World War I
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So today is the anniversary of the sinking of SMS Emden in 1914 but why is it such a big deal? https://t.co/1sEsSN8FTu
𧡠#PunjabFiles #Sikhs #WW1 #WWII A Forgotten Hero β Pvt. Buckam Singh Over 65,000 Sikh soldiers fought in WWI and over 300,000 in the WWII. Pvt. Buckam Singh (Bukkan Singh on his...
#HistoryKeThread: World War 1 Action In Kenya ---- Many people believe that WW1 action in Kenya was primarily focused around Taveta. https://t.co/3Zp3Wt7Fe0
In 1918, a soldier from the Harlem Hellfighters, also known as the 369th Infantry Regiment, strikes a pose with a puppy he rescued during World War 1. Comprised of courageous Blac...
J.R.R. Tolkien is sitting in the trenches and looking around at the dead bodies. 40 years later the Lord of the Rings is published. So, what is the deep connection between WWI a...
Tower tributes to World Wars..... https://t.co/qrUaIHEE7Q https://t.co/AIChwrf8Kl
As the world pays homage to the soldiers who fought World War 1, we must not forget that as many as 74,187 soldiers from today's India and Pakistan died in this war. Their stories,...
βGerman mobilization of forces in World War 1β The architect of Germanyβs mobilization plan for the start of World War I was Count Alfred von Schlieffen. Chief of the German Gener...
Thread: Steering a Steamroller It's been a while since we did a battle thread, so I thought it would be fun to look at an underappreciated but very informative campaign: the Germ...
War, the game of money. Canada and the US had such a good propaganda campaign in WWI-WWII, that they received well over $20 billion from their citizens. Asking for their money, a...
Four Part Comparison Analysis 𧡠************************************************ Comparing Covod-19 Financial Crisis to other historical events in four parts. Phase 1: Panic Phas...
The world is facing a wheat crisis due to the War in Ukraine. It will be devastating. But war leading to a wheat crisis is not unprecedented. This also happened during World War I....
Thread on how German culture was destroyed in America during WW1 German dogs were shot, German books were burnt, German composers were banned, and much more Excerpts from "Burnin...
"EXPERIENCE" is a word we use every day. "Lived experience" has become, both a touchstone and bugaboo. But the philosophical history of experience is not well known. ( π§΅)
The first American solider to win the "Croix de Guerre" was Private Henry Johnson from New York in 1918. So you ask: why did an American soldier earn a FRENCH military award durin...
USA was the only country that was materially unaffected by the first world war. The entire youth population of UK and France was gone. Germany was bankrupt. And Russia was busy w...
"Donβt make me laugh!" β American cartoon from the First World War (1918) published in the Washington Star newspaper ridiculing the German denunciation of the shotgun as inhumane....
