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World War 1 Centenary

World War I changed everything. From new countries to literature, from tanks to treaties and from flamethrowers to fashion, the conflict is still writ large on our lives 100 years on.

It gave birth to violent dictators and their ideologies but extended the electoral franchise to millions. It ushered in the era of mechanised warfare whilst laying the foundations for modern medicine. Empires crumbled, borders were redrawn, art movements flowered and women won the vote (even if you still had to be over 30 in some countries). Poets committed some of the most memorable imagery in modern verse to paper while a generation of writers would descend on Europe’s war-torn cities and fashion a new style of literature.

After millions of men gave their lives on the battlefields of Europe, it was doubly tragic that a deadly influenza would claim up to 50 million more deaths in the conflict’s immediate aftermath. World War I has given us daylight saving time, Dada, triage, chemical weapons, plastic surgery, fascism and, of course, another war. It invented new forms of killing and unearthed miraculous ways to save lives.

Wall Street Journal editors from around the world have selected 100 legacies that still shape our lives today. History is always open to interpretation, but as the war to end all wars retreats from living history, it feels more important than ever to remember its impact. It is everywhere you look.

Writers

Nathan Hodge, Art Patnaude, Tommy Stubbington, Andrew Peaple, Tom Mudd, Peter Evans, Sarah Sloat, Rory Jones, Alexis Flynn, Fiona Matthias, Harriet Torry, Alen Mattich, Chase Gummer, Laurence Eyton, Peter Stiff, Paul Hannon, Laurence Witherington, Gautam Naik, Christopher Lawton, Michael Wright, Neetha Mahadevan, Laurence Norman, Caitlan Reeg, Jovi Juan, Liza Hearon, Inti Landauro, Thomas Varela, Marcus Walker, Jake Lee, Shirley Wang, Stephen Fidler, Juhana Rossi, Will Lyons, Monica Houston-Waesch, Francesca Freeman, Peter Nurse, James Leigh, Max Colchester, Todd Buell, Frances Robinson, Adam Najberg, Matthew Walls, Yuka Hayashi, Jose DeCordoba, Selina Williams, Naftali Bendavid, David Winning, Geoffrey T. Smith, Charles Hutzler, Matina Stevis, Ayla Albayrak, Charles Forelle

Editors

Tom Mudd, Laurence Eyton, Sheila Courter, Margaret de Streel, Matthew Walls, Adrian Kerr, Peter Stiff, Perry Cleveland-Peck, Sofia McFarland, Tina Fuhr, Lydia Serota, Ese Erheriene, Jon Sindreu, Yvonne Dennis, John Crowley

Multimedia Producers

Dipti Kapadia, Mark Kelly, Parminder Bahra, Miho Inada, Menglin Huang, Ayla Albayrak, Monika Vosough, Billy Higgins, Beckey Bright, Tom DiFonzo, George Downs, Pat Minczeski, Michael Ovaska

Designers & Developers

Jovi Juan, Renee Lightner, Elliot Bentley

Consultant

David Tattersfield from the Western Front Association

The Wall Street Journal has selected 100 legacies from World War I that continue to shape our lives today.
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Afghanistan

Flamethrowers

Influenza

Stainless Steel

Tanks

Secret Services

Wristwatches

Barbed Wire

Crimes Against Humanity

Trench Coats

Oil Revolution

South Africa and Namibia

Classical Music

Expressionism

Words and Phrases

Trench Foot

Literature

Migration in Europe

Shell Shock

Blood Transfusions

Irish Independence

Mines

Pacifism

Guided Missiles

Barnstorming

Vegetarian Sausages

Sun Lamps

Chemical Weapons

Mass Production

League of Nations

Dada

Poetry

Jazz

Middle East Conflict

Helmets

Blue Scrubs

Trains

European Union

Paris's Chinatown

Psychotherapy

Submarines

Drinking Hours

Finnish Independence

Champagne

Triage

Fascism

Maiden Aunts

Cartoons

Machine Guns

Daylight-Saving Time

Gold

Trench Warfare

U.S. Espionage Act

Aerial Reconnaissance

Aircraft Carriers

Howitzers

Bolshevism & Communism

Poppies

Prosthetics

Code Breaking

Plastic Surgery

Women's Vote

Women's Clothing

Cold War

Rise of the U.S.

Hitler

World War II

Ho Chi Minh

Decline of the U.K.

Road to the Holocaust

Strategy & Tactics

Canned Food

Flappers

Propaganda

Canada

Great U.S. Migration

Warplanes

Germany: End of Empire

Grenades

Japanese Militarism

Cuban Sugar

Newsreels

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Sanitary Products

Two-Up

Baltics

Contraception

Chinese Communism

Cake in Japan

Ottoman Empire's End

Christmas Truce

Secular Turkey

Telecommunications

Wall Street

Monetary Policy

Notable Figures

Monarchies in Crisis

Zeppelins

Depth Charges

Faith Tested

Pilates

Passports

Poland

Yugoslavia

Australian and New Zealand Nationhood

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