The Great War (2014)

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World War Zero - The Russo Japanese War 1904-1905
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The Russo-Japanese War is nicknamed World War Zero - it was a clash between two world powers that foreshadowed war on an industrial scale as seen just 10 years later again. Gigantic land .. show full overview
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War of the Cliques - Warlord Era 1922-1928
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The Chinese Warlord Era was a violent period of chaos and civil war in which multiple factions (so called cliques) fought each other over supremacy in China. After the first Anhui-Zhili .. show full overview
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How Ukraine Became Part of the USSR - The Soviet–Ukrainian War
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Ukraine was right in the center of the violent chaos following the Russian Revolution 1917. After declaring independence the Ukrainian People's Republic was invaded multiple times as the .. show full overview
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Why The Allies Couldn't Overcome German Trenches in Spring 1917
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The Allied 1917 Spring Offensive masterminded by French general Robert Nivelle was supposed to end the stalemate on the Western Front and bring a decisive breakthrough. But the German .. show full overview
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The First Modern War? - Why the 2nd Boer War Was So Different
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The 2nd Boer War was the culmination of almost a century of dispute between the British Empire and South African farmers of Dutch decent called Boers. The Boer Republics knew how to use .. show full overview
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Why Russia's Smartest General Failed in 1916
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The start of the Brusilov Offensive was the most successful Russian military operation during the First World War. It crippled the Austro-Hungarian Army and forced the Germans to divert .. show full overview
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How Did The First World War Break Out?
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914 kicked off a crisis among the European Powers. Tensions that built up in the decades .. show full overview
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The Greek-Turkish war 1919-1923
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The defeat of the Ottoman empire in 1918 meant that it got its own peace treaty like the other three central powers.
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Start of the Troubles in Ireland - Irish Civil War 1922-1923
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The Anglo-Irish Treaty and the withdrawal of Great Britain from almost all of Ireland was supposed to be a big step towards full Irish independence. But the pro-Treaty Irish Free State .. show full overview
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Prelude to WW1 - The Balkan Wars 1912-1913
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The Balkan Wars marked the end of Ottoman rule in Southeastern Europe, and they involved several countries that would join the First World War just a few years later. A complicated .. show full overview
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How Was The Soviet Union Founded?
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Vladimir Lenin had led the Bolshevik movement through the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War but by 1922 his health was failing and infighting among Bolshevik leadership caused .. show full overview
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United States Empire - The Spanish-American War
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The Spanish-American War (fought in Cuba and the Philippines) kickstarted US global ambitions and expanded their influence far beyond the borders of the United States. At the same time .. show full overview

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