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The Triple Alliance was a secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy that was formed on the 20th of May 1882. Italy sought support against France shortly after losing North African ambitions to the French. Otto von Bismarck is regarded as the principal architect of the alliance.
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Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the German kaiser emperor and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18). He gained a reputation as a swaggering militarist through his speeches and ill-advised newspaper interviews.
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It developed from the Franco-Russian alliance that gradually developed and was formalized in 1894, the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale of 1904, and an Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907, which brought the Triple Entente into existence.
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Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of All Russia, ruling from November 1894 until his abdication in March 1917.
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The first Canadian troops arrived in France December 1914.
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The machine gun, which so came to dominate and even to personify the battlefields of World War One, was a fairly primitive device when general war began in August 1914. Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops.
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The alliances are the main reason behind WW1 because they turned what was meant to be a brief war between accuser and accused into a world war. How the alliances
turned a brief war into a world war is a classic case of one thing led to another.
The 3 countries that belong to the triple alliance are Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy.
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Trench warfare of the First World War can be said to have begun in September 1914 and ended when the Allies made a breakthrough attack that began in late July 1918. Before and after those dates were wars of movement: in between it was a war of entrenchment.
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Nationalism played a specific role in World War I when Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Princip, a member of a Serbian nationalist terrorist group fighting against Austria-Hungary's rule over Bosnia. they narrowly escaped death when Serbian terrorists threw a bomb at their open-topped car.
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Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Este, German Franz Ferdinand, Francis Ferdinand, (born December 18, 1863 died June 28, 1914,
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The U-boat Campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the WW1 naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies. It took place largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean.
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The bonds were a loan to the government that could be redeemed with interest after 5,10, or 20 years and were released during 5 different campaigns between 1915 and 1919. In 1915 a hundred million dollars worth of Victory Bonds was issued and quickly purchased.
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The second battle of Ypres was on April 22-May 25 1915. In early April 1915 the Allied forces on the Ypres front comprised from south to north. Elements of the two corps of the British Second Army which included the 1st Canadian Division commanded by Gen. The battle marked the Germans’ first use of poison gas as a weapon. Although the gas attack opened a wide hole in the allied line, the Germans failed to exploit that advantage.
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Before WW1, women typically played the role of the homemaker. Women were judged by their beauty rather than by their ability.
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The Battle of the Somme, which took place from July to November 1916, began as an Allied offensive against German forces on the Western Front and turned into one of the most bitter and costly battles of WW1.
The British launched a massive offensive against German forces in the Somme River region of France.
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Conscription would have minimal impact on Canada's war effort. By the Armistice in November 1918, only 48,000 conscripts had been sent overseas, half of which ultimately served at the front. More than 50,000 more conscripts remained in Canada. These would have been required had the war continued into 1919
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The White Army represented a large group of loosely allied forces, including monarchists, capitalists and supporters of democratic socialism. On July 16, 1918, the Romanovs were executed by the Bolsheviks. The Russian Civil War ended in 1923 with Lenin's Red Army claiming victory and establishing the Soviet Union.
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The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in the First Army, against three divisions of the German 6th Army.
The Canadians held Vimy Ridge. This victory came at a high cost as 3,598 Canadians lost their lives, and 7,000 were wounded during the four-day battle. -
Battle of Passchendaele, also called Third Battle of Ypres, (July 31–November 6, 1917), World War I battle that served as a vivid symbol of the mud, madness, and senseless slaughter of the Western Front.
The French lost at least 50,000 at Ypres, while the Belgians suffered more than 20,000 casualties at the Yser and Ypres. A month of fighting at Ypres cost the Germans more than 130,000 casualties, a staggering total that would ultimately pale before later actions on the Western Front. -
During the Civil War Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1861 which included a tax on personal incomes to help pay war expenses. The history of income taxes in the United States goes back to the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln signed into law the nation's first ever tax on personal income to help pay for the Union war effort.
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The 1917 Canadian federal election (sometimes referred to as the khaki election) was held on December 17, 1917, to elect members of the house of commons of Canada o the 13th parliament of Canada.
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Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies for WW1 and germany at compiegne, France at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on thewestern front of WW1, which took effect at eleven in the morning the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.
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Sir Robert Laird Borden GCMG PC KC was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada, in office from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I. Borden was born in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia.
