Can someone briefly tell me how the Allied powers won ww1?

Can someone briefly tell me how the Allied powers won ww1?

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What was ww1s influence on modernity?

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Floating Feature: Spill Some Inca about the Amazon' History of Middle and South America

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Why were so many Germans fighting for Hitler until the end, but the Italians deposed of Mussolini 1943? Was it because of the Italian King or was there another reason?

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Sacking a City

When a conquered city has been sacked. Does the invaders really rape women and kill civilians like the one depicted in the movie Troy?

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What did English speakers call alcohol before "alcohol"? Did they have an idea that there was one substance inside all alcoholic drinks that caused drunkenness?

What was their group name for alcoholic drinks?

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Did The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn cause any controversy when published in 1885?

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How do I critique a Secondary Source and its author?

I asked a question about The Last Tsar: Michael II He made some very bold claims about the death of Peter II of Russia and it got me thinking about the reliability of the book.

I'd like to know how to critique this stuff myself especially since I eventually want to write my own book on a similar topic.

What do I need to take into account about the author and time period and about the text itself?

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I find it odd that the directors of Star Wars Episodes V and VI remained in relative obscurity despite having conducted such relevant films. Why did this happen? What was exactly their role? And why didn't George Lucas direct the movies himself?

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Why was a Toga Praetexta worn by magistrates?

It seems that Toga Praetexta was worn by freeborn Roman children, so why was it also the outfit of choice for magistrates?

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It seems like if a magistrate today wore a babygrow, dungarees or a onesie.....

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Why does Hong Kong have special laws compared to the rest of China when the British lease was going to end in 1997 anyways?

Why did China make concessions if it didn't need to?

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How were war negotiations in the past being conducted without knowing the language?

Anyone thought about how were war negotiations conducted in the past?

Let's take for example, when Genghis Khan Khaan sent his riders towards all the corners of the earth to spread gore and the message that everybody should recognizer Genghis Khan as the ruller of the planet. How were those riders able to convey the message when they encountered Russians, Arabs or European nations?

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What motivated Nazi Germany to develop the King Tiger tank when the original Tiger tank was the best on the battlefield

The original Tiger tank was a famously successful tank and was also very expensive to build, it also had an extremely effective cannon and armour compared to the rival allied tanks so why was it deemed necessary to build and bigger, heavier and more unreliable King Tiger.

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How did curry become so popular in Japan but not as much in China?

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So what happened to all the Hitlers? Or was Adolf the only one with that last name?

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How accurate is Vinland Saga?

I know it's probably not too historically accurate, but how accurate is it according to the stories it's based off of?

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Did Churchill, and British armed forces save the world (if not, Europe), from Nazism and fascism?

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Origins of the klu Klux Klan?

My boyfriends grandmother told me that the kkk started as a group to stop men from running around on their wives. I'm 99.99% that this is bullshit but she swears by this. Please historians of reddit lets hear the real reason.

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Korea was split by US and Soviet hands into north and south after the Korean War, however I found out that Vietnam was also split in half, but this was before the Vietnam war. who was responsible for the split and how did the monarchy’s rule extend to the territories?

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What motivated the Axis forces during the war on the Eastern Front?

The German Army attacked expecting a quick victory but instead found itself trapped in Russia and facing Soviet offensive after offensive while the Germans lacked winter supplies and found themselves with a slim chance of victory.

So why didn't the German forces just collapse and surrender or better yet flee to Germany? Especially the Hungarian, Italian and Romanian volunteers that came with them. Why didn't they all just surrender en masse to the Soviets or deserted and went home leaving Germany to its fate.

What motivated the Axis forces to keep fighting despite knowing they were about to lose and with such miserable living conditions?

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Why was Napoleon exiled the second time?

He already came back from exile once, and returned to power. Why would his successors take the chance of it happening again?

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It is reported that Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, and that the first program was an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli numbers, isn't that too complex to be the first program ever written?

I would expect the first program to be a code that added 2 numbers, or something simple like that.

Could it be that this is the oldest surviving code from Ada Lovelace but that she wrote other simpler programs before it?

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How valid is the claim that “It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold."

Full quote and source:

“It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. So great was the witches’ knowledge that in 1527, Paracelsus, considered the ‘father of modern medicine,’ burned his text on pharmaceuticals, confessing that he ‘had learned from the Sorceress all he knew.’”

— Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - A History of Women Healers (1973)

- from various reddit posts.

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How did Roman slaves from outside Italy learn Latin? Or did they not, and if so how did they know what to do?

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Social Studies Test

I will be taking the ORELA Social Science test towards the end of this month. Which books and materials would be best to help me study?

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