WORLD WAR I

The First World War, also known as Great War, was a war fought primarily in Europe, which began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany asked the armistice and later on 28 June 1919, the warring countries signed the Treaty of Versailles.

More than 9 million combatants were killed, an extraordinarily high figure, given the technological and industrial sophistication of belligerents, with its consequent tactical stalemate. He is considered the fifth deadliest conflict in history of mankind.

He received the epithet world, because in it they were involved all major industrial and military powers of the day, divided into two opposing alliances.