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"World War One was a transformative event in human history."
"It's a romance story set during World War One, which is something that you don't see that often."
"The U.S. involvement in World War One had been costly, and the national attitude, and the attitudes of powerful members of Congress, was that the U.S. must be prevented from being dragged into another European war."
"I think they should make a movie about World War One. World War One is the pivotal event that changed the world."
"The horrific scale of World War One, the vast numbers of men killed, none of it would have been possible but for that marvel and symbol of the industrial age, the railway."
"Certainly a different outcome to World War One would change or even stop World War Two."
"Unfortunately, World War One apparently kind of bruised the popularity of the chivalry idea, but the story stayed popular and has continued to be popular into the modern day."
"The phrase 'tunnel of death' sounds like it ought to be the title of a cheesy horror movie, but it's also the name that's been given to a World War One era tunnel that was discovered in France in early 2021."
"The legacy of the barnbow workers and all munitions workers was the remarkable change in Britain's fortunes during World War One."
"War can do that. War can do the opposite as we see in World War One."
"World War One is the conflict that shaped the world we live in today."
"The February revolution takes place during World War One."
"World War One was in every way the first modern war."
"Turkey's newest park is an underwater museum of 14 largely intact shipwrecks... a window into the naval struggles of World War One." - NTD News summary
"I think that Russia is is the deciding factor I think they're one of the probably the most important country in world war one."
"It’s a massive pvp online strategy game where you pick a real country to lead through world war one, facing up to five hundred other players in persistent real-time games that can last weeks."
"The needless slaughter of World War One lasted for more than four years."
"The treaty of Versailles stated that Germany had started World War One. It left Germany humiliated and impoverished."
"Tonight Margaret Macmillan will address the big question: Was World War One inevitable?"
"Imperialism is one of the fundamental causes of World War One, period."
"The major powers of Europe had gone through a long period of peace leading up to World War one."
"That's the subtitle there like uh genius power and deception on the eve of World War One on the eve of World War One becomes rather relevant to why the digging doesn't necessarily continue and he doesn't stay on the front page of the newspaper."
"They really brought the stories of World War One to life."
"Immediately after World War One though, it had been reborn as part of the peace plan."
"After World War One, this region found themselves independent for the first time pretty much ever."
"Come with me into a journey into the past. It's World War One, the first world war, an intense war between major powers on a scale that has never been seen before."
"Their culture, their lives, their letters, poems, and experiences become the focal point for study and representation of the First World War."
"It set the stage for the next Germany in our timeline brought Russia into civil war, caused mutiny in France, and almost broke the allies in 1917."
"What if in an alternate timeline, Germany and the central powers won World War One?"
"It was actually built by returned soldiers after World War One and is the world's largest war memorial."
"World War One is always particularly tricky in alternate history because the lead-up to the war and the fighting itself have so many factors that combine into the single conflict."
"The term 'Basket Case' was originally used to describe World War One soldiers who had lost limbs during battle."
"We're going to turn the clock back a hundred years and find out what happened when Belton went to war."
"We're here at Belton to uncover the story of the Machine Gun Corps, a little-known section of the British Army who played a vital role in World War One."
"The army camps on the Brownlow's property just beyond that run of trees over there, there were thousands of them."
"We're here at Belton Park in Lincolnshire, looking for an old World War One training camp."
"I'm a veteran of World War One; I put my life on the line for this country, but nobody will hire me, nobody will give me a job."
"49,000 Irishmen died in World War One... that is an amazing number of men to go away and give the ultimate sacrifice for what they believed in."
"The history of field watches could probably most appropriately trace back to World War One when the trench watch came into existence."
"Absolutely they have an incredibly valuable perspective to add to our understanding of World War One."
"The outbreak of World War One in 1914 saw the start of an airship arms race across the world."
"One important aspect to tell you is that this grandfather was a soldier in the German army during World War One."
"We need more World War One stuff."
"There was too many coincidences like the author of the journal being in World War One and Albert being in World War One himself."
"The year is 1914, and that means it's time for World War One."
"World War One was the culmination of over a thousand years of European history and the military competition between the different European powers."
"If you were to change the effects of the First World War, you would change most of the direction of the 20th century in general."
"World War One was a remarkably close-fought war."
"World War One was a horrifying war in which the population suffered a huge amount, and unlike many wars in history, the public's opinion actually mattered."
"Some people say that a world in which the Central Powers had won World War One would be better."
"Margaret Brown's ambitions took an unexpected turn with the onset of World War One."
"Favorite book? 'A World Undone', it's a book about World War One."
"World War One history and this ghost story seemed to be a perfect fit."
"World War one was filled with more horror than an Alfred Hitchcock film."
"It's a movie designed to feel like one continuous shot that just makes it this immersive film where you are in the trenches in World War One."
"The National World War One Museum and Memorial is the only American Museum solely dedicated to preserving the objects, history, and personal experiences of a war whose impact still echoes in the world today."
"World War One was a gift to those who wanted to see the Federal Reserve as a powerful institution."
"The roots of modern sectarianism can be traced back to World War One."
"One-third of all the merchant vessels in the world were sunk over the course of World War One."
"The US was never completely neutral during World War One."
"Maybe things were about to get worse, a lot worse. You see, the year is 1914, and that means it's time for World War One."
"It's often been wondered what the world might have been like had the central powers won World War One."
"The causes of World War One are militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism."
"After turning 18 and running into too many 'no fun allowed' reenactment groups, he searched for World War One Airsoft groups, and that's how he discovered the First Battalion Boys."
"This book just does a really great job of introducing the whole context of World War One, kind of like the lead up to it."
"The characters themselves during World War One and their love stories are heartbreaking, but so so beautiful."