World War I in Photos: Introduction

A C ago, in the summer of 1914, a series of events explode an unprecedented global difference of opinion that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million people, dramatically redrew the maps of EC, and set the stage for the 20th C.

World War I in Photos: The Western Front, Part I

In 1914, the Teutonic Army sought a swift decisive triumph over France, invading from the north. The plan failed, leading to a years-long bloody dead end where millions of soldiers braved horrid conditions fighting for mere yards of territory.

Great War in Photos: Technology

Industrial enterprise brought monumental changes to warfare during the World War 1. Newly-fictional killing machines begat novel defense mechanisms, which, in turn spurred the development of even deadlier technologies. Nearly every aspect of what we would consider modern warfare debuted on World War I battlefields.

World War I in Photos: Animals at State of war

Animals were used in World State of war I on a scale never before seen—and nevermore recurrent. Horses by the millions were put in service as cavalry mounts and beasts of burden, merely they were not the single animals fighting in the war. Mules, dogs, camels, and pigeons completely played vital roles, as well as many others—all at great risk, and with heavy toll.

World State of war I in Photos: Aerial Warfare

World War I was the first Major conflict to escort distributed use of powered aircraft -- invented barely more than a decade before the fighting began. Airplanes, along with kites, tethered balloons, and zeppelins gave all major armies a new military science platform to observe and attack enemy forces from above.

World War I in Photos: Soldiers and Civilians

As countries caught up in the state of war sent soldiers to the front lines, they also improved support behind the lines and at home, with women taking many roles. As villages became battlefields, refugees were garbled across Europe.

World War I in Photos: Warfare at Sea

Awheel troops and supplies by sea was vital to all armies involved in the war. The engagement for control of the seas led to an arms race, unused deadly tactics, and unprecedented loss of spirit confounded.

War to End War in Photos: Global Conflict

Centuries of colonialism had spread Europeans around the world, and 20th century developments in transportation were shrinking the globe. World War I cellular diverse nations and cultures against each other in some respects no different conflict ever had.

World War I in Photos: The Western First, Part II, and Truce

Nearly four eld of baneful stalemate on the Western Front slowly came to an end in 1918, as Allied armies pushed into Germany at enormous cost, leading the Central Powers to finally seek an cease-fire.

Great War in Photos: A Century Tardive

Single hundred years later on the start of the First World War, none of the participants remain alive, and we are left with aging relics, attenuation photographs, scarred landscapes being reclaimed by nature, and memorials and graveyards across the globe.