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A Companion to World War I (2012) 38 topics essays by scholars; Kramer, Alan. "Recent Historiography of the First World War – Part I", Journal of Modern European History (Feb. 2014) 12#1 pp 5–27; "Recent Historiography of the First World War (Part II)", (May 2014) 12#2 pp 155–174. Loez, André, and Nicolas Mariot.
On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. [28] Following a month of war, Poland was defeated. [29] A period of inaction, called the Phoney War, then followed between the Allies and Germany. [30] On 10 May 1940, this inactivity ended as Germany began Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) against France and the neutral nations of Belgium, the Netherlands ...
The United States declares war on Germany. [63] April 7 Politics: Cuba declares war on Germany. [24] Politics: Panama declares war on Germany. [24] Asian and Pacific: Scuttling of SMS Cormoran in Guam, the only hostile action between American and German forces in the Pacific. April 9 – May 17 Western: Second Battle of Arras.
Germany was the leader of the Central Powers, which included Austria-Hungary at the start of the war as well as the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria; arrayed against them were the Allies, consisting chiefly of Russia, France, and Britain at the beginning of the war, Italy, which joined the Allies in 1915, and the United States, which joined the ...
The 1870 Franco-Prussian War, Prussian forces invaded France due to tensions regarding Prussia's growing influence in central Europe; The 1914 First Battle of the Marne at the outset of World War I; The World War II invasions: [2] May 1940 Battle of France, started by Nazi Germany's invasion of the Ardennes and the Low countries
Territories promised to Italy in the treaty of London. The Treaty of London (Italian: Trattato di Londra) or the Pact of London (Patto di Londra) was a secret agreement concluded on 26 April 1915 by the United Kingdom, France, and Russia on the one part, and Italy on the other, in order to entice the latter to enter World War I on the side of the Triple Entente.
Italy and the World War. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 414372. Pergher, Roberta. "An Italian War? War and Nation in the Italian Historiography of the First World War" Journal of Modern History (Dec 2018) 90#4; Pryce, Roy. "Italy and the Outbreak of the First World War." Cambridge Historical Journal 11#2 (1954): 219-27 online.
Italy entered into the First World War in 1915 with the aim of completing national unity: for this reason, the Italian intervention in the First World War is also considered the Fourth Italian War of Independence, [1] in a historiographical perspective that identifies in the latter the conclusion of the unification of Italy, whose military actions began during the revolutions of 1848 with the ...