UNIT X
The Great War
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1914
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1919
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20th Century
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An assassin's bullet ignites a war between the alliances of Europe in the first mechanized war. The clashing empires that thrust into this conflict will not be prepared for the horrors of 20th century warfare.
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The hopes for a short and painless war are shattered in the trenches of the Western Front. The escalation of mechanized warfare pushes empires to the brink of endurance as many are broken and fall from the burdens of the Great War.
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A workers rebellion becomes class warfare that kills an empire. This revolution of society within Russia brings the theory of communism into reality and spreads it to neighboring countries.
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The old world dies after 100 years of relative peace. The new world that emerges from the Great War suffers from the effects of mechanized warfare that killed empires and left scars on the world that impact the rest of the 20th century.
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