The 100th commemoration of the finish of World War I. Reflections from the homefront and Europe.
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Jack Beatty, On Point news investigator. Creator of "The Lost History of 1914: How the Incomparable War Was Not Unavoidable." (@JackBeattyNPR)
Lora Vogt, keeper of instruction at The National World War I Exhibition hall and Remembrance. (@LoraVogt)
Margaret MacMillan, teacher of history at the College of Toronto. Creator of "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World" and "The War That Finished Harmony: The Way to 1914."
National WWI Historical center And Dedication: Oral Narratives
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New York Times: "Keeping WWI Alive for New Ages" — "Lora Vogt wagers she can reveal to you the four things you found out about World War I in school.
"'A person was shot,' Ms. Vogt started, checking out each point on her fingers before an instance of military outfits at the National World War I Historical center and Remembrance in Kansas City, Mo., 'the Lusitania was sunk, the Americans came in and won the war, and Woodrow Wilson got 14 points.'
"It's an amusingly oversimplified rundown of the "War to End All Wars," yet one Ms. Vogt, a previous instructor and the historical center's custodian of training, is accustomed to hearing: The beneficiary to the Austro-Hungarian position of royalty, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was killed in Sarajevo in 1914, the Germans sank the English traveler deliver Lusitania in 1915, the Assembled States broke its independent custom and entered the war in 1917, and President Wilson gave his Fourteen discourse to Congress in 1918, laying out the rules that prompt the war's end that equivalent year."
BBC: "Cease-fire Day: Overlooked letters from WW1" — "On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918, battling in World War One stopped.
"The date would be everlastingly set apart as Cease-fire Day and this year points the 100th commemoration.
"Documented letters discharged by People in general Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) are giving a remarkable knowledge into what life resembled for those made up for lost time in the occasions paving the way to and following the peace negotiation.
"Correspondence from a wartime captive camp and the record from the papers of a Ulster solider about the marking of the cease-fire are among the reports from the time."
Business Insider: "Peace negotiation finished World War I 100 years back — these photographs demonstrate how US troops helped turn the tide of the Incomparable War" — "When the US announced war on Germany on April 6, 1917, the Partners had just continued more than three years of savagery.
"The acclaimed Harlem Hellfighters were the first to join the battle on the bleeding edges under French order.
"As the Americans sent more troops over the Atlantic, Germany was on edge to score a triumph before the dominant part of their powers arrived.
"Amidst the Bolshevik Unrest, Russia couldn't manage its war exertion. The disintegration of its powers liberated German troopers toward the east, and the Focal Forces' positions along the western front swelled.
"The arrangement for Kaiserschlacht, or 'Kaiser's fight,' was to overcome Paris, and end the war.
"That arrangement exploded backward, and with the extra US troops, the Partners could counter a string of German offensives, beginning with the principal US-driven ambush in a little town close to the Somme called Cantigny."
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