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World
War 1, also known as the First World War or the Great War and the War to End All Wars, was a world
conflict lasting from 1914 to 1919, with the fighting lasting
until 1918. The war was fought by the Allies on one side, and
the Central Powers on the other. No previous conflict had mobilized
so many soldiers or involved so many in the field of battle.
By its end, the war had become the second bloodiest conflict
in recorded history.
World War 1 became infamous for trench warfare, where troops were confined to
trenches because of tight defenses. This was especially true of the Western Front.
More than 9 million died on the battlefield, and nearly that many more on the
home fronts because of food shortages, genocide, and ground combat. Among other
notable events, the first large-scale bombing from the air was undertaken and
some of the century's first large-scale civilian massacres took place, as one
of the aspects of modern efficient, non-chivalrous warfare.
I hope you will enjoy viewing
worldwar-1.net
and find its information both
helpful and interesting. The
website includes an exhaustive day by day timeline,
covering every event
that occured during World
War 1, in chronological order from 1914
through to 1919, which gives a fascinating insight into what
was arguably the first industrial war in our history. |
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More
detail to the websites timelines has recently been added, particularly
those for
1918 and 1919
which have received a lot if new data. Work also continues
on other projects, one of which is a timeline of events
immediatley after World War 1. I shall update this and
other projects in due course.
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22nd November 1914
First Battle of Ypres ends.
4th November 1915
Henry Ford's peace ship, Oskar
II, begins its voyage to Europe.
7th November 1916
Woodrow Wilson is re-elected
in the USA with a campaign slogan of "He kept us out of
the war"
18th November 1916
Battle of the Somme ends.
28th November 1916
The First German airplane (as
opposed to zeppelin) air-raid is conducted on Britain
29th November 1916
US occupation of Santa Domingo
proclaimed.
7th November 1917
The Bolshevik overthrow
the Kerensky's government and install of a Communist one under
Lenin.
10th November 1917
British reach Passchendaele.
Third Battle of Ypres ends.
20th November 1917
Battle of Cambrai
begins with a surprise tank attack by the British.
3rd November 1918
The German fleet mutinies at
Kiel. Trieste falls to the Allies as Austro-Hungary concludes
an armistice.
5th November 1918
Allies accept the
fourteen points.
7th November 1918
Germany begins negotiations for
an armistice with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage
headquarters at Compiegne.
9th November 1918
Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates.
10th November 1918
German republic founded
as Kaiser Wilhelm II flees to Holland.
11th November 1918
Armistice day as
fighting ceases at 11am - World War I ends. Central Powers
are forced to annul the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. |
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| German
Fokker DR.I |
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| The
Fokker DR.I triplane was built after the Sopwith Triplane. While
not as fast as contemporary biplanes, the Dreidecker could easily
outclimb any opponent. Small, lightweight and highly maneuverable,
it offered
good upward visibility and lacked the traditional bracing wires that could
be shot away during combat. This combination of features made
it an outstanding
plane in a dogfight. When the DR.I first entered service, antagonists scoffed
until pilots like Werner Voss Flying a prototype, shot down 10
British aircraft
in 6 days of aerial combat during September 1917. Unfortunately, the DR.I
was not without problems. By the end of October 1917, it was
temporarily
withdrawn from service when several pilots, including Heinrich Gontermann,
were killed as a result of wing failures. Despite structural
improvements,
the Fokker triplane's reputation among German airmen never recovered. |
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