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May 10, 2024 · Russia’s disastrous performance in World War I was one of the primary causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which swept aside the Romanov dynasty and installed a government that was eager to end the fighting. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) whereby Russia yielded large portions of its territory to Germany caused a breach between the ...
May 17, 2024 · Armenian Genocide, campaign of deportation and mass killing conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I (1914–18). Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide.
May 9, 2024 · Spanish Civil War, (1936–39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides. The Nationalists, as the rebels were called, received ...
May 19, 2024 · civil war, a violent conflict between a state and one or more organized non-state actors in the state’s territory. Civil wars are thus distinguished from interstate conflicts (in which states fight other states), violent conflicts or riots not involving states (sometimes labeled intercommunal conflicts), and state repression against ...
May 21, 2024 · Spanish-American War (1898), conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The U.S. emerged from the war a world power, and Spain, ironically, experienced a cultural renaissance.
May 10, 2024 · French and Indian War, American phase of a worldwide nine-year war (1754–63) fought between France and Great Britain. It determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America. Three earlier phases of the contest for overseas mastery included King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, and King George’s War.
May 22, 2024 · Complete answer: World War I began in the Balkans. 17 million people were dead and 20 million were wounded. The rival powers of Austria-Hungary against Britain, France and later the USA. Scholars tend to explain various causes of the First World War, the immediate one being the July Crisis or the Sarajevo crisis.
