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The stalemate rule has had a convoluted history. [46] Although stalemate is universally recognized as a draw today, that was not the case for much of the game's history. In the forerunners to modern chess, such as chaturanga, delivering stalemate resulted in a loss. [47] This was changed in shatranj, however, where stalemating was a win.
This is a list of proxy wars.Major powers have been highlighted in bold. A proxy war is defined as "a war fought between groups of smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from these".
Phifer, Mike. "The Kaiser's blitz: The Germans launched a massive spring offensive in 1918 spearheaded by elite storm-troop units in a desperate Did to break the stalemate and win the war." Military Heritage (Fall 2020) 22#3 pp 54–63. Terraine, John. "The March Offensive, 1918." History Today (Apr 1968) 18#4 pp 234–24. Kaulisch, Baldur.
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
A stalemate in chess occurs when the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move, resulting in the game being a draw. Stalemate may also refer to: Draw (tie) , a result in competitions where there is either no winner or multiple winners
The Berlin Blockade of 1948 to 1949 was an early confrontation, as was the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, which ended in a stalemate. US involvement in regime change during the Cold War included support for anti-communist and right-wing dictatorships and uprisings, while Soviet involvement included the funding of left-wing parties , wars of ...
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 ...
After World War I, there was a strong push to construct international rules prohibiting submarine attacks on merchant ships. [2] In 1922 the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan , France and Italy signed the Washington Treaty on Poison Gas and Submarines , to so restrict the use of submarines as to make them useless as commerce raiders . [ 10 ]