World War I

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20th-century war global conflict interstate war war

World War I was a global conflict from 1914 to 1918 that pitted the Allied Powers against the Central Powers and reshaped the political and social landscape of the 20th century.

Aliases (11)

First World War ×228
World War I era ×19
First World War (through antecedent regiments) ×1
First World War era ×1
The Great War ×1
World War I (U.S. entry) ×1
World War I (Western Front) ×1
World War I (early months, as minister) ×1
World War I (interrupted years) ×1
World War I (training, no combat) ×1
World War I period ×1

Statements (85)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	20th-century war → global conflict → interstate war → war →
alsoKnownAs	First World War → The Great War →
belligerent	Allied Powers → Central Powers →
casualtiesEstimate	over 15 million deaths →
civilianCasualtiesEstimate	millions of civilians killed →
commemorationDate	Armistice Day → Remembrance Day →
commemorationSymbol	red poppy →
endDate	1918-11-11 →
endedBy	Armistice of 11 November 1918 →
followedBy	interwar period →
formalEndTreaty	Treaty of Lausanne → Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) → Treaty of Sèvres → Treaty of Trianon → Treaty of Versailles →
front	African theatre → Balkan Front → Eastern Front → Italian Front → Middle Eastern theatre → Western Front →
hasGenre	total war →
homeFrontImpact	increased participation of women in the workforce → mass conscription → rationing in many countries →
immediateCause	assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria →
immediateCauseDate	1914-06-28 →
location	Africa → Asia → Atlantic Ocean → Europe → Middle East → Pacific Ocean →
longTermConsequence	conditions contributing to the outbreak of World War II → conditions contributing to the rise of Nazism in Germany →
mainAlliedPower	France → Italy → Russian Empire → United Kingdom → United States →
mainCentralPower	Austro-Hungarian Empire → Bulgaria → German Empire → Ottoman Empire →
militaryCasualtiesEstimate	millions of soldiers killed →
notableBattle	Battle of Gallipoli → Battle of Jutland → Battle of Tannenberg → Battle of Verdun → Battle of the Somme → First Battle of the Marne →
notableCommander	Douglas Haig → Erich Ludendorff → Ferdinand Foch → John J. Pershing → Mustafa Kemal Atatürk → Paul von Hindenburg →
organizationCreated	League of Nations →
partOf	20th-century history →
politicalConsequence	creation of new nation-states in Europe → redrawing of European borders → rise of Japan as a major power in Asia → rise of the United States as a major world power → weakening of European colonial empires →
precededBy	Balkan Wars →
result	Russian Revolution and withdrawal of Russia from the war → abdication of German Kaiser Wilhelm II → collapse of Ottoman Empire → defeat of the Central Powers → dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Empire →
startDate	1914-07-28 →
technologicalFeature	first large-scale use of chemical weapons → introduction of tanks → large-scale use of trench warfare → use of military aircraft → use of submarines (U-boats) → widespread use of machine guns →
timePeriod	1910s →
triggerEventLocation	Sarajevo →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
15th Infantry Regiment → 1st Canadian Division ("First World War") → 1st Division (Australia) ("First World War") → 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis → 1st Infantry Division ("First World War") → 27th Infantry Division (United States) → 28th Infantry Division → 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines → 2nd Canadian Division ("First World War") → 2nd Division (Australia) ("First World War") → 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines → 3rd British Infantry Division ("First World War") → 3rd Canadian Division ("First World War") → 3rd Infantry Division → 3rd Infantry Division ("First World War") → 42nd Infantry Division → 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division ("First World War") → 4th Canadian Division ("First World War") → 4th Infantry Division (United States) → 51st (Highland) Division → 6th Marines → 7th Infantry Division (United States) → 82nd Infantry Division → 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry ("First World War") → 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry ("First World War") → A. A. Milne → Achille Starace → Alan Brooke → Albert Ball → Albert I of Belgium → Albert Kesselring → Alexander Löhr → Alexander Patch → Allied Powers of World War I → Allied Supreme War Council → Allied merchant shipping → Alphonse Joseph Georges → Alphonse Juin → Andrew Cunningham → André Maginot → Anthony Eden → Anton Denikin → Archibald MacLeish → Archibald Sinclair ("First World War") → Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan → Arthur Asquith → Arthur Currie → Arthur Harris → Arthur Percival → Atlantic Fleet ("First World War") → Atlantic Fleet → Atlantic theatre of World War I → Australian Army ("First World War") → Australian Flying Corps → Australian and New Zealand Army Corps → Balkan Front → Basil Embry ("First World War") → Basil Rathbone → Battle of Belleau Wood → Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge → Battle of Cantigny → Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) → Battle of Dogger Bank → Battle of Gallipoli → Battle of Mons → Battle of Qurna (1914) → Battle of Shaiba (1915) → Battle of Soissons → Battle of Tannenberg → Battle of Vimy Ridge → Belgian Armed Forces → Bernard Freyberg → Bernard Montgomery → Bertram Ramsay → Bertram Ramsay → Billy Bishop ("First World War") → Blue Max → Boris III of Bulgaria → Boris Shaposhnikov → Brian Horrocks ("First World War") → British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division ("First World War") → British Commonwealth forces ("First World War") → British Expeditionary Forces ("First World War") → British High Command on the Western Front → British Indian Army 6th (Poona) Division → Bruce Fraser → Brusilov Offensive → Bulgarian Air Force ("First World War") → Camp Valcartier ("First World War") → Canadian Army Medical Corps ("First World War") → Canadian Corps → Canadian Expeditionary Force ("First World War") → Canadian Expeditionary Force ("First World War") → Canadian Forestry Corps → Canadian Machine Gun Corps ("First World War") → Canadian Railway Troops ("First World War") → Capture of Baghdad (1917) → Carl Spaatz → Central Powers → Charles A. Halleck → Charles Allfrey ("First World War") → Charles Hammann → Charles Portal ("First World War") → Charles Rumney Samson → Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend → Charles de Gaulle → Citation Star → Claude Auchinleck → Clement Attlee ("First World War") → Conn Smythe → Conscription Crisis of 1917 → Croix de Guerre → Czechoslovak Legion → Dardanelles naval operations → Darryl F. Zanuck → David Beatty → Douglas Clifton Brown ("First World War") → Douglas Graham ("First World War") → Douglas Haig → Douglas MacArthur → Duff Cooper ("First World War") → Earl Warren → Eduard Dietl → Eduard Rydz-Śmigły → Edward VIII → Edwin H. Armstrong → Edwin Hubble → Erhard Raus → Erich Dietl → Erich Ludendorff → Erich Raeder → Erich von Manstein → Ernest Hemingway → Ernst Busch → Ernst Röhm → Ernst Vanselow → Everett Dirksen → Ewald von Kleist → F. Scott Fitzgerald → Fiorello H. La Guardia → First Battle of the Marne → First United States Army → Flag Officer, Dover → Fort Garry Horse ("First World War") → Fort Vaux → Frank Jack Fletcher → Frank Knox → Frank Maxwell Andrews → Franz Marc → Franz von Hipper → Frederick Browning ("First World War") → Frederick Rutland → French First Army → French I Corps ("First World War") → French II Corps → Friedrich Paulus → Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger → Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger → Fulco Ruffo di Calabria → Gabriele D'Annunzio → Gabriele D'Annunzio → Gallipoli Campaign air operations → Gallipoli Peninsula → Georg Stumme → Georg von Küchler → George C. Kenney → George C. Marshall → George Halas → George II of Greece → George S. Patton → George S. Patton → George VI → George Washington Goethals → Georges Catroux → Georges Picquart ("World War I (early months, as minister)") → Gerd von Rundstedt → German Spring Offensive (1918) → Giovanni Messe → Giulio Douhet → Glyn Hughes → Goodwin Knight → Gordon Bennett → Gotthard Heinrici → Grand Cross of the Iron Cross → Grand Fleet → Greek Army → Grover Cleveland Alexander → Günther Lütjens → Günther von Kluge → HMHS Britannic → HMS Ark Royal (seaplane carrier) → HMS Centurion → HMS Drake → HMS Indefatigable ("First World War") → HMS Invincible → HMS Queen Mary ("First World War") → HMS Warspite → Hans-Georg von Friedeburg → Hans-Jürgen Stumpff → Hans-Valentin Hube → Hap Arnold → Harold Alexander → Harold Macmillan → Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander → Harry F. Byrd Sr. → Harry S. Truman → Hastings Ismay → Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps ("First World War") → Heinrich von Vietinghoff → Henri Barbusse → Henri Giraud → Henry Harwood → Henry L. Stimson → Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood ("First World War") → Henry Maitland Wilson ("First World War") → Henry Rawlinson ("First World War") → Henry William Frederick Albert ("First World War") → Herbert H. Lehman → Hermann Hoth → Holland M. Smith → Home Fleet ("First World War") → Horace Pippin → Horatio Herbert Kitchener → Howard Hawks → Hudson Fysh → Hugh Alexander Pollock → Hugh Dalton → Hugh Dowding → Hugh MacDiarmid → Hugh S. Johnson → Hundred Days Offensive → Imperial General Headquarters → Imperial German Army Air Service → Imperial German Navy → Imperial Japanese Army → Imperial Japanese Navy → Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff → Imre Nagy → Indian Expeditionary Force D ("First World War") → Indian Medical Service → Indian Signal Corps ("First World War") → Inigo Campioni → Invasion of Serbia (1915) → Ion Antonescu → Iron Cross 1st Class → Italian Army (Kingdom of Italy) → Italian Front (World War I) → Italian Navy → Ivan Bagramyan → Iwane Matsui → J. R. R. Tolkien → Jacob L. Devers → James McCudden ("First World War") → James V. Forrestal → Japanese 3rd Division → Jean de Lattre de Tassigny → Joachim von Ribbentrop → Johannes Blaskowitz → John A. Lejeune → John Alcock → John J. McCloy → John J. Pershing → John Llewellin → John Rushworth Jellicoe → John T. Scopes → John de Robeck → Jonathan M. Wainwright → Joseph W. Stilwell → Julian Byng ("First World War") → Julius Streicher → Józef Piłsudski → Józef Unrug → Karl Dönitz → Karl Schwarzschild → Karl Schwarzschild → Karl von Rundstedt → Kenneth C. Royall → Khalil Pasha → King Alexander I of Yugoslavia → Konstantin von Neurath → Kurt Student → Lawrence Moore Cosgrave → Leslie Howard → Leslie Morshead → Lewis H. Brereton → Lewis L. Strauss → London Scottish Regiment ("First World War") → Lord Cork and Orrery → Lord Gort → Lord Jellicoe → Lord Kitchener → Lord Trenchard ("First World War") → Lord Wavell → Louis Franchet d'Espèrey → Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ("First World War") → Ludwig Erhard → Ludwig Wittgenstein → Manfred von Richthofen → Marc A. Mitscher → Mark W. Clark → Matthias Erzberger → Maurice Gamelin → Max Horton → Max Immelmann → Maximilian von Spee → Mediterranean theatre of World War I → Melville J. Herskovits → Mesopotamian campaign (World War I) → Miklós Horthy → Milan Rastislav Štefánik → Miles Dempsey → Minami Jirō → Monastir Offensive → Monty ("First World War") → Murray Sueter ("First World War") → Mustafa Kemal Atatürk → Neil Ritchie ("First World War") → Nevada-class battleship → Nevil Macready ("First World War") → Nikolai Yudenich → Nikolaus von Falkenhorst → No. 1 Squadron RAF ("First World War") → No. 11 Squadron RAF ("First World War") → No. 2 Squadron RAF ("First World War") → No. 29 Squadron RAF ("First World War") → No. 3 Squadron Australian Flying Corps → No. 3 Squadron RAF ("First World War") → No. 41 Squadron RAF ("First World War") → No. 6 Squadron RAF ("First World War") → North Sea theatre of World War I → Nur-ud-Din Pasha ("First World War") → Olaf Stapledon → Oliver Leese ("First World War") → Oliver Leese ("First World War") → Osami Nagano → Oswald Boelcke → Oswald Mosley → Otto Frank → Ottoman 6th Army → Ottoman Army → Ottoman Fifth Army → Ottoman air units → Paul Philippe Cret → Paul V. McNutt → Paul von Hindenburg → Pennsylvania-class battleship → Percival Fawcett ("First World War") → Philip Vian ("First World War") → Philip Vian → Philip Vian ("First World War") → Philippe Pétain → Prescott Bush → Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu → Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester ("First World War") → Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ("First World War") → Pyotr Wrangel → Quentin Roosevelt → RFC roundel → RNAS Cranwell ("First World War") → RNAS Dunkirk → RNAS Eastchurch → RNAS Felixstowe ("First World War") → RNAS Hendon ("First World War") → RNAS Killingholme → RNAS Scapa Flow ("First World War") → RNAS Yarmouth ("First World War") → Ralph Vaughan Williams → Raymond Asquith → Raymond Collishaw ("First World War") → Reginald Dyer → Reginald Dyer → Reginald Warneford → Reinhard Heydrich → Reinhard Scheer → Richard McCreery ("First World War") → Robert Little → Robert R. McCormick → Roberto Farinacci → Roderic Dallas → Roderic Hill ("First World War") → Rodion Malinovsky → Roman von Ungern-Sternberg → Romanian Air Force → Romanian Armed Forces → Romanian Campaign → Romanian Land Forces → Ronald Colman → Rosslyn Wemyss → Roy O. Disney → Royal 22e Régiment ("First World War") → Royal Air Force → Royal Army Medical Corps ("First World War") → Royal Army Pay Corps ("First World War") → Royal Australian Artillery ("First World War") → Royal Canadian Navy ("First World War") → Royal Egyptian Army → Royal Flying Corps → Royal Marines ("First World War") → Royal Military Police ("First World War") → Royal Naval Air Service → Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve ("First World War") → Royal Netherlands Army → Royal Pioneer Corps ("First World War") → Royal Scots ("First World War") → Royal Tank Regiment ("First World War") → Royal Warwickshire Regiment ("First World War") → Rudolf Hess → Rupert Brooke → Russian Revolution → SMS Lützow → SMS Seydlitz → Salonika Expedition → Sam Ervin → Schlieffen Plan → Scots Guards ("First World War") → Second Battle of Ypres ("First World War") → Second Battle of the Marne → Sholto Douglas ("First World War") → Short 184 → Sidney Howard → Sidney Kirkman ("First World War") → Siege of Kut → Siegfried Sassoon → Silver Star → Sinai and Palestine campaign → Singapore Volunteer Corps → Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt ("First World War") → Sir John Monash → Sir Thomas Blamey → South-West Africa Campaign → Stanley Forman Reed → Stanley Goble → Stephen T. Early → T. E. Hulme →	conflict
Austro-Hungarian Army → British India Command ("First World War") → Dornier Flugzeugwerke → Flag Officer, Dover ("First World War") → German General Staff → Imperial German Army Air Service → Imperial Japanese Naval Academy → Royal Canadian Engineers ("First World War") → Sopwith Aviation Company → United States Coast Artillery Corps →	activeDuring
Birkenhead Institute ("First World War") → Hall of Memory ("First World War") → Ils ne passeront pas → Mary of Teck → Memorial Day → Olga Nikolaevna of Russia → Roll of Honour ("First World War") → Statue of Jan Smuts, Parliament Square ("First World War") →	associatedWith
Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial ("First World War") → Eccles War Memorial → Eternal Flame (Australian War Memorial) ("First World War") → Navy–Merchant Marine Memorial →	commemorates
Australian War Memorial ("First World War") → National War Memorial ("First World War") → Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme → Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Athens) →	commemoratesConflict
House of Hohenzollern → Madariaga → Wilhelm II, German Emperor →	associatedWithEvent
Distinguished Service Order ("First World War") → Military Order of William → Virtuti Militari →	awardedDuring
First Fleet → United States Cavalry →	activeInConflict
Eight-Eight Fleet Plan → Latin Monetary Union ("First World War") →	affectedBy
World War I ("First World War") → World War I ("The Great War") →	alsoKnownAs
BB-31 → French Fourragere →	associatedConflict
Alsace-Lorraine → Secretary of State for War ("First World War") →	associatedWithConflict
Distinguished Service Cross → Military William Order →	awardedInConflict
Iron Cross 2nd Class → Military Cross ("First World War") →	campaign
Military Medal ("First World War") → Silver Star Medal →	campaigns
Royal Australian Army Medical Corps ("First World War") →	activeIn
Junkers →	activePeriod
House of Windsor →	adoptedDuring
Julian March →	afterWar
Gorizia →	annexedAfter
Meiji Constitution →	appliedDuringConflict
British War Cabinet →	appliesToEvent
United States Food Administrator →	appliesToPeriod
Life Guards ("First World War") →	battleHonoursInclude
New York Shipbuilding Corporation →	builtForConflict
Distinguished Service Order ("First World War") →	campaignUsage
Distinguished Conduct Medal ("First World War") →	campaignUse
Alsace →	changedSovereignty
Storming of the Winter Palace →	chronologicalContext
Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial →	commemoratesWar
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye →	concludedAfter
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk →	concludedDuring
1918 influenza pandemic →	concurrentWith