do you know why world war 1 started and who won?( the allies i know but who were they)?

Answer 1

First, you may want to re-categorize....it's been over 80 years, so I hardly think it would qualify as a current event.....If middle school history serves me correctly, European countries made alliances, and when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated (1917? something like that), things sort of snowballed until almost every country in Europe was involved. Yes, the Allies won -that would include Great Britain, France, and the US at least :)

Answer 2

It isnot exactly a current event, is it ? My granfather used to tell me about it. According to what he said, it was started by Germany and Austria against Serbia. Then a set of alliances within European powers triggered the entry of Russia, France and England on one side (the Allies) and Turkey on the Germano-Austian side. Italy was neutral. As my grandfather said there were for a time two fronts : the Western front in France and the Eastern front in Russia. The Russians lost first in 1917 to the Germans and the population of Russia was so p... off with the war that they killed the czar and his family and started a Socialist revolution that was bloodier than the war itself.

The war continued on the Western front until the end of 1918 with the entry of the Americans in the war in 1917. That was the main factor that decided victory for the Allies as in 1918 some 200.000 US troops were coming to Europe each month with good material and fresh moral. It was high time for the poor French and English who were exhausted. The Germans could not cope with this inflow of new forces and although the war was never waged on their soil, they had to ask for an armistice in November 1918. They were near extinction and terribly weakened by a very efficient blocus.

The armistice was considered by most Germans as a stab in the back because they have never seen the colour of a French or English soldier. They were easily convinced in the early 20s by a moron called Hitler that Germany had not really lost the war and that the defeat could be the result of a treason by the Jews and the Communists. The whole German nation swallowed this lie like a child a bonbon....And all again was set for a new war that took place from 1939 to 1945. But this is another story that was told to me by my father.... I am glad I had no story like that to tell to my nephews because I have no son.

Answer 3

World War 1 was started because the Arch Duke Ferdinand got shot by a rebel and because of treaties between various nations, after the assination of Arch Duke Ferdinand, the various Euorpean nations ended up at war with each other. England and France and Russia and Italy ended up fighting the Germans. The United States joined in after the sinking of the Lusitania in 1917. The war ended in November 1918 with the alies victorious over Germany.

Answer 4

a set of international places universal together because of the fact the Allies gained WW1: Britain + Dominions + Empire. France + Empire. Serbia. Belgium. Japan. Italy (from 1915). Portugal (from 1916). Romania (from 1916). u . s . (from 1917). Greece (from 1917). Russia had initially been between the Allies in 1914,yet dropped out of the war in 1917 following the Bolshevik Revolution. WW1 began 28 July 1914 while Austria (egged on by making use of Germany) invaded Serbia.the present eu alliance device then dragged in the different important powers interior of a week.worldwide places that joined the Allies after 1914 did so in the expectancies of gaining territory (Greece,Italy,Romania),Germany declared war on them (Portugal),or felt threatened by making use of Germany (u . s .).

Answer 5

Dear Vanetta94,

To understand the causes of World War I, you have to go back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In those days it covered a large portion of central and eastern Europe, but its glory days were quite long behind it and it had an increasingly hard time maintaining peace and order among its many restless nationalities, who pined for independence.

A lot of the trouble came from the Balkans (already!). In 1908, Austria annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina after signing a secret treaty with Russia. Bosnia was home to a large minority of Serbs, and the neighbouring independent state of Serbia was outraged. This marked the beginning of a very tense relationship between Austria and Serbia. Austria became extremely wary of a defiant Serbia stirring up nationalist feelings across its empire and longed to invade it, but could not because of Russian support for Serbia, whom it considered to be a fellow Slavic nation.

On 28 June 1914, the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, was parading with his wife in the streets of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, when they were both murdered by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip. This provided the perfect excuse for Austria to finally launch an invasion of Serbia and make an example of restless nationalists all over its empire. Austria deliberately delivered a highly unreasonable ultimatum to Serbia, which it knew Serbia would reject. Ironically, Serbia agreed to all but one of the conditions - but Austria declared war anyway.

This is where the military alliance system kicked in. Germany was an ally of Austria, and the German Emperor was a mercurial, sentimental man with little sense of proportion. Upon hearing of the events at Sarajevo, the German Emperor immediately wrote to Austria declaring his full support for whatever measures Austria would take against Serbia. Austria now had a virtual blank cheque to do what it wanted, assured of complete German support (the largest military power in Europe at the time).

But Russia had not forgotten its kinship to Serbia and determined to enter a war to defend Serbia against Austria, despite repeated efforts at conciliation being made by the Germans and British in particular. Britain and France being allies of Russia, they joined in the war against Austria and Germany. This is how World War I started. The Triple Entente of Britain, France and Russia fought the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria and the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire.

Despite assurances by virtually every government involved that this would be a swift scuffle and the soldiers would be back home "before the leaves fell from the trees", this proved to be an extremely brutal and long-drawn conflict. It lasted almost four and a half years, during which 9 million people died. The war was fought on two fronts: in the East, the conflict was concentrated around the border lands between Germany and Russia but also in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, where British forces and its allies in the Arab colonies fought off the Ottoman Empire. In the West, the war was overwhelmingly fought on French soil. The French incurred 5 and a half million casualties during the conflict, the British nearly 3 million, and the Americans, 360,000.

In April 1917, the war took its toll on the decadent Russian regime. In the face of continuous defeat and terrible famines caused by the war effort, the Russian Emperor (Nicholas II) was forced to abdicate and Russia entered a bloody civil war at the end of which the Communists would take control. In March 1918, a newly installed Soviet government headed by Lenin signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Russian involvement in the war. This meant that Germany and Austria could now concentrate all their efforts on the Western front.

Although American help during the last eighteen months of the war (the US only entered the conflict on the side of Britain and France in April 1917) was of course very valuable, unlike what another poster here has suggested, there is no conclusive evidence that US assistance was actually decisive in winning the war. Even with US help, the allies failed to ever really rout the Germans. An allied counter-offensive in August, though efficient, became bogged down by October. Indeed the end of the war came about largely through political means, not military ones.

The high cost of the war had caused large civil unrest in Germany, which culminated in a revolution: in November 1918, the German Emperor was forced to abdicate and a new provisional government signed the armistice, ending the war. This is why there was so much bitterness in the German armed forces - there had been no decisive military defeat, and many German soldiers failed to understand why they suddenly had to surrender.

On the face of this, the crushing conditions inflicted on Germany during the peace talks at Versailles felt all the more humiliating to the Germans. Germany had to accept the loss of all its colonies and 40% of its national territory, the occupation of its border lands by foreign troops, the dismantlement of much of its army and the payment of millions of dollars in reparations to the victors. Ferdinand Foch, the French supreme commander of the allied forces, disapproved of these terms. "This is no peace", he said, "this is just an armistice for 20 years". As it tragically turned out, he was right on the money.

Hope this helped,

Answer 6

the king of prussia started that mes, it was won by the americans, canadians, aussies, new zealanders, britts, and awhole slew of other countries.

Answer 7

way to long to explain go to wikipedia or something and this question shouldn't be in current events.