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The war between France and Prussia that lasted from 1870 to 1871 ended with a humiliating defeat for France. It lost the regions of Alsace and Lorraine, and was forced to pay a huge indemnity to Prussia
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With the accession of Wilhelm II to the German throne in 1888, the German foreign policy became more bellicose. The new German Emperor dismissed the skillful Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor.
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Kiffin Yates Rockwell was born in 1892 in Newport, Tennessee, the son of James Chester Rockwell and Loula Ayres.
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The idea of the tank came from a development of farming vehicles that could cross difficult land with ease by using caterpillar tracks.
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World War 1 saw the origins of the "Landship", which became the "tank" as we know it
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The first recorded powered flight was in 1903 when the Wright brothers flew their aircraft.
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Korea reached its height with the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
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The war against the Japanese was a major blow for the Russians who lost almost entire Baltic and Pacific fleet
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In the First Word War military submarines made a significant impact for the first time. The German U-Boats enjoyed a great deal of success and were responsible for destroying around half of all the food and supplies
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America's entry into World War One was well received by the Allies as her military power was desperately needed on the Western Front after the loss of men at the Somme and Verdun
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When the First World War began the German armed forces had 29 U-Boats at their disposal.
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Kiffin left college in 1911 and worked for an advertising agency in Atlanta until 1914.
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Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip – a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand
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By 1914, those alliances resulted in the six major powers of Europe coalescing into two broad groups: Britain, France and Russia formed the Triple Entente, while Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy comprised the Triple Alliance.
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At the start of World War One, aircraft were very basic and crude
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When we entered the was we wasnt ready. We didnt have a big enouhgh army and they wasnt well trained
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 is one of the most interesting events that occurred during World War I. In the midst of war and fighting, soldiers along the western front stopped fighting in an unofficial cease fire on Christmas.
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Gavrilo Princip assassinates Franz Ferdinand.
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The German army crossed the Belgian border on August 3rd 1914. Britain and France declared war on Germany on August 4th
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Fighting began on the Eastern front when Russia invaded East Prussia on 17th August 1914. Germany immediately launched a counter-offensive and pushed Russia back.
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Rockwell was accepted by the Service Aeronautique, began flight training in September 1915
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For the Allies the most important use of battleships was to support the amphibious invasion of Gallipoli in 1915.
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For the Allies the most important use of battleships was to support the amphibious invasion of Gallipoli in 1915.
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The first model came off the factory floor on September 8th 1915. On September 10th, its track came off
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In May 1916, while on patrol at the front, he became the first American pilot to down an enemy plane.
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On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France.
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Pilots soon found that the best way to shoot down an enemy plane was with a mounted machine gun. However, if the machine gun was mounted at the front of the plane, the propeller would get in the way of the bullets.
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At the start of World War One bomb aiming was crude in the extreme. The pilot – or co-pilot if the aircraft carried two people – simply dropped a small bomb over the side of the aircraft in the general direction of a target. If a bomb dropped anywhere near a target it was through good luck more than anything else
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The tanks were not that relieable and they didnt really have good use in the war but to stop warfare.
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Have a top speed of 4 mph on flat land
The ability to turn sharply at top speed
The ability to climb a 5-feet parapet
The ability to cross an eight feet gap
A working radius of 20 miles
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Theur were tons of dieases like trench foot by the water in the ttrenches their feet started to rout. Trench mouth. Also rats got in the trenches and had diseases
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Germany and Britain were involved in a naval race for mastery of the seas. They would fight be the leader of the sea.