History Thread for “1915”

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November 2, 1917 Breaking

Balfour Declaration

Foreign Office · London · England · United Kingdom

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued on November 2 1917 by the British government during World War I expressing support for the establishment of a national home for the J...

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June 23, 1915 Wars & Conflicts

Series of Battles on the Isonzo River

Isonzo River · Gorizia · Friuli Venezia Giulia · Italy

The Battles of the Isonzo were a series of twelve military engagements between the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary during World War I. They took place along the Isonzo River, on the ...

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April 24, 1915 Wars & Conflicts

Armenian Genocide

Yerevan · Yerevan Province · Armenia

Armenian Genocide On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. The arrests marked the beginning of a coordi...

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January 1, 1915 Wars & Conflicts

Assyrian Genocide

Hakkari · Hakkari Province · Turkey

Assyrian Genocide On January 1, 1915, systematic attacks against Assyrian communities began in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Assyrians, a Christian mino...

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August 25, 1913 Breaking

The Leo Frank Trial and Conviction in Georgia

Fulton County Courthouse · Atlanta · Georgia · United States

In August 1913, Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Georgia, was tried and convicted for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan. Phagan wa...

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Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Gallipoli Campaign Begins

19 February 1915 — British and French naval forces begin major operations against the Ottoman defenses of the Dardanelles. The Allies hope to force the straits, threaten Constantinople an...

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Attrition Becomes a Central Strategy

1915–1917 — Commanders increasingly seek to exhaust enemy manpower, artillery and industrial capacity faster than their own side is depleted. Verdun and the Somme become famous examples o...

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Governments Must Sustain the Home Front

1915–1918 — Casualties, inflation and shortages turn civilian morale into a strategic issue. Governments expand propaganda, censorship, rationing and welfare programs while labor movement...

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The War Becomes an Industrial Production Contest

1915–1918 — Consumption of artillery shells and other matériel massively exceeds prewar assumptions. Governments intervene increasingly in factories, labor, transport and strategic materi...

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War Exhaustion Destabilizes Russia

1915–1917 — Battlefield losses, inflation, food distribution failures and political distrust progressively weaken the Russian state. Confidence in Nicholas II collapses among elites as we...

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Henning von Holtzendorff

1915–1918 naval leadership — Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff is a powerful advocate for unrestricted submarine warfare. In late 1916 he argues that U-boats can reduce British shipping su...

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Italy Enters the War Against Austria-Hungary

23 May 1915 — Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary after joining the Allied side through the secret Treaty of London. Italian leaders expect territorial gains along the Adriatic and Alpi...

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Leopold Berchtold

1912–1915 — Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Leopold Berchtold becomes one of the central decision-makers in the July Crisis. After Sarajevo he increasingly favors a decisive confrontati...

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Lusitania Is Sunk

7 May 1915 — German submarine U-20 torpedoes RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland. Nearly 1,200 people are killed, including more than one hundred Americans. The sinking produces intern...

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