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[1] About 12,000 Portuguese troops died during World War I, including Africans who served in its armed forces on the colonial front. [2] [3] Civilian deaths by some estimates exceeded 220,000: 82,000 caused by food shortages and 138,000 by the Spanish flu. [4]
Faria, Ivan Rodrigues de, 1996 Participação do Brasil na Primeira Guerra Mundial (in Portuguese) ('Brazil's participation in World War I') Brazilian Army Journal, Rio – DPHCEx, (p. 67) 67) Frota, Guilherme de Andrea, 2000 500 Anos de História do Brasil (in Portuguese) Brazilian Army Press, ISBN 8570112777
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."
July 1–2 Eastern: Battle of Zborov, a phase of the Kerensky Offensive. July 1–12 Politics: Brief monarchist coup and restoration in China, allegedly promoted by Germany to distance China from the Entente. July 1–19 Eastern: The Kerensky Offensive fails. It is the last Russian initiative in the war. [70] July 6
The Allies or the Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker ...
On 1 August 1914, Germany declared war on Russia. On the outbreak of war with its eastern neighbour, Germany put the Schlieffen Plan into action, and Luxembourg's government's fears were realised. Initially, Luxembourg was only a transit point for Albrecht von Württemberg's Fourth Army.
However, a British economic embargo and naval blockade were causing severe shortages of fuel and food in Germany. Berlin then decided to resume unrestricted submarine warfare. The aim was to break the trans-atlantic supply chain to Britain from other nations to the West, although the German high command realized that sinking American-flagged ...