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One Hundred Years After the U.S. Entry Into World War 1: Museums, Monuments and Memorials

By Corinna Lothar
in :  World Travel
Montfaucon memorial

The “shot heard round the world” that started World War I was fired on June 28, 1914, when a student shot the archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, beginning a conflict that lasted four years, involved 32 countries and cost 41 million military and civilian casualties, including 18 million lives. By 1917, the war was not going well for …

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