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Conflicts raged across Europe years after World War I ended.
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Countless history books record that “on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918, the calamitous Great War finally came to an end.
Indeed, no longer would machinegun fire tear apart generations of young men on West European battlefields, nor would week-long artillery barrages torture the very land itself into a cratered, muddy moonscape.
But the supposed world peace brought about by Armistice Day was anything but universal. In 1919, across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, the violence begun in World War I raged on for as long as five more years sucking in not only local actors, but troops from the United States, France, the UK and Japan, despite political pressure to bring them home.
The conflict still raged in many parts of the world after the official surrender.
Key point: The conflict resulted in a lot of political fall out. Here are the many other wars and fights spawned by the Great War.
Countless history books record that “on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918, the calamitous Great War finally came to an end.
Indeed, no longer would machinegun fire tear apart generations of young men on West European battlefields, nor would week-long artillery barrages torture the very land itself into a cratered, muddy moonscape.
But the supposed world peace brought about by Armistice Day was anything but universal. In 1919, across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, the violence begun in World War I raged on for as long as five more years sucking in not only local actors, but troops from the United States, France, the UK and Japan, despite political pressure to bring them home.