1914: The Year the World EndedFew years can justly be said to have transformed the earth1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria Hungary, Russia, Britain, and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems, and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history. In the longer run, the events of 1914 set the world on the path toward the Russian Revolution,