World War 1
World war 1, Great War, War to end all wars
Duration of world war 1:
From 28 July 1914 To 11 November 1918
Participants of world war 1:
Central powers Vs Allied powers
Central Powers:
Germany, Austria-Hungary Empire, Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire
Allied Powers:
Main countries were Britain, France, Russia, Italy, United States
Result of world war 1:
Allied powers won the war.
Reason of world war 1:
Heir of Austria-Hungry along with his wife was murdered on 28 June and Austria-Hungary accused on Serbia for murder. Austria-Hungary wanted to start of war but they didn't declare war because they knew that Serbia is good friend of Russia so they asked Germany for help. Germany said to Austria-Hungary we are giving blank check to you. It means Germany said that we are with you in any situation. So on 28 July Austria-Hungary declared war.
How it becomes World War 1:
Germany thought we are with Austria-Hungary and we have to fight with Serbia and Russia but when war started Russia called for help from France. So Germany had to Fight on two fronts: Eastern Front with Russia and Western front with France. On western front for fighting against France they try the way from Belgium but when they attacked on Belgium, Britain also started war against Germany because they were in contract with Belgium. So later on the war expanded and United state along with Italy and Japan met with allied powers. On the other side Ottoman empire come to help Central powers. So it became world war.
Orange marks are Central powers and Green areas are Allied powers.
End of world war 1:
War was ended when on 11 November 1918 Germany accepted that they have lost the war. Colonies of Germany was distributed between allied powers. Many new countries was created and some old countries was restored on the map.
Some Statistics of World war 1:
Around 16 Million people dead in this war and about 20 millions people were injured. Almost 70 million warriors fought in this war and in 70 millions 60 million warriors were of Europe. Many new weapons were also used in this war.
Other Outcomes of world war 1:
War always are the source of destruction and WW1 is the best example. Along with some many bad things we can get some good lessons from war. We can get experience that how important it is to maintain peace. On the end of war league of nation was formed so that in future such incident may not happen.
