forced to de-militarize 4. The League of Nations was created ...
As noted inThe Beginning of Futility, thefantihad pushed the enemy back. Berlin's help was requested. On October 24, 1917, the Austro-Germans unleashed the firstblitzkriegof the century, pushing back the defenders one hundred miles. Italian Intelligence warnings had been discarded as "it was ...
beginning of the Great War: that Germany, chronically short of fats and other raw materials, had taken to processing the corpses of its own fallen soldiers to produce soap, candles, lubricants, explosives and other vital war materiel. The facilities where this gruesome process was carried out ...
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