The WAR that CHANGED the WORLD one hundred years ago.

One hundred years ago, the emotion of participate in glorious events involved millions of youngsters who enrolled themselves in the endless list of military service around the world. They left the security of their homes just to be part in what they called "PATRIOTISM." Nobody thought that the enormous amount of people willing to fight for PEACE ended up trapped for years in an endless situation in the midst of muddy lands of FRANCE and BELGIUM. At that time the CONFLICT was named THE GREAT WAR, because of the great number of victims (10 million deaths and 20 million mutilated).

The American President WOODROW WILSON said: "The war will make the world a safer place for democracy." In Great Britain, people believed that winning this great war would end any other possible conflict of that nature in the future. But they were wrong.

In August 1914, during such pleasant summer, the european world leaders seemed like zombies walking in the edge of a huge abyss. Just weeks passed and the assassination of an austrian duke was the drop that made the cup full of troubles poured all over to a war that many wanted to avoid.
When the war started, politicians and military leaders started to ask themselves what was going on. Not even them knew what to do bringing to the world a chaos that changed the future forever.
The war marked the mind and the spirit of that generation with fire. Empires were torn down marking the prelude of the most bloody century in history. Revolutions and protesters started to arise everywhere
as a normal way of life. Plagues started to take a toll as a counterpart of the chaos. Famines and hunger hit the postwar years.
In 1923, the german currency started to loose value and six years after that the entire world economy collapse. The Second World War started in 1939 as a consequence of the first one. History changed.
At the end the war did not produce a better world instead chaos took over and swept everything that the world had like a swarm of locusts devouring the food of the world