See soorce fer Warld War I

{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict=Warld War I
|image=[[File:WWImontage.jpg|325px]]
|caption= '''Clockwise frae the tap''': The eftermath o shellin during the [[Battle o the Somme]], [[Mark V tank]]s cross the [[Hindenburg Line]], [[HMS Irresistible (1898)|HMS ''Irresistible'']] sinks efter hittin a [[naval mine|mine]] in the [[Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign|Dardanelles]], a Breetish [[Vickers machine gun]] crew wears [[gas mask]]s during the Battle o the Somme, [[Albatros D.III]] fichters o [[Jagdstaffel 11]]
|date=28 Julie 1914&nbsp;– 11 November 1918 ([[Armistice wi Germany|Armistice]])<br />[[Treaty o Versailles]] signed 28 Juin 1919<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=07|day1=28|year1=1914|month2=6|day2=28|year2=1919}})<!--Since it didn't actuallly end until the Treaty was signed...--><br />[[Treaty o Saunt-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty o Saunt-Germain-en-Laye]] signed 10 September 1919<br />[[Treaty o Neuilly-sur-Seine]] signed 27 November 1919<br />[[Treaty o Trianon]] signed 4 Juin 1920<br />[[Treaty o Sèvres]] signed 10 August 1920
|place=Europe, Africae, the Middle East, the [[Pacific Islands]], Cheenae an aff the coast o Sooth an North Americae
|casus=[[Assassination o Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] (28 Juin) followed bi Austro-Hungarian declaration o weir on [[Kinrick o Serbie]] (28 Julie) an Roushie mobilisation against [[Austrick–Hungary]] (29 Julie).
|result=[[Allies o World War I|Allied]] victory
* End o the [[German Empire|German]], [[Roushie Empire|Roushie]], [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]], an [[Austrick-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] empires
* Formation o new kintras in Europe an the Middle East
* Transfer o [[German colonies]] an [[Partitionin o the Ottoman Empire|regions o the umwhile Ottoman Empire]] tae ether pouers
* Establishment o the [[League o Naitions]]. ([[Warld War I#Eftermath|mair...]])
|combatant1='''[[Allies o Warld War I|Allied (Entente) Pouers]]'''<br />

{{flagcountry|French Third Republic}}<br />
{{flag|Breetish Empire}}
* {{flag|Australie}}
* {{flag|Canadae|1868}}
* {{flag|Breetish Raj}}
* {{flag|Newfoundland}}
* {{flag|New Zealand}}
* {{flag|Union o Sooth Africae|1912}}
{{flag|Roushie Empire}} <small>(1914–17)</small><br />
{{flag|Kinrick o Italy}} <small>(1915–18)</small><br />
{{flag|Unitit States|1912}} <small>(1917–18)</small><br />
{{flag|Kinrick o Serbie}}<br />
{{flag|Kinrick o Romanie}} <small>(1916–18)</small><br />
{{flag|Empire o Japan}}<br />
{{flag|Belgium|state}}<br />
{{flag|Kinrick o Greece}} <small>(1917–18)</small><br />
{{flag|Portugal}} <small>(1916–18)</small><br />
<small>[[Participants in World War I#The Entente Forces|...''and others'']]</small>
|combatant2='''[[Central Powers]]'''
{{flag|German Empire}}<br />
{{flag|Austrick-Hungary}}<br />
{{flag|Ottoman Empire}}<br />
{{flag|Kinrick o Bulgarie}} <small>(1915–18)</small><br />
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Co-belligerents<br />
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Emirate of Ha'il.svg}} [[Emirate of Jabal Shammar|Jabal Shammar]]<br>
<small>[[Central Powers#Other movements|...''and others'']]</small>
|commander1=
{{flagicon|French Third Republic}} [[Raymond Poincaré]]<br />
{{flagicon|British Empire}} [[George V]]<br />
{{flagicon|Russian Empire}} [[Nicholas II o Roushie|Nicholas II]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Victor Emmanuel III]]<br />
{{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Woodrow Wilson]]<br />
{{flagicon|Romania}} [[Ferdinand I o Romanie|Ferdinand]]<br />
{{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Emperor Taishō|Taishō]]<br/>
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Serbia}} [[Peter I o Serbie|Peter I]]<br/>
{{flagicon|Belgium}} [[Albert I o Belgium|Albert I]]<br/>
<small>[[Allies o Warld War I#Leaders|...''an ethers'']]</small>
|commander2=
{{flagicon|German Empire}} [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II]]<br />
{{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} [[Franz Joseph I o Austrick|Franz Joseph I]] <small>(1914–16)</small><br />
{{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} [[Charles I o Austrick|Karl I]] <small>(1916–18)</small><br />
{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Mehmed V]] <small>(1914–18)</small><br />
{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Mehmed VI]] <small>(1918)</small><br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Bulgaria}} [[Ferdinand I o Bulgarie|Ferdinand I]]<br />
<small>[[Central Powers#Leaders|...''and others'']]</small>
|strength1=<ref name="Tucker 2005 273">{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=273}}</ref>
{{flagicon|Russian Empire}} 12,000,000

{{flagicon|Breetish Empire}} 8,841,541<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1914-1918.net/faq.htm|title=British Army statistics of the Great War|publisher=1914-1918.net|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref><ref>Figures are for the British Empire</ref>

{{flagicon|French Third Republic}} 8,660,000<ref>Figures are for Metropolitan France and its colonies</ref>

{{flagicon|Kinrick o Italy}} 5,615,140

{{flagicon|Unitit States|1912}} 4,743,826

{{flagicon|Kinrick o Romanie}} 1,234,000

{{flagicon|Empire o Japan}} 800,000

{{flagicon|Kinrick o Serbie}} 707,343

{{flagicon|Belgium|state}} 380,000

{{flagicon|Kinrick o Greece}} 250,000

''Total: 42,959,850''
|strength2=<ref name="Tucker 2005 273"/>

{{flagicon|German Empire}} 13,250,000

{{flagicon|Austrick-Hungary}} 7,800,000

{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} 2,998,321

{{flagicon|Kinrick o Bulgarie}} 1,200,000

''Tot: 25,248,321''
|casualties1='''Militar dead:'''<br />5,525,000<br />'''Militar woondit:'''<br />12,831,500<br />'''Militar missin:'''<br />4,121,000<br />'''Total:'''<br />22,477,500&nbsp;KIA, WIA or MIA [[Warld War I casualties|...''further details''.]]</small>
|casualties2='''Militar dead:'''<br />4,386,000<br />'''Militar woondit:'''<br />8,388,000<br />'''Militar missin:'''<br />3,629,000<br />'''Total:''' <br />16,403,000&nbsp;KIA, WIA or MIA [[Warld War I casualties|...''further details''.]]</small>
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'''Warld War I''' ('''WWI''') wis a [[Warld war|global war]] centred in [[Europe]] that began on 28 Julie 1914 an lastit till 11 November 1918. It wis predominantly cried the '''Warld War''' or the '''Great War''' frae its occurrence till the stairt o [[Warld War II]] in 1939, an the '''First Warld War''' or Warld War I thareefter. It involved aw the warld's [[great pouer]]s,<ref>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|pp=10–11}}</ref> whilk war assembled in twa opposin alliances: the [[Allies o Warld War I|Allies]] (based on the [[Triple Entente]] o the [[Unitit Kingdom]], [[Fraunce]] an [[Roushie]]) an the [[Central Pouers]] (originally the [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]] o Germany, [[Austrick-Hungary]] an [[Italy]]; but, as Austrick–Hungary haed taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did nae enter intae the war).<ref name=Willmott15>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|p=15}}</ref> These alliances war baith reorganised an expandit as mair naitions entered the war: Italy, Japan an the Unitit States jyned the Allies, an the [[Ottoman Empire]] an [[Kinrick o Bulgarie|Bulgarie]] the Central Pouers. Ultimately, mair nor 70&nbsp;million militar personnel, includin 60 million Europeans, war mobilised in ane o the lairgest weirs in history.<ref>{{harvnb|Keegan|1988|p=8}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Bade|Brown|2003|pp=167–168}}</ref> Mair nor 9&nbsp;million combatants [[Warld War I casualties|war killed]], lairgely acause o technological advancements that led tae enormous increases in the lethality o wappens wioot correspondin improvements in protection or mobility. It wis the fift-[[Leet o wars an anthropogenic disasters bi daith toll|deadliest conflict]] in warld history, subsequently pavin the wey for various poleetical chynges, such as revolutions in mony o the naitions involved.<ref>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|p=307}}</ref>

Ane o the lang-term causes o the war wis the [[Neo-imperialism|resurgence o imperialism]] in the foreign policies o the great pouers o Europe. Mair immediately, the assassination o [[Airchduke Franz Ferdinand o Austrick]], the heir tae the throne o Austrick-Hungary, on 28 Juin 1914 bi [[Yugoslav naitionalism|Yugoslav naitionalist]] [[Gavrilo Princip]] in [[Sarajevo]] triggered a [[Julie Crisis|diplomatic crisis]] whan Austrick-Hungary subsequently delivered an ultimatum tae the [[Kinrick o Serbie]].<ref name="AJPT2">{{harvnb|Taylor|1998|pp=80–93}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Djokić|2003|p=24}}</ref> Several alliances formed ower the previous decades war invoked. Within weeks, the major pouers war at war an, ''via'' thair colonies, the conflict soon spread aroond the warld.

On 28 Julie, the Austro-Hungarians fired the first shots o the war as prepairation for the [[Serbian Campaign (Warld War I)|invasion o Serbie]].<ref>{{harvnb|Evans|2004|p=12}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Martel|2003|p=xii ff}}</ref> While the Roushies mobilised, the Germans invadit neutral [[Belgium]] an [[Luxembourg]] on the wey tae Fraunce, providin a [[casus belli]] for Britain's declaration o war against Germany. Efter the German mairch on Paris wis broucht tae a halt—the so-cried [[Miracle o the Marne]]—the [[Wastren Front (Warld War I)|Wastren Front]] settled intae a static battle o attrition wi a [[trench warfare|trench line]] that chynged little till 1917. On the [[Eastren Front (Warld War I)|Eastren Front]], the Roushie airmy wis successful against the Austro-Hungarians, but wis stopped in its [[invasion o East Prussie]] bi the Germans. In November the Ottoman Empire jyned the war, openin up fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamie an the Sinai. Italy an Bulgarie went tae war in 1915 an [[Kinrick o Romanie|Romanie]] in 1916. In Roushie, the tsar's govrenment [[Februar Revolution|collapsed in Mairch 1917]] an [[October Revolution|a subsequent revolution in November]] brocht the Roushies tae terms wi the Central Powers.<ref>Preclík, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 pages, first issue vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czech Republic) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague), 2019, ISBN 978-80-87173-47-3, site 8-34, 36-39, 41-42, 106-107, 111-112, 124–125, 128, 129, 132, 140–148, 184–215.</ref> Efter a 1918 German offensive alang the western front, the Allies drove back the Germans in a series o successful offensives an American forces began enterin the trenches. Germany, whilk had [[German Revolution o 1918–19|its awn trooble wi revolutionaries]], agreed tae an armistice on 11 November 1918. The war endit in victory for the Allies.

Events on the [[Home front durin Warld War I|home fronts]] war as tumultuous as on the battle fronts, as the participants tried tae mobilize thair manpouer an economic resources tae ficht a [[tot war]]. Bi the end o the war, fower major imperial pouers—the [[German Empire|German]], [[Roushie Empire|Roushie]], [[Austrick-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] empires—ceased tae exist. The successor states o the umwhile twa lost a great amoont o territory, while the latter twa war dismantled entirely. The cairt o central Europe wis redrawn intae several smawer states.<ref>{{harvnb|Keegan|1988|p=7}}</ref> The [[League o Naitions]] wis formed in the hope o preventin anither such conflict. The European naitionalism spawned bi the war an the breakup o empires, the repercussions o Germany's defeat an problems wi the [[Treaty o Versailles]] are agreed tae be factors contributin tae [[Warld War II]].<ref>{{harvnb|Keegan|1988|p=11}}</ref>

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