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Top 10 World War I Facts

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Wrong Turn Started War

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

Archduke Franz Ferdinand may not have been assassinated had his driver not made a wrong turn that convenietly placing them outside a cafe where one of the assassins, Gavrilo Princip, just happened to be

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Top 10 World War I Facts

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American Anti-German Propoganda

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

Remember Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast as part of the anti-French propoganda before the invasion of Iraq? Not the first time. Since the Frankfurter and Hamburger were named after German cities, anti-German propoganda rechristened them "Liberty Sausage" and "Liberty Sandwich"

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Russian Army Armed with Sticks

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

Many things contributed to the huge cassualties Russia suffered during the war, but being ill equiped stands out the most. The Russian soldiers were so baddly equiped that many had to use sticks instead of rifles. Imagine charging the German machine gun nests with just sticks

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Battle of Megiddo

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

The last calvary battle in history between Great Britian and the Ottoman Empire

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Italy's Secret Treaty with Great Britian

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

Italy was originally part of the Tripple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Yet when the war started, Italy revealed that it had a secret treaty with Great Britian causing them to fight it's former allies

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The First Tanks

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

This was the first war with tanks.

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Zepplin Bombers

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

Before B-17s and B-29s, the first bombers were not planes but German Zepplins. They flew to Great Britian for arial bombing, but were too easy to be shot down by British fighters

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First Arial Dogfights

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

The first war to feature arial dogfights

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Flame Thrower

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

World War I saw the invention of the flame thrower

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The Battle of Jutland

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Cameron Halas 8 years ago

The dreadnaught battleship was built by the British Royal Navy in 1908. Britian and Germany soon made a fleet with them. The only true clash between dreadnaughts in history occured at the Battle of Jutland. It was a draw. But along came aircraft carriers for WW II and dreadnaughts only played supporting roles

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