World War 1 (A Northern Wind)

World War I
Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV Tank crossing a trench; Federal Navy battleship FSS Freedom sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Delaware Bay; a Browning machine gun crew with gas masks, and German Albatros D.III biplanes.
Date June 28, 1913 – August 3, 1919 Location Europe, Africa and the Middle East (briefly in China and the Pacific Islands) Result Atlantic Concord victory Dissolution of Mexico Rise of revanchist groups in Europe Formation of the Soviet Union
Belligerents
Atlantic Concord: United States of America German Empire Austro-Hungarian Empire Kingdom of Bulgaria Brazilian Republic South American Confederation Kingdom of the Netherlands Ottoman Empire	Quadruple Entente Federal States of America United Kingdom French Third Republic Russian Empire Kingdom of Italy Union of South Africa Dominion of Canada Commonwealth of Australia British Raj Dominion of Newfoundland
Commanders and leaders
* Woodrow Wilson Douglas MacArthur John Pershing Kaiser Wilhelm II Eric Ludendorff Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Franz Jozef Charles I Conrad von Hotzendorf Enver Pasha Mehmed V Tsar Ferdinand I Nikolai Zhekov Hermes da Fonseca Oscar Benavides Pieter Cort van der Linden	* Theodore Roosevelt Leonard Wood George Custer Goerge V Lord Kitchener Douglas Haig Raymond Poincare Ferdinand Foch Joseph Joffre Nicholas II Alexei Brusilov Nikolai Nikolayevich Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armondo Diaz Louis Botha Authur Curie John Monash

The First World War is not known as the Great War for no reason. It was the bloodiest and most brutal conflict in history up to that point. The First World War was fought on every continent but Antarctica. Te Great War was a revanchist conflict for many nations. The Americans wanted to conquer their northern neighbors, the Canadians, and the northern rebels, the Federal States. To France and Italy this was a time to regain Alsace-Lorraine, and to gain Trieste and parts of the Alps. The Great War impacted every single nation on the planet. The Great War would claim the lives of some 40 million people (about three times as OTL WWI did). Fighting was raged from Alaska to Middle East. Many ethnicities would be exploited for the war effort either by conscription or labor.

The overall course of the war was a slow slugging match between the Entente and the Concord. Trench warfare would dominate the battlefield. Trenches would stretch across continents. In America the trenches stretched from the Rockies to the Atlantic. In South America the Trenches stretched from the Andes to Buenos Aires. In Europe, Belgium to the Adriatic. The countries of the world fought with all their might and the soldiers with all their fury. Many nations would collapse under many pressures, Either the nation didn't have enough industry or was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of men their enemy was throwing at them.  WWI was known by many names. The Great War, the War to end all Wars, the catastrophe, la Guerra, der Weltkreig.

The war would change how people fight wars and develop weapons and technology. Weapons would be invented to kill millions of men. The slow bolt-action rifle would be fazed out for semi-auto rifles and sub-machine guns. The horse would be fazed out for the tanks. Air combat and reconnaissance shaped the battlefield. Gas would be used on mass in Europe and America. Poison gas would be used for the rest of history as a great way to clear out tunnels and buildings.