WW1 Allied Forces

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During World War I, most of the European nations were eventually drawn into the conflict because of two distinct but closely connected reasons. First, nationalism was a very strong force at the time; thus, many nations were driven into war for the sake of the national prestige that seemed to be at stake. Second, the complex alliance-system at work in Europe at the time made it virtually impossible for any single nation to remain neutral, even where its borders were not directly threatened when the war first broke out.

The centrifugal force is a high centrifical force generated by the high speeds in a centrifuge. A simple example is the force that pushes clothes to the side of the drum in a newer clothes washer's spin cycle. These H.e. models spin faster than the older ones.

During World War I, many persons volunteered to fight for the Triple Alliance, including some who were not in fact full citizens of either the British or French nation. Colonials (and others) were motivated by the opportunity for pay, by chances to gain personal glory of some kind, and even by loyalty to the imperial power controlling their home-lands, among many other motivations.

The long term reasons for Russia's entry into WWI were to save face on the international arena by participating in the war and winning; unite the country with a very patriotic war fought for the ideal of pan-slavinism (help me out if that's not the correct term); perhaps territorial gain at the expense of her neighbors, Austria Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire; and financial assistance in return for military involvement from her Western allies. If anybody knows any other reasons--of which I'm sure there are more--feel free to add or edit this answer.

2 reasons were Germany continuing Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and the sinking of the Lusitania, the Lusitania held some American civilians. During war, civilians are not supposed to be involved

The smaller it's maximum cross-sectional area in the direction of flight, the faster it goes, as this reduces wind resistance..

Kronos is the youngest of the Titans, and the son of Ouranos and Gaea. The Spanish artist Goya portrayed Kronos as wild-eyed with a wide beard across his face.

96 US Medals of Honor were awarded for WWI service.

Imperialism has two meanings, one describing an action and the other describing an attitude. Most commonly it is understood in relation to Empire building, as the expansion of a nation's authority by territorial conquest establishing economic and political powers in other territories or nations.

In its second meaning the term describes the imperialistic attitude of superiority, subordination and dominion over foreign people- a chauvinism and comportment relegating foreign people to a lesser social and or political status.

the countries that made up the allied powers were Great Britian, France, United States, Italy, Japan, and Russia. Although Russia backs out later on.

Czar Nicholas II controlled Russia during World War I. He lost power during the final year Russia was in the war and the Alexander Kerensky was in power for the final months before Lenin took over and negoitated Russia's surrender to Germany.

The main means of defence developed against U-boats was the convoy system ? groups of merchant ships in close formation under the protection of one or more escort war ships. During the Second World War, the submarine menace revived, threatening the survival of island nations like Britain and Japan which were particularly vulnerable because of their dependence on imports of food, oil and other vital war materials. Despite this vulnerability, little had been done to prepare sufficient anti-submarine forces or develop suitable new weapons. Other navies were similarly unprepared, despite the fact that every major navy had a large, modern submarine fleet. At the beginning of the war, most navies had few ideas how to combat submarines beyond locating them with sonar and then dropping depth charges on them. But sonar proved much less effective than expected, and was no use at all against submarines operating on the surface at night. The Royal Navy had continued to develop [indicator loops] between the wars but this was a passive form of harbour defence that depended on detecting the magnetic field of submarines by the use of long lengths of cable lain on the floor of the harbour. Indicator loop technology was quickly developed further and deployed by the US Navy in 1942. By then there were dozens of [loop stations] around the world. Sonar was far more effective and loop technology died straight after the war. Allied anti-submarine tactics developed to defend convoys, aggressively hunt down U-boats and to divert vulnerable or valuable ships away from known U-boat concentrations. During the course of the Second World War, the Allies developed a huge range of new technologies, weapons and tactics to counter the submarine danger. These included: * Allocating ships to convoys according to speed, so that faster ships were less exposed. * Huge escort construction programmes to mass-produce the small warships needed for convoy defence, such as corvettes, frigates, destroyers, and escort carriers. * The development of new ahead-throwing anti-submarine weapons such as the hedgehog and the squid. * High frequency direction finding (HF/DF) to pinpoint the location of an enemy submarine from its radio transmissions. * The introduction of seaborne radar. * Air raids on the German U-boat bases at Brest and La Rochelle. * Long-range aircraft patrols to find German U-boats and either sink them or force them to submerge and lose contact with the convoy. * Airborne radar. * Torpedoes active countermeasures such as Foxer acoustic decoy. * The Leigh light airborne searchlight which was used in conjunction with airborne radar to surprise and attack enemy submarines on the surface at night. * Larger convoys, which allowed more escorts to be allocated to each convoy. * The formation of support groups of escort ships that could be sent to reinforce the defence of convoys under attack. Free from the obligation to remain with the convoys, support groups could continue hunting a submerged submarine until its batteries and air supplies were exhausted and it was forced to surface. In the air many different aircraft from lighter-than-air airships to four-engined seaplanes and land-planes were used. Some of the more successful anti-submarine aircraft were the Lockheed Ventura, PBY Catalina, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Short Sunderland and Vickers Wellington. The provision of seaborne air cover was essential. At first, the British developed temporary solutions such as merchant aircraft carriers and CAM ships. These were superseded by mass-produced, relatively cheap escort carriers built by the United States and operated by the US Navy and by the Royal Navy. At this point there was a significant difference in the tactics of the two navies and criticism was aimed at the British. The Americans favoured aggressive hunter-killer tactics using escort carriers on search and destroy patrols, whereas the British preferred to use their escort carriers to defend the convoys directly. The American view was that this tactic did little to reduce or contain U-boat numbers. In the event, the tactics were complementary, suppressing and destroying U-boats. The critical Allied advantage was provided by the breaking of German naval codes (information gathered this way was dubbed Ultra) at Bletchley Park in England. This enabled the tracking of U-boat packs to allow convoy re-routings: however, whenever codes changed, convoy losses rose significantly. Much later, in the war, active and passive sonobuoys were developed for aircraft use. Don't forget the baby flat tops, escort carriers, that sailed with the convoys. Their aircraft prevented the U-boats a chance to surface and recharge their batteries.

An Entente is a kind of alliance that is an agreement not to attack each other. The Triple Entente was made up of France, Britain and Russia. The Entente Powers fought the Central Powers during World War I.

Some time near the end of WW3

how did people in the 19th century feel about war

The countries were building up their armies and navies to prove they were the most powerful. Because the countries thought that their armies were the best, they felt they did not have to be as careful when dealing with other countries, because they had something to back them up. This led to a lot of disputes which contributed towards WW1.

Many immigrant groups in the United States supported the Central Powers in World War I.

The conditions of prisoners varied widely from nation to nation. All nations took prisoners, although often battlefield conditions were such that many who wished to surrender did not survive the attempt. Overall POW's main complaint would be lack of variety/quantity of food. Many would also complain of bordom, others of too much work. USA: Prisoners from Germany and Italy were generally well treated once they reached the USA. Food was plentiful by European standards. Work was limited and tolerable. Very few Japanese prisoners were taken. Battles with the Japanese were usually fights to the death, on both sides. USSR: Probably the harshest overall treatment of prisoners. They brutalized all whom they captured. German military prisoners were starved, worked to death, and brutalized in every conceivable way. Women prisoners were abused sexually. Civilians captured were murdered casually. Those POWs who did survive, were for the most part not released until ten years after the war, in 1954 and 1955. Tens of thousands were never released - there are reports of large numbers still in camps as late as 1960. Britain: Generally similar to the USA situation although support for the POW's was not as generous due to a lack of resources. Few were kept in the British Isles. Most were sent to camps in the USA or Canada. Germany: Prisoners taken in the western European campaigns were generally well treated. In fact, despite some movie propaganda to the contrary, American and British POW's in Germany had no higher mortality rates than German POW's in their opponents camps. In some early campaigns, such as France, Germany did not even bother with POWs. The surrendering French were just disarmed and told to go home. Russian and Polish POWs were a different story. Millions were starved or otherwise brutalized. Interestingly however, almost a million Russian POW's joined the German army, mostly in non combat roles. Those doing so doubtless got better rations, although most Russian POW's were killed by the Soviets after the war, as traitors. Japan: American, British and Dutch prisoners were harshly treated. Some were executed, food was sparse, labor often hard. The Japanese were also harsh against POWs from China. France: It was an occupied country during the war and of course had few POW's. However after the war, they did hold many German POW's. Many were badly treated. For example about five thousand German POW's were worked to death in French coal mines. Many German POWs, to escape the terrible conditions volunteered their extensive military expertise to the French and enlisted in the French army or foreign legion. Thus you find many German names in the French forces fighting in Vietnam in 1950 to 1954.

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Germany declared war on Russia on 1st august 1914. at this time, Russia had a treaty with France and Britain, called the Triple Entente. this wasn't an agreement to defend each other, but an agreement to 'not argue'.

World War I began on July 28, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918. The French were led by three commanders over the course of this period, Georges Clemenceau, Raymond Poincare, and Ferdinand Foch.