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What does World War I mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The war from 1914 to 1918 between the Entente Powers of the British Empire, Russian Empire, France, Italy, the United States and other allied nations, against the Central Powers represented by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
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The effort to achieve more accurate weapons began in World War I and approached modern capabilities with PGMs toward the end of the Vietnam War.
During World War I Fubini studied the accuracy of artillery fire and these investigations led him on to work on acoustics and electricity.
After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
As elsewhere in the region, racing had a thin time during World War I and took time to recover.
Bliss worked on ballistics during World War I and designed new firing tables for artillery.
In Portland, Maine, they till proudly point to Baxter Boulevard, where 400 linden trees were planted in 1921 as a memorial to World War I vets.

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