what was world war 1?

Answer 1

World War I began because there were too many smaller nations suspicious of each other with alliances that dragged all of Europe into a war against their neighbors when a Serb shot Archduke Ferdinand. This lead Austria Hungary to declare war on Serbia sometime later. Austria Hungary was aligned with Germany, one of the largest and most powerful nations, which attacked France. The UK came to France's aid as promised, which soon put Europe into a full scale war leading to a stalemate in Eastern France.
The UK was the US' closest ally and soon supported them with troops in addition to the supplies they had been supplying for years. Before the US intervened both sides had been fighting a war of attrition for years and both sides had suffered great losses in manpower, arms and supplies. With the US' help the tide soon turned in the allies' favor.
WWI is unique in that new technology such as tanks, biplanes and chemical gases, which had never before been used in warfare made it particularly ghastly. Battles killed hundreds of thousands, sometimes more than a million people. The stalemate in the trenches also lead to death by diseases and poor medical care.
It was also the war which coined the term "Shellshock", now known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many of those soldiers coming home after the war were unable to manage civilian life and became known as the "Lost Generation."
World War I was the greatest war the world had ever seen up until that time. Many thought it was the beginning of the end of the world and opened many people's eyes to the evil of humankind. It was the beginning of cynicism for many citizens of the world and changed the face of war from a valiant rite of passage to a ghastly, excessively violent horror.

After WWI Germany was drained by the demands of the Treaty of Versailles which bankrupted the nation and created animosity in Germans which led to their uniting and rearming for WWII.

Answer 2

World War I (WWI, the First World War), also known as the Great War and "The War to End All Wars", was a global military conflict that took place primarily in Europe between 1914 and November 1918 but officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. It left millions dead and re-shaped the modern world, including Soviet Russia.

The war was fought between the Allied Powers (France, the Russian Empire, the British Empire,the Empire of Japan and later Italy and the United States) and the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, the German Empire, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire). The Allies would prove victorious over the Central Powers, but resentment over the defeat and the controversial Versailles treaty, particularly in Germany, would become a major factor contributing to World War II.

Much of the fighting in World War I took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by an unoccupied space between the trenches called "no man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate from developing, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and — for the first time — from the air. More than nine million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and millions more civilians perished.

The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian. Germany lost its overseas empire, and new states such as Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Yugoslavia were created, or in the cases of Lithuania and Poland, recreated.

World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, which was modified by the mid-19th century’s nationalistic revolutions. The outcomes of World War I would be important factors in the development of World War II twenty-one years later.

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Answer 3

Somehow I think that answering this question is an exercise in futility, Particularly since you've asked a form of this question before, but I'll take a shot anyway.

World War I (WWI, the First World War), also known as the Great War and "The War to End All Wars", was a global military conflict that took place primarily in Europe between 1914 and November 1918 but officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. It left millions dead and re-shaped the modern world, including Soviet Russia.

The war was fought between the Allied Powers (France, the Russian Empire, the British Empire, and later Italy and the United States) and the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, the German Empire, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire). The Allies would prove victorious over the Central Powers, but resentment over the defeat and the controversial Versailles treaty, particularly in Germany, would become a major factor contributing to World War II.

Answer 4

World War I (WWI, the First World War), also known as the Great War and "The War to End All Wars", was a global military conflict that took place primarily in Europe between 1914 and November 1918 but officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. It left millions dead and re-shaped the modern world, including Soviet Russia.

The war was fought between the Allied Powers (France, the Russian Empire, the British Empire, and later Italy and the United States) and the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, the German Empire, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire). The Allies would prove victorious over the Central Powers, but resentment over the defeat and the controversial Versailles treaty, particularly in Germany, would become a major factor contributing to World War II.

Much of the fighting in World War I took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by an unoccupied space between the trenches called "no man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate from developing, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and — for the first time — from the air. More than nine million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and millions more civilians perished.

The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian. Germany lost its overseas empire, and new states such as Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Yugoslavia were created, or in the cases of Lithuania and Poland, recreated.

World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, which was modified by the mid-19th century’s nationalistic revolutions. The outcomes of World War I would be important factors in the development of World War II twenty-one years later.

Answer 5

Wow - what's worse, this question or the person who doesn't know the difference between the meaning of "what" and "how"?
Since I think this is a bogus question, I'll give a bogus answer and a real one:
a) It was the war between World War 0 and World War 2
b) It was the war fought in Europe after the assasination of the Archduke of Austria, and took place between 1914 and 1918. The estimates are that 16 million people died - 9.8 million in the military, and 6+ million civilians.

Answer 6

A war in Europe, that the U.S.A. had no business going into..

Answer 7

Checkout wiki for the answer.

Answer 8

Be more specific.

Answer 9

google it

Answer 10

it was great