Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world is ... including the UK. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders ... The German Empire became Germany, and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe.

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...