World War I: The War That Broke the Old World

Wars & Conflicts 1914 AD Modern 🇫🇷 France 3,236 views

Fought between 1914 and 1918 across three continents, the First World War killed 20 million people and dismantled four empires, replacing the 19th-century world order with one that no one had wanted or planned.

A Web of AlliancesThe First World War grew out of a crisis over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, but the assassination was only the spark in a powder keg that European leaders had been filling for decades. The continent was divided into tw...

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