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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun World War I.
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- proper noun
World War I .
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- noun a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
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Examples
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Whether he consciously understood the extent of the confusion inside the German high command for the first half of the First World War or whether it was simply in his nature, Hitler was determined to be the supreme commander, as his decision about the expansion of the planned offensive against the USSR in December 1940 and his subsequent decisions of late August 1941 made clear.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Whether he consciously understood the extent of the confusion inside the German high command for the first half of the First World War or whether it was simply in his nature, Hitler was determined to be the supreme commander, as his decision about the expansion of the planned offensive against the USSR in December 1940 and his subsequent decisions of late August 1941 made clear.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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The first of these major depressions covers the period of the First World War, which had catastrophic effects on Iceland, as it did on many other European countries.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland) 2009
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In the First World War, Germans executed Belgian villagers in mass retribution for resistance activity.
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Michele Barrett's new work from Verso titled Casualty Figures takes a look at the lives of five men who fought for the British military in the First World War and suffered some form of shell shock.
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For starters, there were those three seismic breaks with the past: the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and women earning the right to vote.
From the Jazz Age to Our Age Carter, Graydon 2008
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The recent commemorations of the First World War conjured up some wishful thinking for me.
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In Belgium they have been using a National Identity card since as long ago as the First World War.
Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Assassinations have sometimes altered the course of history; the First World War arose from one.
Archive 2007-04-01 Helen 2007
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By the First World War, when immigration ceased, the talk of assimilation began to abate.
what i'm reading 2007
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