World War I alternatively known as the Great War began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and lasted until 1918. The war pitted the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire) against the Allied Powers (Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Romania, Russia, and later the United States). Thanks to advancements in military technology and the reliance on trench and aerial warfare, WWI had extremely high levels of bloodletting and destruction of infrastructure. The Allied Powers eventually won, but more than 16 million people were dead by the time the armistice came into play.
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