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World War 1: The Great War
World War 1, better known as "The Great War" started because of the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand. On July 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, murdered the one appointed to the throne of Austria-Hungary to protest Habsburg rule of Bosnia. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia prepared to defend its Slavic neighbors, and Germany declared war on Russia. Hence World War I begins.
World War I, 1914-1918, was originally a European war. It eventually escalated to a global conflict involving 32 nations. It began when Germany and Russia went to war with Serbia. Mutual defense pacts drew in the allies of the warring nations including France, Belgium, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire among others.
In May 17, 1915 a German submarine, or U-boat, sank the British passenger liner Lusitania without warning, killing 1198 people on board, including 128 American citizens. Germans asserted, correctly, that the ship carried war materials for the allies. Americans were outraged. Germany temporarily halted submarine warfare to avoid bringing the United States into World War I.
The year 1916 was the year of the Battle of the Somme. The battle of Somme started July 1st and ended on November 28th 1916. The Battle of the Somme was the largest of all offensive planned by the British against the German Army up to that point in the First World War. The mastermind of the offensive was Lt. Gen sir Douglas Haig.
Haig's plan called for a massive artillery barrage that was to knock out all German resistance along an 18 mile long section of the front. He employed the use of 1,500 British guns backed by almost the same amount of French artillery. As the barrage commenced, British infantry would flood into the front line trenches in preparation to advance on the broken German front. The barrage was set to begin
World War 1, better known as "The Great War" started because of the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand. On July 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, murdered the one appointed to the throne of Austria-Hungary to protest Habsburg rule of Bosnia. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia prepared to defend its Slavic neighbors, and Germany declared war on Russia. Hence World War I begins.
World War I, 1914-1918, was originally a European war. It eventually escalated to a global conflict involving 32 nations. It began when Germany and Russia went to war with Serbia. Mutual defense pacts drew in the allies of the warring nations including France, Belgium, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire among others.
In May 17, 1915 a German submarine, or U-boat, sank the British passenger liner Lusitania without warning, killing 1198 people on board, including 128 American citizens. Germans asserted, correctly, that the ship carried war materials for the allies. Americans were outraged. Germany temporarily halted submarine warfare to avoid bringing the United States into World War I.
The year 1916 was the year of the Battle of the Somme. The battle of Somme started July 1st and ended on November 28th 1916. The Battle of the Somme was the largest of all offensive planned by the British against the German Army up to that point in the First World War. The mastermind of the offensive was Lt. Gen sir Douglas Haig.
Haig's plan called for a massive artillery barrage that was to knock out all German resistance along an 18 mile long section of the front. He employed the use of 1,500 British guns backed by almost the same amount of French artillery. As the barrage commenced, British infantry would flood into the front line trenches in preparation to advance on the broken German front. The barrage was set to begin