[Answer] In what year did World War I begin?

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In what year did World War I begin?

• 1914:The assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked a war that spread across Europe, beginning in 1914 and lasting until 1918. The countries making up the Central Powers (Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire) fought the Allied Powers (France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Japan, Romania, and the United States.) By the time the war ended and the Allied Powers claimed victory, the number of dead soldiers and civilians numbered more than 16 million. WWI was marked by unprecedented destruction and carnage, directly related to the development of new military technologies and the horrors that accompanied trench warfare. Source: History.com

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