1915

Mid-Great War

1915 is the year following 1914 and preceding 1916, in the second decade of the twentieth century.

Years function as nouns identifying specific points in time: She was born in 1915, the 1915 harvest.

As modifiers, years specify when something occurred or was made: a 1915 photograph, 1915 prices.

WWI

Gallipoli

WWI Turkish peninsula campaign

Dardanelles · ANZAC · Western Front · poison gas · U-boat · Zeppelin · artillery · No Man's Land · Entente · Central Powers

cultural

Einstein

Byword for genius

ragtime · avant-garde · Dadaism · futurism · modernism · silent film · vaudeville · suffrage movement · temperance · progressive era

events

Armenian Genocide

Ottoman massacre of Armenians

temporal

prewar

Before a conflict

interwar · antebellum

Categories
Opposites
wartime vs. peacetime

1915peacetime

Absence of armed conflict

peace · 1913 · pre-war · armistice · tranquility

historical era/temporal distance

19152024

Current calendar year

2015 · modernity · today · now · antiquity

crisis vs. prosperity

19151926

A calendar year

1960 · 1912

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