World War I

World War I was a war among the great powers of Earth fought from 1914-1918. Mutt Daniels served with the United States army in World War I. It ended with the defeat of Germany and the imposition of the harsh Treaty of Versailles, the provisions of which Britain and France failed to enforce adequately.

The years following the war were lean ones in Germany, and Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party were able to exploit these conditions to rise to power. They promised Germany rearmament and revenge, and as stated, the victors of World War I failed to prevent this. Germany launched World War II, which was interrupted by the arrival of the Race's Conquest Fleet.

After the Race defeated Germany in 1965 and imposed its own harsh peace, the winners of World War I warned Atvar of their own difficulties enforcing the Treaty of Versailles. Atvar boasted that the Race was more thorough and patient than the human powers, but his successors fared little better than the British and French in enforcing their terms, and within a few decades Germany was once again able to threaten the Race.

Though World War I is also known as the Great War, this article should not be confused with that war and does not relate to the Southern Victory category of this wikicity.