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  1. Vor 3 Tagen · World War I, international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other regions. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.

  2. Vor 2 Tagen · The First World War was the defining event of the twentieth century. It unleashed the forces that shaped the modern world: nationalism, communism, fascism, Islamism, and the power of global capitalism. It was a conflict that transformed the lives of soldiers and civilians alike, leaving behind a legacy of trauma, bitterness, and disillusionment that would reverberate for generations to come.

  3. Vor einem Tag · World War I began in the Balkans on July 28, 1914, and hostilities ended on November 11, 1918, leaving 17 million dead and 25 million wounded. Moreover, the Russian Civil War can in many ways be considered a continuation of World War I, as can various other conflicts in the direct aftermath of 1918.

  4. Vor 3 Tagen · Cambridge History of the First World War. edited by: Jay Winter. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9780521763851; 771pp.; Price: £90.00. Reviewer: Professor Richard Grayson. Goldsmiths, University of London. Citation: Professor Richard Grayson, review of Cambridge History of the First World War, (review no. 1618)

  5. Vor 2 Tagen · Discover the HWK, Alsace's main First World War site, comprises a battelfieldm a National Monument and the first Franco-German Historial.

  6. Vor 3 Tagen · See Author's Response. The First World War is a seminal historical event; an historical caesura whose aftershocks still resonate. For Eric Hobsbawm, it began the ‘Age of Extremes’ – the start of the ‘short’ twentieth century lasting from 1914 to 1991 in which fascism, communism and liberal democracy clashed for world hegemony.

  7. Vor 4 Tagen · World War I. Europeana 1914-1918. This archive brings together material contributed by the public, national library collections, and film archives to offer a unique perspective of the First World War, showing it from every side of the battle lines and with insights from every point of view.