World War I
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Twenty-seven countries on five continents were involved in World
War I. This war was also called the Great War or The War to End All Wars.
was the bloodiest and most costly of all the previous wars.
The total casualties numbered thirteen million with another thirteen
million wounded. The cost o ....
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.... mm (Young World Book 369). A famous long range gun was
called Big Bertha. This was also the first war in which cars and trucks
were used to carry men and supplies to the front.
World War I marked the beginning of chemical warfare in which
clouds of poisonous mustard gas contributed to the casualties of the war
(Stewart 8).
Unlike previous wars, World War I was fought on the sea and in the
air. This was the first war in which airplanes and zeppelins were used. At
the outbreak of the w ....
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