World War I
Archduke's assassination aftermath
World War I was the global military conflict of 1914–1918, fought primarily between the Allied Powers (including Britain, France, Russia, and later the United States) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire).
The war introduced trench warfare, chemical weapons, and industrial-scale casualties, killing roughly 20 million people.
It reshaped European borders, ended several empires, and set conditions for World War II.
Also called the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars.
Combat from fortified ditches
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- infantryGround combat troops
- cavalryMounted military force
- no-man's-landUnclaimed disputed territory
assault · offensive · casualties · barrage · machine guns · mustard gas · chlorine gas · shell shock
Franco-Belgian combat zone
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
- GallipoliWWI Turkish peninsula campaign
- SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield
- VerdunWWI battleground city
Ypres · Marne · Jutland · Dardanelles · Flanders · Mesopotamia · Palestine · Balkans
Disillusioned postwar literary cohort
- poppiesFlowering plants, often red
- Remembrance DayMemorial for fallen soldiers
- ANZAC DayAntipodean military memorial day
- Treaty of Versailles1919 settlement ending WWI
League of Nations · Russian Revolution · Balfour Declaration · shell shock · reparations · interwar period · rise of fascism
Final Hohenzollern sovereign
- Tsar Nicholas IIFinal Romanov ruler
- Woodrow WilsonTwenty-eighth American president
- Mata HariArchetype of seductive espionage
- KitchenerSouthern Ontario municipality
Agreed halt to fighting
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- Armistice DayWWI ceasefire commemoration
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
Treaty of Versailles · demobilization · cessation · endgame · veterans · Remembrance Day · poppy · peace negotiations
Murder of a prominent figure
- Archduke Franz FerdinandAustrian heir, killed 1914
- SarajevoBosnia's chief city
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
militarism · arms race · ultimatum · mobilization · Dreadnought · powder keg
Franco-Anglo-Russian alliance before 1914
- Central PowersWWI German-led alliance
- Allied PowersCoalition against fascist aggressors
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- pactsFormal binding agreements
entanglements · diplomacy · Serbia · Austria-Hungary · Ottoman Empire · Germany · France · Russia
trench warfare
Combat from fortified ditches
no-man's-land · assault · offensive · casualties · barrage · machine guns · mustard gas · chlorine gas · shell shock · barbed wire
Western Front
Franco-Belgian combat zone
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
- GallipoliWWI Turkish peninsula campaign
- SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield
Verdun · Ypres · Marne · Jutland · Dardanelles · Flanders · Mesopotamia · Palestine · Balkans · trenches
Lost Generation
Disillusioned postwar literary cohort
- poppiesFlowering plants, often red
- Remembrance DayMemorial for fallen soldiers
- ANZAC DayAntipodean military memorial day
Treaty of Versailles · League of Nations · Russian Revolution · Balfour Declaration · shell shock · reparations · interwar period · rise of fascism
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Final Hohenzollern sovereign
- Tsar Nicholas IIFinal Romanov ruler
- Woodrow WilsonTwenty-eighth American president
- Mata HariArchetype of seductive espionage
ceasefire
Agreed halt to fighting
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- Armistice DayWWI ceasefire commemoration
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
reparations · Treaty of Versailles · demobilization · cessation · endgame · veterans · Remembrance Day · poppy · peace negotiations · demilitarization
assassination
Murder of a prominent figure
- Archduke Franz FerdinandAustrian heir, killed 1914
- SarajevoBosnia's chief city
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
imperialism · militarism · arms race · ultimatum · mobilization · Dreadnought · powder keg
Triple Entente
Franco-Anglo-Russian alliance before 1914
- Central PowersWWI German-led alliance
- Allied PowersCoalition against fascist aggressors
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
pacts · entanglements · diplomacy · Serbia · Austria-Hungary · Ottoman Empire · Germany · France · Russia · Britain
- 20th Century HistoryWWI, Great Depression, Russian Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution, Treaty of Versailles
- European HistoryFrench Revolution, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Industrial Revolution
- Political HistoryAmerican Revolution, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, British Empire, Roman Empire
- American WarsWWI, WWII, Desert Storm, Indian Wars
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- WarsWWI, Yugoslav Wars, Napoleonic Wars, civil wars, Punic Wars
World War IWorld War II
Second global military conflict
WWII · WW2 · World War 2
World War Ipeace
Freedom from disturbance
armistice · peacetime · world peace · Pax Americana · international cooperation
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