Hey readers! Today’s post is about a very emotional subject, war. But I’m not writing about war generally, I am going to be focused on world war 1. A War is when two countries start fighting and other countries take sides and fight too. Nations all over the world participated in WW1, causing lots of destruction.

World war 1 started in 1914 and ended in 1918. The two sides of the war were the Central Powers- mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary (back then Austria was known as Austria-Hungary as these two countries were joint) and turkey- while their enemy side was called Allied Forces, which mainly had France and Great Britain. In 1917, the United States joined the war and fought with the Allied Forces.

The spark that ignited WW1 was when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were killed by a Serbian nationalist called Gavrilo Princip. After this happened, Austria-Hungary and Serbia became enemies and started the great war.

Here is a timeline of World War One:

Fun Fact! – The war started on 28 June (1914) ad ended on the same date, but different year!

The Allied Forces won the war and ended it by signing an agreement, which was called the treaty of Versailles, with Germany. By signing it, Germany had to agree to many harsh penalties: take full blame for the war, pay U.S and U.K a lot of money, many land and army losses, and other terrible punishments.

Many, many people died in this huge war and this is a very saddening subject to talk about. Well, I hope you learned something new out of this post or were just reminded about it.