The First World War began in the summer of 1914, shortly after the assassination of Austria’s Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and lasted more than four years, ending in 1918.
World War One is often seen as a pointless, bloody conflict with no lasting peace.
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World War I was one of the biggest conflicts in human history, known as the “war to end all wars.