World War I: Media
1914–1918
Videos
Explore the roles of Marie Curie, Mabel St. Clair Stobart, and Aileen Cole Stewart in World War I
Three notable women of World War I: Marie Curie, Mabel St. Clair Stobart, and Aileen...
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Causes and start of World War I
Overview of the start of World War I, including details of the June 28, 1914, assassination...
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See how No Man's Land between World War I trenches led to the use of chemical weapons, tanks, and warplanes
Heavy fighting on what became known as “No Man's Land” spawned the first military...
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When was the motorized ambulance invented?
Learn about the medical innovations that came from World War I.
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Learn how the Triple Entente and Triple Alliance evolved into the Allies and Central Powers in World War I
Europeans were fighting heavily on two fronts before the U.S. entered the war in...
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Know about the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign and the role of ANZAC troops in the battles of World War I
An overview of the 1915–16 Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, with a focus on ANZAC...
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Listen to a Turkish perspective on the Gallipoli Campaign, known to Turkish people as the Battle of Çanakkale, 1915–16
A Turkish perspective on the Gallipoli Campaign (1915–16), widely known among Turks...
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Learn about the use of animals especially among the ANZAC soldiers during World War I
The use of animals during World War I, especially among ANZAC troops.
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Mabel St. Clair Stobart
Learn more about the life of Mabel St. Clair Stobart.
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Brutal truths of the Battle of Verdun
Overview of the Battle of Verdun, 1916.
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Examine how German U-boats and the Zimmerman Telegram pushed the United States into World War I
See why the United States abandoned its policy of neutrality and decided to enter...
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Learn how U.S. troops helped Allied forces push Germany out of France and force an armistice
The course of the war quickly changed once the American First Army began fighting...
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German revolution: The last kaiser
Civil unrest and revolution breaking out in the face of Germany's imminent defeat...
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Hiking a historic trail in the Carnic Alps
Follow hikers in the Carnic Alps, along the Austrian-Italian border.
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Know about the stigma and impact associated with combat fatigue (shell shock) and the changing perceptions of society towards it
A discussion of society's changing attitudes toward combat fatigue (shell shock).
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Birth of the Weimar Republic
Learn about Germany's fledgling Weimar Republic and the challenges it faced.
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The horrifying history of gas warfare
Learn about the development of chemical warfare during World War I.
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Who was Russia's last tsar?
Overview of Nicholas II's reign.
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Examine the conflict between U.S. President Wilson and Congress in the aftermath of World War I
The United States quickly became known as formidable in battle as well as diplomatically...
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Learn about the treatment for combat fatigue (shell shock) administered to British soldiers in WWI
An overview of treatment for combat fatigue (shell shock), as administered to British...
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Examine how the Allied powers dismembered the Central Powers of World War I by a treaty that failed to prevent World War II
U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson was among the statesmen who gathered in France in June...
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What were the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles?
Learn about the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and its aftereffects.
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Watch the American Expeditionary Force sail across the Atlantic to join the Allies in World War I
When the United States entered World War I, it created one of the most confident...
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View historical footage and photographs surrounding Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: historical footage and photographs.
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Images
World War I
A British soldier inside a trench on the Western Front during World War I, 1914–18.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
World War I
A collection of significant facts about World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg, in...
Henry Guttmann Collection—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Maxim machine gun
German infantrymen operating a Maxim machine gun during World War I.
Imperial War Museum
Somme; machine gun
French soldiers operating a Saint-Étienne machine gun at the Somme, World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
cannon
The French 75-mm cannon, the archetypal rapid-firing gun from its introduction in...
Ian V. Hogg
World War I; German sailors
German sailors marching through the streets of Brussels, 1914.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
World War I; Royal Navy
Assembly of the Royal Navy at Spithead for fleet review, July 1914.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
World War I: torpedo boat
German torpedo boats assembled at port during World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
sinking of the Lusitania
The New York Herald reporting the sinking of the Lusitania, a British...
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Mark I tank
British Mark I tank with anti-bomb roof and “tail,” 1916.
Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, London; photograph, Camera Press/Globe Photos
World War I: Allied troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula
Allied troops lining the shore at "ANZAC Cove" on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The cove...
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Gallipoli Campaign: “ANZAC Cove”
British army officers in a trench at “ANZAC Cove” during the Gallipoli Campaign of...
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Russian troops; World War I
Russian troops in the trenches at the East Prussian frontier.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
Mabel St. Clair Stobart (left), founder of the Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps...
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-ggbain-07836)
Verdun, France
French troops passing though the ruins of Verdun, France, 1916.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Dill Pickle Club poster
Poster advertising an antiwar dance (1918) sponsored by the Dill Pickle Club in Chicago.
The Newberry Library, Dill Pickle Club Records (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Uncle Sam
Army recruiting poster featuring Uncle Sam, designed by James Montgomery Flagg, 1917.
James Montgomery Flagg— Leslie-Judge Co., N.Y./Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZC4-3859)
World War I: U.S. Army recruits
U.S. Army recruits at Camp Pike, Arkansas, in 1918, following the United States'...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
World War I
Woman working in an American airplane factory during World War I, 1917.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Russian Revolution
Demonstrators gathering before the Winter Palace in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in...
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
German Gotha G.III
German Gotha G.III long-range twin-engine bomber airplane, c. 1917.
Courtesy Australian War Memorial
Celebrating the end of World War I
Crowds on Wall Street celebrating the end of World War I, New York City, 1918.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 09634)
Marne, Battle of the
Engineers of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division preparing to cross the Marne River near...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
treaties of Brest-Litovsk
Delegates at negotiations for the treaties of Brest-Litovsk, 1918.
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 26094)
Cloth Hall after the Battle of Ypres
British troops passing through the ruins of Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, September...
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World War I: British army
British soldiers of the North Lancashire Regiment passing through liberated Cambrai,...
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World War I: armistice
Parisians celebrating the end of World War I, November 11, 1918.
U.S. Signal Corps, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-anrc-00498)
World War I: German fleet surrender
The British battleship Queen Elizabeth leading the surrendering German fleet,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
World War I
U.S. troops in French tanks in northeastern France, October 10, 1918.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-USZC2-6141)
World War I armistice
Allied and German officials at the signing of the armistice that ended the fighting...
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Australia and New Zealand Army Corps troops
Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops setting up camps on the Gallipoli...
GrahamBould
British tank in World War I
A British tank at the Western Front, World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Treaty of Versailles
Dignitaries gathered in the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) at the Palace of...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. ppmsca 07634)
Battle of Verdun
French soldiers resting away from the front line at the Battle of Verdun, 1916.
Classic Vision/age fotostock
armoured automobile
German armoured automobile captured by the Belgians during World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Brussels: World War I
German troops marching through the triumphal arch in Cinquantenaire Park, Brussels,...
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Curie, Marie; mobile radiological unit
Marie Curie driving a car converted into a mobile radiological unit used to treat...
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Great Victory Parade
Parade celebrating Bastille Day and the end of World War I, Paris, July 14, 1919.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Eastern Front
Romanian dead on the road near Kronstadt (Braşov) in 1916, during World War I.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-31836)
World War I: Sopwith Camel
The Sopwith Camel was one of the best-known British fighter airplanes of World War...
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U.S. 27th Infantry Division after the end of World War I
The U.S. 27th Infantry Division passing through the Victory Arch in New York City...
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military intelligence
U.S. intelligence officer interrogating a German prisoner of war during World War...
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World War I; chemical weapon
U.S. soldiers using gas equipment and receiving telephone instructions during the...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
World War I: “Wake Up” parade
Marchers in a “Wake Up” parade, 1917, during World War I.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Arthur Zimmermann: Zimmermann Telegram
Encoded text of the “Zimmermann Telegram,” sent January 16, 1917, in which Germany...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Political cartoon
Antiwar cartoon by I. Klein from The Masses captioned, “The Paths of War...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Gallipoli Campaign
A collection of significant facts about the Gallipoli Campaign.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Austria-Hungary
Before the outbreak of World War I, Austria-Hungary was a vast and powerful empire....
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Battle of Verdun: French forts
Locations of French forts in the area around Verdun, 1916, map from the 13th edition...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Battle of Verdun: key sites
Key sites of the Battle of Verdun, map from the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Compare the U.S. death toll during major events
Bar graph showing the death toll in the United States during major events.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
World War I: zeppelin
A cigar-shaped German zeppelin flies over warships anchored in the harbor at Kiel,...
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Treaty of Versailles
Dignitaries gathering in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, France,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Paris Peace Conference
(seated, from left) Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Prime Minister...
U.S. Signal Corps/National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Uncle Sam
James Montgomery Flagg's representation of Uncle Sam, which was used on World War...
James Montgomery Flagg— Leslie-Judge Co., N.Y./Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZC4-3859)
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