Catalog number: ZNHCRA0812

Sheet CZ 2014 - Victims of World War I

Sheet Czech Republic 2014 - Victims of World War I.

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Sheet Czech Republic 2014 - Victims of World War I.
Author: Jan Maget
Printing sheets: 1 AP
Perforation: RZ 11 ¾
Printing method: full-color offset
Edition: 60,000 pcs
Issue number: A812/813
Release date: 11.06.2014

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World War I (known before 1939 as the Great War or the World War) was a global military conflict that took place from 1914 to 1918. World War I affected Europe, Africa, and Asia and took place in the world's oceans. The immediate cause of the war was the successful assassination of Archduke and heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand d'Este. Austria-Hungary retaliated by declaring war on Serbia, triggering a chain reaction leading to a world war. Within a month, Europe found itself in a military conflict.
The war broke out between two coalitions: the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. The Allied Powers at the outbreak of the war were the United Kingdom (which joined the war due to the German invasion of Belgium), France, and Tsarist Russia. Other states joined the Allies, Italy in 1915 and the USA in 1917. The Central Powers in 1914 were Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Ottoman Empire also joined the Central Powers, and Bulgaria in 1915. By the end of the war, only Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries remained neutral.
The battles of World War I took place on several fronts across Europe. On the Western Front, the fighting took place in trenches ("trench warfare"). Over 60 million soldiers were mobilized between 1914 and 1918.
The war ended with the victory of the Allies and the capitulation of the defeated Central Powers. The end of the world war is marked and celebrated worldwide on November 11, 1918, when at 11 o'clock an armistice prevailed on all fronts (11.11 at 11 o'clock), signed on the same day at 5:05 a.m. by the German general staff in the staff carriage of the supreme commander of the Allied forces, French Marshal Foch, in Compiègne. The formal conclusion of the war was the Paris Suburban Treaties in 1919.

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