More than 6.8 million civilians died during World War I

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The United States entered World War I in 1917 and sustained 323,018 total military casualties, representing roughly 8% of mobilized American forces

The armistice agreement ending hostilities in World War I took effect at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11, 1919, as the first Armistice Day

World War I resulted in the deaths of approximately 9.7 million military personnel due to combat wounds or disease

In October 1916, T.E. Lawrence accompanied British diplomat Sir Ronald Storrs from Cairo to Arabia

British explorer Gertrude Bell served in Cairo as an intelligence officer in the Arab Bureau alongside T.E. Lawrence

The Ottoman Empire entered the First World War in 1914 in an alliance with Germany

On June 10, 1916, the Sharif of Mecca fired a rifle from his palace at Ottoman barracks to initiate the Arab Revolt

Under the guise of searching for biblical Exodus sites, T.E. Lawrence and Leonard Woolley mapped the Wilderness of Zin for British military intelligence

In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration supporting the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine

Sir Ronald Storrs served as the Oriental Secretary at the British Embassy in Cairo during the First World War

Dahum died of typhoid fever in 1916 before British and Arab forces captured Damascus

In 1916, Great Britain and France negotiated the Sykes-Picot Agreement to partition Ottoman Arab territories between themselves

In August 1914, the First World War broke out between European powers

In 1915, British High Commissioner Sir Henry McMahon conducted correspondence promising Arab independence to the Sharif of Mecca in exchange for an anti-Ottoman uprising

In the summer of 1914, T.E. Lawrence returned to London to complete maps of the Wilderness of Zin for the British military

In early 1914, Lord Kitchener authorized a British survey of the Sinai and Negev deserts under cover of the Palestine Exploration Fund

First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill requisitioned two Ottoman battleships being constructed in Newcastle on the Tyne in 1914

In 1916, archaeologist David Hogarth helped establish the Arab Bureau in Cairo to advise the British government on Middle Eastern policy

The Hellcats congressional candidate coalition modeled their branding on female Marine recruits who integrated the United States Marine Corps during World War I