British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World War.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The Weimar Republic was officially established on 11th August 1919, when Friedrich Ebert signed the new constitution into law.
On the 23rd July 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries.
The ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna was signed on the 9th June 1815, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland.
On the 22nd April 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres began in Belgium.
On 8th April 1904, a series of agreements between Britain and France known as the Entente Cordiale were signed.
The United States entered the First World War after Congress declared war on the German Empire.
Although her rating was only temporary, it marked in important step towards the Army-Navy Nurse Act of 1947 that made such appointments permanent.
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World War.
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