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USA: National World War I Museum. "World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress.
Ammonium nitrate is first synthesized by Johann Rudolf Glauber; it wasn't used as an explosive until World War I. [4] 1745 William Watson shows that an electric spark can ignite gunpowder, demonstrating the first detonator. [5] 1845 Nitrocellulose is invented by Christian Schoenbein. [6] 1846: Nitroglycerin is invented by Ascanio Sobrero. It is ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Template:Canadian First World War Memorials in Europe; ... Timeline of World War I; Timeline of World War I (1917–1918) ...
The Allies had much more potential wealth they could spend on the war. One estimate (using 1913 US dollars) is that the Allies spent $58 billion on the war and the Central Powers only $25 billion. Among the Allies, the UK spent $21 billion and the US$17 billion; among the Central Powers Germany spent $20 billion.
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Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I (1914–1918) Sinking of the RMS Lusitania (1915) Baralong incidents (1915) Action of 19 August 1915; Action of 24 September 1915; Attack on SS Gulflight (1916) United States Navy operations during World War I. Action of 15 October 1917; Attack on Orleans (1918) Mediterranean U-boat campaign of World War ...
World War I – major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers , [ 1 ] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred on the Triple Entente of Britain , France and Russia ) and the Central Powers (originally centred on the Triple Alliance of ...
First Sino-Japanese War 1894–1895; Anglo-German naval arms race 1898–1912; Fashoda Incident 1898; Anglo-Japanese Alliance 1902; May Coup 1903; Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905; Entente Cordiale 1904; First Moroccan Crisis 1905–1906; Pig War 1906–1908; Anglo-Russian Convention 1907; Young Turk Revolution 1908; Bosnian Crisis 1908–1909 ...