World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War‚ the Great War‚ and the War to End All Wars) was a global war which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918.[2] Over 40 million casualties resulted‚ including approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths.[3] Over 60 million European soldiers were mobilized from 1914 to 1918.[4] The act which is considered to have triggered the succession of events which led to war was the 28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz
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World War I‚ also known as the First World War‚ the Great War and the War to End All Wars‚ was a global military conflict which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918.[2] Over 40 million casualties resulted‚ including approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths.[3] Over 60 million European soldiers were mobilized from 1914 1918.[4] The immediate cause of the war was the June 28‚ 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne‚ by Gavril Principe
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West Asia Syria and Lebanon As in other parts of Asia‚ there was an upsurge for freedom in West Asia also immediately after the Second World War. You have read in the previous chapter about the movement of the people of Syria against the French rule. After the war‚ the French tried to restore their authority over Syria and Lebanon but‚ in the face of opposition from the people of these countries and the world opinion‚ they were forced to withdraw. Both Syria and Lebanon became independent by the
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Analyse the Causes of WW1 There were a number of causes that played a key role for WW1; however the most significant was The Alliance System due to the fact that it had the most direct impact on the war. In this essay I will explain how this specific historical event was the main cause of WW1. On top of that I will talk about how the other causes effected the decisions made and their impact at the time. The Alliance System was the most significant cause of WW1 due to the fact that all the great
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In World War One the weapons that they used were machine guns‚ poison gas‚ and tanks. BOOM! BAM! The dreadful sounds of the dangerous guns in WW1. Those sounds are the scariest things anyone has ever heard! It was never different back then because when people heard those shots they were terrified. Most likely if you were out in the open you were the first to be killed. Then the houses‚ and more. The last place they would need to check is underground. It would take days even weeks to hunt down every
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Asia facing worsening water crisis: ADB MANILA: Asian countries‚ including India‚ are facing a worsening water crisis that threatens to curtail food production while taking an increasingly heavy toll on the region’s economies‚ the Asian Development Bank said. Governments‚ industries and people around the region urgently need to stop wasting so much of the precious resource if they are to limit the shortage‚ ADB infrastructure advisor Arjun Thapan said. "It needs to shrink and Asia needs to become
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After reading the case study Go East‚ Young People‚ Go East I will answer in detail each question. First what approach do I feel Electronic Visions should use when moving into the Asia market. Next how could the four P’s help Electronic Visions? Finally‚ will global coordinated play a problem. The approach I would use is the global strategy. I choose the global strategy because Electronic Visions will have completive prices and will plan to increase their profits and sales with their products. I
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The World Wars are extremely interesting to study and learn about. There are huge amounts of information that most people don’t know or think that happened in both Wars. They have War ending weapons in World War one‚ but in World War two they were about taking the world. The Wars had reasons for beginning‚ they had type of weapons that caused the massacre‚ they had the invention of the tank‚ and how they ended. The first World War also known as “The Great War”. It was the war to end all wars. It
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World War 1. Some background information: -Fought from 1914-1918 and between Germany and England/France/Belgium and other Allied countries. -World War 1 saw a complete change in the way wars were fought and the attitudes towards them. More advanced technology saw death on a huge scale and there were nearly a million British casualties. This in turn created a new breed of poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon‚ who wrote in protest of the war and its dire conditions. They argued that
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BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE 1914 One of many important battles in 1914 in which both sides attempted to fight a war of movement which would see the war ended by December 1914. It was also important in contributing to the stalemate which eventuated at the end of 1914. It heralded the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The importance of this battle is that it was the culmination by both sides of any attempt at a war of movement‚ as it was realized that frontal offensives were impossible. Thus the ‘race
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