Chains: Bombers Chains Sea.

China's deployment of bombers in the South China Sea, tensions Online desk August 22, 2020, 08:23 p.m. Online version China has deployed new bombers and fighter jets in the South China Sea amid border tensions with India. Vietnam's neighbor in the South China Sea, Vietnam, has sought India's help in the matter. During a meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Harshvardhan Sringlar on Friday, Vietnam's ambassador to the country, Fame San Chou, expressed concern, Anandabazar reported. A statement from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said that Hanoi had raised the issue of "Chinese aggression" with the Vietnamese ambassador during a meeting with Schringler in New Delhi. At the same time, Fam San Chou agreed to forge a strategic friendship with India. Anandabazar says China deployed H-6J bombers to Woody Island, the largest island in the disputed Paracel Islands, earlier this month. The Chinese newspaper Global Times claimed that the move was aimed at disrupting US aircraft carriers in the area. Vietnam is also one of the claimants of the Paracel Islands. They have strongly protested China's move. Vietnam has sought India's help in extracting gas and coal blocks off the coast of the South China Sea. At the same time, the country wants to strengthen its friendship with New Delhi in the military field.

Lipulekh Border.

This time, China is deploying deadly missiles on the disputed Lipulekh border Online desk August 21, 2020, 9:03 p.m. Online version Chinese missiles. File image Beijing is deploying surface-to-air missiles near Lake Manas Sarovar in the Tri-junction area of ​​the disputed Lipulekh border between India and Nepal. In addition to gathering troops there, the country is building more infrastructure. The Indian media outlet The Print reported that the new satellite image matched the indication. On Twitter, geo-satellite image analytics firm Dietresfa shared a picture showing a village, where new road construction and suspected red tents were also seen. China is building surface-to-air missile installations near the Manas Sarovar lake in the disputed Lipulekh Tri-junction area of ​​China-India-Nepal. A new image analysis of the area, obtained by satellite, claims that the deployment of missiles is underway, along with an increase in troops, according to various Indian media reports. The picture also shows a missile capable of launching from the ground into the sky on the shores of Manas Sarovar Lake. The place is considered a holy place for Hindus. According to Indian media reports, the Chinese army is gathering troops in the Lipulekh area of ​​Uttarakhand. Nepal has a long-running dispute with India over the Lipulekh area. A few days ago, Nepal released a new political map claiming Kalapani, Limpuadhura and Lipulekh areas of Uttarakhand as the

Second World War.

World War II 1939–1945 WRITTEN BY John Graham Royde-Smith See All Contributors Associate Editor, History, Encyclopædia Britannica, London. LAST UPDATED: Aug 14, 2020 See Article History Alternative Titles: Second World War, WWII ARTICLE CONTENTS World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The 40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history. World War II QUICK FACTS DATE September 3, 1939 - September 2, 1945 PARTICIPANTS Axis powers China Czechoslovakia Free French Japan Mexico Netherlands Norway Soviet Union Allied powers KEY PEOPLE Winston Churchill Dwight D. Eisenhower Charles de Gaulle Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Alessandro Pertini Franklin D. Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Harry S. Truman Chesty Puller RELATED TOPICS Blitzkrieg Sherman tank Colossus Lancaster Panzer DID YOU KNOW? About 70 million total soldiers fought on behalf of the Allied or Axis countries. Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Sweden all declared themselves neutral during WWII. Some scholars argue that the "start" of WWII was in 1937 when Japan invaded China instead of when Germany invaded Poland. Along with World War I, World War II was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history. It resulted in the extension of the Soviet Union’s power to nations of eastern Europe, enabled a communist movement to eventually achieve power in China, and marked the decisive shift of power in the world away from the states of western Europe and toward the United States and the Soviet Union. TOP QUESTIONS What was the cause of World War II? What countries fought in World War II? Who were the leaders during World War II? What were the turning points of the war? How did the war end? Axis Initiative And Allied Reaction The outbreak of war By the early part of 1939 the German dictator Adolf Hitler had become determined to invade and occupy Poland. Poland, for its part, had guarantees of French and British military support should it be attacked by Germany. Hitler intended to invade Poland anyway, but first he had to neutralize the possibility that the Soviet Union would resist the invasion of its western neighbour. Secret negotiations led on August 23–24 to the signing of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact in Moscow. In a secret protocol of this pact, the Germans and the Soviets agreed that Poland should be divided between them, with the western third of the country going to Germany and the eastern two-thirds being taken over by the U.S.S.R. Having achieved this cynical agreement, the other provisions of which stupefied Europe even without divulgence of the secret protocol, Hitler thought that Germany could attack Poland with no danger of Soviet or British intervention and gave orders for the invasion to start on August 26. News of the signing, on August 25, of a formal treaty of mutual assistance between Great Britain and Poland (to supersede a previous though temporary agreement) caused him to postpone the start of hostilities for a few days. He was still determined, however, to ignore the diplomatic efforts of the western powers to restrain him. Finally, at 12:40 PM on August 31, 1939, Hitler ordered hostilities against Poland to start at 4:45 the next morning. The invasion began as ordered. In response, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, at 11:00 AM and at 5:00 PM, respectively. World War II had begun. Britannica Premium: Serving the evolving needs of knowledge seekers. Get 30% your subscription today. Subscribe Now Forces and resources of the European combatants, 1939 In September 1939 the Allies, namely Great Britain, France, and Poland, were together superior in industrial resources, population, and military manpower, but the German Army, or Wehrmacht, because of its armament, training, doctrine, discipline, and fighting spirit, was the most efficient and effective fighting force for its size in the world. The index of military strength in September 1939 was the number of divisions that each nation could mobilize. Against Germany’s 100 infantry divisions and six armoured divisions, France had 90 infantry divisions in metropolitan France, Great Britain had 10 infantry divisions, and Poland had 30 infantry divisions, 12 cavalry brigades, and one armoured brigade (Poland had also 30 reserve infantry divisions, but these could not be mobilized quickly). A division contained from 12,000 to 25,000 men. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler reviewing troops on the Eastern Front, 1939. Heinrich Hoffmann, Munich WORLD WAR II EVENTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 It was the qualitative superiority of the German infantry divisions and the number of their armoured divisions that made the difference in 1939. The firepower of a German infantry division far exceeded that of a French, British, or Polish division; the standard German division included 442 machine guns, 135 mortars, 72 antitank guns, and 24 howitzers. Allied divisions had a firepower only slightly greater than that of World War I. Germany had six armoured divisions in September 1939; the Allies, though they had a large number of tanks, had no armoured divisions at that time. BRITANNICA EXCLUSIVE ARCHIVE WWII: D-DAY IN PICTURES After a prolonged naval and aerial bombardment of German defenses on the Channel coast of France and the Low Countries, the Allied invasion of Normandy began in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. This collection of pictures documents the historic event that created a turning point in World War II. The six armoured, or panzer, divisions of the Wehrmacht comprised some 2,400 tanks. And though Germany would subsequently expand its tank forces during the first years of the war, it was not the number of tanks that Germany had (the Allies had almost as many in September 1939) but the fact of their being organized into divisions and operated as such that was to prove decisive. In accordance with the doctrines of General Heinz Guderian, the German tanks were used in massed formations in conjunction with motorized artillery to punch holes in the enemy line and to isolate segments of the enemy, which were then surrounded and captured by motorized German infantry divisions while the tanks ranged forward to repeat the process: deep drives into enemy territory by panzer divisions were thus followed by mechanized infantry and foot soldiers. These tactics were supported by dive bombers that attacked and disrupted the enemy’s supply and communications lines and spread panic and confusion in its rear, thus further paralyzing its defensive capabilities. Mechanization was the key to the German blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” so named because of the unprecedented speed and mobility that were its salient characteristics. Tested and well-trained in maneuvers, the German panzer divisions constituted a force with no equal in Europe. The German Air Force, or Luftwaffe, was also the best force of its kind in 1939. It was a ground-cooperation force designed to support the Army, but its planes were superior to nearly all Allied types. In the rearmament period from 1935 to 1939 the production of German combat aircraft steadily mounted. The table shows the production of German aircraft by years. German aircraft production by year year combat types other types 1933 0 368 1934 840 1,128 1935 1,823 1,360 1936 2,530 2,582 1937 2,651 2,955 1938 3,350 1,885 1939 4,733 3,562 The standardization of engines and airframes gave the Luftwaffe an advantage over its opponents. Germany had an operational force of 1,000 fighters and 1,050 bombers in September 1939. The Allies actually had more planes in 1939 than Germany did, but their strength was made up of many different types, some of them obsolescent. The corresponding table shows the number of first-line military aircraft available to the Allies at the outbreak of war. Allied air strength, September 1939 aircraft British French Polish bombers 536 463 200 fighters 608 634 300 reconnaissance 96 444 — coastal command 216 — — fleet air arm 204 194 — Great Britain, which was held back by delays in the rearmament program, was producing one modern fighter in 1939, the Hurricane. A higher-performance fighter, the Spitfire, was just coming into production and did not enter the air war in numbers until 1940. View archival footage of German troops invading Poland and forcing Europe into war View archival footage of German troops invading Poland and forcing Europe into war In September 1939 the Germans overrun Poland, forcing all of Europe into a state of war. From “The Second World War: Prelude to Conflict” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. See all videos for this article The value of the French Air Force in 1939 was reduced by the number of obsolescent planes in its order of battle: 131 of the 634 fighters and nearly all of the 463 bombers. France was desperately trying to buy high-performance aircraft in the United States in 1939. At sea the odds against Germany were much greater in September 1939 than in August 1914, since the Allies in 1939 had many more large surface warships than Germany had. At sea, however, there was to be no clash between the Allied and the German massed fleets but only the individual operation of German pocket battleships and commerce raiders. Bismarck battleship Bismarck battleship The Bismarck shortly after commissioning in 1940. Courtesy of the Marineschule Murwik, Flensburg, Ger. Technology of war, 1918–39 When World War I ended, the experience of it seemed to vindicate the power of the defensive over the offensive. It was widely believed that a superiority in numbers of at least three to one was required for a successful offensive. Defensive concepts underlay the construction of the Maginot Line between France and Germany and of its lesser counterpart, the Siegfried Line, in the interwar years. Yet by 1918 both of the requirements for the supremacy of the offensive were at hand: tanks and planes. The battles of Cambrai (1917) and Amiens (1918) had proved that when tanks were used in masses, with surprise, and on firm and open terrain, it was possible to break through any trench system. Maginot Line Maginot Line Main entrance to the Schoenenbourg Fort on the Maginot Line, Bas-Rhin department, Alsace region, France. John C. Watkins V The Germans learned this crucial, though subtle, lesson from World War I. The Allies on the other hand felt that their victory confirmed their methods, weapons, and leadership, and in the interwar period the French and British armies were slow to introduce new weapons, methods, and doctrines. Consequently, in 1939 the British Army did not have a single armoured division, and the French tanks were distributed in small packets throughout the infantry divisions. The Germans, by contrast, began to develop large tank formations on an effective basis after their rearmament program began in 1935. In the air the technology of war had also changed radically between 1918 and 1939. Military aircraft had increased in size, speed, and range, and for operations at sea, aircraft carriers were developed that were capable of accompanying the fastest surface ships. Among the new types of planes developed was the dive bomber, a plane designed for accurate low-altitude bombing of enemy strong points as part of the tank-plane-infantry combination. Fast low-wing monoplane fighters were developed in all countries; these aircraft were essentially flying platforms for eight to 12 machine guns installed in the wings. Light and medium bombers were also developed that could be used for the strategic bombardment of cities and military strongpoints. The threat of bomber attacks on both military and civilian targets led directly to the development of radar in England. Radar made it possible to determine the location, the distance, and the height and speed of a distant aircraft no matter what the weather was. By December 1938 there were five radar stations established on the coast of England, and 15 additional stations were begun. So, when war came in September 1939, Great Britain had a warning chain of radar stations that could tell when hostile planes were approaching.

Honey is a miracle.

honey really a miracle cure for coughs and colds? By Stephanie Pappas - Live Science Contributor 2 hours ago A jar of honey. Is honey a better treatment for coughs and colds than over-the-counter medications and antibiotics? A new review of research says yes — though with the caveat that over-the-counter medications don't actually offer much relief for sore throats, hacking coughs and sniffling noses. In other words, the bar for success isn't very high. (And antibiotics do absolutely nothing for viral infections such as colds.) Treating colds with honey may sound a little hippie-dippy, but it's been a standard recommendation from doctors for children for at least a decade. The research on adults and honey is a bit murkier: Only five out of the 14 studies in the new research review, which was published Aug. 18 in the journal BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, included adult patients, and several of those studies included combination treatments like honey in coffee, or honey-and-herbal syrups. (Some of the underlying research was also funded by a honey company.) Related: Myth or truth? 7 ancient health ideas explained Researchers aren't sure why honey might help treat cold symptoms, but it could have to do with its antioxidants or the fact that it's viscous and thus coats an irritated throat. Nevertheless, treating respiratory symptoms with honey is a low-risk endeavor. Honey is also cheap and readily available, said study author Hibatullah Abuelgasim, a fifth-year medical student at the University of Oxford in England. "First, do no harm," said Ian Paul, a professor of pediatrics at the Penn State College of Medicine, who was not involved in the review but has done research on honey and coughing in children. Cough and cold medications have side effects, Paul told Live Science, and they don't work well. The bottom line? Don't expect honey to work miracles, but don't dismiss it, either. It may make the experience of getting over a nasty cold just a little less miserable. Honey's history Honey has long been a home remedy for soothing sore throats and calming coughs — both of which can be grouped as infections of the upper respiratory tract. It's particularly well-known as a respiratory infection treatment in Ayurveda, the healing tradition of India's ancient Vedic culture. And honey mixed with hot water and lemon is up there with chicken soup in the pantheon of cold cures that grandma would make. In 2004, Paul and his colleagues published a study in the journal Pediatrics finding that the two commonly used over-the-counter cough medicines used in children, dextromethorphan and diphenhydramine, did not work better than a placebo at helping kids with coughs to feel better and sleep at night. And the two drugs had side effects, including drowsiness for some kids and difficulty sleeping for others. "Parents at that time asked me, 'Well, where can I get that placebo?'" Paul said. "They wanted to give something." Related: 11 surprising facts about your respiratory system So in 2007, Paul and his team followed up with another study, also published in Pediatrics, comparing dextromethorphan, honey and no treatment in nighttime cough in 130 kids. They found that honey consistently scored best for reducing cough frequency and severity and improving nighttime sleep over both dextromethorphan and no treatment, according to parents' ratings. That study was partially supported by the industry-funded National Honey Board, but the grant was unrestricted, meaning the money was given by the board with no input as to what kind of research it would be used on. Other research in kids has shown similar results, including a double-blind, placebo-controlled and randomized study published in Pediatrics in 2012. Double-blind means that neither the children, their parents nor the researchers knew if the kids were getting honey or a flavored placebo, in this case silan date extract. On night one, the children got no treatment, and on night two they got either one of three honey products or a placebo. All the groups, including the placebo group, felt better on night 2, the researchers reported, but those who got a honey-containing product reported the most improvement. (This study was also partially funded by a honey industry group, which again did not have any say in the design or process of the research.)

First World War

World War One", "Great War", "WW1", and "WWI" redirect here. For other uses, see World War One (disambiguation), Great War (disambiguation), WW1 (album), and WWI (disambiguation). World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars",[7] it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history.[8][9] It is also one of the deadliest conflicts in history,[10] with an estimated nine million combatant deaths and 13 million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war,[11] while resulting genocides and the related 1918 influenza pandemic caused another 17–100 million deaths worldwide.[12][13] World War I WWImontage.jpg Clockwise from the top: The road to Bapaume in the aftermath of the Battle of the Somme, 1916 British Mark V tanks crossing the Hindenburg Line, 1918 HMS Irresistible sinking after hitting a mine in the Dardanelles, 1915 A British Vickers machine gun crew wears gas masks during the Battle of the Somme, 1916 German Albatros D.III biplane fighters near Douai, France, 1917 Date 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 (4 years, 3 months and 2 weeks) Peace treaties Treaty of Versailles Signed 28 June 1919 (4 years and 11 months)[b] Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye Signed 10 September 1919 (5 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days) Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine Signed 27 November 1919 (4 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days)[c] Treaty of Trianon Signed 4 June 1920 (5 years, 10 months and 1 week) Treaty of Sèvres Signed 10 August 1920 (6 years, 1 week and 6 days)[d] United States–Austria Peace Treaty Signed 24 August 1921 (3 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)[e][f] United States–Germany Peace Treaty Signed 25 August 1921 (4 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)[g] United States–Hungary Peace Treaty Signed 29 August 1921 (3 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)[h] Treaty of Lausanne Signed 24 July 1923 (8 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)[i] Location Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China, Indian Ocean, North and South Atlantic Ocean Result Allied victory Central Powers victory on the Eastern Front nullified by defeat on the Western Front Fall of all continental empires in Europe (including Germany, Russia, Ottoman Turkey and Austria-Hungary) Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, with the collapse of the Russian Empire and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Union Widespread unrest and revolutions throughout Europe and Asia Creation of the League of Nations (more ...) Territorial changes Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and territories, Partitioning the former Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire, transfer of territories to other countries Belligerents Allied Powers: France British Empire United Kingdom Canada Australia India New Zealand Newfoundland South Africa Russia[a] (1914–17) Serbia Montenegro Belgium Japan Italy (1915–18) United States (1917–18) Romania (1916–18) Portugal (1916–18) Hejaz (1916–18) China (1917–18) Greece (1917–18) Siam (1917–18) ... and others Central Powers: Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria (1915–18) ... and co-belligerents Commanders and leaders French Third Republic Raymond Poincaré French Third Republic Georges Clemenceau United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Herbert H. Asquith United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland David Lloyd George Russian Empire Nicholas II † Russian Republic Alexander Kerensky Kingdom of Italy Victor Emmanuel III Kingdom of Italy Vittorio Orlando United States Woodrow Wilson Empire of Japan Yoshihito Belgium Albert I Kingdom of Serbia Peter I Kingdom of Romania Ferdinand I and others ... German Empire Wilhelm II Austria-Hungary Franz Joseph I † Austria-Hungary Karl I Ottoman Empire Mehmed V † Ottoman Empire Mehmed VI Ottoman Empire Three Pashas Kingdom of Bulgaria Ferdinand I and others ... Strength Total: 42,950,000[1] Russian Empire 12,000,000 British Empire 8,842,000[2][3] French Third Republic 8,660,000[4] Kingdom of Italy 5,615,000 United States 4,744,000 Empire of Japan 800,000 Kingdom of Serbia 707,000 Kingdom of Romania 658,000 Belgium 380,000 Kingdom of Greece 250,000 First Portuguese Republic 80,000 Kingdom of Montenegro 50,000 Total: 25,248,000[1] German Empire 13,250,000 Austria-Hungary 7,800,000 Ottoman Empire 2,998,000 Kingdom of Bulgaria 1,200,000 68,208,000 (Total all) Casualties and losses Military dead: 5,525,000 Military wounded: 12,832,000 Total: 18,357,000 KIA, WIA and MIA Civilian dead: 4,000,000 further details ... Military deaths by country[5][6] Russian Empire 1,811,000 French Third Republic 1,398,000 British Empire 1,115,000 Kingdom of Italy 651,000 Kingdom of Romania 250,000–335,000 Kingdom of Serbia 275,000 United States 117,000 Belgium 59,000–88,000 Kingdom of Greece 26,000 First Portuguese Republic 7,000 Kingdom of Montenegro 3,000 Empire of Japan <1,000 Military dead: 4,386,000 Military wounded: 8,388,000 Total: 12,774,000 KIA, WIA and MIA Civilian dead: 3,700,000 further details ... Military deaths by country[5] German Empire 2,051,000 Austria-Hungary 1,200,000 Ottoman Empire 772,000 Kingdom of Bulgaria 88,000 World War I: Mobilized forces per total population (in %)[citation needed] On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, leading to the July Crisis.[14][15] In response, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia on 23 July. Serbia's reply failed to satisfy the Austrians, and the two moved to a war footing. A network of interlocking alliances enlarged the crisis from a bilateral issue in the Balkans to one involving most of Europe. By July 1914, the great powers of Europe were divided into two coalitions: the Triple Entente, consisting of France, Russia, and Britain; and the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. The Triple Alliance was only defensive in nature, allowing Italy to stay out of the war until April 1915, when it joined the Allied Powers after its relations with Austria-Hungary deteriorated.[16] Russia felt it necessary to back Serbia, and approved partial mobilisation after Austria-Hungary shelled the Serbian capital of Belgrade on 28 July.[17] Full Russian mobilisation was announced on the evening of 30 July; the following day, Austria-Hungary and Germany did the same, while Germany demanded Russia demobilise within twelve hours.[18] When Russia failed to comply, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August in support of Austria-Hungary, the latter following suit on 6 August; France ordered full mobilisation in support of Russia on 2 August.[19] Germany's strategy for a war on two fronts against France and Russia was to rapidly concentrate the bulk of its army in the West to defeat France within six weeks, then shift forces to the East before Russia could fully mobilise; this was later known as the Schlieffen Plan.[20] On 2 August, Germany demanded free passage through Belgium, an essential element in achieving a quick victory over France.[21] When this was refused, German forces invaded Belgium on 3 August and declared war on France the same day; the Belgian government invoked the 1839 Treaty of London and, in compliance with its obligations under this treaty, Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August. On 12 August, Britain and France also declared war on Austria-Hungary; on 23 August, Japan sided with Britain, seizing German possessions in China and the Pacific. In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire entered the war on the side of the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, and the Sinai Peninsula. The war was fought in (and drew upon) each power's colonial empire also, spreading the conflict to Africa and across the globe. The Entente and its allies eventually became known as the Allied Powers, while the grouping of Austria-Hungary, Germany and their allies became known as the Central Powers. The German advance into France was halted at the Battle of the Marne and by the end of 1914, the Western Front settled into a war of attrition, marked by a long series of trench lines that changed little until 1917 (the Eastern Front, by contrast, was marked by much greater exchanges of territory). In 1915, Italy joined the Allied Powers and opened a front in the Alps. Bulgaria joined the Central Powers in 1915 and Greece joined the Allies in 1917, expanding the war in the Balkans. The United States initially remained neutral, though even while neutral it became an important supplier of war materiel to the Allies. Eventually, after the sinking of American merchant ships by German submarines, the declaration by Germany that its navy would resume unrestricted attacks on neutral shipping, and the revelation that Germany was trying to incite Mexico to initiate war against the United States, the U.S. declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917. Trained American forces did not begin arriving at the front in large numbers until mid-1918, but the American Expeditionary Force ultimately reached some two million troops.[22] Though Serbia was defeated in 1915, and Romania joined the Allied Powers in 1916 only to be defeated in 1917, none of the great powers were knocked out of the war until 1918. The 1917 February Revolution in Russia replaced the Tsarist autocracy with the Provisional Government, but continuing discontent with the cost of the war led to the October Revolution, the creation of the Soviet Socialist Republic, and the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk by the new government in March 1918, ending Russia's involvement in the war. Germany now controlled much of eastern Europe and transferred large numbers of combat troops to the Western Front. Using new tactics, the German March 1918 Offensive was initially successful. The Allies fell back and held. The last of the German reserves were exhausted as 10,000 fresh American troops arrived every day. The Allies drove the Germans back in their Hundred Days Offensive, a continual series of attacks to which the Germans had no reply.[23] One by one the Central Powers quit. First Bulgaria, then the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian empire. With its allies defeated, revolution at home, and the military no longer willing to fight, Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated on 9 November and Germany signed an armistice on 11 November 1918, ending the fighting. World War I was a significant turning point in the political, cultural, economic, and social climate of the world. The war and its immediate aftermath sparked numerous revolutions and uprisings. The Big Four (Britain, France, the United States, and Italy) imposed their terms on the defeated powers in a series of treaties agreed at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, the most well known being the German peace treaty: the Treaty of Versailles.[24] Ultimately, as a result of the war, the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian Empires ceased to exist, and numerous new states were created from their remains. However, despite the conclusive Allied victory (and the creation of the League of Nations during the Peace Conference, intended to prevent future wars), a second world war followed just over twenty years later. Names Background Prelude Progress of the war Aftermath Technology War crimes Soldiers'

World. Highest Temperature.

Death Valley' records the highest temperature in the world! 18 August, 2020 | Lesson time: 1.2 minutes The highest temperature in the history of the world has been recorded in the 'Death Valley' of the state of California in the United States. The National Park in Death Valley recorded a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) on Sunday. The U.S. National Weather Service confirmed the temperature. According to a BBC report, there is an uproar in the western part of the United States. That's why temperatures are forecast to rise further this week. A fault occurred at a power plant on Saturday due to intense heat. What is the maximum temperature? In 2013, Death Valley recorded a temperature of 54 degrees Celsius, according to the BBC. About a century ago, the Death Valley recorded a temperature of 56.6 degrees Celsius. But there are questions about this record. In 1931, Tunisia recorded a temperature of 55 degrees Celsius. However, according to an analysis by meteorologist Christopher Burt in 2016, there is a lack of credibility with the accuracy of these temperatures. That's why 54.4 degrees Celsius, recorded in Death Valley on Sunday, is considered to be the highest temperature on Earth. According to the report, scientists fear that the temperature in that region of the United States will continue to rise for the next 10 days. The California Independent System Operator (CISO) has issued a three-level emergency alert in the state of California due to ongoing fires. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States says more people are dying in Dabada on average than in any other severe weather. High temperatures can cause a variety of diseases, including heat stroke.

BD. Tamabil Land Port.

Within hours of the opening of the Tamabil land port, a road strike was called Sylhet Bureau 18 August 2020, 01:15 AM | Online version Tamabil land port reopened on Monday morning after being closed for five months in Sylhet. However, an indefinite transport strike has been called on Sylhet Tamabil Road in the afternoon. District Truck Owners Group and Sylhet District Truck, Pickup and Covered Van Workers Union have called for the program. Their allegation was that extortion was done by setting up a bamboo mill at Sarighat in Jaintapur. Protests have been called. The indefinite transport strike is starting from 8 am on Wednesday. During the announcement of the program, the transport owner-worker leaders gave a 72-hour ultimatum to remove the extortion bamboo mill. Abu Sarkar, president of District Truck, Pickup and Covered Van Workers Union, presided over the rally. Golam Hadi Chaiful, President of Sylhet District Truck Owners Group, Alhaj Golam Hafiz Luhit, Former President of Sylhet District Road Transport Workers Union, Atiqur Rahman Atiq, Senior Co-President of District Truck Owners Group, Zakir Hossain Talukder, Joint Secretary, Lokman Ahmed, Veteran Labor Leader, District General Secretary of the Truck, Pickup and Covered Van Workers Union. Amir Uddin, truck owner group organizing secretary journalist Shabbir Ahmed Fayez.