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Georges Clemenceau
He played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly during the end of the First World War. Georges Clemenceau, played a important role in World War I as the Prime Minister of France, leading the French delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and advocating for a harsh peace treaty against Germany. -
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg was a German field marshal and the second president of the Weimar Republic. He was known for his military leadership during World War I and his role in enabling Adolf Hitler's rise to power. -
Tsar Nicholas II
After Russia entered World War I, Nicholas left the capital to assume command of the army. He took direct command of the Russian army in 1915, a move that ultimately led to increased public dissatisfaction, military defeats, and the February Revolution that forced his abdication in 1917 -
Barbed wire
During World War I, barbed wire became a crucial tool of warfare, deployed extensively as a defensive measure and a deadly obstacle in "No Man's Land" between opposing trenches. Barbed wire was used to create belts of entanglements in front of trenches, making it difficult for enemy soldiers to advance. While artillery could be used to try and destroy barbed wire, it often just created a tangled mess, making it even harder to navigate. -
Grigori Rasputin
during World War I, Nicholas II took personal command of his forces and went to the troops on the front, leaving Alexandra in charge of Russia's internal affairs, while Rasputin served as her personal adviser. -
Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and set the wheels of world war in motion. mediately after assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip was arrested, tried, and sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder and high treason, but he died in prison from tuberculosis before serving his full sentence. -
Flame throwers
In 1914, only the German army deployed flamethrowers. Bernhard Reddemann was given the opportunity to create and command a larger flamethrower unit. The flamethrower was important in the war because the flamethrower was best used to add a shock-effect to infantry assaults. His unit carried out its first attack, against the French at Malancourt, -
Battle of Tepe
The Battle of Tepe was the first skirmish between German and British forces during the Kamerun campaign in of the First World War. The conflict took place on the border between British Nigeria and German Kamerun, ending in British victory and German withdrawal from the station. Few casualties resulted from the battle. -
Blockade of Germany
During World War I, the Allied powers, primarily Britain, implemented a naval blockade of Germany (1914-1919) to restrict the flow of essential goods and supplies, aiming to cripple the German war effort and economy. It was important because it severely restricted Germany's access to vital war materials, food, and fuel, weakening their war effort and contributing to their eventual surrender. -
Battle of Chra
The Affair of Khra, also known as the Battle of Chra, was a First World War engagement fought on August 22, 1914, in Togoland between British and French troops and German Polizeitruppen. It marked the first Allied victory of the war and forced the Germans to surrender Togoland, their first lost colony. -
Poison Gas
Gases used included chlorine, mustard gas, bromine and phosgene, and the German Army was the most prolific user of gas warfare. Gas did not prove as decisive a weapon as was anticipated but it was effective in clearing enemy forward positions. Soldiers exposed to mustard gas experienced intense itching and skin irritation. Over time, large blisters formed and filled with yellow fluid wherever the chemical agent had touched the skin. This also happened inside the lungs -
Tanks
during World War I, tanks, primarily developed by the British, emerged as a revolutionary weapon to break the stalemate of trench warfare, with the British Mark I being the first to see combat in 1916, followed by the French Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond. Tanks were used to cross trenches and wire entanglements, but they failed to break through the German lines. -
Field radios
During World War I, field radios, or "wireless" as they were sometimes called, were a relatively new technology, initially bulky and with limited range, but proved crucial for military communication, especially for directing artillery fire and warning of gas attacks. The SCR-54 was a tunable, portable crystal radio receiver used by the U.S. Army during World War I for fire control in conjunction with airplanes. -
Battle of the somme
The bloodiest day in World War I for the British Army was July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where they suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 fatalities. The Battle of the somme was a brutal and costly Allied offensive against the German army in northern France, resulting in over a million casualties and a relatively small territorial gain. -
Battles of Ardennes
The Battle of the Ardennes, also known as the Battle of the Bulge, was a major German offensive launched on December 16, 1944, in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, aiming to split Allied forces and capture Antwerp. The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the last major German offensive on the Western Front, a costly defeat that drained their resources and ultimately sealed their fate, paving the way for the Allied victory in Europe.