Delegates at negotiations for the treaties of Brest-Litovsk, 1918.
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 26094)Crowds on Wall Street celebrating the end of World War I, New York City, 1918.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 09634)Fokker Eindecker, German fighter plane of World War I.
John W.R. TaylorWorld War I recruitment poster
© Archive PhotosThe French 75-mm cannon, the archetypal rapid-firing gun from its introduction in 1897 through World War I.
Ian V. HoggThe New York Herald reporting the sinking of the Lusitania, a British ocean liner, by a German submarine on May 7, 1915.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesThe Sopwith Camel was one of the best-known British fighter airplanes of World War I.
Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesArmy recruiting poster featuring “Uncle Sam,” designed by James Montgomery Flagg, 1917.
James Montgomery Flagg— Leslie-Judge Co., N.Y./Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZC4-3859)Antiwar cartoon by I. Klein from The Masses captioned, “The Paths of War Lead but to….”
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.French troops passing though the ruins of Verdun, France, 1916.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesDemonstrators gathering in front of the Winter Palace in Petrograd, just prior to the Russian Revolution, January 1917.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesWomen yeomen at a Boston shipyard during the World War I era.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.British Mark I tank with anti-bomb roof and “tail,” 1916.
Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, London; photograph, Camera Press/Globe PhotosAllied troops lining the shore at "ANZAC Cove" on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The cove was named after the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) troops that were part of the Allied forces. The Dardanelles Campaign against the Turks was a bloody defeat for the Allies.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesA British soldier inside a trench on the Western Front during World War I, 1914–18.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesWorld War I recruiting poster featuring John Bull, c. 1915.
Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination, June 28, 1914.
Henry Guttmann—Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesRomanian dead on the road near Kronstadt (Braşov), in 1916, during World War I.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.U.S. Army recruits at Camp Pike, Arkansas, in 1918, following the United States’ entry into World War I in April 1917.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Briefcase in hand, French marshal Ferdinand Foch, commander in chief of all Allied armies in World War I, poses before the railway carriage in which the Armistice with Germany has just been signed, Nov. 11, 1918. Standing to his left is Royal Navy captain J.P.R. Marriott. Standing to his right are the British representative, First Sea Lord Sir Rosslyn Wemyss; Foch’s chief of staff, Gen. Maxime Weygand; and Wemyss’s deputy, British rear admiral George Hope. Behind them on the carriage steps are French staff officers.
Popperfoto/Getty ImagesA 1917 Albatros D.Va, a German fighter plane of World War I.
DeA Picture LibraryMarie Curie driving a car converted into a mobile radiological unit used to treat wounded soldiers during World War I, 1914.
© Photos.com/JupiterimagesSugar ration card used during World War I, 1917.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Maurice Sarrail, World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The U.S. 27th Infantry Division passing through the Victory Arch in New York City in celebration of the end of World War I, March 25, 1919.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Parade celebrating Bastille Day and the end of World War I, Paris, July 14, 1919.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The British battleship Queen Elizabeth leading the surrendering German fleet, Nov. 21, 1918.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.German sailors marching through the streets of Brussels, 1914.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.British soldiers of the North Lancashire Regiment passing through liberated Cambrai, France, Oct. 9, 1918.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.A British tank at the Western Front, World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Russian troops in the trenches at the East Prussian frontier.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Engineers of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division preparing to cross the Marne River near Mézy, France, July 1918.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.British troops passing through the ruins of Ypres, West Flanders, Belg., Sept. 29, 1918.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.U.S. soldiers using gas equipment and receiving telephone instructions during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Varennes-en-Argonne, France, 1918.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Woman working in an American airplane factory during World War I, 1917.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.German troops marching through the triumphal arch in Cinquantenaire Park, Brussels, 1914.
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