World War I

Charkive StartersDisasters and epidemics

How did the 1918 influenza pandemic spread and end?

The 1918 flu spread along military, colonial and trade networks in several waves, and faded by 1920–21 as immunity built up and the virus settled into seasonal patterns.

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Did a wrong turn in Sarajevo help start World War I?

A driver's wrong turn put Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car in front of Gavrilo Princip on 28 June 1914, but it was one link in a longer chain of events.

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