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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."
1914–1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War is an international, English-language online encyclopedia of the First World War. Deemed the largest research network of its kind, it officially went online on 8 October 2014. [1] The editorial office is staffed by historians and uses Semantic MediaWiki.
British Strategy and War Aims 1914–1916 (Routledge, 2014) ISBN 0415749905; Holmes, Richard. Tommy: the British soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Marshall Pickering, 2004) ISBN 0007137524; Messenger, Charles. Call To Arms: The British Army 1914–1918 (2005) ISBN 0297846957; Pegler, Martin. British Tommy 1914–18 (1996) ISBN 1855325411
British intelligence intercepted the telegram and passed the information on to Washington. Wilson released the Zimmerman note to the public and Americans saw it as a casus belli—a justification for war. President Wilson before Congress, announcing the break in official relations with the German Empire on February 3, 1917.
In 1900, the British had a 3.7:1 tonnage advantage over Germany; in 1910, the ratio was 2.3:1 and in 1914, it reached 2.1:1. Ferguson argues: "So decisive was the British victory in the naval arms race that it is hard to regard it as in any meaningful sense a cause of the First World War."
It has been acknowledged that British generals were often capable men facing difficult challenges and that it was under their command that the British army played a major part in the defeat of the Germans in 1918: a great forgotten victory. [17] Though these views have been discounted as "myths", [16] [18] they are common. They have dynamically ...
However, by the time the Fifth Army arrived, units of the German Second Army were already in the area. Joffre authorized an attack across the Sambre, predicting that the German force had 18 divisions, comparable to Lanrezac's 15, plus another 3 British reinforcements (the British Expeditionary Force). However, Lanrezac predicted much higher ...
Academic work in the English-speaking world in the later 1920s and 1930s, blamed the participants more or less equally. In the early 1920s, several American historians opposed to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles such as Sidney Bradshaw Fay , Charles A. Beard and Harry Elmer Barnes produced works that claimed that Germany was not ...