World War I started on July 28, 1914, just a month after Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were gunned down on the streets of Sarajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian nationalist. The ...

40 maps that explain World War I by Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias on August 4, 2014 One hundred years ago today, on August 4, 1914, German troops began pouring over the ...

How World War I launched mapmaking at National Geographic. During World War I, the National Geographic Society began producing original maps that gave readers context for the events around the globe.

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.

How Maps Became Deadly Innovations in WWI. Advances in weaponry and cartography had deadly repercussions in World War I, which the United States entered 100 years ago today.

Excerpted from The Curious Map Book by Ashley Baynton-Williams. Out now from the University of Chicago Press. When the first world war started in 1914, most commentators thought that the war would ...

World War I demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and sultans. ... The map did not include boundary changes established in 1923 under the Treaty of Lausanne, ...

40 maps that explain World War I by Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias on August 4, 2014 One hundred years ago today, on August 4, 1914, German troops began pouring over the ...