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First avant - garde artist
The First World War resulted in the birth of "vanguard" groups, which coincided with the attempt to break a culture that seemed exhausted. -
Murder in Saravejo / The First World War begins / War of movement
Never has such an unusual cluster of coincidences had such frightening consequences. The chances of Gavrilo Princip unleashing in Sarajevo with two shots a world war, were minimal but it happened. This young Bosnian Serb aged 19, an inexperienced shooter, killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife, Sofia, after meeting them by chance. -
1st battle of the Marne / First World Ware / War of movement
The battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War that took place between 5 and 12 September 1914. The result was an Allied victory over the German army. The counterattack of six French campaign armies and the British Expeditionary Force along the Marne River forced the German Imperial Army to retreat to the northwest. -
Battle of Tannenberg / First World War / War of movement
In the early stages of World War I, we find this battle between the German II Empire ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Russian Empire ruled by Tsar Nicholas II. Russia, ally of France and component of the Triple Entente designed a plan against Germany to end the war quickly. The plan was to invade the German Empire by its eastern area with two army corps and make the Germans cede in the city of Konigsberg. -
Battle of the Somme / First World War / Trench Warfare
July 1, 1916. France and the United Kingdom decide to start the offensive of the Somme, a large-scale operation against the northern sector of the German front. The objective, to penetrate into Germanic territory, to breach and weaken the military capacity of the imperial army. Four and a half months and 1,200,000 soldiers killed later, the battle of the Somme concludes. It is the biggest and bloodiest offensive in history so far. -
Battle of Verdun / First world War / Trench warfare
The battle of Verdun, fought from February 21 to December 18, 1916, was the largest and longest battle of the First World War on the western front between the German and French armies. The battle took place in the hills north of Verdun, in northeastern France. The 5th German Army attacked the defenses of the Fortified Region of Verdun and those of the Second French Army on the right bank of the Meuse. This battle was crucial for the course of the war. -
USA joins the war / First World War / Trench warfare
The people of the USA He asked to declare war on Germany, but President Woodrow Wilson only protested. Germany promised not to sink more merchant ships, but because it did not comply with this agreement, the United States declared war in 1917. USA aid came into play when it was most needed. -
The right of women over the age of 30 to vote (United kingdom) / First World War / Trench warfare
The British Parliament approved on February , 1917 a law that granted the right to suffrage to women over 30 years, which at that time were more than eight million in a country still immersed in the First World War. -
October Revolution / Intervention in the European war / Lenin
Great Russian Revolution of October 1917. It opened a new era in the history of mankind. It constituted the radicalization of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was led by the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, signified the first declared socialist revolution of the twentieth century, with the participation of workers, peasants and soldiers through the soviets. -
February Revolution / Intervention in the European war / Tsar Nicolas II. / End of the Tsars and beginning of Lenin
The revolution of February 1917 in Russia is the first stage of the Russian revolution that transformed the country from a monarchy to a communist state. In February 1917, a demonstration that began in revolution when the troops of the capital passed by the protesters began in Petrograd, the capital of Russia in 1917. The revolution brought as a consequence the end of the Tsars in Russia and the beginning of a parliamentary republic. -
CPSU / Lenin / Civil War
Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was the organization that brought together the vanguard of the Soviet people in the construction of socialist society, as a successor to the Bolshevik Party, which in turn had broken away from Russia's POSD. With this name it was known from 1952 to 1991, although the words Communist Party were present in the name since 1918, when it was renamed the Russian Communist Party. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk / Lenin / Civil War
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, also called Peace of Brest-Litovsk was a treaty signed on March 3, 1918 by Russia, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire in the city of Brest-Litovsk, present-day city of Belarus that at the beginning of the 20th century belonged to the Russian Empire. This treaty put an end to Russia's participation in the First World War. -
Execution of the tsar and his family / Lenin / Civil War
The murder or extermination of the Romanov imperial family and all those who decided to accompany them to jail was an event that took place in Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16-17, 1918. The tsar and his family were shot, bayoneted and killed. beaten by several Bolshevik troops, including Piotr Ermakov, and led by Yakov Yurovsky under the orders of the Urals Regional Soviet and instructions from Vladimir Lenin, Yakov Sverdlov and Felix Dzerzhinsky. -
2nd battle of the Marne / First World War / Final stage
The Second Battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought between the German Army and the allied armies of France, England, and the US, from July 15 to August 6, 1918, the last year of the war. It took place in the vicinity of the Marne River, France and was the result of the great German offensive launched in the spring of 1918. The Second Battle of the Marne was a decisive encounter that changed the course of the war in favor of the allies. -
Arministice / First World War / Final stage
The Armistice of November, also known as the Armistice of Compiègne, was a treaty signed at 5.20 in the morning, between the Allies and the German Empire, in the wagon of a train in the forest of Compiègne, in order to end hostilities on the Western Front of the First World War. -
Treaty of Versailles. League of Nations / End of the First World War
The League of Nations was an international organization created by the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. It was proposed to establish the bases for peace and the reorganization of international relations after the end of the First World War . -
Creation of the USSR / Lenin
The Treaty of creation of the USSR is a document that legalizes the creation of the union of several Soviet Republics to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
On December 29, 1922, at the conference of plenipotentiary delegations, they approved the Treaty of Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of Creation of the USSR These two documents were signed on December 30, 1922 by the members of the delegations.
