End of the First World War
End of the First World War is held on November 11. This event in the second decade of the month November is annual. 
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The First World War ended in November 1918 with the military defeat of Germany and its ally Austria-Hungary. The number of dead and injured up to 1918 was immense: around nine million soldiers and more than six million civilians died worldwide.
By the end of the First World War in 1918, state relations in Europe and the Middle East had changed considerably. The monarchies in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia had been abolished and the Ottoman Empire had collapsed. New nation states emerged.
1914 - 1918 The Sarajevo assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand is considered the trigger. On August 1, 1914, the German Empire declared war on the Russian Tsarist Empire.
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