New Delhi: World War I was mostly confined to Europe. It began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939.
It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war.
Here we share some rarely known facts about this war:
There were over 35 million civilian and soldier casualties in WWI. Over 15 million died and 20 million were wounded.