World War I Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
global war originating in Europe, 1914–1918
About World War I
—David Lloyd George In 1914,AustrianArchduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated inSarajevobySerbiannationalists. This event sparked tension betweenAustria-Hungaryand Serbia. As theRussian Empirebacked up Serbia and Germany gave a "blank check" to Austria-Hungary, other great powers joined the conflict. Though a single event started the war, many historians argue that conflict between Europe's great powers was almost inevitable and debate over which nation is most responsible for the war is still ongoing 100 years later. World War I lives in infamy as the war that introduced weapons of mass destruction — poison gas — onto the battlefield. It was also the first major war in which the recently-invented airplane was used in combat, though not the first war to see aerial bombardment, which had be
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