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1 day ago · The Polish–Lithuanian War (in Polish historiography, Polish–Lithuanian Conflict [6] [7]) was an undeclared war between newly independent Lithuania and Poland following World War I, which happened mainly in the Vilnius and Suwałki regions. The war is viewed differently by the respective sides.
3 days ago · The Outbreak of War: June-August 1914. The immediate cause of World War One was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of the Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist group that sought to create an independent Slavic state in the Balkans.
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1 day ago · Allies of World War I. The Entente, or the Allies, were an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th ...
22 hours ago · Interwar period. Silesia tension between the Poles and Germans. In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).
3 days ago · 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. From the muddy trenches of the Western Front to obscure theaters across the globe, millions of soldiers and ...
3 days ago · The human cost of World War 1 extended far beyond the armistice in 1918. Millions were left with physical and psychological scars. War memorials and cemeteries across the world bear witness to the fallen. The war‘s demographic upheaval had long-term social and economic consequences. As historian Jay Winter writes in "Sites of Memory, Sites of ...
4 days ago · The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus. London, Longman, 2002, ISBN: 9780582418721; 272pp.; Price: £20.99. The First World War is a seminal historical event; an historical caesura whose aftershocks still resonate. For Eric Hobsbawm, it began the ‘Age of Extremes’ – the start of the ‘short’ twentieth century ...
