Germany changed the tactic during WWI via unrestricted submarine warfare, which meant that German U-boats could attack without warning any vessel it came across. Germany sank the civilian vessel ...

World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly morning of9, 1917. Its target, the Lady Olive, was about eight miles off the ...

If the U.S. had joined the Central Powers in 1917, World War I would have taken a drastically different turn. This alternate ...

When Europe plunged into war in 1914, Wilson, who like many Americans ... The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat helped to shatter that hope. Woodrow Wilson, 1918.

But why was it so important to Germany and why were the British and French so keen to destroy it? Kamina wireless station was completed in July 1914 and was a pivotal point for German naval ...

One episode in that conflict was the Battle of the Falklands in 1914. The search we organised had as its aim the locating of all ships of the German squadron, so that we may learn more about the ...

The German Empire became Germany, and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe. For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum and Memorial.

Excerpt from Paper Money by "Adam Smith," (George J.W. Goodman), pp. 57-62. Before World War I Germany was a prosperous country, with a gold-backed currency, expanding industry, and world ...

Both were killed. British soldiers using a Vickers machine gun in the trenches during WW1. Following the assassination, Austria-Hungary approached Germany to see if they would support a war ...

NARUTO, Tokushima Prefecture--A little-known episode about hostilities between Japan and Germany during World War I turned up when a flag featuring an unfamiliar design of a black cross and ...