The First World War 1914-1918 Everyone is looking for and cannot find the reason why the war began. Their search is in vain; they will not find this reason. The war did not start for any one reason, the war started for all reasons at once. Thomas Woodrow Wilson Causes of War

It is a terrible state to order without having any real power to ensure that the order is carried out, other than your own authority. (A.V. Kolchak, March 11, 1917) Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak was born on November 4, 1874. In 1888-1894 he studied at the Naval Cadet Corps

In 1952, a group was created in the Military Historical Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army under the leadership of Colonel General A.P. Pokrovsky, which began developing a description of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. For more complete

On January 5, 1942, Joseph Stalin gave the order to liberate Rzhev from the Nazis within a week. It was possible to complete it only after 14 months. Rzhev was occupied by German troops on October 24, 1941. The city was liberated from January 1942 to March 1943. There were battles near Rzhev

The first states appeared in the southern regions of our planet, where there were the most favorable natural and geographical conditions for this. They originated in approximately the same period, about five thousand years ago. What is the reason for the emergence of a new type of social

In the history of the First World War, two strategic operations were named not by the place where they took place, but by the names of their commanders. The first of them is the “Brusilovsky breakthrough”, and the second, organized in April-May 1917 by the Anglo-French command, the “meat cutter”