Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I ace, bravely founded Eastern Airlines in the late 1930s.
The World War I Allies said they would enforce the Versailles Treaty on demilitarizing the Rhineland.
Poppy seeds are being sown around a rural Cambridgeshire railway station in time for the World War I centenary.
There's also a short debate on commemorating the centenary of the World War I - led by Labour Peer, Lord Clark of Windermere.
The Army said the World War I gun was the largest surviving of all the UK's artillery pieces and one of only 12 surviving in the world.
Newbridge Institute and Memorial Hall was built by miners in 1925 to commemorate members of the local community who lost their lives in the World War I.
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The gold standard was an international institution, and after 1914 and the start of the World War I, a host of major participants (including the U.S., in 1917), suspended gold convertibility.
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Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill each other again.
The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, an estimated 620, 000, is approximately equal to the total American fatalities in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined.
In the 1930s Nazi barbarism was discounted because of the shocking World War I stories about the behavior of German troops: After all, weren't those tales of German atrocities against the Belgians wildly exaggerated?
With the outbreak of World War I the reputation of the Germanic gnome plummeted.
At the end of World War I the victorious Allies thought they had dealt decisively with German military power.
Keynes saw the world learn that lesson the hard way in the years after World War I.
Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I and the beginning of our own time.
But as Wilson learned from the outbreak of World War I, the struggle for colonies had precipitated a savage and destructive war between the imperial powers themselves.
The event, which is part of the East End Film Festival, will also screen archive footage of street parties from the end of World War I to the present.
For people in the West, World War I was the great disillusionment, the moment when orthodoxy crumbled and leaders failed and the faiths of a lifetime fell to pieces.
So successful was this program of what would today be known as "supply-side reform" that by the eve of World War I, the gold standard had been adopted by all major economies.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions cover the government's plans to commemorate the centenary of World War I, the need for a reduction in domestic food waste, and the interest rate rigging scandal in the City.
The country was born out of struggle - the struggle to maintain some kind of territorial integrity at the end of World War I as the Allies decided to carve up Anatolia and walk away with it themselves.
It might be overly melodramatic to paraphrase Britain's foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, who said at the outbreak of World War I that the lamps were going out all over Europe, but it seems unlikely that the Middle East can avoid a period of prolonged instability and crisis in the coming years.
Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.
That catastrophe, coming on the heels of World War I, destroyed the faith countless numbers of people had in democratic politics and traditional free markets.
We also get the sequel, in the aftermath of World War I, in the form of kinky, carefully wrought "New Objectivity" paintings from the 1920s.
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This was true for the Allies after World War I, for the United States during the Cold War and for Israel after signing the peace treaty with Egypt.
The U.S. government has acted in accordance with that view in connection with the extinction of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.
Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.
The United States has officially expressed its view that upon the extinction of a State, its bilateral political treaties automatically lapse, and has acted in accordance with that view in connection with the extinction of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.
However, the outbreak of World War I put paid to the project.
In 1919, the end of World War I was marked by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the allies.
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