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World War I
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World War I
Clockwise from top:Trenches on theWestern Front; aBritish Mark  IV tank  crossing a trench;Royal Navy  battleship HMS
 Irresistible
 sinking after striking amineat theBattle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine guncrew with gas masks,and GermanAlbatros D.III  biplanes
 
Date
28 June 1914 – 11 November 1918(Armistice Treaty)Treaty of Versailles signed 28 June 1919
Location
Europe, Africa and the Middle East (brieflyin China and thePacific Islands
 
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Result
Allied victory; end of theGerman,Russian, Ottoman, andAustro-Hungarian Empires; foundation of new countries in Europe andthe Middle East; transfer of Germancoloniesto other powers; establishment of the League of Nations.
BelligerentsAllied (Entente) PowersCentral PowersCommandersLeaders and commandersLeaders and commandersCasualties and lossesMilitary dead:
5,525,000
Military wounded:
12,831,500
Military missing:
4,121,000
Total:
22,477,500 KIA, WIA or MIA... 
 
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Military dead:
4,386,000
Military wounded:
8,388,000
Military missing:
3,629,000
Total:
16,403,000 KIA, WIA or MIA... 
 
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Theatres of World War IWorld War I
(initialized as
WWI
or 
WW1
), also known as the
First World War
, the
Great War
, and the
War toEnd All Wars
, was a globalmilitary conflictwhich involved themajority of the world's great powers,
[1]
organized intotwo opposing military alliances: theEntente Powersand theCentral Powers.
[2]
Over 70 million military personnel weremobilized in one of the largest wars in history.
[3]
In a state of total war ,the major combatants fully placed their  scientific and industrial capabilities at the service of the war effort. Over  15 million people were killed, making it one of thedeadliest conflictsinhuman history.
[4]
The proximate causefor the war was the 28 June 1914assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to theAustro-Hungarianthrone, by aSerbiannationalist, Gavrilo Princip. Austria-Hungary's resulting demands against theKingdom of Serbialed to the activation of a series of alliances which within weeks saw all of the major European powers at war. As a consequence of the global empires of many European nations, the war soon spread worldwide.By the war's end, four major imperial powers— Germany,Russia,Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire —had  been militarily and politically defeated, with the latter two ceasing to exist as autonomous countries.
[5]
 TherevolutionizedSoviet Unionemerged from the Russian Empire, while the map of central Europe was completelyredrawn into numerous smaller states.
[6]
TheLeague of Nationswas formed in the hope of preventing another suchconflict. The Europeannationalismspawned by the war, the repercussions of Germany's defeat, and theTreaty of  Versailleswould eventually lead to the beginning of  World War IIin 1939.
[7]
Contents
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1 Background
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2 Chronology
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2.1 Opening hostilities
2.1.1 Confusion among the Central Powers
2.1.2 African campaigns
2.1.3 Serbian campaign
2.1.4 German forces in Belgium and France
2.1.5 Asia and the Pacific
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2.2 Early stages
2.2.1 Trench warfare begins
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2.3 Naval war 
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2.4 Southern theatres
2.4.1 War in the Balkans
2.4.2 Ottoman Empire
2.4.3 Italian participation
2.4.4 Fighting in India
2.4.4.1 Indian independence movement
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2.5 Eastern Front
2.5.1 Initial actions
2.5.2 Ukrainian oppression
2.5.3 Russian Revolution
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2.6 1917–1918
2.6.1 Entry of the United States
2.6.1.1 Isolationism
2.6.1.2 Making the case
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