1914 Campaign, The - August-October 1914

The Campaign of 1914 turned the world upside down. Every nation involved was drastically changed. Touched off by the assassination of the Austrian heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, at the hands of a Serbian nationalist, the campaign signaled the end of an era.

The Campaign of 1914 ushered in the era of total war. Whole societies mobilized to pursue victory, introducing new weapons and tactics, offensive as well as defensive, aerial reconnaissance and observation, propaganda, bar bed wired, motorization, trenches, machine guns, along with mud.