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75German Politics Post-First World War
This article looks at the political climate that resulted from the end of the First World War and leading up to the Second World War.
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80Hitler: Expansion & Appeasement
This article covers the reasons for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi German's behaviors leading up to the start of the Second World War.
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77World War 1 History: The Medium Mark A Whippet Tank
In 1918, the last year of World War I, the British introduced the Medium Mark A Whippet, a light and relatively fast tank armed with four machine guns. It was used to exploit holes in the lines created by its much heavier and slower heavy cousins, the Mark IV and Mark V tanks. During that time, they established themselves as one of the best tanks of the war.
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65Serbia Should Reconsider Joining European Union
Serbia is giving shelter to criminals and murderers. This may boomerang on Serbia. It should learn lessons from Pakistan. Pakistan harbored terrorists in the fond hope that the terrorists would strike havoc in Kashmir and pose a headache to India. But the terrorists are killing innocent people inside Pakistan. Pakistan government does not know how to handle the situation.
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77World War 1 History: First Tank Versus Tank Battle
On April 24, 1918 the first tank versus tank battle occurred. Three British Mark IV tanks (one male and two females) encountered three German A7V tanks. The two females (armed with machine guns only) were soon damaged and withdrew, leaving the male (armed with two 6-pounders and three machine guns to face the three “Monsters”.
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76Doomed Youth: soldier poets of the First World War.
All soldiers are brave but the soldiers of World War One who went over the tops of the trenches and walked purposefully towards the tangled barbed wire in the face of direct gunfire and heavy shelling were a breed apart. Three of their most famous poets were moved to tell others what it was really like, what war really meant to them. And in their poetry they have left us a poignant legacy of their bravery.
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78World War 1: Letter from Ypres
Ypres was a brutal battle in the First World War that led to the deaths of thousands of allied soldiers that resulted in the capture of only a few miles of territory. Ypres was also the first modern battle in which chemical warfare was used.
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65The First World War: The Pals Battalions.
A review of how local battalions were raised in World War One, for the British Army.
8 comments66The First World War: The War Horse.
Horses used in battle during the first world war. the end of the cavalry charges.
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72Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir-1937)
Renoir's 1937 masterpiece, made at the height of the poetic realist movement in 1930s French filmmaking, still retains much of its power.
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