World war 1 veteran biography for kids

The war was a global war that lasted exactly 4 years, 3 months and 14 days.

100 ww1 facts

Most of the fighting was in Europe , but soldiers from many other countries took part, and it changed the colonial empires of the European powers. Before the war, European countries had formed alliances with each other to protect themselves. However, by doing this they had divided themselves into two groups. Serbia's ally Russia then declared war on Austria-Hungary.

This set off a chain of events in which the two groups of countries declared war on each other. There was fighting in many different areas fronts. Germany had tried to defeat France quickly, but were stopped in the First Battle of the Marne. After that, most of the fighting here was trench warfare. Fighting here was not trench warfare but mobile warfare.

Fighting also took place in Africa, China, and at sea as well as in the air.