why is world war 1 so important?

Answer 1

My grandfather thought it was important because of the friends he lost.

Answer 2

World War I, also known as WWI (abbreviation), the First World War, the Great War, and "The War to End All Wars," was a global military conflict that took place mostly in Europe between 1914 and 1918. It left millions dead and shaped the modern world.

The Allied Powers, led by France, Russia, the British Empire, and later, Italy and the United States, defeated the Central Powers, led by Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire.

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 of 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, and 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 21 years later.

On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student, shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie Chotek, in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which had been annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908. Princip was a member of Young Bosnia, a group whose aims included the unification of the South Slavs and independence from Austria-Hungary (see also: the Black Hand). The assassination in Sarajevo set into motion a series of fast-moving events that escalated into a full-scale war. Austria-Hungary demanded certain actions by Serbia to punish those responsible for the assassination. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia when it was deemed that Serbia had failed to fully comply. Many major European powers came to be at war with each other within a matter of weeks. This was due to overlapping agreements for collective defense and the complex nature of international alliances at that time. However, the conflict also had deeper causes which were multiple and complex.

Answer 3

Because it was the first time most of the industrialized countries all over the world went to war.

Answer 4

Good question.
Most importantly, it inadventently caused World War 2.
With the Germans defeated, they had to restrict their military size and spending, and also pay massive amounts of money to neighbouring countries to atone for 'war damages'.
This resentment which the Germans had for the French and British was exploited than none other than Adolf Hitler whose propaganda mainly targeted at invoking anger in order to rally the people.

Answer 5

It finalized the reshaping the world in a political sense by dividing the east from the west. I feel that WW1 took place based on a transportation related issue of which was governed by greed through the will of the ego.

"Apparently enough, we haven't learned a whole lot from it"

Answer 6

it defined america as a superpower in the world, also it was a democratic campaign that led the soldiers on a "cause war" and the freedoms were protected, land was divided and given, sovereign states were formed, but mainly it was theLusitainia.......the ship that the germans hit with a submarine which was flying a neutral flag, but the us was delivering weapons to the british.................

Answer 7

I don't think Its something Important.

Its just a horrible history which left millions of people dead and billions of ppl shocked.