";s:4:"text";s:4446:" By Professor Joanna Bourke Last updated 2011-03-03 The Austro-German forces attacked southward from the Danube on October 6; and the Bulgars, undeterred by a Russian ultimatum, struck at eastern Serbia on October 11 and at Serbian … Next Published: 2005-03-14 Soldiers reinforced the sides with sandbags, bundles of sticks or logs, or … Welcome to 1914-1918-Online “1914-1918-online. World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. Each set of trenches consisted of several lines: a main line and up to four lines behind it. The Home Front saw a massive change in the role of women, rationing, the bombing of parts of Britain by the Germans (the first time civilians were targeted in war), conscientious objectors and strikes by discontented workers. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II. So they found other ways to help on the front line. In August, Germany sent reinforcements to Austria’s southern front; and, on Sept. 6, 1915, the Central Powers concluded a treaty with Bulgaria, whom they drew to their side by the offer of territory to be taken from Serbia. The trenches were usually about four feet wide and about eight feet deep, but in some places they were much shallower. By this time the whole of Britain, effectively, was the Home Front, and the citizens collectively were the soldiers on that front. Conditions were dangerous for women travelling to the war zones. Women were not allowed to fight as soldiers in World War One. Women on the Home Front in World War One. Hanna, Martha: War Letters: Communication between Front and Home Front , in: 1914-1918-online. They commissioned the construction of mobile theaters and appointed managers so that, by the end of the war, the Théâtre au Front, as the project was called, had given 5,893 performances in front of 4,030,000 officers and soldiers.
by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08. From 1917 on, the general headquarters took on a more active role. International Encyclopedia of the First World War” is an English-language virtual reference work on the First World War. The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I (German: Ostfront, Russian: Восточный фронт, Vostochny front) was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between the Russian Empire and Romania on one side and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the German Empire on the other. LEARN MORE By 1918, the western front trenches ran in a four-hundred-mile line through France and Belgium from the North Sea to the Alps. Welcome to At the Front makers of quality WWII reproductions. By 1918, the western front trenches ran in a four-hundred-mile line through France and Belgium from the North Sea to the Alps.
After 1916 official photographers took pictures and films for the army. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10362. The Caucasus Front was the area where combat operations between the Russian and Ottoman Empires were conducted from October 1914 until December 1917 as part of the Caucasus Campaign, one of the military campaigns in the Middle Eastern theatre of war and the front line where Russian advanced units were deployed to engage opposing Ottoman units. Each set of trenches consisted of several lines: a main line and up to four lines behind it. Until 1916 taking photographs on the front line was banned This was in case it helped the enemy to find out secrets. World War I, international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other regions. From this date the entrenchments would gradually spread along the whole length of the Western Front, would become deeper and more impregnable and would characterize the siege warfare fighting of the Western Front for the following three and a half years. From this date the entrenchments would gradually spread along the whole length of the Western Front, would become deeper and more impregnable and would characterize the siege warfare fighting of the Western Front for the following three and a half years. Read More