World_War_1

World War 1 World War I, also known as the Great War, was immediately caused by the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian nationalist in 1914. Another prominent cause of the war was the entangling alliances between the countries of Europe. The war was thought to be the war to end all wars because it was the bloodiest war the world had seen yet. The war was supposed to end by the Christmas of 1914, but it lasted four long years. The fighting finally stopped on November 11, 1918, when the Allied and German delegates signed an armistice on terms established by the Allies. Political leaders then took up the task of trying to transform the military armistice into a durable peace. The Germans and the Allies signed the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. It war, world, german, end, treaty, peace, years, versailles, signed, great, germany, four, financial, during, armistice, allies, allied, after, 1914, yet, wars, victors, valuable, united, trying, transform, trains, took, thought, terms, task, supposed, stopped, states, soon, ships