World War I - ASTROLOGY OF THIRD MILLENNIUM

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Nov

United Kingdom First World War

On 4 August 1914, the United Kingdom went to war after the invasion of Belgium by the German army.The pretext for the European powers to enter the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, on 28 June 1914, by a Bosnian Serb nationalist student. Austria-Hungary turned its suspicions against Serbia. They got the unconditional support of Germany, which thought that the time was right to defeat Serbia, Russia and France. Within a few days, from 25 July to 6 August, many European countries found themselves at war. Two large bl...

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8

Nov

Winston Churchill must resign after the Battle of Dardanelles

In January 1915, Allies approved the plan to invade Constantinople to break the Ottoman Empire's alliance with Germany. The Battle of Dardanelles began on 19 February. A Franco-British fleet captured the first two Ottoman forts at the entrance to the Straits. But on 18 March 1915, the fleet had to withdraw after losing three battleships which were sunk and three other damaged. The operations continued for several months without tangible results, forcing the Allies to evacuate troops from 8 October 1915 to 9 January 1916. The Allied forces engaged four to fourteen divisions (about 300,000 men) ...

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15

Nov

Winston Churchill Minister of Munitions

After serving five months on the Western Front in France, he returned in March 1916 to speak in the House of Commons in London where he was still a Member of Parliament. Winston Churchill was appointed Minister of Munitions on 17 July 1917 in a Liberal-Conservative coalition government. His role was to oversee the supply and arming of troops. He believed that the tanks could make a difference. The armistice was signed on 11 November 1918 ending four years of war which saw the mobilization of more than 42 millions of allied soldiers against 25 millions of hostile ones. In January 1919, he was a...

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