The commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, was Scots, but could only offer to out-produce and out-slaughter the Central Powers. |
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Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire joined the latter, known as the Central Powers. |
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The Allies feared the possibility of a secret pact between the Greek royalist government and the Central Powers. |
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These had been obliged to fight against Romania, and, once in Russian custody, volunteered for service against the Central Powers. |
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World War I enhanced the potential of terror as it was widespread between the Allies and the Central Powers. |
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The manoeuvre warfare begun in August shifted to siege warfare in mid-October, with the Central Powers as the strong points to be surrounded. |
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The Salonika front was tying down some 500,000 Allied troops without troubling the Central Powers in any significant way. |
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Both the Central Powers and the Allies used aircraft on strategic bombing raids, targeting enemy industries and to a lesser extent enemy civilians. |
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Unfortunately, nobody had called off the First World War, and Russia was still fighting the Central Powers. |
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The campaign in the Middle East against Ottoman Turkey did little to damage the Central Powers. |
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All cessations made to the Central Powers in the ceasefire and treaty were nullified and renounced. |
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The Allied powers before 1917 are referred to as the Triple Entente, and the Central Powers are referred to as the Triple Alliance. |
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The Bolsheviks made peace with the German Empire and the Central Powers, as they had promised the Russian people prior to the Revolution. |
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There seemed a flicker of hope in 2003 when the Central Powers imposed a brutal nul points provision on Britain, but it has since become clear that was the most counterproductive of Carthaginian peaces. |
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In July and August 1914 several countries, including France, Great Britain, Russia, Belgium and their colonies, went to war against the Central Powers of the German and Austro-Hungarian empires. |
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He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the defeat of the Central Powers. |
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It was the last country to join the Central Powers, which Bulgaria did in October 1915 by declaring war on Serbia. |
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As a condition of entering WW1 on the side of the Central Powers, Bulgaria was granted the right to reclaim that territory. |
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In addition, there was a concern, shared by many Central Powers as well, that the socialist revolutionary ideas would spread to the West. |
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The Ottoman Empire soon joined the Central Powers becoming one of the three empires participating in that alliance. |
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Ukrainians entered World War I on the side of both the Central Powers, under Austria, and the Triple Entente, under Russia. |
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In December, the Bolsheviks signed an armistice with the Central Powers, though by February 1918, fighting had resumed. |
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The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I signed separate treaties. |
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Circulated on 13 November, it considered, and did not dismiss, the possibility of a negotiated settlement with the Central Powers. |
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An unsatisfactory peace settlement further divided the combatants, Bulgaria and Turkey supporting the Central Powers during the First World War, and Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia joining the Allies. |
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So said the Chief of Staff to the Commander of the Central Powers as he described the incredible losses inflicted by the Allied advance on Amiens. |
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When Canada entered the First World War on Aug. 4, 1914, it did so because it was part of the British Empire, which was at war with Germany and the Central Powers. |
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The Allies of World War I were the countries that opposed the Central Powers in the First World War. |
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He also proposed the creation of a Mandate system for captured colonies of the Central Powers during the war. |
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In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. |
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Serbia was conquered in a little more than a month, as the Central Powers, now including Bulgaria, sent in 600,000 troops total. |
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The Central Powers launched a crushing offensive on 26 October 1917, spearheaded by the Germans. |
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Fighting in Moldova continued in 1917, resulting in a costly stalemate for the Central Powers. |
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In exchange, the Central Powers recognised the sovereignty of Romania over Bessarabia. |
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The treaty ceded vast territories, including Finland, the Baltic provinces, parts of Poland and Ukraine to the Central Powers. |
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In December, the Central Powers signed an armistice with Russia, thus freeing large numbers of German troops for use in the west. |
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The Central Powers knew that they could not win a protracted war, but they held high hopes for success based on a final quick offensive. |
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After the war, the Paris Peace Conference imposed a series of peace treaties on the Central Powers officially ending the war. |
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In this treaty, Germany, as part of the Central Powers, accepted defeat by the Allies in one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time. |
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Following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as, at the time, the largest air force in the world. |
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During World War I, the Ottomans sided with Germany and the Central Powers. |
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He repulsed the British in four expeditions and had relations with the Central Powers of the Ottomans and the Germans. |
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The World War I Adriatic Campaign was largely limited to blockade attempts by the Allies and the effort of the Central Powers to thwart the British, French and Italian moves. |
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German submarine attacks on Allied merchant ships, especially the sinking of the Lusitania, turned American public opinion against the Central Powers. |
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A small part of Northern France was occupied, but France and its allies emerged victorious against the Central Powers at a tremendous human and material cost. |
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During the autumn of 1918, the Central Powers began to collapse. |
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By the spring of 1915, the Russians had retreated to Galicia, and, in May, the Central Powers achieved a remarkable breakthrough on Poland's southern frontiers. |
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General Erich von Falkenhayn was dismissed and sent to command the Central Powers forces in Romania, which enabled Hindenburg's subsequent ascension to power. |
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Allied victory resulted in the defeat of the Central Powers, the end of the German Empire, the Treaty of Versailles and the establishment of the League of Nations. |
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She tried instigating uprisings in India, and sent a mission to Afghanistan urging her to join the war on the side of Central powers. |
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They decided that the German Army in the west would go over to the strategic defensive for most of 1917, while the Central powers would attack elsewhere. |
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