1912 - RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on 15 April 1912, after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. On April 14, 1912 at zdezeniu ship inside the hull to buckle in several places on his right side was destroyed, and opened five of its sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. In the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually filled with water and sank with more than a thousand people on board. It killed 1514 people. those in the water died within minutes of hypothermia by the freezing ocean.While the larger ships were built, the Titanic was the largest ship on the water during its maiden voyage. Her passengers were among the richest people in the world, and over a thousand emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and others seeking a new life in North America. Advanced security features have been used, but lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all persons on board. Many of those who survived lost their money and belongings and left without a way of life.
Titanic was one of the bridge of ships known in history, her memory kept alive by many books, folk songs, films, exhibitions, and memorie.
1914 - 1918 - World War I
World War I from the beginning until 1939 was a major war centered in Europe, which began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It covered all the powers of the two opposition alliances and central. more than seventy million military, including 60 million Europeans have been mobilized in one of the greatest wars in history. More than nine million combatants died, mainly due to the great technological advances in firepower without adequate progress in mobility. It was the sixth deadliest conflict in world history. On 28 July, open conflict with the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia after the German invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg and France and the Russian attack on Germany. In the East, the Russian army successfully fought against the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but was forced back by German troops. Russian Empire collapsed in March 1917, and Russia left the war after the October Revolution years later. Germany, which had their own problems with the revolutionaries at the time, agreed to a ceasefire on 11 November 1918, later known as the Day Suspension Broni.Wojna ended in victory for the Allies. At the end of the war, four imperial power, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ceased to exist. The successor states of the former two had lost a large amount of territory, and two others were destroyed completely. Map of Central Europe was redrawn into several smaller states.
1940 - Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain air campaign mainly over southern and central England, fought between the German and British air force during World War II, during the period from 10 July to 31 October 1940. Is also defined as the Battle of Britain, especially in British historiography. This was the first campaign waged only by air.
The interval of the battle July 10 to October 31 was introduced by British historians, and refers to the period of most intense air raids took place in the course of the day. German historians often use the time interval August 1940 to May 1941.
1939 - 1945 - World War II
The largest military conflict in world history, which lasted from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. Some episodes of the war played out even in the Arctic and North America. The main parties to the conflict were the Axis and the anti-Hitler coalition. In war, 1.7 billion people attended, including 110 million with a gun. According to various estimates, were killed in it from 502 to 783 million people. September 3 entered the war Britain and France. Some historians as the beginning of World War I consider Sino-Japanese war, launched on 7 July 1937 invasion of Japanese troops. A harbinger of the coming conflict was the rise of nationalist sentiments and aspirations of the expansive from the Axis, which expresses itself in an attack by Benito Mussolini ruled Italy in Abyssinia. From Italy, another example of violation of international law and expansionism was the seizure of Albania in Spring
1950- War in Korea
The Korean War, starting with the June 25, 1950 to 27 July 1953. The war between the Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Korean War was primarily a result of a political division of Korea under an agreement with the victorious Allies at the end of the war in the Pacific at the end of World War II. Korean peninsula was ruled by the Empire of Japan to end World War II.
There are no free elections throughout the Korean peninsula deepened the division between the two parties. The situation escalated into open warfare when North Korean troops invaded South Korea. This was the first major armed conflict of the Cold War. In 1950, the Soviet Union boycotted the UN Security Council in protest at the representation of China government, which fled to Taiwan after defeat in the Chinese civil war.
341 000 international troops who support the South Korean forces with twenty other countries, UN aid the victim. Suffering heavy losses, within two months, the defenders were pushed to a small area known as the Pusan perimeter. The active phase of the war ended on 27 July 1953, when the agreement was signed ceasefire. The agreement restored the border between the Koreas near the 38th parallel and created the Korean demilitarized zone, but little fighting continues to this day. Both North Korea and South Korea sponsored by external forces, the Korean War was a proxy war.
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