Pershing has been used frequently as the nomiker for military equipment - missiles, tanks, rifles. I think that must be where I pulled that bit of knowledge from. My American History classes always started to peter out at the turn of the 20th century, so we never really learned much detail about WWI. I know a lot about WWII, though, because it's been so much more omnipresent in popular culture.
What's crazy is how over 100,000 U.S. soldiers died, mostly in a few months in 1918. General Pershing seemingly didn't learn anything from mistakes made by other countries earlier in the war, and committed his soldiers to foolhardy over-the-top style charges.
Pershing is one of only two people to be given the U.S. army's highest possible rank, "General of the Armies" (sometimes called "six-star general to indicate its superiority over the five-star general rank, which was held by Eisenhower, among a few others). Pershing is the only person to be awarded the rank while living. The only other person to be awarded General of the Armies was George Washington, and that was a posthumous designation.
When Washington was alive he never was anything higher than a lieutenant general (three-star). He got a fourth, fifth, and sixth star a hundred and twenty years after he died.
Zeppelins relied on internal frameworks to hold multiple individual gas cells and to maintain their aerodynamic shape. Blimps have only one large gas bag, no framework and rely on internal gas pressure to maintain their shape.
Both are "dirigibles" but otherwise the terms are not interchangeable.
I'm not sure that "Failed ANZAC invasion site in Turkey" is a correct description, as Gallipoli was a British and French invasion site as well (there were, in fact, more British and French troops there than ANZAC troops). The whole operation was a failure, not just the ANZAC part of it.
Everyone with at least a mild education in the First World War would know that Franz Ferdinand's death merely was the final straw that pushed Austro-Hungary over the edge, making them declare war on Serbia. It would have happened without the assassination, albeit differently.
Thank you, Royal Guardsmen for giving me the Red Baron answer. (from Snoopy vs. the Red Baron) My favorite RG song is still Snoopy's Christmas, though. It's one of the Christmas songs I listen to each year.
Another quiz , by I guess an American , your answer for L is not only wrong but YET again it's only time in quiz you used English not British . AND QUESTION YOU SHOULDN'T . was America still England's in 1917 . as Americans tend to say . So Think about that fact that english civil war had deciding battle at Gettysburg ???? Are you understanding the irony
The Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary is the first battle of theWWI and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers.
Fun fact.
Both are "dirigibles" but otherwise the terms are not interchangeable.
Ohh and a little more leeway on the spelling of the "Z" answer.