This master's thesis, entitled Petrinja at the end of the First World War according to the newspaper Banovac brings a summary of events that happened from the beginning of the First World War and until the peace negotiations in Paris. An important directive of the thesis is to focus on the period of war in Habsburg monarchy through political and cultural impact. Among the most important factors that lead to the downfall of the Habsburg monarchy was the aftermath of the war. Those were social problems, the awakening of the national consciousness in a heterogenous state, creating new nations that shaped a new political map of Europe, developing new interstate relations and creating new unique countries under new leadership. After European context the thesis narrates political and social life in Croatia and the work of the Yugoslav club and the board that created the new state of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs and review of Banovina of Croatia and local war opportunities. By means of those war opportunities we have an insight to common folk's everyday life during the culmination of war and the social problems that were inevitable. But looking through the cultural prism, the war awakened empathy in society primarily through helping the less fortunate, accepting orphans of war, but also in celebration of the king, queen, soldiers and their accomplishments. Despite that, the local war opportunities opened the doors to the main part of the thesis and that is Petrinja during the First World War through the research of the newspaper Banovac that gave purpose to this thesis and explained in more detail about numerous news that were of political, cultural, social and entertaining aspect. Except for the covered news of the Petrinja county, the newspaper brought to its readers loads of information of croatian and european character through an abundance of articles, prologues and advertisements. It is important to emphasize that the editorship of the newspapers brought transparent stories from other newspapers through which they assembled more interesting stories of people's lives during the First World War.