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On June 28, 1914, Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated,
starting a chain of events that divided the world. What began as a
single man’s act of rebellion ended in the world’s first global war.
After three years of horrific trench warfare that stretched across
Europe, marked by the use of poison gases and millions of deaths,
American troops entered the war in June 1917. On November 11, 1918, an
armistice went into effect and ended the fighting. |