A war to end all wars' The First World War was the first truly global ... Tensions rise across Europe. Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is shot dead in Sarajevo, capital ...

Despite initial mandate to stay neutral, U.S. leaders voted to officially join Allies in the Great War on April 6, 1917.

The Anglo-German Naval Race before World War One is an example ... So why was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalists the spark for war? To answer, we need to look ...

BBC Documentaries marking the centenary of World War ... the road to war in 1914, broadcast every day between the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand through to the ...

the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, became the spark that set Europe ablaze and the world at war. New Zealand, as a dominion of the British Empire ...

In 1914, just after of Franz Ferdinand's assassination that eventually caused World War I, a steamship approaches a desolate island on the edge of the Antarctic Circle, where a young nameless man ...

The warring parties in first world war signed no fewer than ... five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that sparked the war, this treaty designated Germany responsible ...

April 15, History Eighty years ago, soldiers from the Soviet Union’s Red Army invaded Nazi Germany from the east and arrived ...