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    Kaiserreiches (Imperial German Flying Corps) mounted over fifty bombing raids. The raids were generally referred to in Britain as Zeppelin raids but Schütte-Lanz...
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    Strategic bombing during World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was principally carried out by the United Kingdom and France for the Entente Powers...
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    World War I (redirect from 1914-1918)
    World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies...
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    The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich...
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    strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
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    eventual Allied victory in the war. In December 1918, the German Board of Public Health claimed that 763,000 German civilians had already died from starvation...
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    The German invasion of Belgium was a military campaign which began on 4 August 1914. On 24 July, the Belgian government had announced that if war came...
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    The German atrocities of 1914 were committed by the Imperial German Army at the beginning of World War I in Belgium, particularly in Wallonia, and in France...
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    the Central Empires, were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (19141918). It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the...
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    Battle of Amiens at the beginning of August 1918, which precipitated a German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line and loss of the gains of the German spring...
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    German Revolution of 1918–1919 he was the heir apparent to the Duchy of Brunswick, a state of the German Empire. He was born at Braunschweig, Germany...
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    Peter Strasser (category 1918 deaths)
    April 1876 – 5 August 1918) was chief commander of German Imperial Navy Zeppelins during World War I, the main force operating bombing campaigns from 1915...
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    German bombing of Belgrade, or Operation Retribution (German: Unternehmen Strafgericht), also known as Operation Punishment, was the April 1941 German...
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    The German spring offensive, also known as Kaiserschlacht ("Kaiser's Battle") or the Ludendorff offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western...
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    terror bombing is used to describe the strategic bombing of civilian targets without military value, in the hope of damaging an enemy's morale. One of the...
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    Wales in the world wars (category Articles containing German-language text)
    Wales, as part of the United Kingdom, participated as part of the allies in World War I (19141918) and the allies in World War II (1939–1945). Just under...
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    (2002). The German Submarine War, 19141918. Penzance: Periscope Publishing. ISBN 978-1-904381-08-2. Stead, W. T. (1901). The Americanization of the World...
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    supporter of Haig, Robertson was replaced in 1918, by General Henry Hughes Wilson. In August 1914, there were 28,060 officers in the British Army, of which...
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    influences. Germany, as the German Empire, fought against the United Kingdom and its allies in World War I between 1914 and 1918; and, as Nazi Germany, against...
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    entered World War I on 4 August 1914, when King George V declared war after the expiry of an ultimatum to the German Empire. The official explanation...
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    The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers...
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    At the beginning of 1914 the British Army had a reported strength of 710,000 men including reserves, of which around 80,000 were professional soldiers...
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    Belgian field army and the British Royal Naval Division in the Antwerp area, after the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914. The city, which was ringed...
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    Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland orchestrated a bombing and arson campaign between the years 1912 and 1914. The campaign was instigated by the...
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    The strategic bombing commenced after the Germans bombed London on 14 September 1940, followed by the RAF bombing of Berlin and of German air force bases...
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    the size of the bomber force, which would carry out not just precision bombing but also indiscriminate area bombing by night of all German cities with...
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    Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during the First World War. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western...
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    (USA), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Little, Branden: Making Sense of the War (USA), in: 1914-1918-online. International...
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    The German invasion of Belgium caused Britain to declare war on Germany on August 4. Most of the main parties were now at war. In October 1914, the Ottoman...
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