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- - - - France and Germany also competed for control of colonies, important for economic expansion
        
        especially Morocco
    - - Serbia was angry about the expansion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire into the area
  - - - After their victory, a second war was fought between these countries over the division of the territories
  - - - The central Powers
        
        the Austro-Hungarian Empire allied with the German and Ottoman empires and they were joined by Bulgaria.
        
        Italy belonged to the Triple Alliance, when war broke out, it promised to remain neutral because the pact it had signed was to defend one of the other countries
        
        As the Austro-Hungarian Empire initiated the attack, Italy didn't feel obliged to participate.
      - The Allies
        
        Serbia was allied with the Triple Entente (France, Great Britain and the Russian Empire).
        
        Later, they were joined by
        
        Romania
        
        The Unitated States
        
        Italy
        
        Greece
        
        Japan
        
        Potugal
        
        China
        
        Various Latin American republics
        
        Belgium
- - - - Germany put the Schlieffen Plan into effect
      - This consisted of launching a rapid offensive on the Western Front
      - Once France was defeated, German troops advanced on the Eastern Front to fight the Russians.
      - The German plan didn't succeed
        
        because, the French and British armies stopped their advance at the First Battle of the Marne.
      - Japan occupied the German colonies in the Pacific and China.
    - - The help of the American troops and weapons allowed the Allied forces to advance on the Western Front
        
        Named the Second Battle of the Marne
      - Exhaustion and an ever-increasing lack of resources drove the Central Powers to seek peace.
      - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated
      - 11 November 1918, the Armistice was signed.
    - - the United States join the war on the side of the Allies
        
        because German submarines had sunk neutral merchant ships.
      - Germany had initiated submarine attacks,
        
        endangering the American merchant fleet that supplied Britain and France.
      - Russia withdraw from the war after signing the Peace of Brest-Litovsk.
        
        Because of a political and social revolution in the Russian Empire
    - - The Western Front stabilised and a new phase of the war began.
      - As they couldn't advance, both sides focused on defending their positions.
        
        To do this, they built trenches (ditches in the ground)
      - they used battleships and submarines; in the Battle of Jutland, the British fleet defeated the German fleet.