World war or the First World War, commonly abbreviated as WWI or WW1, was a world war stemming in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously recognized as the Great War, the World War, and also the war to finish all wars, it brought about the mobilisation of even more than 70 million military workers, including 60 million Europeans, making it among the largest wars in history, as well as also among the deadliest disputes in background, with an approximated 8.5 million combatant deaths and 13 million private fatalities as a direct outcome of the war. Resulting genocides and also the associated 1918 Spanish flu pandemic caused another 17-- 100 million fatalities worldwide, consisting of an estimated 2.64 million Spanish flu deaths in Europe and as many as 675,000 in the United States.On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist as well as member of the Serbian Black Hand army culture, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian beneficiary ...