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	First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Causes of World War One
		The explosive that was World War One had been long in the stockpiling; the spark was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
		Almost immediately following her defeat by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, together with the humiliating annexation by the newly unified Germany of the coal-rich territories of Alsace and Lorraine, the French government and military alike were united in thirsting for revenge.
		To this end the French devised a strategy for a vengeful war upon Germany, Plan XVII, whose chief aim was the defeat of Germany and the restoration of Alsace and Lorraine.
	www.firstworldwar.com /origins/causes.htm (4287 words)

	First Punic War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Punic War was fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic from 264 BC to 241 BC.
		The First Punic War was decided in the naval battle of the Aegates Islands (March 10, 241 BC), where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus scored a victory.
		Moreover, the Republic's ability to attract private investments in the war effort by playing on their citizens' patriotism to fund ships and crews, was one of the deciding factors of the war, particularly when contrasted with the Carthaginian nobility's apparent unwillingness to risk their fortunes for the common good.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Punic_War (2504 words)

	Learn more about World War I in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Britain's declaration of war against Germany (August 4) was officially the result not of her understandings with France and Russia (Britain was technically allied to neither power), but of Germany's invasion of Belgium, whose independence Britain had guaranteed to uphold (1839), and which stood astride the planned German route for invasion of Russia's ally France.
		The common view was that it would be a short war of manoeuvre with a few sharp actions (to "teach the enemy a lesson") and would end with a victorious entry into the capital (the enemy capital, naturally) then home for a victory parade or two and back to "normal" life.
		Dissatisfaction with the Russian government's conduct of the war grew despite the success of the June 1916 Brusilov offensive in eastern Galicia against the Austrians, when Russian success was undermined by the reluctance of other generals to commit their forces in support of the victorious sector commander.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/wo/world_war_i.html (3799 words)

	Encyclopedia: First Balkan War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The wars were an important precursor to World War I, to the extent that Austria-Hungary took alarm at the great increase in Serbia's territory and regional status.
		The background to the wars lies in the incomplete emergence of nation-states on the fringes of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century.
		Serbia had gained substantial territory during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, while Greece acquired Thessaly in 1881 (although she lost a small area to Turkey in 1897) and Bulgaria (an autonomous principality since 1878) incorporated the formerly distinct province of Eastern Rumelia (1885).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/First-Balkan-War (625 words)

	First Punic War at AllExperts
		The First Punic War (264 to 241 BC) was the first of three major wars fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic.
		The series of wars between Rome and Carthage were known to the Romans as the "Punic Wars" because of the Latin name for the Carthaginians: Punici, derived from Phoenici, referring to the Carthaginians' Phoenician ancestry.
		Moreover, the Roman Republic's ability to attract private investments in the war effort, by playing on their citizens' patriotism to fund ships and crews, was one of the deciding factors of the war, particularly when contrasted with the Carthaginian nobility's apparent unwillingness to risk their fortunes for the common good.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fi/first_punic_war.htm (2896 words)

	War and Anti-War Films
		Themes explored in war films include combat, survivor and escape stories, tales of gallant sacrifice and struggle, studies of the futility and inhumanity of battle, the effects of war on society, and intelligent and profound explorations of the moral and human issues.
		War films have often been used as 'flag-waving' propaganda to inspire national pride and morale, and to display the nobility of one's own forces while harshly displaying and criticizing the villainy of the enemy, especially during war or in post-war periods.
		The Big Parade (1925) was a new kind of war film, and the first to realistically portray the horrors of battle and the struggle for survival by three soldier-comrades (a bartender, a riveter, and a millionaire's son) in the trenches.
	www.filmsite.org /warfilms.html (2153 words)

	Patricia A. Ferguson: Fighting on All Fronts Leo Amery and the First World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At any rate, from early in the war Lloyd George was exasperated by the diverse strategies of the various Allied forces, the intransigence of the "Westerners," the veil of secrecy which the War Office inevitably threw over the generals' deliberations, and their implacable opposition to a civilian running the war.
		Wilson had begun the war as a convinced "Westerner," but Amery's arguments and the evidence of the futility of Western campaigns amassed by the spring of 1917 had finally convinced Wilson, and Milner, that the traditional military men were wrong.
		First, it is further evidence of the perception of Amery as schemer that was fairly widespread at the time.
	etext.virginia.edu /journals/EH/EH35/ferg1.html (9459 words)

	The Sepoy Rebellion (1857)
		The history of the war delves deep into the colonization and conquest of India and the cultural and religious oppression imposed on Indians by British rule.
		Furthermore, the telling of the history of the war is, to this day, an ongoing battle between two competing narratives, the history belonging to the British that won the war, and the history claimed by the Indians who were defeated.
		Though the exact cause of the Sepoy War has yet to be agreed upon, and it is likely that there were many complex causes rather than one, it is clear that British interference governments and the oppression of the Indian people, religious and economic, created a bloody revolution.
	www.emory.edu /ENGLISH/Bahri/Mutiny.html (2603 words)

	War Artists from the First World War
		The first contingent of Canadian soldiers numbering 33,000 arrived in Britain for service in France on October 16th, 1914 and were soon in the thick of the fighting.
		Other war artists went to munitions factories and other manufacturing plants to document the efforts being undertaken by the civilian population at home in producing the material of war.
		The images created by war artists between 1914 and 1918 are poignant reminders of a devastating war that took place almost one hundred years ago.
	www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/exhibits/war_artists/index.html (789 words)

	The Heritage of the Great War / First World War 1914-1918. Graphic color photos, pictures and music
		Subjects are: the horror of the Great War battlefields, killed soldiers and kid soldiers (boy soldiers) in the First World War, civilians, wounded men, doctors, and the daily life in and behind the trenches of No Man's Land aka Nomansland during the Great War 14-18.
		We also have Great War propaganda posters and postcards and censored, forbidden pictures of corpses, dead and mutilated soldiers, mud and rain and shell holes and trenches, many trenches and entranchments, executions.
		There was a poppy and poppies near the war memorial at the Menin Gate, the Meense Poort, an "oorlogsmonument" and a klaproos, drawings by Albert Hahn.
	www.greatwar.nl (1768 words)

	Missourians in the First World War
		During World War I, approximately 156,232 Missourians served in the Army as soldiers, in addition to 14,132 in the U.S. Navy and 3721 in the Marine Corps.
		During the First World War, she was used as a training ship in the Chesapeake Bay area.
		At the end of the war in 1919 she was sent to France and used to transport to bring U.S. servicemen home.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/mo1stww.htm (2018 words)

	First Palestinian War
		First war fought between the Jews of Palestine (from May 1948 representing the new state of Israel) and their Arab neighbours.
		The war ended by giving Israel an area larger than what the country had been given in the UN plan of 1947.
		For the Palestinians, the war resulted in years of exile, and for several millions this remains the prevailing situation.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/fpalswar.htm (513 words)

	First World War in northern France
		The vital supply lines from Britain across the Channel were defended throughout the War, despite attacks and mine-laying by small submarines and fast boats operating from bases in Zeebrugge in occupied Belgium, and occasional bombing raids by aircraft and Zeppelin airships.
		First they would shell the enemy lines to weaken their defences, then the infantry would be sent out of their trenches into "no-man's land".
		The Germans were the first to try using poison gas and flame-throwers to prepare for an attack; later the allies had more success when they invented tanks - first successfully used at Cambrai.
	www.theotherside.co.uk /tm-heritage/background/first-war.htm (959 words)

	First War- Weapons of The Revolution
		First used in 1768, the British used this musket throughout the American Revolution, The War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars.
		The was successfully used as a sniper rifle during the Revolutionary War due to the long range and accuracy that it had.
		During the early days of the War the Americans were scared of the bayonet and because of inexperience they were useless in the hands of the Americans.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/firstwar77/wep.html (469 words)

	The First World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The "Great War," as it used to be called, is still a fitting description despite the vaster carnage of the rest of the century and the appalling transformations the war brought to the destinies of nations — from the grotesque tyranny of Lenin and Stalin to Hitler’s National Socialism.
		The changes in U.S. culture, politics, and economics as a result of the first war were not as ferociously and lethally consequential as those in Germany and Russia.
		Numerous operational scripts were minutely prepared to cover both defensive and offensive contingencies; in the decades before the first war, for example, general staffs made a point of compiling the most intricate railroad timetables for mobilization and troop movements.
	www.policyreview.org /oct99/west_print.html (3083 words)

	Women and the First World War
		Selina Cooper, a pacifist, disagreed with the NUWSS leadership on the war, and the Clitheroe Suffrage Society sent a letter to the local newspaper explaining their position.
		When militants and non-militants alike hastened to offer war service to the Government, no doubt many of them felt, if they thought about it at all, that this was the best way of helping their own cause.
		Certainly, by their four years' war work, they did prove the fallacy of the anti-suffragist' favourite argument, that women had no right to a voice in questions of peace and war because they took no part in it.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Wfirst.htm (1659 words)

	First War Dog Unit - Korean War
		T/Sgt Sheldon had served with a K-9 outfit during World War 11 in the Pacific theater of operations, and was involved in the early creation of the training manuals on the subject.
		The platoon soon developed a reputation that was so good, that the patrol members relaxed to a point where all the responsibility of detecting the enemy was left to the dog.
		This was a little scary for the handler at first, but our confidence in the dogs ability was extremely high.
	www.uswardogs.org /id89.html (4305 words)

	Rome: The Punic Wars
		The First Punic War: 264-241 BC The First Punic War broke out in 264 BC; it was concentrated entirely on the island of Sicily.
		Hannibal was one of the great strategic generals in history; all during his war with Rome he never once lost a major battle, although he had lost a couple small skirmishes.
		The Third Punic War: 149-146 BC In the years intervening, Rome undertook the conquest of the Hellenistic empires to the east.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ROME/PUNICWAR.HTM (1868 words)

	First Macedonian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the nineteenth century it was thought that the Romans were justifiably angered at him for his "stab in the back" in reaching an alliance with Hannibal (why he should not have done so and how this constituted a stab in the back are not clear).
		Certainly, the manner in which the centuriate assembly actually rejected the initial war vote suggests that the war was not at first very popular.
		At first the alliance was successful and the Aetolians captured a few towns (though not Acarnania).
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /macedonian1.htm (524 words)

	Æ Aeragon - First Modern War
		They regard it to be the first modern war because it was the first war where widespread use of mechanized and electrified devices like railroad trains, aerial observation, telegraph, photography, torpedoes, mines, ironclad ships and rifles occurred.
		The CSS Hunley was the first submarine to attack a warship successfully.
		As a part of the proliferation of new technologies that occurred during the war, the Civil War was the first instance where a telegraph message from a hot-air balloon was sent.
	www.aeragon.com /03 (4571 words)

	First World War [Australian War Memorial]
		In March 1918 the German army launched its final offensive of the war, hoping for a decisive victory before the military and industrial strength of the United States could be fully mobilised in support of the allies.
		The Great War was the first armed conflict in which aircraft were used; about 3,000 Australian airmen served in the Middle East and France with the Australian Flying Corps, mainly in observation capacities or providing infantry support.
		When the war ended, thousands of ex-servicemen, many disabled with physical or emotional wounds, had to be re-integrated into a society keen to consign the war to the past and resume normal life.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/ww1.htm (1298 words)

	The First Persian Gulf War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bhagdad was bombed fiercely by the coalition's fighter airplanes in the first night of the war.
		On the final night of the war, within hours of the cease-fire, two U.S. Air force bombers dropped specially design ed 5,000-pound bombs on a command bunker fifteen miles northwest of Baghdad in a deliberate attempt to kill Saddam Hussein.
		President Bush's decision to terminate the ground war at midnight February 28, 1991 was criticized, because it allowed Baghdad to rescue a large amount of military equipment and personnel that were later used to suppress the postwar rebellions of its Shiite and Kurdish citizens.
	www.libraryreference.org /gulfwar.html (1670 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The First World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The First World War is not afraid to point the finger at those generals who deserve it, but even Keegan has to admit he doesn't have all the answers.
		Though, quite often books on war can be dry, Keegan's style of prose makes the book flow more like a novel, while still maintaining the correct tone for such an horrific passage in History, thus making this an ideal book, for those, who like me want to gain a greater insight into the War.
		And that this is due to the great loss in the first meaning there are fewer to give their lives in the second is a chilling fact.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0712666451 (1665 words)

	Estimates of deaths in first war still in dispute
		With a second Persian Gulf War drawing near, Beth Daponte's telephone has been ringing off the hook with journalists from around the country asking about her estimates of Iraqi casualties in the first one.
		The U.S. suffered 148 combat deaths and 145 non-battle deaths during the Gulf War and the buildup to it.
		She estimated that 56,000 Iraqi soldiers and 3,500 civilians were killed during the war, and that another 35,000 died as Saddam Hussein crushed Kurdish and Shiite rebellions that rose up after the United States stopped fighting.
	www.post-gazette.com /nation/20030216casualty0216p5.asp (792 words)

	First Barbary War
		The background for the war was the continued attacks from Barbary pirates on US vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, and disagreements as to the level of tribute to be paid to the pirates.
		It took some time to build, which is the main explanation to why the First Barbary War would continue for 4 years.
		The outcome of the war would not be lasting, causing the need for the USA to fight a second war in order to secure their vessels from the attacks of pirates.
	i-cias.com /e.o/barbary_war_first.htm (289 words)

	The Provincial Museum of Alberta - Government History - The Poster War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Poster War exhibit contains forty-six posters selected from the collection of the late Theodore Elizabeth Wright Macgillivray.
		The first part compares the propaganda symbols which were used to identify and vilify the enemy with those which were used to unify and encourage Allied society.
		The second investigates the use of the soldier on the battlefront as a universal propaganda image.
	www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca /vexhibit/warpost/english/home.htm (162 words)

	Brief biographies of 25 poets of the First World War, THE WAR POETRY WEB SITE
		His first book was published when he was eighteen and in the next eighteen years he wrote over 30 books and thousands of articles and reviews.
		She was moved to the verge of a nervous breakdown by her experiences in the war and the loss of a close friend, her fiancé and brother.
		Her interest in politics sprang from a desire to understand the causes of the war which, in turn, she hoped might help to prevent a recurrence of such a human catastrophe.
	www.warpoetry.co.uk /biogs99.htm (3214 words)

	BBC - History - World War One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Battle of Verdun exemplified the war of attrition waged by both sides.
		The First Battle of the Atlantic by Gary Sheffield
		Discover the effects of war on the people who fought, and on those who were left behind.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/wwone/index.shtml (394 words)

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