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At the outbreak of war the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy, with assistance from New Zealand and Japanese naval and land forces in the Far East, had captured the German colonies of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Yap, Nauru, and Samoa, instead of searching for the German East Asia Squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee, which had abandoned its base at the German concession at ...
Influence peaked in the decades before World War I, and the prestige of Germany and German things in Chile remained high after the war but did not recover to its pre-war levels. [1] [2] Institutions like the Chilean Army and Instituto Pedagógico were also heavily influenced by Germany. [1]
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Chile from its birth in the first decades of the 19th century to the present. Chilean victory : in case of being an international war or that has an international scope due to the quality of the belligerents.
The prestige of Germany and German culture in Chile remained high after the First World War but did not return to its pre-war levels. [2] [3] Indeed in Chile, the war bought an end to a period of scientific and cultural influence which writer Eduardo de la Barra scornfully called "the German bewitchment" (Spanish: el embrujamiento alemán). [4]
The following lists events that happened during 1914 in Chile. Incumbents ... 1 November – World War I ... 7 May – Radomiro Tomic (d. 1992) [1] 11 May ...
Arawak woman (John Gabriel Stedman)Early South American military history is distinctively different from that in Asia or Europe. [1] Metallurgy influenced warfare in the Americas less than in other parts of the world; in South America the use of stone, wood and bone, backed by limited use of copper, dominated weaponry up until the European invasions.
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. UK: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00311-7. Antezana-Pernet, Corinne. "Peace in the World and Democracy at Home: The Chilean Women's Movement in the 1940s" in Latin America in the 1940s, David Rock, ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1994, pp. 166–186.
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."