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  1. Hace 5 días · 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. Hace 3 días · 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.

  3. Hace 3 días · Research into the origins of the First World War, like the work undertaken on most controversial historical topics, is subject, at least to some extent, to the dictates of scholarly fashion. Thus, it was that, not so long ago, much of the writing on this issue focused on the cultural factors that, it is said, predisposed the people of Europe to rush headfirst towards the precipice.

  4. Hace 5 días · Cambridge History of the First World War. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9780521763851; 771pp.; Price: £90.00. Timing counts for so much in publishing and that is never clearer than when a major anniversary approaches. With the centenary of the First World War not yet actually upon us, there has already been a rush of ...

  5. Hace 2 días · However, the "spark" that ignited the First World War is attributed to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, which took place on 28 June 1914. Approximately a month later, on 28 July 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

  6. Hace 5 días · December 24, 1914 - December 25, 1914. Participants: Germany. United Kingdom. Context: World War I. Key People: Benedict XV. Christmas Truce, (December 24–25, 1914), unofficial and impromptu cease-fire that occurred along the Western Front during World War I.

  7. Hace 3 días · Date coverage is February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919. War Posters and Postcards. Posters from government, commercial and charitable organizations.