Today in history.
Contributors: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Treaty of Versailles (1919); World War, 1914-1918.
Other titles: June 28; World War I
Description: Discusses the origins of World War I with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb on June 28, 1914. Five years later, on June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allies signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war and providing for the creation of the League of Nations.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.