WWI
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WORLD WAR I
1914 - 1918
IT WAS CALLED...
- The Great War
- The War To End All Wars
- The First Modern War
40 COUNTRIES FOUGHT IN WWI..
...including dozens of colonies
1917
THE U.S. DID NOT ENTER THE WAR UNTIL...
65 MILLION FIGHTING SOLDIERS
FOUGHT IN THE AIR
FIRST WAR TO BE...
CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF WAR
FIRST USE OF...
TANKS ON THE BATTLEFIELD
FIRST WAR WITH...
ADVANCED MACHINE GUNS
FIRST WAR WITH...
BIG BERTHA
INCLUDING...
More than 2,500 miles of trenches were dug along the 466 mile Western Front...
...that stretched from the English Channel to Switzerland
CASUALTIES:
9 Million Soldiers
6.6 Million Civilians
INCLUDING...
21 MILLION WOUNDED
$186 BILLION
TOTAL COST OF THE WAR...
$151 BILLION IN DAMAGES
PLUS...
FOUR EMPIRES COLLAPSED
9.5 MILLION GERMANS
LIVING OUTSIDE THE NEW BORDERS OF GERMANY
ISOLATIONISM
AFTER THE WAR, AMERICA RETURNED TO A POLICY OF...
ECONOMIC RUINS...
EUROPE WAS LEFT IN
