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La Primera Guerra Mundial, también llamada la Gran Guerra, b fue un conflicto militar de carácter mundial, aunque centrado en Europa, que empezó el 28 de julio de 1914 y finalizó el 11 de noviembre de 1918, cuando Alemania aceptó las condiciones del armisticio .
- 28 de julio de 1914-11 de noviembre de 1918 (4 años, 3 meses y 14 días)
- End
- Background
- Germany Against Russia
- United Kingdom Against Germany
- Ottoman Empire
- Bulgaria Against Serbia and Greece
- Trench Warfare
- Airplanes
- United States Against Germany
- Russian Revolutions
In 1917, the Russian Revolution led to Russia leaving the war in March 1918. Also in 1917, the United States entered the war, but it took a year for most of its army to arrive. From the time of the Russian departure, before the American arrival, the Germans launched a huge attack in March 1918to try to win the war, but it failed. From August to Nov...
By 1914, trouble was on the rise in Europe, and many countries feared invasion from others. For example, Germany was becoming increasingly powerful, and the British Empiresaw that as a threat. Countries formed alliances to protect themselves, but that divided them into two groups. Germany and Austria-Hungary had been allies since 1879 and formed th...
Germany was afraid that because Austria-Hungary had attacked Serbia, Russia would attack Austria-Hungary to help Serbia. That made Germany feel that it had to help Austria-Hungary by attacking Russia first. The problem was that Russia was allied to France, and the Germans thought that the French might attack them to help Russia. That made Germany d...
The United Kingdom quickly joined the war and said that it was to protect Belgian neutrality. Germany passed through Belgium to reach Paris before Russia could mobilize and open up a second front. On August 4, 1914, the British declared war against Germany in support of Belgium. The British Empire was larger than any other empire and ruled over a q...
The Ottomans joined the war because they were secretly allied to Germany, and two Ottoman warships, manned by German Navy personnel, bombarded Russian towns. Britain fought against the Ottomans only for supporting Germany and had no other problem with them. However, by fighting them in the Mesopotamia region in what is now Iraq, in the Arabian Peni...
Bulgaria, like Greece and Serbia, had been part of the Ottoman Empire but later became independent. Bulgaria claimed a lot of Ottoman land. The Serbians and the Greeks felt cheated because they felt that the land belonged to them and took back the land. That angered Bulgaria and led to it becoming an Ottoman ally. Bulgaria declared war on Serbia an...
Trench warfare killed many soldiers. New weapons, such as machine guns, and long-range artillery had an increased rate of fire that cut down huge numbers of soldiers during mass charges, a tactic left over from older warfare. The men on both sides took spades and dug holes because they did not want to be killed. The holes joined up into trenches un...
Airplanes were first used extensively in World War I. They were first used for reconnaissance, and pictures of enemy land were taken to help direct artillery. Generals, who are military leaders, were using airplanes as an important part of their attack plans at the end of the war. World War I showed that airplanes could be important war weapons. Ai...
The German leaders decided to use submarines, called U-boats, from the German word Unterseeboot (meaning "underwater boat"). The U-boats attacked passenger ships such as RMS Lusitania carrying civilians to the United Kingdom. They did not follow the laws of warbecause the British could easily destroy them otherwise. America was selling weapons to G...
The defeat of Russia on the Eastern Front caused unrest there, which led to the Russian Revolutions. This made Russia fight both Germany and the Bolsheviks at the same time. Russia wanted to end the war against Germany and just fight the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. Russia gave Germany money and land to stop the fighting between those two c...
- Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China, Indian Ocean, North and South Atlantic Ocean
Hace 4 días · World War I, international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other regions. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.
La Primera Guerra Mundial, anteriormente llamada la Gran Guerra, fue un conflicto militar de carácter mundial, aunque centrado en Europa, que empezó el 28 de julio de 1914 y finalizó el 11 de noviembre de 1918, cuando Alemania aceptó las condiciones del armisticio. Recibió el calificativo de «mundial» porque se vieron involucradas todas las grandes potencias industriales y militares de ...
This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time. Battles generally refer to short ...
Universally acclaimed as one of the finest documentary series ever made about the Great War, Channel 4's The First World War is a powerful, original and truly comprehensive account of the conflict. It places the war in a truly global military context as never before, exploring many of the little-known campaigns, battles, and actions ...
The First World War was not only a global war, but also an especially long one. In many respects, the war already began before 1914, primarily in the Balkans and in peripheral colonies like Libya.
