It took two weeks for the German defence to deploy enough reserve men to plug the gap and contain the allied assault. World War One with Dan Snow. collectionWorld War One with Dan Snow Historian ...

The action was particularly important because as a consequence of the battle, the German East Asia Squadron ... light on what was a defining point in WWI, and therefore a landmark moment in ...

This account of the lead up to an assault ... in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise more quickly than the Germans had anticipated and began advancing towards Germany ...

Belleau Wood - a bloody encounter of WW1 - occupies a special ... now directed followed by yet another assault. The casualties mounted, but still the German troops dug in. The fighting laboured ...

and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe. For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum and Memorial. More from Military & Defense A triangle ...

British and French troops launched an assault on German positions around the Belgian town of Ypres in July 1917. Heavy rain hampered the offensive by turning the battlefield into a sea of mud.

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat helped to shatter that hope. Woodrow Wilson, 1918. Courtesy: Library of Congress Wilson demanded an apology from Germany and ...

shattered by German bombers in the closing days of the campaign. Some 20,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the assault, one of the war’s first air assaults on a civilian population.

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Before and during the First World War, the Germans had plans to link up the four German territories in Africa ... Nevertheless, the British started the assault on the city of Tanga on the coast ...

German industrial production fell in September, signaling that manufacturing remains in poor health and adding to the country’s woes as leading companies mull factory closures and its coalition ...

shattered by German bombers in the closing days of the campaign. Some 20,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the assault, one of the war’s first air assaults on a civilian population.