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Also known as the Entente Powers, were the countries that opposed the Central Powers during the First World War. The members of the original Entente Alliance of 1907 were the French Republic, the British Empire and the Russian Empire.
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Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire.
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The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war
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The Schlieffen Plan was the name given after World War I to the thinking behind the German invasion of France and Belgium on 4 August 1914. Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen was the Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891–1906 and in 1905/06 devised a deployment plan for a war-winning offensive, in a one-front war against the French Third Republic.
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Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes.
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A German U-boat sank the British passenger ship Arabic, killing forty-four people, including two Americans. The attack, coupled with the sinking of the Lusitania, created a diplomatic crisis between Germany and the United States that was somewhat defused when Germany issued the Arabic Pledge, renouncing its unannounced attacks on passenger ships.
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The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
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Germany sparked an international diplomatic crisis when, on 24 March 1916, one of its submarines - UB-29, mistakenly sank a French cross-channel ferry - the Sussex of 1,350 tons - believing it instead to be a minelayer.
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an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany. If won, Mexico would get back some American land that was taken over by the U.S.
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The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
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The convoy—a group of merchantmen or troopships traveling together with a naval escort—was revived during World War I, after having been discarded at the start of the Age of Steam
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The Committee on Public Information, also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I.
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a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products.
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It was intended to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of U.S. enemies during wartime.
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During the United States participation in World War I the U. S. Food Administration was the responsible agency for the administration of the U.S. army overseas and allies' food reserves. One of its important tasks was the stabilization of the price of wheat on the U. S. market
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was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. The attack failed when an Allied counterattack by French and American forces
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during the First World War between the Allies and Germany – also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location in which it was signed – and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front
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a United States federal agency created in two different incarnations, the first by President Woodrow Wilson from 1918–19 during World War
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austria hungary lose and are forced to surrender to the allies
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of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place. The official name of the state was the German Reich (Deutsches Reich), continuing the name from the pre-1918 German Empire.