WWI · TURNING POINT ·
HMS Dreadnought (1906)
10 Feb 1906 — Portsmouth launches a battleship with ten 12-inch guns and turbine engines, so superior that every older battleship, Britain’s own included, is outclassed at a stroke. The naval race restarts from almost level, the opening Tirpitz thought he had.
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- Alliance system before WWI (chapter 1 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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