World War I saw many political changes across the world. At the end of the war, four once-mighty Empires no longer existed. The Russian Empire eventually became the Soviet Union. The German Empire became the Weimar Republic of Germany. The Austro-Hungarian Empire split as Austria and Hungary became two countries again. Finally the Ottoman Empire…
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Fun Fact: Why Alfred Hitchcock Didn’t Fight In World War I
While he was still a young man, future movie director Alfred Hitchcock tried to join the British army as a regular soldier to help the Allied Powers win World War I. However the British military turned him down for health reasons, mainly due to being overweight.
Fun Fact: How Germany Held Their Own War Trials After World War I
After World War I, Germany was asked by the Allied Powers to send them their war criminals for trial. However Germany held these trials instead, with a very tiny few who were found guilty versus what the Allied nations wanted.
Fun Fact: Worst Battle in American History
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was one of the last chapters of World War I and the series of battles took the most lives in American history at over 26,000, quite a bit larger than the later Battle of the Bulge. The reasons for this is Spanish Flu, and the inexperience of many of the troops along…