Interest in the first world war, wrongly thought to be unforgettable, waned as its veterans died.
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Turkey gave up all claims to non-Turkish territories lost in the First World War.
Roma was four when her father died fighting in France in the first world war.
Her father was killed in the first world war and her two brothers in the second.
IR Your chart puts total British-empire deaths in the first world war just below 1m.
The biggest French graveyards are those of the soldiers who died in the first world war.
He was readmitted to the French army, served in the first world war and died in 1935.
He was an Italian army captain, drowned in the Nile in the first world war, who spoke 74 languages, including Latin.
More than 1m died in the first world war, most through incompetence in a conflict that Italy could easily have sat out.
And it revealed her pride on discovering that Volant had been awarded a Croix de Guerre, for bravery, in the First World War.
The role of the British Army in the First World War and the competence or otherwise of her generals continues to be a subject of debate.
But just four years later the United States needed a means to raise money quickly to pay for its efforts in the First World War.
Wounded in France in the first world war, he became an intelligence officer in Tangier in 1942-43 and helped prepare the ground for the Allied landing in north Africa.
Henderson, who lost her son in the First World War, apparently had the idea that boys should not die in battle before seeing a beautiful naked girl at least once.
Japan's secret service, perhaps influenced by stories of Mata Hari, a dancer who became a spy in the first world war, asked Miss Nakamura to spy on a foreign client.
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If cabinet government means collective decision-making, it vanished in the first world war, when the job of the state grew and power was spun out to a web of committees with the prime minister at the centre.
In 1916 Chaim Weizmann, who later became Israel's first president, worked out how to use chestnuts to solve the lack of acetone, a component of the cordite needed by the British navy to repel German U-boat attacks in the first world war.
The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was formed in 1858 and first fought in a major conflict in the Boer War in 1899, as well as action in the First World War, although traces its origins to an Irish dragoons regiment dating back to 1689.
The extent to which the behaviour of European wartime leaders between 1939 and 1945 was coloured by their personal experiences in the first world war can sometimes be overplayed did Hitler really avoid gas warfare because he himself had once been the victim of gassing?
Russia, of course, tends to polarize people and the battle lines on this particular issue, as on most others relating to the country, have long been drawn and have hardened and calcified over time in much the same way that the Western Front did in the First World War.
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Although immigration from North Africa is a century-long phenomenon (170, 000 Algerians and 130, 000 Moroccans were recruited to fight for France in the first world war), what sticks in the memory is the bitterness of the Algerian war of 1954-62, when Frenchmen and Algerians killed and tortured each other with enthusiastic brutality.
My grandfather went to other adventures, including service in the Army in France during the First World War (where he was wounded by shrapnel), but went on to live a long life - in San Francisco, of course.
The danger is that spats and rows will sour relations between China and America, just as the friendship between Germany and Britain crumbled in the decades before the first world war.
According to Piet Swiegers, manager of the nearby Klein-Aus Vista lodge, the most likely theory is that they were German and South African military horses abandoned in the chaos of the First World War.
The federal government has been involved in roads since before the first world war, and began to build them seriously in the 1920s.
Mr. DOUGLAS EDWARDS: From Cartoff (ph) comes the verdict in the first war criminal trials of World War II.
Gucci started as a single store in Florence, opened in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, who had developed an eye for luxury while working as a bellboy at the Savoy Hotel in London before the first world war.
The speech evoked the great moments of nation building in the country's history: the First World War battlefield of Gallipoli "when Turks and Kurds fell in battle shoulder to shoulder, " the War of Independence and the First National Assembly.
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His sympathies, born of his childhood experiences among the peasantry in northern France during the first world war, were always with the underdog, and he did not spare the colonial authorities for their role in Africa's misfortunes.
The Swiss Taeuber-Arp and her husband, Hans Arp, from Alsace, were Dadaists in Zurich during the First World War.
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