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ANZAC troops set up camps on the Gallipoli Peninsula (now in Turkey) during World War I.

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French soldiers resting behind the front during the Battle of Verdun during the First World War From L'Illustration, 1916

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General Pershing's troops moving into Mexico in 1917 during World War I.

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American troops at the front in Italy. American soldiers on the Piave (river) front hurling a shower of hand grenades into the Austrian trenches, Varage, Italy; September 16, 1918. (World War I)

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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

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Who won World War I?

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The Allies won World War I after four years of combat and the deaths of some 8.5 million soldiers as a result of battle wounds or disease.