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  1. Legacy

    7/7How the unfair treatment of the defeated Germans and Austrians gave rise to future unrest.

  2. Collapse

    6/7A look at poverty in Germany, how the Americans finally joined in and how the war ended.

  3. Mutiny

    5/7By the start of 1917, the strain of war was so great that half the French army mutinied.

  4. Slaughter

    4/7The battles of Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele were three of the worst of the war.

  5. What If...Total War

    3/7With deadlock in the trenches, the great powers searched for other ways to break through.

  6. Stalemate

    2/7Hopes of a quick victory vanished as armies resorted to trench warfare.

  7. Explosion

    1/7Beginning with the origins of the conflict.