![]() It was called the Great War because of its size and profound impact on peoples and governments. The naval war was fought primarily in the North Sea, the north Atlantic, and the Mediterranean. Most of the fighting took place on the "Western Front" (northern France) and the "Eastern Front" (Poland), with other campaigns in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Iraq and East Africa. ![]() The conflagration was a "world war" because every continent became involved. The Central Powers collapsed in November, 1918 Germany accepted an "armistice" that in practice was a total surrender. ![]() cooperated with the Allies but did not formally join them, and it negotiated peace separately. The United States, initially neutral, tried to broker a settlement but in April, 1917, it declared war on Germany. It saw the Central Powers ( Germany and Austria-Hungary, later joined by the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria), fighting and defeated by the "Entente" or "Allied" powers, led by Britain, France, (and Russia until 1917), later joined by Italy, and many other countries. World War I is also referred to as the First World War, and sometimes, the Great War, although World War II, a mere two decades later, would be orders of magnitude larger in casualties. The pandemic overshadowed the horrors of the war, leaving survivors so traumatized that many could not bring themselves to speak of it afterward. ![]() This war also must not be remembered without noting that the dispersal of surviving troops to home in 1918 marked the beginning of a global influenza pandemic (so-called "Spanish flu") which killed many as 50 million people worldwide (and possibly, up to 100 million) through 1920. ![]() World War I (1914-1918) was a huge European and global war that killed 7 million people, and the first war in which killing by machine guns, tanks, airplanes, and poison gas was presented to an unprepared world. 2.2 Political results of stalemate on the Western Front. ![]()
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