First World War

During the First World War, Zeppelins were used in bombing raids over England and France. They were referred to as "terrors of the sky" .

She said the First World War still affects everyone today and there are ripples of it.

A few years later, as the First World War came to a close Mies' style was beginning to crystallize.

Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the first world war said "the lamps are going out all over Europe" .

It did not make a splash in the scientific world until after the end of the first world war and then it made a very big splash.

But by the eve of the first world war Britain's income per head had been overtaken by that of America, the 20th century's great power.

Returning home from boarding school during the first world war, Meg was almost put off the boat to die at Aden when she became ill.

His death means that, of the 65 million servicemen mobilised on all sides in the first world war, only four are known to be still alive.

They did so during the high demand period in the First World War, which turned out to be a disaster to the railroad industry afterwards.

During the First World War General John Pershing was the commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Europe.

The governor of that section was Pierre Boisson, an old soldier who had lost a leg and his hearing in the first World War.

Since the First World War, coal-fired power plants have accounted for about half of the electricity produced in the United States each year.

Today, much of the global financial sector is as liberalised as it was a century ago, just before the first world war.

The US dollar has been the king of currencies since the first world war, when it began to dethrone the pound sterling.

They changed it - you can sort of see why - during the First World War, to sound less Germanic.

Noir fiction came out of the First World War and the Depression but still thrives today, in slightly altered form.

Britain had done this job up to the First World War, through the mechanism of the gold standard.

Gore-Browne arrived in Northern Rhodesia during the First World War, as a member of a commission drawing the borders of southern Africa.

Yet historians recall how the Ottoman empire, for many years "the sick man of Europe" , crumbled to dust after the first world war.

Bethune first served as a stretcher - bearer in an ambulance unit and later as a medical officer with the Allies during the First World War.

The Army General Staff cannot be compared with the General Staff in the First World War.

during the first world war , all decisions on the conduct of the war ( and the treatment of the armenians ) were taken by the committee.

At the beginning of the First World War, John Robinson was a soldier in the army.

Although less than one year apart, two events during the First World War demonstrate the dichotomy of the experience of war for Canada.

It was an ideal position, but soon his peace and quiet were broken by the First World War.

Towards the end of the First World War, a fifty-something vicar's widow living in Bedford declared herself to be the Daughter of God.

For three years, soon after the First World War, I served under one of the most accomplished soldiers of our time, Major General Conner.

During the First World War, the British occupation of Palestinian, into the post-war Britain "to mandate. "

Dubai had a flourishing pearl business, which collapsed with the advent of the First World War and the Great Depression.

In the fall of 1914, after the beginning of the First World War, Yudin was called into the army as a junior doctor.

By the eve of the First World War, European investments in the United States, direct and indirect, had more than doubled.

That he could not prevent the first world war plunged the septuagenarian steel tycoon into a depression.

And the First World War, you know, we'll see a lot of deaths and economical problems here.

Later someone told me that the story appeared in a magazine shortly before the the First World War.

The origins In 1919, when the First World War ended, thousands of Italians had to reorganize their lives from the beginning.

From a military point of view, pigeons still had much to recommend them as late as the First World War.

The last living combat veteran of the first world war died at the age of 110.

Chlorine gas was used as a chemical weapon during the first World War, under the name bertholite.

The letters reveal how close Kipling was to his only son John. His life was torn apart by John's death in the First World War.

Turkey's border with Armenia is closed due to a small spat concerning genocide during the First World War.

British financial power had been waning since the First World War.

During the first world war radio receivers were strung over the lava like washing lines to provide communication with ships at sea.

He was finally persuaded to open up by Dennis Goodwin, the founder of the First World War Veterans Association.

During the First World War the history of the city is closely related to the name of Tsar Nicolas II.

The First World War represented a terrifying waste of youth and potential, a cruel squandering of the positive forces of our planet.

of his granddad, King George V, who ruled the United Kingdom through the First World War until his death in 1936.

The whole affair may end up looking like the Paris peace conference that followed the First World War.

The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine during the First World War.

Here the 841 gravestones are a reminder of a little-known story of the First World War.

The 1918 pandemic coincided with the end of the first world war: the data may have been distorted by the conflict.

The First World War had a strong influence on Australia .

Much of the material will be drawn from the Imperial War Museum's own collections that were established during the First World War.

Most inventions basic to the construction of radio transmitters and receivers had been perfected before the First World War.

The modern French lottery began in 1933 to help people who had been widowed, orphaned or injured in the first world war.

But the French, when they took over the new state of Lebanon after the first world war, favoured the priests and their school.

"Jazz Age" refers to the time from the end of the First World War to the Great Depression.

She writes about British spinsters, in particular about the ones that would have married the "lost generation" of the first world war.

"But after the first world war, the popularity of, and the prices for, that genre declined, " says Secord.

The general content is: In the First World War, the hero Gatsby served in the military when we met a lady Daisy.

During the first World War explosives of a power hardly dreamed of before were being used.

Laterly, between the first World War and the Second World War , the disarmament stand of the Soviet Union and the U.

Zoning ordinances date from about the time of the First World War; they are now almost universal in cities and villages.

Since the first world war no important country has tolerated that method of external adjustment.

He had lived through the German Empire, the First World War, the Weimar Republic and the Second World War.

The hegemony in the sea has been shaken after the First World War, but the total ton ranked the first in the world.

The US financed much of its first world war and second world war deficits via promotion of bonds.

Born just before the first world war, and self-exiled during the second, he would accept anything to avert another global conflict.

AT the end of the First World War in 1918, Einstein received worldwide praise for his scientific research.

It struck near the end of the First World War and left families mourning worldwide.

Cigarettes overcame any lingering opposition to the pleasure they gave when American soldiers came to crave them during the first world war.

Verdun has for decades been celebrated as the quintessentially French battle of the First World War.

In his later years, he criticized war and stored his bravery awards from the First World War in a shoe box.

The story happened in London in the first World War.

His work was stopped for a time during the First World War.

As one of the most famous philosophy of the 20th century in the West, Existentialism appears in Germany after the First-World-War .

The price spikes over the past century were linked to interruptions in supply, notably during the first world war.

At the end of the First World War, the decision was taken to combine the two military airfields.

Although Madeleine Albright, then America's secretary of state, called it Africa's "first world war" , the armies did little fighting.

After the First World War Germany conceded to her neighbours much valuable territory.

The only British First World War veteran still alive is Claude Choules, 108, who served in the Royal Navy and lives in Perth, Australia.

This authority was first enacted in 1917, when the United States began borrowing heavily to finance its entry into the First World War.

catalyst The First World War served as a catalyst for major social changes in Europe.

With the breakdown of the gold standard after the first world war also came the awful revenge of paper, Germany's hyper-inflation.

But we have won with big honour the first world war, and we have had glorious ancestors like romans, who came a lot before than England.

In 1918, at the end of the First World War, the Ottoman Empire was dissolved, and nominal Turkish sovereignty over Kuwait ended.

But Doyle remained loyal to the British crown, even after fruitlessly losing a son in the First World War.

Many historians have argued that so-called "Victorian era" really ended, and after the end of the First World War.

Its direct cause was the unequal treaties imposed on China after the First World War.

After leading America's army during the first world war, by 1948 he was dying and alone in an army hospital.

The first world war destroyed Britain's credit position and ushered in the era of American financial dominance.

Like first-world-war generals, many will claim that all that is needed is more of the same.

The Wright brothers' legal skirmishes were put to rest only by the outbreak of the first world war.

During the First World War, the Germans never felt that the Tommies took war seriously enough.

The organization is in contact with the second world war situation similar to the first world war under the background of conceived.

Set in a period ending with the First World War, it shows Kate Roberts ' skill at revealing the failings and virtues of people.

After a year at Oxford University, Edward went to fight in the First World War. He wrote.

On the eve of the first world war, the average size of the state in the developed world was around 10 per cent of gross domestic product.

This, roughly speaking, was the world before the first world war - not an encouraging precedent.

Under influence of the First World War and Soviet Russia, Bela Kun Regime also was established in Hungary.

Yesterday one of the First World War, Melandri completed three jump stop, and within 25 minutes harvest 11 points.

During the first world war, American journalist Hemingway as youth volunteer to Italy.

"DON'T forget the cigarettes for Tommy, " ran one patriotic British ditty during the first world war.

During the first world war he spent nineteen months as a machine-gunner.

These artificial poppies are already the sign of the first world war tragedy, because there are lots of poppies in the war field of france.

The fearful price we had had to pay in human life and blood for the great offensives of the First World War was graven in my mind.

During the first world war the state forbade any teaching in their native language.

He emphasizes describing the rotten Western civilization and the decayed morals after the First World War before writing The Waste Land.

After the First World War the Daimler and Benz companies worked closer together, generally advertising on the same posters.

The appalling shock of the First World War severely destroyed people's faith in the Victorian values.

What they mind about is the rights of compatriots stranded by the dismemberment of Hungary after the first world war.

During the First World War, he became a stretcher bearer (helping to carry the wounded from the battlefields).

To commemorate the end of the First World War, Albert Moortgat baptized his beer originally as "Victory Ale" .

"Days as location, location, and not as good as" the outcome of the First World War victory Xinye.

The population of America hit the 100-million mark in 1915, two years before President Woodrow Wilson would enter the First World War.

In fact, the history of aviator jackets can be traced back to the First World War.

It was sent home to his children with a letter when grandfather served with the Remount Forces in Egypt during the First World War.

The photographs, many of which have not been widely seen before, offer a personal and poignant record of the impact of the First World War.

tens of thousands of people before the First World War erupts in several years to arrive at the US, flees the misery.

Germany's enemies prevailed in the first world war, and humiliated it with the post-war Versailles treaty.

Christian Science had gained almost 100, 000 adherents by the First World War and was growing rapidly.

Until the first world war, . . . . he was painfully virginal.

Bentley is founder early in the first world war ii manufacturing supply royal air force jet engines and famous.

In the First World War, a British divisional intelligence officer on the Western Front built a home from home.

The big shift occurred after the carnage of the first world war and the Spanish flu that followed.

Packed in my luggage for France is Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman's classic work about the outbreak of the first world war.

During the First World War, the government had constructed a dam on the Tennessee River to provide power for wartime nitrate production.

Today let's probe into the cause of the first world war.

There is now extensive literature dealing with the First World War.

Published in Britain as "To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain" .

British troops in the first world war were given "forced march tablets" consisting of cocaine.

Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of the First World War, died Thursday in Perth, Western Australia, his family said.

Then during the First World War men started wearing watches on their wrists.

Consider the transition from British to US hegemony after the first world war.

The bodies of more than 165, 000 British Commonwealth soldiers killed on the Western Front during the First World War are still missing.

Great Britain, France and Italy were allied during the First World War.

We are currently enjoying the 19th UK bull market since the end of the first world war, almost 100 years ago.

The operation was supposed to remove Turkey from the first world war at a stroke.

In the UK, before the First World War, large-scale domestic building projects produced town- and city-based mass housing.

Before the first world war the country had a special relationship with Britain.

The Beatles' release of "Love Me Do" (1962) is closer to the first world war than to us.

But he says local people remember Turkey's suffering following the First World War.

The Veterans Day holiday is derived from Armistice Day, commemorating the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918.

Vandals desecrated 148 Muslim graves at a French cemetery for soldiers who fought in the first world war.

It was not until after the First World War that votes for women came.

After the First World War Serbia joined the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

When they in turn are old, they will doubtless tell their grandchildren about the day they met a veteran of the first world war.

After the first world war the Meinl grocery business spread through central Europe.

Modern credits were introduced in the second half of the 19th century and had substantial development after the First World War.

Before the first world war, only a few thousand students went to university.

For German historians, there are until now controversies about the responsibility of the First World War.

In 1867 the so-called " Compromise" created the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, dismembered after the first World War.

The Royal Navy helped the Baltic states win their independence after the first world war.

The integrated economy of the decades before the first world war collapsed.

After the First World War, Germany conceded its neighbors much valuable land.

The First World War and the transition in the Middle East has offered us enough historic topics.

That war is romanticised is hardly new, as Wilfred Owen's first world war poetry and Robert Capa's 1936 "falling soldier" photograph attest.

Americans faced a lighter load than many other countries after the First World War.

The balance of evidence suggests the Liberal party's decline began before the First World War.

Do you know when the First World War broke out?

The First World War broke out in 1914.

A German sniper sees off Cecil in the first world war, so we soon leave him, stiff and cold in the family chapel.

Victorian Britain's war planning ended with the first world war when, as Blackadder put it, 4m heavily armed Germans hoved into view.

The Americans waited until 1917 before entering the first world war and until Pearl Harbor before entering the second.

The process slackened from 1904 to 1917, but survived on a large scale at the end of the First World War.

He was maimed in a First World War battle.

To the First World War broke out, British control of China's foreign, domestic shipping of 41%.

Hemingways 19-year-old left Ou Kepa, to participate in the First World War in Europe on the battlefield do care.

It is a collection of documents with reference to the First World War.

It is a collection of document with reference to the first world war.

My memories of the First World War are nebulous, as I was only one year old in 1914, so I will hurry past them.

New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, The Allies And The First World War.

He flew a fighter during the First World War.

The factory was built after the end of the First World War, in 1918.

In Lebanon, which became a French protectorate after the first world war, the Gallic link is even more obvious.

We have seen the biggest banking crisis since the outbreak of the first world war, and arguably bigger than that.

He was readmitted to the French army, served in the first world war and died in 1935.

A similar problem was debated 80 years ago over Germany's first world war reparations.

Tens of millions flooded to America's shores from Europe between 1880 and the First World War.

England fought with Germany in the First World War.

Chemical weapons were extensively used by both sides in the first world war, and have been blamed for 100, 000 deaths.

The cache includes Der Krieg ( "War" ), Dix's cycle of 51 prints from 1924 about the horrors of the first world war.

Within weeks, the first world war had broken out.

It was during the, er, what 's it called, the First World War.

Later today she will lay a wreath to almost 50, 000 Irish soldiers who died fighting for Britain in the first world war.

But careful now -- we are approaching the First World War.

A serious flaw is that the G20 abuses the principle of universality that took hold with the League of Nations after the first world war.

The First World War broke out after Sarajevo Events happened in 1914.

With the outbreak of the first world war, "the European concert in China was broken" , he writes.

The first began in 1870 and ended with the start of the first world war in 1914.

After the First World War, many textile mills were located in the South, which was closer to the cotton farms and where wages were lower.

When did the first World War break out?

I have DOZENS of manuals from the FIRST WORLD WAR that show the SAME progression.

I wouldn't have liked the moral climate of Britain before the First World War.

She got killed in the First World War.

In 1919, after the First World War, soldiers returned home to find no jobs.

The first series begins with the loss of the Titanic in 1912; the second spans the first world war.

The library was set ablaze by the Germans in the first world war.

The music hall was a type of show which was very popular in Britain from about the middle of the 19th century to the First World War (1914).

But in 1914 the First World War broke out.

After the First World War the minimum age was reduced to 15, although there is evidence to show that lads as young as 14 made the journey.

That was in 1894, 20 years before the outbreak of the First World War.

We know that the first World War and the two world war!

A big battle was going on during the First World War.

The film flashes back to 1914 , the beginning of the First World War when Myra and Roy met on Waterloo Bridge in a London air raid

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