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<p><ins class="ice-ins ice-cts-1" data-changedata="" data-cid="5" data-last-change-time="1524859903927" data-time="1524859903927" data-userid="162" data-username="Author">In terms of human&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_technology" title="History of technology">technological history</a>, the scale of the World War I was enabled by the technological advances of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_industrial_revolution" title="Second industrial revolution">second industrial revolution</a>&nbsp;and the resulting&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization" title="Globalization">globalization</a>&nbsp;that allowed global power projection and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_production" title="Mass production">mass production</a>&nbsp;of military hardware, but wars on such a scale have not been repeated since the onset of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Age" title="Atomic Age">Atomic Age</a>&nbsp;and the resulting danger of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually-assured_destruction" title="Mutually-assured destruction">mutually-assured destruction</a>. It had been recognized that the complex system of opposing alliances (the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Empire" title="Austro-Hungarian Empire">Austro-Hungarian</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a>&nbsp;Empires against the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French</a>&nbsp;Empires) was likely to lead to a worldwide conflict if a war broke out. Due to this fact, a very minute conflict between two countries had the potential to set off a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_effect" title="Domino effect">domino effect</a>&nbsp;of alliances, triggering a world war. The fact that the powers involved had large overseas empires virtually guaranteed that such a war would be worldwide, as the colonies&#39; resources would be a crucial strategic factor. The same strategic considerations also ensured that the combatants would strike at each other&#39;s colonies, thus spreading the wars far more widely than those of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian" title="Pre-Columbian">pre-Columbian</a>&nbsp;times.</ins></p>

<p><ins class="ice-ins ice-cts-1" data-changedata="" data-cid="5" data-last-change-time="1524859903927" data-time="1524859903927" data-userid="162" data-username="Author"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes" title="War crimes">War crimes</a>&nbsp;were perpetrated in World War I.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_I" title="Chemical weapons in World War I">Chemical weapons</a>&nbsp;were used in the First World War despite the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907" title="Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907">Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907</a>&nbsp;having outlawed the use of such weapons in warfare. The Ottoman Empire has been considered responsible for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a>, the death of over one million Armenians during the First World War.</ins></p>

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