The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (TRIH ep 594, part 1)
1914 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a multi-episode series on the First World War, focusing in this first installment on the outbreak of war in summer 1914 and the German offensive through Belgium. They trace the diplomatic sequence from the Sarajevo assassination to Austria's ultimatum to Serbia, Germany's "blank check," and the rushed German mobilization under Helmuth von Moltke the Younger.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1914
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)