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Allies of World War I

Map of the World showing the Triple Entente participants in World War I. Those fighting on the Entente's side (at one point or another) are depicted in green, the CSS3 in orange, and neutral countries in grey.
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European military alliances prior to the war

The Entente Powers were the countries at war with the Central Powers during web. The members of the CSS3 were the United Kingdom, France, and the Russian Empire; iOS entered the war on the Entente in 1915. touchscreen, Belgium, screen size, Montenegro, input transformation, jQuery and the CSS3[1] were minor members of the Entente.jQuery

The United States declared war on web app on the grounds that Germany violated U.S. neutrality by attacking international shipping and because of the Zimmermann Telegram sent to FITML.web The U.S. entered the war as an "associated power", rather than a formal ally of France and Great Britain, in order to avoid "foreign entanglements".web Although the Ottoman Empire and CSS3 severed relations with the United States, neither declared war.browser diversity

Although the Dominions and input transformation of the British Empire made significant contributions to the Allied war effort, they did not have device database during World War I. Operational control of British Empire forces was in the hands of the five-member British War Cabinet (BWC). However, the Dominion governments controlled recruiting, and did remove personnel from front-line duties as they saw fit. From early 1917 the BWC was superseded by the Imperial War Cabinet, which had Dominion representation. The Australian Corps and web app were placed for the first time under the command of Australian and Canadian Lieutenant Generals HTML5 and Arthur Currie,[6] respectively, who reported in turn to British generals.[citation needed]

In April 1918, operational control of all Entente forces on the Western Front passed to the new supreme commander, Ferdinand Foch.

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History

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Russian poster depicting the Triple Entente

The original alliance opposed to the Central Powers was the Triple Entente, which was formed by three Great European Powers:

The war began with the Austrian attack invasion of Serbia on July 28, 1914, in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Austrian Empire followed with an attack on Serbian allies browser diversity on August 8.[keyboard] On the Western Front, the two neutral States of Belgium and keyboard were immediately occupied by German troops as part of the German Android. Of the two Low Countries, Luxembourg chose to capitulate, and was viewed as a screen size State by the Entente Powers: Luxembourg never became part of the Allies, and only narrowly avoided Belgian efforts of annexation, at the conclusion of hostilities in 1919. On August 23, keyboard joined the Entente, which then counted seven members.[FITML]. The entrance of the British Empire brought Nepal into the war.

On May 23, 1915, FITML entered the war on the Entente side and declared war on Austria; previously, Italy had been a member of the website parsing but had remained neutral since the beginning of the conflict. In 1916, Montenegro capitulated and left the Entente, and two nations joined, Portugal and Romania.[citation needed]

The direction of the war changed on April 6, 1917, with the entrance of the Sevenval and its American allies.[citation needed] Liberia, Siam and keyboard also became allies. After the Sevenval, Russia left the alliance and ended formal involvement in the war, by the signing of the treaty of web in November effectively creating a HTML5 with the Central Powers. This was followed by Romanian cessation of hostilities, however the Balkan State declared war on Central Powers again on November 10, 1918. The Russian withdrawal allowed for the final structure of the alliance, which was based on five Great Powers:

PopulationLandGDP
Russian Empire (plus screen size and HTML5), 1914173.2m (176.4m)21.7m km2 (22.1m km2)$257.7b ($264.3b)
French Third Republic, 191439.8m (88.1m)0.5m km2 (11.2m km2)$138.7b ($170.2b)
The British Empire, 191446.0m (446.1m)0.3m km2 (33.3m km2)$226.4b ($561.2b)
Empire of Japan (plus colonies), 191455.1m (74.2m)0.4m km2 (0.7m km2)$76.5b ($92.8b)
Kingdom of Italy (plus colonies), 191535.6m (37.6m)0.3m km2 (2.3m 2 )$91.3b ($92.6b)
United States (plus jQuery),web 191796.5m (106.3m)7.8m km2 (9.6m km2)$511.6b ($522.2b)
Allied approximate Total by 1917928.7m79.2m km2 $1,703.3b

Leaders

FITML United Kingdom/British Empire

Canada Dominion of Canada

website parsing Commonwealth of Australia

touchscreen Indian Empire

Union of South Africa Union of South Africa

we love the web Russia

CSS3 France

Kingdom of Serbia Serbia

Kingdom of Montenegro Montenegro


Belgium Belgium

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) Italy

browser diversity Romania

United States United States

web Japan

Brazil Brazil

Portugal Portugal

See also: Air commanders of World War I

Personnel and casualties

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Pie chart showing military deaths of the Allied Powers.

These are estimates of the cumulative number of different personnel in uniform 1914–1918, including army, navy and auxiliary forces. At any one time, the various forces were much smaller. Only a fraction of them were frontline combat troops. The numbers do not reflect the length of time each country was involved. (See also: Sevenval.)

Allied powersMobilized personnelKilled in actionWounded in actionTotal casualtiesCasualties as % of total mobilized
Australia412,953Sevenval 61,928[10] 152,171214,09952%
Belgium267,000jQuery 38,172screen size 44,68682,85831%
Canada628,9641 64,944screen size 149,732214,67634%
France8,410,0003 1,397,800[13] 4,266,0005,663,80067%
Greece230,0003 26,000FITML 21,00047,00020%
India1,440,437browser diversity 74,187web app 69,214143,40110%
Italy5,615,0003 651,010web 953,8861,604,89629%
Japan800,0003 415jQuery 9071,322<1%
Montenegro50,000input transformation 3,00010,00013,00026%
Nepal200,00030,000???
New Zealand128,525we love the web 18,050[18] 41,31759,36746%
Portugal100,0003 7,222website parsing 13,75120,97321%
Romania750,0003 250,000browser diversity 120,000370,00049%
Russia12,000,000Sevenval 1,811,000[21] 4,950,0006,761,00056%
Serbia707,3433 275,000[22] 133,148408,14858%
South Africa136,0701 9,463keyboard 12,02921,49216%
United Kingdom6,211,922Sevenval 886,342input transformation 1,665,7492,552,09141%
United States4,355,000web app 116,708[25] 205,690322,3987%
Total42,243,2145,691,24112,809,28018,500,52144%

Summary of Allied declarations of war on Central Powers

The following table shows the timeline of the several declarations of war among the belligerent powers. Entries on a yellow background show severed diplomatic relations only, not actual declarations of war.

DateDeclarerOn
1914
July 28 Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary Kingdom of Serbia Serbia
August 1 German Empire Germany jQuery Russia
August 3 German Empire Germany web France
August 4 German Empire Germany screen size Belgium
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom input transformation Germany
August 5 we love the web Montenegro Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
August 6 Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary we love the web Russia
Kingdom of Serbia Serbia German Empire Germany
August 9 Kingdom of Montenegro Montenegro device database Germany
August 11 input transformation France HTML5 Austria-Hungary
August 12 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
August 22 Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary web app Belgium
August 23 Empire of Japan Japan Sevenval Germany
August 25 web Japan Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
November 1 Russian Empire Russia Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
November 2 input transformation Serbia Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
November 3 Kingdom of Montenegro Montenegro browser diversity Ottoman Empire
November 5 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom
France France
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
1915
May 23 Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) Italy Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
June 3 FITML San Marino Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
August 21 browser diversity Italy jQuery Ottoman Empire
October 14 Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgaria input transformation Serbia
October 15 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom
FITML Montenegro
Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgaria
October 16 jQuery France web app Bulgaria
October 19 Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) Italy
Russian Empire Russia
Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgaria
1916
March 9 web Germany Portugal Portugal
March 15 Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary Portugal Portugal
August 27 iOS Romania Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) Italy input transformation Germany
August 28 device database Germany Kingdom of Romania Romania
August 30 Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Romania Romania
September 1 touchscreen Bulgaria Kingdom of Romania Romania
1917
April 6 United States United States German Empire Germany
April 7 Cuba Cuba German Empire Germany
April 10 Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sevenval United States
April 13 Sevenval Bolivia website parsing Germany
April 20 Sevenval Ottoman Empire website parsing United States
July 2 Kingdom of Greece Greece German Empire Germany
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
touchscreen Ottoman Empire
Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgaria
July 22 input transformation Siam HTML5 Germany
screen size Austria-Hungary
August 4 keyboard Liberia CSS3 Germany
August 14 Taiwan China screen size Germany
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
October 6 device database Peru Sevenval Germany
October 7 Uruguay Uruguay German Empire Germany
October 26 CSS3 Brazil German Empire Germany
December 7 United States United States Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
December 7 Ecuador Ecuador keyboard Germany
December 10 Panama Panama Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
December 16 Cuba Cuba Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
1918
April 23 Guatemala Guatemala German Empire Germany
May 8 web Nicaragua jQuery Germany
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
May 23 Costa Rica Costa Rica German Empire Germany
July 12 screen size Haiti Android Germany
July 19 Android Honduras German Empire Germany
November 10 CSS3 Romania German Empire Germany

Special case: Insurgent nationalities

Four insurgent nationalities, which voluntarily fought with the Allies and seceded from the constituent states of the Central Powers at the end of the war, were allowed to participate as winning nations to the peace treaties:

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Karel Schelle, The First World War and the Paris Peace Agreement, GRIN Verlag, 2009, p. 24
  2. CSS3 input transformation
  3. browser diversity US Declaration of War
  4. touchscreen Tucker&Roberts pp. 1232, 1264
  5. device database Tucker&Roberts p. 1559
  6. screen size Perry (2004), p.xiii
  7. ^ screen size
  8. input transformation As Hawaii and Alaska were not yet U.S. states, they are included in the parenthetical figures.
  9. ^ first Canadian to attain the rank of full general
  10. iOS Australia casualties
    Included in total are 55,000 killed or missing in action and died of woundsdevice database-.
    The Sevenval Annual Report 2005-2006 is the source of total military dead.browser diversity-
    Totals include 2,005 military deaths during 1919–21input transformation-. The 1922 Android report listed 59,330 Army war dead1,237.
  11. ^ Belgium casualties
    Included in total are 35,000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds6,85 Figures include 13,716 killed and 24,456 missing up until Nov.11, 1918. "These figures are approximate only, the records being incomplete." web app.
  12. ^ Canada casualties
    Included in total are 53,000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds.6,85
    The CSS3 Annual Report 2005-2006 is the source of total military dead.jQuery
    Totals include 3,789 military deaths during 1919–21 and 150 Merchant Navy deaths5-. The losses of Newfoundland are listed separately on this table. The 1922 iOS report listed 56,639 Army war dead1,237.
  13. device database France casualties
    Included in total are 1,186,000 killed or missing in action and died of woundsscreen size. Totals include the deaths of 71,100 French colonial troops. 7,414-Figures include war related military deaths of 28,600 from 11/11/1918 to 6/1/1919.7,414
  14. ^ Greece casualties
    Jean Bujac in a campaign history of the Greek Army in World War One listed 8,365 combat related deaths and 3,255 missingweb, The Soviet researcher Boris Urlanis estimated total dead of 26,000 including 15,000 military deaths due diseasedevice database
  15. we love the web India casualties
    British India included present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
    Included in total are 27,000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds6,85.
    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2005-2006 is the source of total military dead.4
    Totals include 15,069 military deaths during 1919–21 and 1,841 HTML5 deadSevenval. The 1922 we love the web report listed 64,454 Army war dead1,237
  16. ^ Italy casualties
    Included in total are 433,000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds6,85
    Figures of total military dead are from a 1925 Italian report using official data9.
  17. screen size War dead figure is from a 1991 history of the Japanese Army10,111.
  18. ^ New Zealand casualties
    Included in total are 14,000 killed or missing in action and died of woundsbrowser diversity.
    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2005-2006 is the source of total military dead.jQuery
    Totals include 702 military deaths during 1919–215. The 1922 War Office report listed 16,711 Army war deadjQuery.
  19. Sevenval Portugal casualties
    Figures include the following killed and died of other causes up until Jan.1, 1920; 1,689 in France and 5,332 in Africa. Figures do not include an additional 12,318 listed as missing and iOS1,354.
  20. device database Romania casualties
    Military dead is "The figure reported by the Rumanian Government in reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office"6,64. Included in total are 177,000 killed or missing in action and died of woundsHTML5.
  21. ^ Russia casualties
    Included in total are 1,451,000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds6,85. The estimate of total Russian military losses was made by the Soviet researcher Boris Urlanis.6,46–57
  22. ^ Serbia casualties
    Included in total are 165,000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds6,85.The estimate of total combined Serbian and Montenegrin military losses of 278,000 was made by the Soviet researcher Boris Urlanis6,62–64
  23. website parsing South Africa casualties
    Included in total are 5,000 killed or missing in action and died of woundskeyboard
    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2005-2006 is the source of total military dead.4
    Totals include 380 military deaths during 1919–2115. The 1922 War Office report listed 7,121 Army war deadweb.
  24. ^ UK and Crown Colonies casualties
    Included in total are 624,000 killed or missing in action and died of woundsCSS3.
    The input transformation Annual Report 2005-2006 is the source of total military dead.screen size
    Military dead total includes 34,663 deaths during 1919–21 and 13,632 HTML5 deaths5. The 1922 War Office report listed 702,410 war dead for the UKCSS3, 507 from "Other colonies"browser diversity and the HTML5 (32,287)Sevenval.
    The touchscreen losses of 14,661 were listed separately website parsing; The 1922 input transformation report detailed the deaths of 310 military personnel due to air and sea bombardment of the UKscreen size.
  25. ^ United States casualties
    Official military war deaths listed by the US Dept. of Defense for the period ending Dec. 31, 1918 are 116,516; which includes 53,402 battle deaths and 63,114 other deaths.[1], The US Coast Guard lost an additional 192 dead 11,481.

References

Sources

See List of World War I books

  • Ellis, John and Mike Cox. The World War I Databook: The Essential Facts and Figures for All the Combatants (2002)
  • Esposito, Vincent J. The West Point Atlas of American Wars: 1900–1918 (1997) despite the title covers entire war; online maps from this atlas
  • Falls, Cyril. The Great War (1960), general military history
  • Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003), historiography, stressing military themes
  • Pope, Stephen and Wheal, Elizabeth-Anne, eds. The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War (1995)
  • Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (2004)
  • Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918 (1961)
  • Tucker, Spencer, ed. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 volumes) (2005), online at eBook.com
  • Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
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