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What do you already know about WWI?
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- World War I was a global war from 1914 to 1918.
- Immediate trigger: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 1914).
- Main sides: Allies (Britain, France, Russia → later the US, Italy) vs Central Powers (Germany, Austria‑Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria).
- Fighting featured trench warfare on the Western Front and more mobile battles in the East.
- New deadly technology: machine guns, tanks, airplanes, poison gas, and U‑boats (submarines).
- Big events: Battles of the Somme and Verdun, Russia’s 1917 revolution, US entry in 1917, armistice on November 11, 1918.
- About 17 million deaths and 20 million wounded (estimates).
- Consequences: collapse of empires, redrawn borders, Treaty of Versailles (1919), and conditions that helped cause WWII.
- Immediate trigger: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 1914).
- Main sides: Allies (Britain, France, Russia → later the US, Italy) vs Central Powers (Germany, Austria‑Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria).
- Fighting featured trench warfare on the Western Front and more mobile battles in the East.
- New deadly technology: machine guns, tanks, airplanes, poison gas, and U‑boats (submarines).
- Big events: Battles of the Somme and Verdun, Russia’s 1917 revolution, US entry in 1917, armistice on November 11, 1918.
- About 17 million deaths and 20 million wounded (estimates).
- Consequences: collapse of empires, redrawn borders, Treaty of Versailles (1919), and conditions that helped cause WWII.
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