Historian, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
General Ludendorff described 8 August as ‘the black day of the German Army’. Many British Historians consider it the final turning point in the First World War. To say that the British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, and Field Marshal Haig …
...a new currency for all of Germany. This did not suit the Soviets, who had been stripping assets from East Germany as war reparations. In March, the Soviets argued that...
...prefix their names with ‘Royal’. In 1919 they returned to their duties carrying civilians. Further reading London Gazette Despatches https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31189/supplement/251 Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for our email alerts....
...Red Baron, courtesy of David Marks’ collection He was born in 1892 to an aristocratic Prussian Military family and at the age of 11 enrolled into military school. Graduating as...
...dealt with by Russia and the Central Powers. ‘Peace without victory’ At the time of the speech, the war appeared to be turning in favour of the Central Powers. As...
...Using a German code which he knew had been broken by the British, he transmitted the message ‘The British are now running France’. Unsurprisingly, the French intercepted it. In spring...
On 31 August 1907, Britain and Russia signed an agreement in St Petersburg which put in place the final piece of the alliance system which has widely been considered to have been a major contributing factor regarding the outbreak of the First World War.
...outcry in the US. On April 2, 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany, stating, ‘The world must be made safe for democracy,’and war was declared on Germany...
...and Briand for their efforts on Locarno. The previous year it had been shared between Chamberlain for his promotion of the treaty and the American Charles Dawes for his work...