The First World War was to be the war to end all wars. However, in many ways it has never ended. The horrors we live with today were born between 1914 and 1918. It left millions, both civilians and soldiers, maimed or dead. And it left us with new technologies of death: tanks, planes, and submarines; reliable rapid-fire machine guns, poison gas and chemical warfare. It introduced us to unrestricted war on civilians, genocide and mistreatment of prisoners. Most of all, it changed our world. In its wake, empires toppled, monarchies fell, whole populations lost their national identities as political systems and geographic boundaries realigned. Examine the broad sweep of the conflict while focusing on some of its lesser known aspects and outcomes. Lecture style with question and answer time.