Cover#003 Czech, Victims of World War I,

The stamps depict war motifs. 

The First World War (before 1939 known as the Great War or the World War) was a global military conflict which lasted from 1914 to 1918. World War I hit Europe, Africa and Asia and also took place in the world’s oceans. The immediate pretext for the war was the successful assassination of the archduke, and heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand d’Este. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in retaliation, causing a chain reaction leading to World War I. Within one month, Europe found itself in a conflict.

The war broke out between two coalitions: the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. At the outbreak of war the Allied Powers were the United Kingdom (which participated in the war as a result of the German invasion of Belgium), France and Czarist Russia. The Allied powers were also joined by other countries, Italy in 1915 and the USA in 1917. The Central Powers were Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914, joined later by the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (in 1915). By the end of the war only Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries remained neutral.

The battles of World War I took place on several fronts in Europe. On the Western Front, the fighting took place in the trenches (“trench warfare”). Over 60 million soldiers were mobilized from 1914 to 1918.

The war ended with the victory of the Allies and the surrender of the defeated Central Powers. The world celebrates 11 November 1918 as the end of World War I (at 11 a.m. there was a ceasefire on all fronts, signed on the same day at 5:05 a.m. by the German Corps of Generals in the company wagon of the Supreme Commander of the Allied troops, the French Marshal Foch in Compiègne. The formal ending of the war occurred with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

Source: Czech Philately

Victims of WWI Czech
Topic	World War I
Design	Jan Maget
Day of issue	11. 6. 2014
Print sheet	2 stamps + 3 coupons (se-tenant)
Size of picture	108 x 165 mm
Face value	58 CZK

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