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 ...

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.

It is not the parliament that must grant it. With this terse statement, Frederick William IV of Prussia rejected the title of Kaiser der Deutschen (Emperor of the Germans) offered to him by the ...