what are some trivia informations of the world war I?

Question

did you know?

do you know some amazing factsof the world war I?

Answer 1

rats were really big

trench warfare sucked

The Red Baron was not actually a great flier like some other aces but he was a persistent hunter.

Airplane recon stopped the German advance in 1914 which might have led to their victory. The airplane spotted a gap in their lines which the Allies then exploited.

The Germans in 1914 were too successful in their advance and outstripped their slower supply lines.

A number of Flying Aces were actually physically unfit for regular service.

JRR Tolkien fought on the Western Front and was present at the Battle of the Somme

Answer 2

Britain's very first hostile act of World War 1 against Germany was quietly carried out just before dawn on August 5, 1914. The cable ship SS Telconia steamed across the North Sea to a point just off the Dutch coast near Emden, where her crew used grapples to bring up Germany's Transatlantic telegraph cables. They chopped through them, and dropped the ends back into the sea.

The result was that for the whole war, all of Germany's communications with her overseas territories and embassies had to be made by radio, or over telegraph cables belonging to neutral countries who agreed to transmit them. The British could therefore get copies of almost all their traffic, and could already decipher most of the codes that were used.

In particular, by tapping neutral cables where they passed through London, Britain was able to intercept and decode the Zimmerman telegram which finally brought the USA into the war in April 1917.

Answer 3

The Red Baron, the ACE of ACES the greatest flier of the German army was shot down by a Foot solider from Australia who shot him with an machine gun while standing on the ground.

Archduke Ferdinand was killed because his driver had gotten lost and taken a wrong turn. He was attempting to find the Hospital where an aide had been sent after being injured by a bomb earlier in the trip. His driver took a wrong turn and stopped to find his way. That was when Gavrilo Princip struck.

After winning WWI American troops invaded Russia. President Wilson sent thousands of troops to support the White Russians who were fighting the Communist Red Russians. The Americans were stationed in the town of Archangel, and a 2nd front was opened in Siberia. The troops were pulled in 1920 when the White Russians proved to be too disorganized.

Answer 4

World War I was the first war for which medical practitioners actually put into place protocols for control of epidemics. What had been poorly addressed before this point was that with the conclusion of a war, the casualities from plague could be up to 300 % higher than victims of the war itself. The plan was the result of a revolution in medicine that had been occuring at that time. Traditionally, medicine was pure homepathy - blood letting even in the early 20th. century was the common practice of doctors treating disease. The revolution lay in the understanding of how viruses operate in the human body. For the first time, measures such as quarantine of returned soldiers for several weeks, before they were allowed to enter the population at large, was put into effect.

However, this develpment of virology failed to arm the medicos with weapons to fight the Great Influenza outbreak after the war and the unknown millions who succumbed to it, ( - more than 10 million has wide concensus.) It wasn't until further astonishing developments in the field in the next four decades that they were able to understand viruses to the point where they could be treated and cured. Ironically, it was that terrible epidemic that gave the empirical data which allowed this development.

Answer 5

Franz Ferdinand was successor of the monarchy. He and his wife Sophie were killed in Sarajevo on 28.June 1914. Gavrilo Princip was the name of the killer - he was a member of BLACK HAND - they wanted to create a Great Serbia with all south Slavic people. For the king Franz Joseph that was a good reason to declare war to the Kingdom of Serbia. 10 million people were killed in 4 years of war. There are more interesting things about I. World war.

Answer 6

WW I was the first war ever to use engine propelled air craft in it which improved vastly during the time it was used and this evolved into the Huge Air line industry that we have today with thousands of planes being in the air at the same time and traveling all over the globe.

Answer 7

The armistice was timed for the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918. It is claimed that this combination was a mere coincidence, but cynics say that it was a public relations exercise, and that lives were lost by delaying the end of the war to achieve a fatuous combination of digits.

Answer 8

The U.S. became involved when a German U-boat sank the British cruise liner Lusitania, and several U.S. civilians were killed. (1915) However, the U.S. did not enter the war until 1917 when negotiations with Germany failed to ensure the safety of other passenger liners. (The Germans had attacked several American merchant ships) Woodrow Wilson was the president. Also, American soldiers were called doughboys.

Answer 9

In November 1915, The 11th Macedonian Division, after three-days battle, defeated the Anglo-French expedition corps on the bays of the River Vardar, near village of Krivolak.

Answer 10

It started when a Serbian terrorist fired a gunshot at a Habsburg archduke. Not so trivial, but its amazing that WWI started with just 1 gunshot