World War 1 had different names that it is known as besides its original name like The Great War, the war to end all wars.
World War 1 was very deadly and many people died during this time and the best estimate of casualties or deaths were about 14 million people who had died in the great war. 2 million Germans, 1.7 million Russians, 1 million of Austria's men, 900 thousand of Great Britain's men, and more than 400 thousand Italians and many many more people have been killed.
The War had cost the allies 190 billion dollars in 1918 dollars in damages.
Before World War 1 Europeans were prosperous and peaceful for 100 years and in 1893 all of Europe came as friends to the Chicago fair and they were living their lives to the fullest and they were happy.
In the summer of 1914 bad news came in the papers saying that Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in the country of Serbia by Serbian nationalist on July 28th and Austria wanted to investigate the killing of Archduke and his wife and Serbia decided to decline it and Austria declared war on Serbia.
Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd expressed nationalism by saying that Germany deserved a massive empire and he thought that they were the best in Europe and that Germany deserved more.
"Der Tag" meant "The Day" when Germany got into their rightful place which is to b the greatest in Europe and they would have defeated all of their enemies and on August 1st, 1914 "Der Tag" came, Germany had declared war on Russia and two days later had declared war on France.
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