by ciprian | Nov 15, 2018 | Treaty of Versailles, World War I in 1918
To mark the centenary of the Armistice, the Imperial War Museum used an authentic sound graph to recreate the end of the Great War on the American front. A chilling audio re-creation depicts the moment the guns fell silent on the First World War battlefields at the... 
by ciprian | Nov 14, 2018 | Programmatic Documents
Romania, having started the war as a neutral, entered on the side of the Allies in August 1916, led by Ion Bratianu, the Allies having promised support for the fullfilment of Romanian national unity. Revolution in Russia in 1917, followed by the Brest-Litovsk peace... 
by ciprian | Nov 11, 2018 | World War I in 1918
Deeply in love, Ferdinand chose to marry Sophie Chotek in 1900 despite the opposition of his uncle, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef, who refused to attend their wedding. Though not exactly a commoner, Sophie came from a family of obscure Czech nobles and not from... 
by ciprian | Nov 10, 2018 | Programmatic Documents
The Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Berchtold, to the Austro-Hungarian Minister at Belgrade, von Giesl: „Your Excellency will present the following note to the Royal [Serbian] Government on the afternoon of Thursday, July 23 [1914]” Baron Giesl von... 
by ciprian | Nov 6, 2018 | Programmatic Documents
On 16 October 1918, after it had become clear that the negotiations conducted by the imperial government with the deputies of the Reichsrat and the representatives of the nationalities would be unsuccessful, Emperor Karl published an appeal with an invitation to his...