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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Fritz Perls conflictParticipatedIn World War I
Alvin C. York conflict World War I
Serbian Third Army conflict World War I
Basil Bunting conflict World War I
Colonel McCormick conflict World War I
Major-General Richard Nelson Gale conflict World War I
subject surface form: Richard Nelson Gale
this entity surface form: First World War
Jerome K. Jerome conflict World War I
Battle of Basra conflict World War I
Fevzi Pasha participatedIn World War I
I Corps conflict World War I
subject surface form: I Corps (Ottoman Empire)
this entity surface form: First World War
Battle of Ctesiphon conflict World War I
John Bagot Glubb conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Maude conflict World War I
subject surface form: Frederick Stanley Maude
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Dickson conflict World War I
subject surface form: William Dickson
this entity surface form: First World War
Guards Machine Gun Regiment conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Creel Committee conflict World War I
George Creel participatedIn World War I
Division of Films conflict World War I
Werner von Blomberg conflict World War I
Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Fuselli conflict World War I
Keller Emrick Rockey conflict World War I
Béla Linder participatedIn World War I
Jewish Battalions conflict World War I
Judean Regiment conflict World War I
John Henry Patterson conflict World War I
38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Zion Mule Corps conflict World War I
British Army in the Middle East conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Frederick Stopford conflict World War I
British IX Corps conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
11th (Northern) Division conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Mario Berti conflict World War I
David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Syrian front conflict World War I
39th Battalion Royal Fusiliers conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
HMS Royal Sovereign conflict World War I
Battle of Tser conflict World War I
subject surface form: Battle of Cer
Serbian 2nd Army conflict World War I
Nuri al-Said participantIn World War I
No. 202 Squadron RAF conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
40th Battalion Royal Fusiliers conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War
Meuse-Argonne region conflict World War I
Vasily Boldyrev participatedIn World War I
42nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers conflict World War I
this entity surface form: First World War