Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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First World War | Yes | No | No | No |
battle of Ypres | Yes | No | No | No |
First World War (noun) | battle of Ypres (noun) |
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a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918 | battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others |
battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient | |
battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery |