Apocalypse

The French army stops the German advance at the battle of the Marne, while the Germans halt the Russians at Tannenberg on the eastern front.

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 set in motion events that would ruin entire countries and bring down several empires.

1916. The conflict becomes industrial, and millions of shells rain down on the battlefields; Verdun and the Somme are the deadliest battles in this second year of the war.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia becomes the first emperor to fall in the conflict; the United States enters the war as mutinies break out on both sides.

The end of the war draws near as the overwhelming number of American troops and their allies swing the conflict decisively away from Germany.