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The Great War is a history YouTube channel and web series which covered the events of World War I week-by-week from July 2014 to November 2018, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]‹The template Excessive citations inline is being considered for deletion.› [excessive citations] now focusing on the events that followed it in longer episodes.
The Russian railway network in 1912. Russia was one of the major belligerents in the First World War: from August 1914 to December 1917, it fought on the Entente 's side against the Central Powers. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Empire was a great power in terms of its vast territory, population, and agricultural resources.
When the war started Italy declared neutrality; in 1915 it switched and joined the Triple Entente (i.e. the Allies). Germany entered into World War I on August 1, 1914, when it declared war on Russia. In accordance with its war plan, it ignored Russia and moved first against France –declaring war on August 3 and sending its main armies ...
The Russian invasion of East Prussia occurred during World War I, lasting from August to September 1914. As well as being the natural course for the Russian Empire to take upon the declaration of war on the German Empire, it was also an attempt to focus the Imperial German Army on the Eastern Front, as opposed to the Western Front.
The Russian Empire 's entry into World War I unfolded gradually in the days leading up to July 28, 1914. The sequence of events began with Austria-Hungary 's declaration of war on Serbia, a Russian ally. In response, Russia issued an ultimatum to Vienna via Saint Petersburg, warning Austria-Hungary against attacking Serbia.
The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I (German: Ostfront; Romanian: Frontul de răsărit;), for Russia Second Patriotic War[24][25] (Russian: Вторая Отечественная Война), was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one side and Austria ...
Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I. Coordinates: 0°N 25°W. Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I. Part of the U-boat campaign of World War I. A German postcard depicting the U-boat SM U-20 sinking RMS Lusitania. Date. 8 August 1914 – 20 October 1918. (1914-08-08 – 1918-10-20) Location.
Overview. World War I mobilization, 1 August 1914. The German population responded to the outbreak of war in 1914 with a complex mix of emotions, in a similar way to the populations of emotions in the United Kingdom; notions of universal enthusiasm known as the Spirit of 1914 have been challenged by more recent scholarship. [1]