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4 days ago · The July Crisis was a series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914, which led to the outbreak of World War I. The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip , a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand , heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian ...
3 days ago · The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse.
- 21 February – 18 December 1916, (9 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
- French victory
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2 days ago · The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I ( German: Ostfront; Romanian: Frontul de răsărit; Russian: Восточный фронт, romanized : Vostochny front) was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one side and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman ...
3 days ago · Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War. Research into the origins of the First World War, like the work undertaken on most controversial historical topics, is subject, at least to some extent, to the dictates of scholarly fashion. Thus, it was that, not so long ago, much of the writing on this issue focused on the cultural ...
5 days ago · July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914 Thomas Otte Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781107064904; 555pp.;Price: £21.25
14 hours ago · On this day 4 August 1914, Belgian newspapers broke the news that German troops had breached the Belgian border and started their invasion. The atrocities that they committed against the Belgian population as they marched across the country came to be known as the Rape of Belgium.
