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29 paź 2009 · For four years, from 1914 to 1918, World War I raged across Europe’s western and eastern fronts after growing tensions and then the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ignited...
International Encyclopedia of the First World War is the largest digital English-language reference work on the First World War. The multi-perspective, peer-reviewed, open-access knowledge base is the result of an international collaborative project involving more than 1,200 authors, editors and partners from over 50 countries.
World War I was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated 9 million military dead and 23 million wounded, plus up to 8 million civilian deaths from causes including genocide (including the Armenian genocide).
3 sie 2021 · More than a hundred years on, events of the First World War are seared into collective consciousness. ‘The war to end all wars’ claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, caused the downfall of multiple empires, sparked the beginning of Russia’s communist revolution and – most damagingly – laid the brutal foundations for the Second ...
World War I (1914–18), also called the First World War or Great War, was the most deadly and destructive war the world had ever seen to that time. On June 28, 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist, leading Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia on July 28.
Before World War II began in 1939, World War I was called the Great War, or the World War. Other names are the Imperialist War and the Four years War. There were 135 countries that took part in World War I, and nearly 10 million people died while fighting.
27 cze 2014 · A 100-Year Legacy of World War I. ZONNEBEKE, Belgium. The War to End All Wars? Hardly. But It Did Change Them Forever. By STEVEN ERLANGER. It demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and...
