(Note: I am limiting this to people who have entries on Wikipedia, and are identified within their biographies as veterans of this conflict. If someone notable who is a known World War II veteran isn't in this list, check and see if they have an article first, and if that biography indicates their veteran status (or correct if needed) before adding them to the list. If this list becomes loaded with dead links, or uncorroborated veterans, it may be yanked)
The war began over the possible ascension of a candidate from the Catholic branch of the Hohenzollern royal family to the vacant Spanish throne as Isabella II had abdicated in 1868.
Napoleon III was captured with his whole army at the Battle of Sedan, yet this did not end the war, as a republic was declared in Paris on September 4, 1870, marking the creation of the Third Republic of France under the Government of National Defense and later the "Versaillais government" of Adolphe Thiers.
Germans generally agreed that the outcome of the war was certain and that France could not reverse the military situation in her favor.
WorldWar I, also known as the First WorldWar, the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918.
The defeat of Germany in the war and failure to resolve the unsettled issues that had caused the Great War would lay the basis for the rise of Nazism, and thus the outbreak of WorldWar II in 1939.
WorldWar I became infamous for trench warfare, where huge numbers of troops were confined to trenches and could move little because of tight defences.
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