Lenins Bolshevism Better known as Communism today, Bolshevism comes from the socialist ideas of Karl Marx. Seeking to make society free and egalitarian, Lenin will have to go through a revolution to implement his ideology. The soviets are the opposite of an autocratic system, the one before 1917, w
The military situation in April 1917 The decision for a large-scale offensive was taken by General Joffre when he was still at the head of the French army. The main lines of the offensive are then decided:it will be a joint attack with the English troops on the front between Vimy and Reims. The fro
Red Sunday On January 22, 1905, the Russian Revolution began:100,000 strikers led by Pope Gapon demonstrated in the streets presenting icons of Nicholas II, in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), the seat of the Tsar. The riot is harmless, it has no weapons, and manifests in silence. By this action,
Propaganda During the war period, if we believed what was said about the Germans, they attacked French priests, cut off the hands of their prisoners, raped women and killed children. They were pure fabrications, and that is called propaganda. The propaganda against the Germans, which appeared a lot
The 1918 flu, also mistakenly called Spanish flu, is due to a particularly virulent and contagious strain (H1N1) of flu which spread as a pandemic from 1918 to 1919. This pandemic killed 20 to 40 million dead, 30 million according to the Institut Pasteur, or even 100 million according to certain rec
La Caverne du Dragon is located on the Chemin des Dames, in Aisne, Picardy. It was a strategic place during the First World War and more precisely during the Nivelle offensive. Initially, it was an underground quarry dug into the limestone of the Chemin des Dames plateau. These quarries, or creutes
Battle of Chemin des Dames Chemin des Dames Aisne Front, 1917General informationDate 16 April - end of May 1917Place between Soissons and ReimsFrench failure outcomeBelligerentsFrance German EmpireCommandersRobert Nivelle Erich LudendorffOpposing forces61 infantry divisions7 cavalry divisions850,00
The Battle of Belleau Wood is a battle of the First World War. It was of great psychological importance, as it marked the first engagement of American troops from the American Expeditionary Force, placed under the command-in-chief of General John Pershing, as well as the start of the great Allied co
The Battle of Megiddo was fought from September 19 to 21, 1918 and was the final victory in British General Edmund Allenbys conquest of Palestine during World War I. Pushing through the Jezreel Valley from the west, his forces overthrew the Turkish troops present in the valley and on the banks of th
The Battle of the Somme was one of the main confrontations of the First World War. British and French forces attempted to break through the fortified German lines on a 45 km north-south line near the Somme, northern France, in a triangle between the towns of Albert on the British side, Peronne and B
On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip, a member of the nationalist group Young Bosnia (or Mlada Bosna), killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Countess Sophie Chotek, in when their accession to the throne seemed imminent[1]. This attack in Sarajev
Armistice of 1918 The signing of the armistice of the First World War (1914-1918), on November 11 at 5:15 a.m., marks the end of the fighting and the capitulation of Germany. The ceasefire is effective at 11 a.m., resulting in the whole country of volleys of bells and the ringing of bugles announci
Ammunitionettes While France did not expect the war to drag on and the men were all at the front, the year 1914 ran out of ammunition. The solution that was found to make them again was to mobilize the women to do the work that their husbands would have done themselves if they had not been mobilize
THOMAS B. McGUIRE Eight Behind Thomas B. McGuire Jr. was born on August 1, 1920, in San Antonio (Texas). After being commissioned in February 1942, he was assigned to the air fleet based in Alaska where encounters with Japanese aircraft were rather rare. In March 1943, he joined the 49th Fighter G
Robin Olds (July 14, 1922 in Honolulu – June 14, 2007 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado) was an American fighter pilot and general in the US Air Force. He is a flying ace with a total of 17 victories. Career Son of a USAAF Major-General, he graduated from West Point Academy in 1943. He scored 13 aeria
Victory 40 Biography Born in Poplar, Wisconsin, in 1920, Richard Bong was the son of a farmer. It is said that it was while observing game birds while hunting that young Dick became interested in aviation. In fact, without knowing why, Bong builds model airplanes, which he flies, somehow. The pi
James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 - September 27, 1993) was an American pilot who made a career in the USAAF and finished with the rank of general. He was born in California on September 14, 1896. During the first world war he remained in the United States as an instructor. He received the
Victory 37 (10 Fw190,11 Bf109, 7 Bf110, 2 Me210, 6.5 MIG15) Biography Born June 28, 1919 in Oil City, Pennsylvania, this son of Polish emigrants followed his higher studies at the University of Notre-Dame, which he very quickly cut short to engage in aviation in July 1940. He received his patent
Edward Vernon Eddie Rickenbacker (* October 8, 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, USA; † July 27, 1973 in Zurich, Switzerland) was an American World War I flying ace. With 26 victories he was the American fighter pilot with the most victories during this conflict. Before the First World War In 1904 William Ri
Air Marshal William Avery Billy Bishop, VC, CB, DSO, MC, DFC, ED is Canadas greatest flying ace. He has more than 72 victories to his credit. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, on February 8, 1894, he died on September 11, 1956. After graduating from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1911,
Delhi Sultanate , main Muslim sultanate in North India from the 13th to the 16th centuries. It owed its foundation mainly to the campaigns of Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sām (Muḥammad of Ghūr; brother of Sultan Ghiyāth al-Dīn of Ghūr) and his lieutenant Quṭb al-Dīn Aibak between 1
Massacres of Jews took place in September 1939, when Poland was invaded. Ghettos were created during the year 1940, the best known of which remains that of Warsaw. Since 1941, the Jewish populations of the occupied territories have worn the distinctive sign of the yellow star. German intervention gr
In human communities, random mating may not occur for sociological or biological reasons. In the first scenario, it is worth highlighting (i) homogamy and (ii) hypergamy. Homogamy would be the union or marriage, with its potential offspring, between individuals with shared sociocultural characterist
Heinrich von Brill is certainly a special figure in world war history. He was not a military man, but still carried the rank of general, as he convinced his ruler to bestow it on him so that he could control the military. He effectively ruled Saxony for 30 years, robbing the public treasury and weak