World War I

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World War I was a global conflict from 1914 to 1918 that pitted the Allied Powers against the Central Powers and reshaped the political and social landscape of the 20th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 20th-century war
global conflict
interstate war
war
alsoKnownAs World War I
surface form: First World War

World War I
surface form: The Great War
belligerent Allied Powers of World War I
surface form: Allied Powers

Central Powers
casualtiesEstimate over 15 million deaths
civilianCasualtiesEstimate millions of civilians killed
commemorationDate Armistice Day
Armistice Day
surface form: Remembrance Day
commemorationSymbol red poppy
endDate 1918-11-11
endedBy Armistice of 11 November 1918
followedBy interwar period
formalEndTreaty Treaty of Lausanne
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
surface form: Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)

Treaty of Sèvres
Treaty of Trianon
Treaty of Versailles
front African theatre
Balkan Front
Eastern Front
Italian Front
Middle East combat operations
surface form: Middle Eastern theatre

Western Front
hasGenre total war
homeFrontImpact increased participation of women in the workforce
mass conscription
rationing in many countries
immediateCause assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
immediateCauseDate 1914-06-28
location Africa
Asia
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
Middle East
Pacific Ocean
longTermConsequence conditions contributing to the outbreak of World War II
conditions contributing to the rise of Nazism in Germany
mainAlliedPower France
Italy
Russian Empire
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
mainCentralPower Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Bulgaria
German Empire
Ottoman Empire
militaryCasualtiesEstimate millions of soldiers killed
notableBattle Battle of Gallipoli
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Tannenberg
Battle of Verdun
Battle of the Somme
First Battle of the Marne
notableCommander Douglas Haig
Erich Ludendorff
Ferdinand Foch
John J. Pershing
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Paul von Hindenburg
organizationCreated League of Nations
partOf 20th-century history
politicalConsequence creation of new nation-states in Europe
redrawing of European borders
rise of Japan as a major power in Asia
rise of the United States as a major world power
weakening of European colonial empires
precededBy Balkan Wars
result Russian Revolution and withdrawal of Russia from the war
abdication of German Kaiser Wilhelm II
collapse of Ottoman Empire
defeat of the Central Powers
dissolution of Austro-Hungarian Empire
startDate 1914-07-28
technologicalFeature first large-scale use of chemical weapons
introduction of tanks
large-scale use of trench warfare
use of military aircraft
use of submarines (U-boats)
widespread use of machine guns
timePeriod 1910s
triggerEventLocation Sarajevo

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Battle of Shaiba conflict World War I
Lone Pine (First World War battlefield at Gallipoli) conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Hamidiye (cruiser) participatedIn World War I
subject surface form: Hamidiye
Mannock conflict World War I
subject surface form: Edward Mannock
this entity surface form: First World War
No. 40 Squadron RFC conflict World War I
Sir Albert Edward Kemp participatedIn World War I
subject surface form: Albert Edward Kemp
Walter B. Beals conflict World War I
Force Publique conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Edward Corringham Mannock conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
No. 74 Squadron RFC conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Sir Joseph Flavelle participantIn World War I
Turgut Reis (battleship) conflict World War I
Zimmermann Plan for India conflict World War I
Mahendra Pratap conflict World War I
Arthur Zimmermann participatedIn World War I
Otto Strasser conflict World War I
XV Corps conflict World War I
subject surface form: XV Corps (Ottoman Empire)
Bojan Janković conflict World War I
German 11th Army conflict World War I
Clive Brook conflictParticipatedIn World War I
James Warner Bellah conflict World War I
Laurence Stallings conflict World War I
Battle of Mărășești conflict World War I
Fifth Battle of Ypres conflict World War I
Georgi Todorov conflict World War I
Otto von Below conflict World War I
British Salonika Force conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Italian 35th Division conflict World War I
Robert Cassels conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Mark IV tank usedInConflict World War I
James Lawton Collins conflict World War I
Mason Patrick conflict World War I
Air Service conflict World War I
subject surface form: United States Army Air Service
Živojin Mišić participatedIn World War I
XVI Corps conflict World War I
subject surface form: XVI Corps (Ottoman Empire)
Battle of Siret conflict World War I
Dennis Hoey conflictParticipatedIn World War I
Robert Ritter von Greim conflict World War I
Vehip Pasha conflict World War I
II Corps conflict World War I
subject surface form: II Corps (Ottoman Empire)
General Sir Edmund Ironside conflict World War I
subject surface form: Edmund Ironside
this entity surface form: First World War
Petar Bojović participatedIn World War I
Battle of Florina conflict World War I
No. 32 Squadron RAF conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War