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Some of the cavalrymen who rode to war in August 1914 still carried lances. Four years later the survivors were ducking aircraft, tanks and drifting clouds of gas. In between, a quarrel between an aging empire and a small Balkan kingdom pulled in soldiers from Punjab, Senegal, Queensland and Kansas, brought down four empires and left roughly 9 to 10 million soldiers dead. Historians still argue about how a murder on a Sarajevo street corner could set all of that in motion.

You will weigh rival explanations for the war's outbreak, stand in a waterlogged trench, follow women into shell factories and watch 1917 turn the war upside down in Petrograd and Washington. Then you will sit with the peacemakers in Paris, whose choices about borders, reparations and who counted as a nation still echo today. Afterward you should be able to test a claim like "the treaty caused the next war" against the evidence, spot a convenient myth about defeat, and read a village war memorial for what it says and what it quietly leaves out.

Levels

  1. 1 1. Europe on the Brink: The July Crisis 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. The Western Front 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. New Weapons, Industrial War 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. A World War: Beyond the Western Front 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. The Home Front: Total War 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. 1917: Revolution and Intervention 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. 1918: The War Ends 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Making the Peace and Remembering the War 5-question quiz

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