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This is a list of English-language names given by World War I troops to places affected by World War I. Indeed, because there were many tensions during World War 1, some places had to be renamed . Since there was a very anti-German sentiment during World War 1, the military and government would rename towns, like Kitchener, Ontario in Canada ...
The place name Maastricht is an Old Dutch compound Masa-(> Maas "the Meuse river") + Old Dutch *treiekt, itself borrowed from Gallo-Romance *TRA(I)ECTU cf. its Walloon name li trek, from Classical Latin trajectus ("ford, passage, place to cross a river") with the later addition of Maas "Meuse" to avoid the confusion with the -trecht of Utrecht ...
United States: World War I: The German Spitz was renamed the American Eskimo Dog. In 1918, the town of Germania, Iowa, was renamed Lakota, Iowa. In 1918, the town of New Berlin, Ohio, was renamed North Canton, Ohio. [15] Sauerkraut was marketed in the US as "liberty cabbage." Salisbury steak was used as an alternative name for hamburgers.
The United States Customs Service seized 89 Dutch ships under angary, [21] including 46 in New York. [22] 31 of the ships that the US seized were commissioned into the United States Navy. [21] Most were cargo ships, but they also included the ocean liners Rijndam, Koningin der Nederlanden, and Zeelandia, which the USA converted into troopships.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
A 1919 book for veterans, from the US War Department. The social trauma caused by unprecedented rates of casualties manifested itself in different ways, which have been the subject of subsequent historical debate. [26] Over 8 million Europeans died in the war. Millions suffered permanent disabilities.
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1942 - Most of Maastricht's more than 500 Jews deported and killed in German concentration and extermination camps. 1944, 13/14 September - Liberation of Maastricht : US troops of 30th Infantry Division ("Old Hickory") liberate the city. 1944/45 - Maastricht serves as 'rest center' for allied forces. Maastricht Aachen Airport begins operating.