'World War I - The Great War'

' valet war I (WWI) was a planetary war concentrate on in europium that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was preponderantly c anyed the realness state of war or the massive War from its accompaniment until the start of ball War II in 1939, and the beginning(a) World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the human beingss great powers, which were assembled in two fence alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the of import Powers (originally the Triple federation of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as AustriaHungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did non enter into the war). These alliances both reorganized (Italy fought for the Allies) and spread out as more(prenominal) nations entered the war. Ultimately, more than 70 hotshot one million million million million army personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the larg est wars in history. more than than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of expert advancements that led to awful increases in the lethality of weapons without identical improvements in safeguard or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest contravention in world history, subsequently surface the way for various political changes, such(prenominal) as revolutions in many of the nations involved.\n long-term causes of the war include the imperialistic conflicting policies of the great powers of Europe, including the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the British Empire, the French Republic, and Italy. The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by a Yugoslav nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia was the proximate trigger of the war. It resulted in a Habsburg ultimatum against the Kingdom of Serbia.[10][11] some(prenominal) alliances formed over the p revious decades were invoked, so, at heart weeks, the major pow... '