Articles related to "1914"

Entangling alliances in 1914 ensured that any provocation would set into motion the intricate military mobilization schedules dragging the Great Powers into World War.

June 28, 1914: a Serbian nationalist shot and killed Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Though many long range causes existed, this event would launch WWI.

The only Political Scientist and Historian to ever hold the presidency, Woodrow Wilson had many ideas about the types of legislation he wanted to enact once in office.

Well equipped and fairly modern by eastern european standards, the Army of the Dual Monarchy suffered one of the worst morale problems imaginable.

Montenegro began the war as the poorest equipped of all of the 1914 armies but never faltered, and often outfought its enemies.

Compared the massive operations conducted in World War I Europe, the Battle of Tsingtao was a relatively minor affair. But to the Japanese, it was the main event.

Although the Belgian army was only a tenth the size of the German army, it still delayed the Germans for nearly a month.

In a war that began with million man armies of conscripts fighting it out toe to toe, the Royal Army distinguished itself in personal combat.

Beginning the war dressed for fashion and equipped with the most unreliable weapons, the redoubtable French "Poilus" stopped the German juggernaut and saved his country.

When World War One erupted 28 year old Leutnant zur See Gunther Plüschow, flying an already obsolete airplane, was the Kaisers entire air force in China.

From a peacetime standing army of 870,000 men the grey coated war machine of the Kaiser eventually put almost fourteen million under arms to fight the whole western world

With 14 million peasant drafts lead by an officer corps one percent of that size, the Russian army was short of every single thing except soldiers, bravery and enemies.

The German Army made deft use of their mortars during World War One, instilling respect and fear amongst Triple Entente troops.

The vast treasures that the Spanish and the Portuguese brought back from Latin America included gold and silver, no wonder other countries sought their own empires.

Born an elegant ship in 1907 the German cruiser SMS Konigsberg found herself at large in the Indian Ocean and on African station at the beginning of WWI.

Underequipped, outnumbered, and fighting with its back to the mountains the Serbian National Army never shrank from its duties in World War One.

The cruisers Emden of the German Navy and Zhemchug of the Russian Navy were matched on paper but not in actuality.

Soldiers on all sides employed basic, vicious weapons for hand-to-hand combat during trench raids from 1914-1918.

Carion turned pen and camera towards a story of how opposing sides in WWI came together on a Christmas Eve and stopped the violence of war long enough to share the peace.

Wilson's limited foreign policy experience would undergo a series of complicated challenges not just in Eurasia, but in the Western Hemisphere as well.

The Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour in May 1914; most of the 376 East Indian passengers were never allowed to leave the ship.

Ernst Jünger fought as a member of the German Army from 1914-1918, serving by war's end as an elite Stormtrooper.

Silent film epics, often with historical and/or religious settings, can be traced back to Europe. The leading producer of these was Italy until World War I came along.

During the First World War the German military employed airships with limited material and psychological effect against England.

Moving from a young, nationalistic artist to a dominating figure of world domination, Adolf Hitler's progression into adulthood can be shown in a linear manner.

The Vancouver Museum curates La Belle Epoque, a women's fashion clothes exhibit. Near the turn of the century, female style was altered after WW1.

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was founded by three young African-American men at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 1914.

Once a "bourgeois" drug of choice for Mexico's artists and intellectuals, cocaine has become a national offensive against an extensive network of Mexican drug cartels.

The combat experiences of Colonel von Epp during WWI directly affected his tactical decisions during the German Revolution, 1919.

The Czech Legion started from humble beginnings in 1914 and ended up as one of the last reliable units on the World War One Eastern Front.

Despite Hurricane Katrina being the costliest hurricane in American history, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 had the highest death toll ever recorded in the USA.

There are two homes associated with Dylan thomas his Swansea birthplace and his Laugharne retreat, both are open to visitors and five Cwmdonkin Drive to paying guests.

From 1382 until 1918 this force was one of the largest in the world. Often bloodied but never beaten it disappeared from the oceans with a whimper.

Hornsby was so superior to Evers that one must question how both can be in the Hall of Fame.

When the Allies occupied the German colony of New Guinea at the opening of WW I a German officer led a four-year expedition to retain the island, surrendering in 1919.

While Sir Barton eventually became the Twentieth Century's second decade Thoroughbred hero, Donerail, Old Rosebud, and filly Regret helped popularize the Kentucky Derby.

Margaret Sanger was appalled at the conditions facing married women in the late 1800s and early 1900s who were bearing too many children, ruining their health and dying.

Obstensively neutral, the small grand duchy of Luxembourg was actually drawn into the Great War due to location.

The first half of Woodrow Wilson's 8 years in office focused on Domestic policies such as the tariff, the money issue, and antitrust legislation, along with keeping Ameri

Woodrow Wilson had no choice but to send America to war in 1917, though he did so in hopes that he could perhaps prevent all such wars in the world's future.

Reconciling war and peace may may be the most elusive goal for mankind, yet each Christmas the traditions of faith challenge people to do exactly that.

The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife starts the First World War and leads to nine million deaths.

Growing from a unit of volunteers that fought for the Tsar against the Hapsburg Empire, these 50,000 Czechs fought an amazing campaign for survival.

Silty water flowing through the once-elegant rooms, Empress of Ireland now sits 45 metres under the St. Lawrence, its interior disintegrated, its passengers long gone.

With a last subtle gasp the flags of Austria's last fleet has been furled

For many people the most joyful celebration of the year somehow gets buried under the burden of preparations, but it is important to think about the essence of Christmas.

The long term causes of World War I begin with the Franco-Prussian War and end with a vastly different system of alliances created by the blunders of the German Kaiser.

Edward Bernays, one of the pioneers of the public relations industry, found his first real success in 1913 while promoting a drama with a cause.

The majority of the German Army in WWI was armed with the standard M1898 Mauser rifle, but by war's end the attack units carried the smaller K.98AZ for trench combat.

Wilhelm II was the third and final Kaiser of Germany, losing his throne as a consequence of defeat in World War One