Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
English: Best western front map of 1918, revised. Date: 2 June 2006: ... Western Front. copyright status. public domain. applies to jurisdiction: United States of ...
As the U.S. had entered World War I, the disease quickly spread from Camp Funston, a major training ground for troops of the American Expeditionary Forces, to other U.S. Army camps and Europe, becoming an epidemic in the Midwest, East Coast, and French ports by April 1918, and reaching the Western Front by the middle of the month. [91]
1918 flu pandemic – U.S. Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas became the first documented case of Spanish flu. [57] [58] However, cases of the flu were observed as early as January in Haskell County, Kansas. [59] A general election was held in Liechtenstein with a second round of voting held March 18. [60]
(Map #3) Haig's request for 20 French divisions "astride the Somme and West of Amiens" (blue), and the north–south dividing line of the Somme (red oval). (Map #4) General Foch's handwritten map of the Western Front on March 26, 1918. In the early morning hours of March 21, 1918, German artillery rained down on the Western Front.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker ...
With German reinforcements and new American troops pouring in, the outcome was to be decided on the Western Front. The Central Powers knew that they could not win a protracted war, but they held high hopes for success in a final quick offensive. [191] Ludendorff drew up plans (Operation Michael) for the 1918
January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. [1] January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Soviet Russia, Sweden, Germany and France. January 8 – American president Woodrow Wilson presents the Fourteen Points as a basis for peace negotiations to end the war.