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United States War Dept. figures for Greek casualties are: Total mobilized force 230,000; total casualties 27,000 (killed and died 5,000; wounded 21,000; prisoners and missing 1,000). [34] The report of the UK War Office listed 27,000 casualties (5,000 killed or died of wounds; 21,000 wounded and 1,000 prisoners and missing). [20]
Map of the Western Front, 1917 The Hindenburg Line was built between 2 mi (3.2 km) and 30 mi (48 km) behind the German front line. [ 79 ] On 25 February the German armies west of the line began Operation Alberich a withdrawal to the line and completed the retirement on 5 April, leaving a supply desert of scorched earth to be occupied by the ...
Western Europe Soviet–Afghan War: 1–3 million [51] [3] 1979–1989 Soviet Union and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan vs. Afghan mujahideen: Afghanistan Delhi Conquest of North India: 0.5–3 million [52] 1300–1310 Delhi Sultanate vs. North Indian States Indian subcontinent Bangladesh Liberation War: 0.3–3 million [53] [54] 1971
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."
The following is a tabulation of United States military casualties of war. Overview ... Years Deaths 1: World War II: 1941–1945: ... Virginia, West Virginia ...
Resch, John P., ed. Americans at War: Society, culture, and the home front: volume 3: 1901-1945 (2005) Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War-Welfare State (1991) Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918 (1961) Trask, David F.
The highest number of casualties occurred on the Western Front in France and Belgium. In total, over 20 separate CWGC or national memorials to the missing of the Western Front were designed and built. They were commissioned and unveiled over a period of around 15 years from the early 1920s to 1938, when the last of the planned memorials was ...
European diplomatic alignments shortly before the war. The Ottomans joined the Central Powers shortly after the war started, with Bulgaria joining the following year. Italy remained neutral in 1914 and joined the Allies in 1915. Map of the world with the participants in World War I c. 1917. Allied Powers in blue, Central Powers in orange, and ...