Nations from Asia and North America also became involved as the war became a global affair. The war’s high number of casualties - nearly 7.8 million Allied and Central Powers troops killed and ...

When Europe plunged into war in 1914, Wilson ... In Wilson's imagined future, the league of Nations - a global covenant among nations - would peaceably settle future conflicts.

As the U.S. military recruited young men for service, civilians were called upon to do their part by buying War bonds, donating to charity, or, if they worked in industry, going that extra mile for ...

World War I in Photos One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million people ...

A war to end all wars' The First World War was the first truly global conflict – the battle raged not just in the trenches of the Western Front but in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum and Memorial. More from Military & Defense World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the ...

The Brandeis University World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters collection includes nearly 100 different images (a majority from the WWI era) addressing a variety of American war aims. The ...

In an age before radio or television, illustrations like this were used by all sides in the war to dehumanize the enemy. Another purpose of propaganda posters in WWI was to raise morale at home ...

The warring parties in first world war signed no fewer than 16 peace treaties ... Movies which capture the tragedy, and humanity, of WWI Signed for the Allies by Britain, France and Italy, the ...