History Links, c.1900-c.1945
10/07/2018
World War II: The Fall of N**i Germany "Raising a flag over the Reichstag" the famous photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei, taken on May 2, 1945. The photo shows Soviet soldiers raising the flag of the Soviet Union on top of the German Reichstag building following the Battle of Berlin. The moment was actually a re-enactment of an earlier flag-r...
11/11/2017
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/discussion_humanitarianism?_=1510237888
Discussion: Humanitarianism | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) This is the first in what it is hoped will become a series of discussion forums hosted by ''1914-1918-online''. In this discussion forum, General Editor Peter Gatrell invited contributions that illuminate key interpretive debates around humanitarian relief efforts in wartime and its immediate afterm...
19/10/2017
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/refugees_austria-hungary?_=1508419192
Refugees (Austria-Hungary) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) During World War I, about 1.1 million refugees sought refuge in the interior of Austria-Hungary. The coexistence between the host communities and refugees in the interior was difficult, due to national and religious prejudices as well as economic difficulties. This resulted in the breakdown of civil...
30/08/2017
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/making_sense_of_the_war_spain?_=1504012802
Making Sense of the War (Spain) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) This article deals with Spanish representations of neutrality and war within domestic ideological space. Spaniards suffered acutely from the pressures of economic and maritime war. The need to make sense of themselves, by reflecting on the role of their home nation in a world war, would form divergi...
30/08/2017
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/health_and_medicine_india?_=1504012790
Health and Medicine (India) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) Initially, medical arrangements for Indian troops in France and England were poorly organized, but in 1915, Indian war hospitals in England became cornerstones of British imperial war propaganda. The emphasis in these hospitals was on returning as many soldiers as possible to the front while ensurin...
25/08/2017
Domestic Politics and Neutrality (Denmark) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) During World War One, Denmark managed to remain neutral. But, as the country was extremely dependent on economic and political relations with both Germany and Great Britain, the war had great consequences for both foreign and domestic politics. Unlike most other European countries, Denmark succeeded...
22/08/2017
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/croix_de_feu?_=1503407743
Croix de Feu | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) An extreme-right movement, the Croix de Feu was a prominent political phenomenon in interwar France. Its core identity was its commitment to maintaining in the realm of politics what it claimed to be the spirit of the Great War soldiers.
11/08/2017
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_losses_canada?_=1502457441
War Losses (Canada) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) The Canadian casualty figures are difficult to determine in part because of incomplete sources and the normal vagaries of record-keeping in times of war. As best as can be determined now, Canada’s total wartime military dead for those who served in a Canadian uniform range from 61,122 (and 62,427 if...
08/08/2017
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/church_of_england?_=1502198148
Church of England | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) In a conflict characterized as a Holy War between “right” and “might”, the support of the Church of England for Britain’s cause was unwavering. Those who had died in the cause of good (and God) were martyrs. However, such support did not prevent Church leaders from opposing reprisals against civilia...
03/08/2017
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/mutilation_and_disfiguration?_=1501766204
Mutilation and Disfiguration | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) The First World War created disfigured and mutilated bodies on a grand scale. Never before had the bodies of soldiers been so devastated by a conflict. Developments in established weapons such as cannons and machine guns, and terrifying innovations such as poison gas, created a relative army of disf...
01/08/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqFlJs9InxQ
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