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Theatres Of War - Chemical Weapons
is a munition that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on human beings. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. In the capture of Neuve Chapelle in October 1914 the German army fired shells at the French which contained a chemical irritant whose result was to induce a violent fit of sneezing. Three months later, on 31 January 1915, tear gas was employed by the Germans for the first time on the Eastern Front. -
Aviation
British airmen were part of the British Army and commissioned officers had army ranks. By the end of the war in November 1918, the Royal Flying Corps no longer existed and was absorbed into the newly created Royal Air Force. This had its own command structure away from the army and introduced its own ranks. -
Wsetern Front - Trench Warfare
Before World War 1, trench warfare was mostly used during the Civil War. However, with the wide use of artillery and new inventions like machine guns, trench warfare became a very important factor during World War 1. Because the goal of trench warfare was to defend one’s own trench while attempting to take the enemy’s at the same time, neither side gained any ground in a short period of time. Even if one side did push forward, it would take months at a time to gain anything. A prime example of h -
Theatres Of War - Christmas Truce
During World War I, on and around Christmas Day 1914, the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding faded in a number of places along the Western Front in favor of holiday celebrations in the trenches and gestures of goodwill between enemies. -
The Sinking Of The Lusitania
Attacks on merchant ships followed, culminating in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania by a German U-boat. It was carrying a supply of munitions and it was principally a passenger ship, and the 1,201 people who drowned in its sinking included 128 Americans. -
America At War - Entrey into war - Contributions
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Tanks
The tank was first used at the little known Battle of Flers. It was then used with less success at the Battle of the Somme. Though the tank was highly unreliable – as one would expect from a new machine – it did a great deal to end the horrors of trench warfare and brought back some mobility to the Western Front. -
Kiffin Yates Rockwell
The Rockwell brothers were passionately concerned about the impending European war and were determined to fight for France.Rockwell was accepted by the Service Aeronautique, began flight training in September 1915 and in April became one of the founding pilots in the squadron initially known as the Escadrille Americaine. In May 1916, while on patrol at the front, he became the first American pilot to down an enemy plane.September 23, 1916, when his Nieuport was downed by the gunner in a German A -
U-Boats
In the First Word War military submarines made a significant impact for the first time. The German U-Boats enjoyed a great deal of success and were responsible for destroying around half of all the food and supplies transported by the British Merchant Navy. -
The Zimmermann Telegram
British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. Helped pull the United States into the war. -
Armistice - Wilson's 14 points
Address to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war. -
The Red Baron
The best German Plane pilolt, and he diead by a single bullet and was fatally wounded, but he manged to land his plane right before he died. -
The War At Sea - U Boats - Battles
When The First World War broke out in 1914 the British Navy was more powerful than any other in the world. The Germans and the French also had large naval forces and both the Allied and Central powers fought hard to dominate the waterways.Half of all British merchant shipping was sunk by German submarines in the First World War.There was no real decisive clash between battle fleets in World War 1. The struggle for supremacy between German U-boats and British merchant ships was much more signific -
Cost Of The War - Economic - Lives
The total cost of World War I to the United States was approximately $32 billion, or 52 percent of gross national product at the time.World War I had a profound human cost, both on servicemen and civilians. Conservative estimates put war casualties at 12 million dead and 20 million severely wounded, though in reality both figures should probably be much higher. Taking into account deaths from combat, disease and missing soldiers, each of the major powers lost numbers in the millions. - See more -
America At War - Last Casualty (Privite Gunter)
Despite November 11th being the last day of the war, on many parts of the Western Front fighting continued as normal. Quite a number of the final casualties were at Mons in Belgium – ironically one of the first major battles of the war in 1914. In a cemetery just outside of Mons in the village of Nouvelle, there are nine graves of British soldiers. Five are from August 1914 while four are dated November 11th 1918. -
Armistice - Conditions - Date and Time
he Armistice began at on 11th November 1918 at 11am - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. The Armistice itself was agreed 6 hours earlier at 5am with the first term of it being that fighting would end at 11am. -
Theatres Of War - The Eastern Front
~Russian Revolution-ending centuries of imperial rule and setting in motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. In March, growing civil unrest, coupled with chronic food shortages, erupted into open revolt, forcing the abdication of Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Russian czar. Just months later, the newly installed provisional government was itself overthrown by the more radical Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). -
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, would be attacked by the German navy. -
Underlying Causes
Franco-Prussian War
Accession of Wilhelm II to the German Throne
Russo-Japanese War
Entente Cordiale
Moroccan Crises
Bosnian Annexation Crisis
Italo-Turkish War
Balkan Wars
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
July Ultimatum