Four Significant People of World War
General Douglas Haig- General Douglas Haig was born in Edinburgh on June 19, 1861. During his lifetime he took part of different military services by initially going to a military academy at Sandhurst. He served as a cavalry officer for nine years and then took part in the Sudan campaign and the Boer War. He was significant in World War 1 because he was a General during the beginning of the war. He became Commander in Chief during the unsuccessful Battle of Somme and took fault for the defeat.
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Paul Von Hindenburg- Paul Von Hindenberg was a German president and military commander of World War 1. He took part in the war by participating in the Austro-Prussian war and in the Franco-German war. He retired as a general in 1911 but then later came back into power at the start of World War 1 as he shared his duty with Erich Ludendorff. He is best known as his major success he gained from leading the German army into the Battle of Tannenburg. He is also the cause of leading the United States into the war because of his submarine warfare.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand was the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian empire. His significance to the war was exceptional because of his role as being the initiation of the war. Ferdinand's death is what led the war into forming because his assassination was done by a Serbian nationalist. This stirred his empire into declaring war with Serbia and it's allies, resulting in the war to expand even more.
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