Another scene is of the joke being used in open warfare is shown, with Tommies running through an open field amid artillery fire shouting the joke at the Germans, who die laughing in response.

The initial U. S. response was to threaten to sever diplomatic ties, which persuaded the Germans to issue the Sussex pledge that re-imposed restrictions on U-boat activity.

In 1909, Major ( later Colonel Sir ) Vernon Kell became director of the newly formed Secret Intelligence Bureau ( SIB ), created as a response to growing public opinion that all Germans living in England were spies.

Earlier in 1974 the Americans had asked the Germans to redesign the existing Leopard 2 prototypes, considered by them too lightly armoured, and had suggested adoption of Burlington for this purpose, of which type the Germans had already been informed in March 1970 ; the Germans however in response in 1974 initiated a new armour development programme of their own.

In response to the difficulty of penetrating British Matilda Infantry tanks during the Battle of France, the Germans had tested a gun — based on the 5 cm Pak 38 anti-tank gun — on a Panzer IV Ausf.

Unfortunately for the Germans, British military scientists designed and built their own IFF transmitter called " Perfectos ", which was designed to trigger a response from any FuG 25a systems in the vicinity.

In response, the Germans launched Case Anton and occupied the Vichy-held portion of Metropolitan France.

In response to the claim made by Jürgen Habermas against Ernst Nolte that there was no comparison between the Holocaust and the Khmer Rouge genocide because Cambodia was a backward, Third World agrarian state and Germany a modern, First World industrial state, Fest called Habermas a racist for suggesting that it was natural for Cambodians to engage in genocide while unnatural for Germans.

Renshaw's response to the tiny plastic soldiers ' demand for surrender is " NUTS ", the response given by General Anthony McAuliffe to the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge.

He strongly supported the construction of the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising and in 2004 appointed a historical panel to estimate material losses that were inflicted upon the city by the Germans in the Second World War ( an estimated 85 % of the city was destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising ) as a direct response to heightened claims coming from German expellees from Poland.

Against the Germans in Lens, Marcel Coraş scored an equalizer in the first minute of the second half in response to Rudi Völler's opener, but Völler would score a winning goal.

In the film, the Marseillaise is sung by embittered French characters in response to a group of Germans singing, ultimately dominating then drowning out the German singers.

In response to this and to their loss of lucrative trade to the Germans, the Ewondo revolted in 1895 but were suppressed the next year.

In response to Göring's statement, a joint Admiralty-Foreign Office note was sent to Henderson informing him that he should inform the Germans that:

African American men, like the Germans, often murdered in response to economic conditions but not over desperation about the future.

The Germans did renew their attack that afternoon, but it was muted by freshly falling snow, and a stiff American response.

In response to these aggressive actions, the Germans instigated a policy of removing uncooperative chiefs from power and propping up puppet rulers and paramount chiefs in their places.

In response, the Habsburgs began to colonize Hungary with large numbers of peasants from all over Europe, especially Slovaks, Serbs, Croatians, and Germans.

After no response to instructions to lower the ensign, Glossop ordered two salvoes shot into the beached cruiser, after which the Germans lowered the flag and raised a white sheet.

Trochowski said in response, " My heart is closer to Poland, but nobody there was interested in me, so I play for the Germans.

In response, the Stodorani revolted against German overlordship and chased the Germans across the Elbe, but Gero was able to reverse this before Otto's arrival in Magdeburg later in the year.

* 1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.

In response this latest change of mind by the Ottomans / Turks, the Russians, on 2 July 1853 occupied the Turkish-satellite states of Wallachia and Moldavia, as they had during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U. S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

The operation was in response to attacks, including rockets strikes from Fatah and other Palestinian militias, within the occupied West Bank.

In response to the restoration of Napoleon I of France in 1815, Alsace along with other frontier provinces of France was occupied by foreign forces from 1815 to 1818, including over 280, 000 soldiers and 90, 000 horses in Bas-Rhin alone.

The king continued to exercise the right to occupy and use any castle in the kingdom in response to external threats, in those cases he would staff the occupied castles with his own men ; the king also retained the right to authorise the construction of new castles through the issuing of licenses to crenellate.

In response, the Dominion attacked and occupied Deep Space Nine while a Federation and Klingon task force destroyed a Dominion shipyard.

In response, the NCOIC will call any available Marine not otherwise occupied to " dogpile " the dupe, where they all leap on top of him and pile on.

The Japanese suspected that they might meet resistance when they attempted to occupy Taiwan, and their invasion of Taiwan, hastily launched in late May 1895 in response to the proclamation of the Republic of Formosa, was preceded by an attack on Qing forces on Penghu in March 1895, in which the Japanese defeated the Chinese garrison of the islands and occupied Makung.

As one of the first scientifically well-known dinosaurs, Iguanodon has occupied a small but notable place in the public's perception of dinosaurs, its artistic representation changing significantly in response to new interpretations of its remains.

Khalid's strategy of withdrawing from the occupied areas and concentrating all of his troops for a decisive battle forced the Byzantines to concentrate their five armies in response.

In response to increased demands, he met the requirement for manpower with people from the occupied territories.

In response to the government's announcement, Greenpeace activists occupied Energy Minister Dwight Duncan's offices.

* November 2011-Present-Alter Channel is currently occupied by its workers, who are striking in response to not having been paid in over a year and since February 2012, the channel has stopped broadcasting.

The former SS barracks adjacent to the camp are now occupied by the Bavarian Bereitschaftspolizei ( rapid response police unit ).

Singapore fell in February and Japan occupied much of South East Asia and the large parts of the Pacific In response, the Australian government expanded the army and air force and called for an overhaul of economic, domestic, and industrial policies to mount a total war effort.

A communication signed " Khalid Shaikh + Bojinka " was also found on Yousef's computer that threatened to attack targets " in response to the financial, political and military assistance given to the Jewish state in the occupied land of Palestine by the United States Government.

In response, the principal creditors of the United Kingdom, France, and Spain sent a joint expeditionary force which occupied the port of Veracruz in December 1861.

In response to this, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr River valley inside the borders of Germany.

In response, Bubis and other members of the Frankfurt Jewish community occupied the stage of the Schaubühne Theater, preventing the play's debut.

The Russian Republic () was a short-lived political entity that occupied the territory of the former Russian Empire after Emperor Nicholas II abdicated on () in response to the February Revolution, through the 1917 power struggle – and the establishment of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic – that ended in the October Revolution on of that year.

" In April 1969, student activists occupied Harvard's University Hall ( the building that housed most of the administrative offices ) in protest over the presence of ROTC on campus at the height of the Vietnam War, and in response Pusey summoned the police to arrest the demonstrators.

Largely in response to the two attempts of France to conquer territory in Brazil ( the other one was named France Équinoxiale and occupied present-day São Luís, state of Maranhão ), between 1612 and 1615, the Portuguese crown decided to expand its colonization efforts in Brazil.