25 FACTS

INVOLVED 2 OPPOSING ALLIANCES THE ALLIES AND CENTRAL POWER.

THE SOME COUNTRIES OF ALIES WHERE FRANCE, RUSSIA, AND BRITIAN.

SOME COUNTRIES IN THE CENTAL POWER WHERE GEMANY, AUSTRIA, AND HUNGARY.

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND WAS THE NEPHEW OF EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEF.

The assassination took place in in Sarajevo.

WWI WAS TRIGGERED BY THE ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND.

Assassination was planned by a Serbian terrorist group, called The Black Hand.

THE MAN WHO SHOT THE DUKE WAS GAVRILO PRINCIN

MOROCCAN CRISIS WAS A CAUS OF WW1

THE BOSNIAN CRISIS WAS A CAUSE OF WW1

WW1 included the first known use of chemical weapons.

THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA IN 1915 BOUGHT THE US INTO THE WAR.

US ENTERED THE WAR ON APRIL 6, 1917.

65 million troops were mobilized during WW1.

8 million troops died.

21 MILLION TROOPS WHERE WOUNDED.

58,000 British soldiers were lost on the first day at the Battle of the Somme.

ANOther name for World War 1 WAS 'The War to End All Wars’.

BY THE END OF WW1 250,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS SUFFERED FROM AMPUTATION.

The U.S. was in the war in actual combat for only seven and a half months.

IN War War 1 approx 11% of Frances’s entire population was killed or wounded.

Battle of Verdun, 1916, resulted in over a million casualties in ten months.

OVER 200,000 MEN DIED IN THE TRENCHES OF WW1.

TRENCHES WERE INFESTED WITH MILLIONS OF RATS, FROGS AND LICE.

80,000 BRITISH TROOPS SUFFERED FROM SHELL-SHOCK.