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5. Research Montenegro and discern its role in World War I. Gauge Gatsby’s account of wartime activity by these historical findings.

During World War 1, Montenegro was part of the Allied Forces. The Montenegrin army defended Serbian withdrawing to Albania in the Battle of Mojkovac. During the war, Montenegro became occupied by Austro-Hungarian troops. It was also where Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated by the Black Hand, which may have been the one event that tipped Europe into WWI. Much of the Montenegrin part of the war was over before the American forces entered the war. That subtle fact may dampen the credibility of Gatsby's words.

“In the Argonne Forest I took two machine-gun detachments so far forward that there was a half mile gap on either side of us where the infantry couldn’t advance. We stayed there two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns, and when the infantry came up at last they found the insignia of three German divisions among the piles of dead. I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!” (page 68)



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