A century ago at the beginning of the First World War, the maps of Europe, Asia and Africa looked much different than they do today. Historians say many of the border changes - agreed upon after ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

Here are 40 maps that explain the conflict — why it started, how the Allies won, and why the world has never been the same. Immediately prior to the war's outbreak in 1914, Central Europe was ...

but much of present-day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see ...

This map prefaced a 1918 book by the United States ... arguing that much work was left to be done in Europe. Children might be enticed to help the still-hungry Allies by reminders about the ...

Redrawing the borders of Europe was a contentious and political process—and the end result helped set the stage for World War II—but maps published around this time (like the one below ...

In the summer of 1914, Americans began reading news accounts of a conflict that would soon be called the Great War—and that would draw the United States in three years later. (See also: The ...

Though World War II is widely remembered as a fight against tyranny and Nazi oppression in Europe, World War I occupies a more complicated place in public memory. The United States remained ...

So, here we have a prominent Kentuckian who shaped the map of post-World War I Europe. She was born in Louisville on Jan. 8, 1863, and was educated at Vassar College and the University of Leipzig ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.