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The Causes of WW I

by DannyTBrian in History, October 1, 2009
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In this article the start WW1 is carefully described. Although there are many causes for WW1 most of them are not proven or disagreed by historians. So here are the main ones.

We All Live in a Haunted Submarine

by Patrick Bernauw in History, May 31, 2009
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In Germany a submarine was called an U-boat, or “Unterseeboot”. At the outbreak of World War One, Germany had 33 of them. With the possibility of rich prizes off the British and Irish coasts and in the Channel, in early 1916 an entire flotilla of 24 U-boats was launched in the North Sea. One of them was the U-65, and from the very beginning there was talk about “jinxes” and “hoodoos”.

College Students Answered Uncle Sam’s Great War Call

by Caleb Nico in History, April 14, 2009
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World War One, the draft, and how it effected a local town in Michigan according to the college’s newspaper.

The Hell Hound of No Man’s Land

by Patrick Bernauw in Military, April 6, 2009
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The French author Albert Dauzat told a fascinating legend that emerged from World War One in a book that was published two years after the Great War. Civilian skeptics laughed at the soldiers’ tales of the murderous giant hound of No Man’s Land, but to the soldiers it was a gruesome reality…

Phantoms of the Great War

by Patrick Bernauw in Military, March 13, 2009
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At last, in that grey winter of 1918, the guns in France and Flanders fell silent and an eerie stillness dwelt on the battlefields where the dead lay unburied in sodden trenches…

World War One & Two Overview Summary

by Armin A. in History, July 30, 2008
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Overview summary of world war one and two important events.

Walking with the Dead

by Evis T in History, July 28, 2008
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A personal and powerful journey through the war graves of Ypres.

WWI Started with a Bang

by SwanseaCity in History, May 31, 2008
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This is how World War I started.

The Seeds of Conflict: Reasons Behind Russia’s Entry Into the World War and Germany’s Response

by Jacob Manser in History, April 11, 2008
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The reasons behind Russia’s entry into the Great War in 1914, and Germany’s response to the same. The conclusion consists of a subjective argument in defense of Russia’s entry.

Causes of WWI

by whipermr5 in History, September 15, 2007
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There were many different reasons as to why WWI began. However, in my opinion, the most important cause of the war was the Alliance System. The other two factors discussed will be the Moroccan Crisis and the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand.

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