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The spark that ignited World War I was struck in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where —heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire—was shot to death along with his wife, Sophie, by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.

On April 1, 1918, the British created the Royal Air Force, or RAF, the first air force to be a separate military branch independent from the navy or army.

Dutch inventor Anthony Fokker improved upon the French deflector system in 1915.

Widespread protest over the sinking by U-boat of the British ocean liner —traveling from to Liverpool, England with hundreds of American passengers onboard—in May 1915 helped turn the tide of American public opinion against Germany.

Though his most popular plane during WWI was the single-seat Fokker Eindecker, Fokker created over 40 kinds of airplanes for the Germans.

On August 4, 1914, German troops crossed the border into Belgium.

Visual artists like Otto Dix of Germany and British painters Wyndham Lewis, Paul Nash and David Bomberg used their firsthand experience as soldiers in World War I to create their art, capturing the anguish of trench warfare and exploring the themes of technology, violence and landscapes decimated by war.

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

On July 15, 1918, German troops launched what would become the last German offensive of the war, attacking French forces joined by 85,000 American troops as well as some of the British Expeditionary Force in the.

Virtual Data Room review and indexing• Secure interactive GIS online map supporting asset with active links to documents• Instead, the first African American troops sent overseas served in segregated labor battalions, restricted to menial roles in the Army and Navy, and shutout of the Marines, entirely.