The document summarizes key events and aspects of World War I from 1914-1919, including the alliances between countries that led to rising global tensions, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip which sparked the war, and images showing world leaders at the time, the use of poppies as a symbol of remembrance, harsh trench conditions and a rare moment of peace during the 1914 Christmas truce between enemies.

1. 1914-1919

8. Great Britain
France
Russia Italy
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Triple Entente Triple Alliance
Tension

22. Gavrilo Princip after his assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz
Ferdinand.
Princip was part of a Serbian nationalist group called The Black Hand.

26. Czar Nicholas II King George V Kaiser Wilhelm II
Czar Nicholas
(left) and King
George (right),
remained close
throughout their
lives.

57. The red poppies
that grew on
the battlefields
have become a
symbol for
those who
were killed in
battle during
WWI.

62. "The rats
were huge.
They were
so big they
would eat
a wounded
man if he
couldn't
defend
himself."

63. A soldier suffering from a severe case of trench foot.
Officers walking through a flooded trench.

66. British and German troops
standing together during the
Christmas Truce of 1914.