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Headings: World War I
World War I
Introduction
War Breaks Out
The Western Front
The Eastern Front and the Middle East
The War at Sea
The War in the Air
Events of 1917
The Tide Turns
The Peace

Content: It was the largest war that the world had seen up to that time. Most of the battles took place in Europe and the Middle East. More than 8 million soldiers and sailors died, and more than 20 million were injured. The war was so bad that many people thought no one would ever start another war. However, the results of World War I helped to cause World War II, which broke out in 1939. Some major battles of World War I
Some important people of World War I
War Breaks Out
A murder in the city of Sarajevo led to the war. Sarajevo was the capital of Bosnia, a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. For many years, Austria-Hungary and its neighbor Serbia had been unfriendly. Serbian patriots wanted all Serbs to unite. They wanted Serbs living in Bosnia to break free of Austro-Hungarian control.