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Wall Street Journal: World War I: The War That Changed Everything

Wall Street Journal: World War I: The War That Changed Everything

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By MARGARET MACMILLAN World War I began 100 years ago this month, and in many ways, writes historian Margaret MacMillan, it remains the defining conflict of the modern era.   A hundred years ago next week, in

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Wall Street Journal: Global Leadership: How WWI Helped Unravel the British Empire

Wall Street Journal: Global Leadership: How WWI Helped Unravel the British Empire

Other June 21, 2014 0

By ADAM HOCHSCHILD The Great War began dethroning a superpower—but it was one of the victors The First World War helped to dethrone a superpower—paradoxically, one of the victors. In 1914, Britain sat atop the

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