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On 21 March 1918, the Germans launched a large offensive against the British Fifth Army and the right wing of the British Third Army. The artillery bombardment began at 4.40am on March 21. The bombardment [hit] targets over an area of 150 square miles [390 km 2], the biggest barrage of the entire war. Over 1,100,000 shells were fired in five ...
The Revolution of 1918/19 is one of the most important events in the modern history of Germany, yet it is poorly embedded in the historical memory of Germans. [137] The failure of the Weimar Republic that the revolution brought into being and the Nazi era that followed it obstructed the view of the events for a long time.
The months following the election saw great labour unrest across the country, with the Spartacist Uprising and a general strike in Upper Silesia in January, a general strike in the Ruhr in February and yet another general strike in Central Germany around Halle, Merseburg, Leipzig and Erfurt from February to early March.
(Map #4) General Foch's handwritten map of the Western Front on March 26, 1918. In the early morning hours of March 21, 1918, German artillery rained down on the Western Front. The spearhead of a massive German assault of nearly 200 divisions then hit and broke the Allied line right at its weakest point. [1]
Landtag elections in the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Freistaat Mecklenburg-Strelitz) during the Weimar Republic were held at irregular intervals between 1918 and 1932. Results with regard to the total vote, the percentage of the vote won and the number of seats allocated to each party are presented in the tables below. [ 1 ]
10 March. Hans-Joachim Buddecke, German flying ace (killed in action) (born 1890) Eugen von Zimmerer, German prosecutor, attorney and (born 1843) 15 March – Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, German fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1891) 17 March – Hans Bethge, German World War I flying ace (born 1890)
The Central Powers and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Operation Faustschlag and Russia's involvement in World War I. [24]Hipólito Yrigoyen retained his seat as President of Argentina after his party, the Radical Civic Union, won majority of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies during the legislative election in Argentina (where voter turnout was 54 percent).
Landtag elections in the Free State of Brunswick (Freistaat Braunschweig) during the Weimar Republic were held at two-year, later three-year, intervals between 1918 and 1930. Results with regard to the total vote, the percentage of the vote won and the number of seats allocated to each party are presented in the tables below.