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What does World War I mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The war from 1914 to 1918 between the Entente Powers of the British Empire, Russian Empire, France, Italy, the United States and other allied nations, against the Central Powers represented by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
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His work in Cambridge was interrupted by World War I when he worked on the land rather than join the army.
The effort to achieve more accurate weapons began in World War I and approached modern capabilities with PGMs toward the end of the Vietnam War.
After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
The roots of sweet music grew from the post World War I urban craze for large dance halls and for dancing in hotel ballrooms and private clubs.
In Portland, Maine, they till proudly point to Baxter Boulevard, where 400 linden trees were planted in 1921 as a memorial to World War I vets.
The army that fought World War I was composed of regulars, National Guardsmen, and individual volunteers.

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