What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

Research began as the first US troops made preparations for combat. Fear of gas attacks against these members of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) ... Mar 25, 2025 ... Adolf Hitler enthusiastically welcomed the outbreak of World War I in summer 1914. On August 2—as the war began—the 25-year-old Hitler attended ... Feb 2, 2017 ... On 28 June 1914, the assassination in Sarajevo of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria started the chain of events that led inexorably to the ... Jun 10, 2024 ... World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ... The first Veterans Day under the new law was observed with much ... The killing of Franz Ferdinand eventually led to the start of the First World War — and 30 million deaths. How could the death of one man (and his wife beside ... Jul 25, 2014 ... It is a process," writes MacMillan in her short and very sharp 2008 book, The Uses and Abuses of History. She tells me historians should not ... On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife were assassinated by a Serbian-backed terrorist. Dec 12, 2016 ... The First World War started with something of a paradox for Grey. In the House of Commons on 3 August 1914 he made what is widely regarded ... With the start of the second World War and a swift succession of German victories, the Nazi regime began realizing its longstanding goal of territorial ... World War 1 (WW1) ended a century ago, at the 11th hour on the 11th day on the 11th month of 1918. Millions of combatants had died but it was the first big ...