At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation or exposure.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @7e6e393a56 11 Nov
The reasons for the start of the First World War have always impacted me:
-Imperialism, the dispute over territories in Africa and Asia creating friction between European countries, the strong nationalism in Europe at the time and the Sarajevo attack culminating in the conflict.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 11 Nov
It is an excellent historical fact. At 11 o'clock in the morning on November 11 (11/11) 1918, fighting on the Western Front ceased. The "Great War", as it was called by its contemporaries, was over, but the enormous impact of the conflict in the political, economic, social and international spheres would resonate for decades to come.
The First World War represented one of the most destructive wars in modern history.
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