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In late March 1918, the German Army began pursuing the spring offensive in France, its most ambitious advance since the First World War began four years earlier.
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Amy Sohn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
In 1916, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill led the Entente powers of the First World War in a crushing defeat on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Fort Benning is back to being Fort Benning, but this time it’s been named for Corporal Fred G. Benning, a First World War hero, instead of Henry L. Benning, a general in the Confederate Army.
—The Editors, National Review, 16 June 2025
That meant that by the time the First World War began, the biggest and strongest economy in the world was America.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 June 2025
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Amy Sohn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
In 1916, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill led the Entente powers of the First World War in a crushing defeat on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Fort Benning is back to being Fort Benning, but this time it’s been named for Corporal Fred G. Benning, a First World War hero, instead of Henry L. Benning, a general in the Confederate Army.
—The Editors, National Review, 16 June 2025
That meant that by the time the First World War began, the biggest and strongest economy in the world was America.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 June 2025
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“First World War.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/First%20World%20War. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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