The Entente Powers, led by France, Russia, the British Empire, and later Italy (from 1915) and the United States (from 1917), defeated the Central Powers, led by the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Ottoman Empires. Russia withdrew from the war after the revolution in 1917.
The military leaders were General John Pershing (U.S.), Marshall Foch (France), Douglag Haig (Britain), Paul von Hindenburg (Germany), and Alexsy Brusilov (Russia).
The political leaders were Woodrow Wilson (U.S.),
Georges Clemenceau (France), David Lloyd George (Britain), Kaisar Wilhelh (Germany), Nicolai (Russia), and Victor Emmanuel (Italy).
Poland reemerged as an independent country, after more than a century. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were entirely new nations. Russia became the Soviet Union and lost Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which became independent countries. The Ottoman Empire was soon replaced by Turkey and several other countries in the Middle East.
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