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- - - - France
        
        Approximately 1,700,00 (4.3% of population) in 1914
        
        Joined on 3rd August 1914
      - British Empire
        
        Approximately 900,000 (2% of population) in 1914
        
        Joined on the 4th August 1914
      - Russia
        
        Approximately 3,100,000 (13.7%) of population in 1914
        
        1st August 1914
      - USA
        
        Approximately 117,466 (0.13%) of population in 1914
        
        Joined on 6th April 1917
    - - German Empire
        
        Approximately 2,500,00 (4%) of population in 1914
        
        Joined on 1st August 1914
      - Ottoman Empire
        
        Approximately 3,000,000 (14%) of population in 1914
        
        31st October 1914
      - Bulgaria
        
        Approximately 187,500 (3.4%) of population in 1914
      - Austria Hungary
        
        Approximately 1,900,000 (3.7%) of population in 1914
        
        Joined on 28th July 1914
  - - - In the early 20th Century, there was no one dominating European country. Consequently, each of the most powerful countries moved to make alliances with one another. Military defensive pacts were held between the allied powers of France, Great Britain, Russia and others, whilst an opposing central alliance and was formed including Germany and Austria Hungary
      - 1879- 1914
      - Defensive pacts stated that participating countries must aid an ally under attack.
    - - Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-HUngarian throne , and his wife Sophie, were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Serbian Black Hand Society. The aim of the assassination was to make the South Slav provinces a part of Yugoslavia
      - 28th June 1914
      - Earlier, another assassination attempt against the Archduke had failed.
    - - After Serbia's failure to make amends for the assassination, Austria- Hungary declared war on them. Russia (in pact with Serbia) declares war on Austria HUngary, before germany consequently declares war on Russia. By the 4th August, all of the european powers from the allied and Central powers are at war.
      - July- August 1914
      - Britain were the last of the powers to declare war on the 4th August 1914
    - - To prevent enemy advances, both sides built large trenches, which stretched from the north sea, through the belgium and france. As a result neither side made much ground from late 1914 until early 1918. Attack involved going across no man's land ( in the middle) where attackers were open to machine gun fire, mines and shells. casualties were huge. life in the trenches were awful with diseases like trench foot rife. mustar dgas was a war afent uised causing blisters on skin and liunjges. it casued excruciating pain and often deaht,