User:AndyZ/World War I
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About World War |
World War I | |||||||
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File:WW1 TitlePicture For Wikipedia Article.jpg Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV Tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks and a Sopwith Camel biplane | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others |
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Military dead: 5 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total of dead: 8 million |
Military dead: 4 million |
The First World War, known also as the Great War, The War to End All Wars and World War I (abbreviated WWI) after 1939, was a world conflict, raging from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers (led by the British Empire, France, Russia until March 1918, and the United States after 1917), defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire). The war caused the disintegration of four empires (Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian) as well as radical change in the European and Middle Eastern maps. The Allied powers before 1917 are sometimes referred to as the Triple Entente, and the Central Powers are sometimes referred to as the Triple Alliance.