World War I :: World War I

World War I, also cognize as the Great War, was a global war which took place primarily in europium from 1914 to 1918. The immediate cause of the World War I was the June 28, 1914 blackwash of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Black Hand. The retaliation by Austria-Hungary against the monarchy of Serbia activated a series of alliances that set off a chain reaction of war declarations. Within a month, much of Europe was in a state of open warfare. And World War II or the Second World War was a global host conflict, the joining of what had initially been cardinal separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German invasion of PolandWorld War I was fought by two major(ip) alliances. The Entente Powers initially consisted of France, England, Russia, and their associated empires. Numerous other s tates joined these allies, most(prenominal) notably Italy in April 1915, and the get together States in April 1917. The primeval Powers, named because of their central mess on the European continent, initially consisted of Germany and Austria-Hungary and their associated empires. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in October 1914, followed a year later by Bulgaria. By the closing curtain of the war only The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and the Scandinavian nations remained officially neutral among the European countries, though many of those provided financial and material support to one side or the other. World War II was also fought by two major alliances, the Allied and Axis power. The AXIS powers consisted of Germany, Italy (changed sides and split in half 1943) Hungary, Romania Bulgaria, Finland (changed sides 1945) Spain was meant to be neutral but they helped Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and sent troops to appointment onside the Germans in Russia. The m ajor Allied Powers were Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and China.The fighting of World War I mostly took place along several fronts that broadly encircled the European continent. The Western Front was attach by a system of trenches, breastworks, and fortifications separated by an area known as no mans land. These defenses stretched 475 miles and precipitated a style of fighting known as trench warfare. On the Eastern Front, the vastness of the eastern plains and the limited railroad line network prevented the stalemate of the Western Front, though the scale of the conflict was but as large.