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3 days ago · May 26, 2024. World War I is seared into our collective memory as a war fought in the trenches. The image of muddy, shell-blasted wastelands pockmarked with zig-zagging lines of trenches has become the conflict‘s defining motif. But why exactly did trench warfare come to dominate the battlefields of the Western Front between 1914-1918?
2 days ago · Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania. It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 AD), Roman Dacia (106–271), the Goths, the Hunnic Empire (4th–5th centuries), the Kingdom of the Gepids (5th–6th centuries), the Avar Khaganate (6th–9th centuries), the Slavs, and the ...
4 days ago · July 12, 2018 - The map of Europe underwent drastic revision after World War I. The defeated Central Powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey – suffered huge territorial losses, and new independent countries were born, from Finland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south.
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3 days ago · May 26, 2024. The First World War from 1914-1918 stands as one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. The shocking scale and brutality of the casualties shattered illusions of romantic warfare and laid bare the horror of industrialized slaughter.
4 days ago · A grandnephew of the emperor Franz Joseph, Charles became heir presumptive to the Habsburg throne upon the assassination of his uncle Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914), whose children were barred from succession because of his morganatic marriage.
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2 days ago · The Nine Years' War, [c] was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North America.
1 day ago · When World War I started, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) was the one socialist political party of any significance in the German Empire and as such played a major role in the revolution. It had been banned from 1878–1890 and in 1914 continued to adhere to the tenets of class conflict. It had international ties to other countries ...
