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Edward V Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon ("Eddie") (1890-1973), a United States aviator and America's top flying ace in World War I.
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BACKGROUND
The sinking of the Lusitania was one of the events that brought the United States into World War I. The topics in this section cover some of the major concepts and events related to the start of the First World War.
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Europe After World War I: November 1918-August 1931World War I, also known as the Great War, left Germany and other countries humiliated and angry. Germany viewed the armistice that ended World War I as a truce, rather than a surrender. This view was ignored. Learn about events that led to World War II. See more »
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Gallipoli Campaign
Gallipoli Campaign, an Allied attempt in 1915, during World War I, to seize the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey and thus gain control of the Dardanelles strait, opening a supply route from the west to Russia through the Black Sea. See more »
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Dirigible
Dirigibleor Airship, a balloon that is self-propelled and that can be steered. There are three types: (1) the rigid dirigible, which holds its shape by means of a rigid metal framework around the gas cells; (2) the semirigid dirigible, which has a rigid keel along the bottom inside a single fabric gas bag, known as the envelope, but no framework around the envelope; and (3) the nonrigid dirigible, which holds its shape only by the pressure of the gas inside the fabric envelope. See more »
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League of Nations
League of Nations, the association of countries formed at the end of World War I to prevent war and to promote international peace and security. See more »
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Neutrality
Neutrality, in international law, the state of noninterference and of peaceful relations that one nation maintains with two or more nations at war with each other. See more »
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Selective Service System
Selective Service System , an independent agency of the United States government. See more »
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Tomb of the Unknowns
Unknowns, Tomb of the, a national memorial to the unrecovered dead of the United States armed forces of World Wars I and II and the Korean War. See more »
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Treaties of Rapallo
Rapallo, Treaties of, international agreements signed at Rapallo, Italy, soon after World War I. See more »
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Treaty of Versailles
Versailles, Treaty of, the peace treaty at the end of World War I, signed on June 28, 1919, by Germany and by the Allied and Associated Powers. See more »
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Triple Alliance
Triple Alliance, a name given to several international agreements. The most important was a secret treaty that was signed by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in 1882 and remained in effect until 1915. See more »
