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2 days ago · Main article: Battle of Stalingrad in popular culture. The events of the Battle for Stalingrad have been covered in numerous media works of British, American, German, and Russian origin, [ 346 ] for its significance as a turning point in the Second World War and for the loss of life associated with the battle.
- Soviet victory
5 days ago · We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender !
2 days ago · 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. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.
- World War I began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.
- The war pitted the Central Powers (mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) against the Allies (mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Ja...
- The Allies won World War I after four years of combat and the deaths of some 8.5 million soldiers as a result of battle wounds or disease.
- Some 8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds or disease during World War I. Perhaps as many as 13,000,000 civilians also died. This immensely...
- Four imperial dynasties—the Habsburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Hohenzollerns of Germany, the sultanate of the Ottoman Empire, and the Romanovs of Ru...
2 days ago · The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during the First World War. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The German advance was halted with the Battle of the Marne.
- 2 August 1914-11 November 1918
- Allied victory
2 days ago · The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; ‹See Tfd› German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse.
- French victory
4 days ago · Medgar Evers was an American Black civil-rights activist, whose murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of the civil rights movement.
5 days ago · The Crimean War (1853–56) was fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between Russia and Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire. It arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan.
