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Pictures From World War I Picture collection: Trenches on the Western Front, a British Mark IV tank crossing a trench, Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and German Albatros D.III biplanes. WWI Pictures Slide Show This video is actually a slide show of pictures from world war one. World War One Era Video Clips A great collection of video clips from the world one war era. It is even set to music from that period. World War One Dogfight Re-enactment A world war one dogfight reenactment that involves a fokker tridecker. World War One Video Footage A big collection of video clips from WWI. This video contains some rare footage. Green Fields of France by John McDermott Green Fields of France is an awesome song by John McDermott. The video is set to world war one related pictures. Pictures & Videos Of The Great War Here is a large collection of pictures and video clips from the great war, also known as world war one. Australian Graves Of World War 1 Slideshow of the graves of Australian veterans who gave their lives during world war one. About World War One Here we have a collection of photos and video clips that tell the story of world war one. World War One Tribute This tribute video shows a collection of world war one pictures while it tells the story of the war. WW1 Veterans Talk About Executions This video tells a really sad story about a couple of young men who were executed during world war one. WW1 Video Set To Hip Hop Music Here we have a nice collection of WW1 pictures. This may be the only world war 1 tribute video ever set to hip hop music. Battle of the Somme 90th Anniversary July 1, 2006 was the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme which took place during world war one. This is a video memorial. Imperial War Museum Video footage from a trip to the Imperial War Museum in England. It is amazing that these old uniforms are still in such good shape. World War One Pictures This video is a compilation of pictures from world war 1. There are a lot of great pictures in this one... British & French Posters From WW1 Slide show of British and French World War 1 posters. There are some great retro images in this slide show. Rare Footage of the First World War Here are a few video shots of World War I. The German Sturmpanzerwagen A7V A photo slide show of the German Sturmpanzerwagen A7V. This is the first German tank built in 1916WWI. It was an enormous tank that was made very quickly without proper tests. This Sturmpanzerwagen A7V had only 40mm(1.57in) of ground clearance. One problem was that the track was way too short for a vehicle of that size in return it was an unstable tank with poor cross country performance. Only 100 were ordered in 1917 but only 20 were produced. They often fell behind the infantry that they were supposed to support. German Tanks German tanks from WWI to the early stages of WWII. World War One Tanks A video with footage of World War One tanks and the men who worked along-side with them.

World War I World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, was a global war which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918. Over 40 million casualties resulted, including approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths. Over 60 million European soldiers were mobilized from 1914 to 1918. The immediate cause of the war was the June 28, 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Black Hand. The retaliation by Austria-Hungary against the Kingdom of Serbia activated a series of alliances that set off a chain reaction of war declarations. Within a month, much of Europe was in a state of open warfare. The war was propagated by two major alliances. The Entente Powers initially consisted of France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and their associated empires and dependencies. Numerous other states joined these allies, most notably Italy in April 1915, and the United States in April 1917. The Central Powers, so named because of their central location on the European continent, initially consisted of Germany and Austria-Hungary and their associated empires. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in October 1914, followed a year later by Bulgaria. By the conclusion of the war, only The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and the Scandinavian nations remained officially neutral among the European countries, though many of those provided financial and material support to one side or the other. The fighting of the war mostly took place along several fronts that broadly encircled the European continent. The Western Front was marked by a system of trenches, breastworks, and fortifications separated by an area known as no man's land. These fortifications stretched 475 miles (more than 600 kilometres) and precipitated a style of fighting known as trench warfare. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate, though the scale of the conflict was just as large as on the Western Front. The Middle Eastern Front and the Italian Front also saw heavy fighting, while hostilities also occurred at sea, and for the first time, in the air. The war was ended by several treaties, most notably the Treaty of Versailles, signed on June 28, 1919, though the Allied powers had an armistice with Germany in place since November 11, 1918. One of the most striking results of the war was a large redrawing of the map of Europe. All of the Central Powers lost territory, and many new nations were created. The German Empire lost its colonial possessions and was saddled with accepting blame for the war, as well as paying punitive reparations for it. The Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were completely dissolved. Austria-Hungary was carved up into several successor states including Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. The Ottoman Empire disintegrated, and much of its non-Anatolian territory was awarded as protectorates of various Allied powers, while the remaining Turkish core was reorganized as the Republic of Turkey. The Russian Empire, which had withdrawn from the war in 1917, lost much of its western frontier as the newly independent nations of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland were carved from it. After the war, the League of Nations was created as an international organization designed to avoid future wars by giving nations a means of solving their differences diplomatically. World War I marked the end of the world order which had existed after the Napoleonic Wars, and was an important factor in the outbreak of World War II.

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