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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

who did we fight in world war 1?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Germany and Austria-Hungary.

    http://www.worldwar1.com/tlmob.htm

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    RE:

    who did we fight in world war 1?

  • 1 decade ago

    America’s policy of insisting on neutral rights while also trying to broker a peace resulted in tensions with both Berlin and London. When a German U-boat sank the Lusitania in 1915, a large passenger liner with 128 Americans aboard, Wilson vowed "America was too proud to fight," and demanded an end to attacks on passenger ships. Germany complied. Wilson tried to mediate a compromise settlement; yet no compromise was discovered. Wilson also repeatedly warned that America would not tolerate unrestricted submarine warfare because it violated America's rights. Wilson was under great pressure from former president Teddy Roosevelt, who denounced German "piracy" and Wilson's cowardice. In January 1917 the Germans announced they would resume unrestricted submarine warfare. Berlin's proposal to Mexico to join the war as Germany's ally against the U.S. was exposed in February, angering American opinion. (see Zimmermann Telegram). After German submarines attacked several American merchant ships, sinking three, Wilson requested that Congress declare war on Germany, which it did on April 6, 1917.[11] The U.S. House of Representatives approved the war resolution 373-50, the U.S. Senate 82-6, with opposition coming especially from German American districts such as Wisconsin. The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in December 1917.

    The direct consequences of World War I brought many old regimes crashing to the ground, and ultimately, would lead to the end of 300 years of European hegemony in the world.

    No other war had changed the map of Europe so dramatically—four empires disappeared: the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and the Russian. Four defunct dynasties, the Hohenzollerns, the Habsburg, Romanovs and the Ottomans together with all their ancillary aristocracies, all fell during the war. France was badly damaged, with 1.4 million soldiers dead, not counting other casualties. In addition, a major flu epidemic that started in Western Europe in the latter months of the war killed millions of people in Europe and then spread elsewhere around the world.

  • 1 decade ago

    In world war one we fought Germany... It was considered a world war because most of the world was involved. German declared war on russia first, then i think it was france... Either way there were two sets or teams or whatever u call them with countries combied they were called the allies and the central powers. I believe in World war 2 they were called the allies and axis.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Germany

  • Jim P
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The Allied Powers, led by France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and later Italy and the United States, defeated the Central Powers: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.

  • Mardy
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    um....it might be smart to ask Jenny where she is from.

    Basically it was:

    British Empire + Serbia + France + Russia + United States + Italy + Japan

    versus

    Germany + Austria-Hungary + Ottoman Empire (Turkey now) + Bulgaria

  • 6 years ago

    London

  • 1 decade ago

    Germans, Hungarians, Ottoman empire among others

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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    the central powers lost and the allies won. (main central powers were germany, and austria-hungary) The allies consisted of mainly america, russia, and the brits

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