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The First World War, also known as "The Great War" or "The War to End All Wars," was one of the most devastating conflicts in ...
But the war was clearly global in reach, whether it was the first to be so or not. In 1914, the key belligerent states brought their empires automatically into war with them.
The First World War was a war of mass production. The U.S. Civil War introduced the machine gun, but during the entire war there may have been fewer than 100 machine guns of different designs in ...
The United States officially joined the ranks of the combatants in World War I on April 6, 1917—a bit more than 100 years ago. Our collective memory of the conflict, it seems, is rather foggy ...
On June 28, 1914, a diplomatic crisis began that led in five weeks to the First World War, a cataclysm that claimed millions of lives and ruined countless more. Under blue skies in Sarajevo ...
World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...
2. “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” — Ernest Hemingway, 1946. Hemingway was 18 years old when he volunteered to be an ambulance driver for WWI.
The First World War was not a single engagement between two groups of allies. As it progressed, it drew more nations into the conflict — including those who used it as an opportunity to achieve ...
As their right to vote was debated in the States, a remarkable group of 74 physicians and support staff sailed to war-torn ...
But the war was clearly global in reach, whether it was the first to be so or not. In 1914, the key belligerent states brought their empires automatically into war with them.