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Christopher Crasock
In 1900 in China during the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded a mixture of British, German and Japanese sailors during the capture of the Taku forts, and was promoted Captain[2] and received the Prussian Order of the Crown with swords as a result. -
Battle of Mons
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. -
Battle of the Bight
The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, after the British planned to attack German patrols off the northwest German coast. -
Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Marne was a First World War battle fought from 5–12 September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army under Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. -
Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. -
Alfred von Tirpitz
Grand Admiral Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. -
Arthur Zimmermann
Telegram sent by German foreign minister Alfred Zimmermann to the German ambassador to Mexico -
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States, in office from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. -
Prince Max von Baden
He was heir to the Grand Duchy of Baden and in October and November 1918 briefly served as Chancellor of the German Empire, overseeing the transformation into a parliamentary system during the "October reforms" at the end of World War I. -
Germany after the War
The reconstruction of Germany was a long process. After World War II, Germany had suffered heavy losses, both in lives and industrial power. 7.5 million Germans had been killed, roughly 11 percent of the population (see also World War II casualties). The country's cities were severely damaged from heavy bombing in the closing chapters of the War and agricultural production was only 35 percent of what it was before the war.
