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{{생물 분류
|분쟁 = 제1차 세계 대전
|이름 = 황금자칼
|그림 = WWImontage.jpg|325px
|화석_범위 = [[플라이스토세]] - 현재
|설명 = 위부터 시계 방향으로, [[솜 전투]] 포격전의 여파로 파괴된 지상. [[힌덴부르크 선]]을 넘는 [[마크 V 전차]]. [[다르다넬스 전역의 해군 작전|다르다넬스 해협]]에서 [[기뢰]]에 맞아 침몰한 [[HMS 일레시스티블 (1898년)|HMS 일레시스티블]], a British [[Vickers machine gun]] crew wears [[gas mask]]s during the Battle of the Somme, [[Albatros D.III]] fighters of [[Jagdstaffel 11]]
|그림 = golden jackal small.jpg
|date=28 July 1914&nbsp;– 11 November 1918<br />'''[[Armistice with Germany]]'''<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=7|day1=28|year1=1914|month2=11|day2=11|year2=1918}})
|그림_설명 = [[탄자니아]] [[니고로느고로 분화구]](Ngorongoro Crater)의 세렝게티 자칼(''C. a. bea'').
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|상태 = LC
| bullets = yes
|상태_기준 = iucn3.1<ref name=iucn>{{IUCN2008 |assessors=Jhala, Y.V. & Moehlman, P.D. |year=2008 |id=3744 |title=Canis aureus |downloaded=22 March 2009}} Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern</ref>
| title = Peace treaties
|색 = 동물
|[[Treaty of Versailles]]<br />Signed 28 June 1919<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=7|day1=28|year1=1914|month2=6|day2=28|year2=1919}}){{efn|The United States did not ratify any of the treaties agreed to at the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]].}}<!--Since World War I didn't actually end for most states until the Paris Peace Conference treaties were signed...-->
|계 = [[동물|동물계]]
|[[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye]]<br />Signed 10 September 1919<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=7|day1=28|year1=1914|month2=9|day2=10|year2=1919}})
|문 = [[척삭동물|척삭동물문]]
|[[Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine]]<br />Signed 27 November 1919<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=10|day1=14|year1=1915|month2=11|day2=27|year2=1919}}){{efn|Bulgaria joined the Central Powers on 14 October 1915.}}
|강 = [[포유강]]
|[[Treaty of Trianon]]<br />Signed 4 June 1920<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=7|day1=28|year1=1914|month2=6|day2=4|year2=1920}})
|목 = [[식육목]]
|[[U.S.–Austrian Peace Treaty (1921)|United States–Austria Peace Treaty]]<br />Signed 24 August 1921<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=12|day1=7|year1=1917|month2=8|day2=24|year2=1921}}){{efn|The United States [[American entry into World War I#Austria-Hungary|declared war on Austria-Hungary]] on December 7, 1917.}}{{efn|[[First Republic of Austria|Austria]] was considered one of the [[successor states]] to Austria-Hungary.}}
|과 = [[개과]]
|[[U.S.–German Peace Treaty (1921)|United States–Germany Peace Treaty]]<br />Signed 25 August 1921<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=4|day1=6|year1=1917|month2=8|day2=25|year2=1921}}){{efn|The United States [[United States declaration of war on Germany (1917)|declared war on Germany]] on April 6, 1917.}}
|속 = [[개속]]
|[[U.S.–Hungarian Peace Treaty (1921)|United States–Hungary Peace Treaty]]<br />Signed 29 August 1921<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=12|day1=7|year1=1917|month2=8|day2=29|year2=1921}}){{efn|[[Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946)|Hungary]] was considered one of the successor states to Austria-Hungary.}}
|종 = '''황금자칼'''(''Canis aureus'')
|[[Treaty of Lausanne]]<br />Signed 24 July 1923<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=10|day1=29|year1=1914|month2=7|day2=24|year2=1923}}){{efn|The Ottoman Empire agreed to a secret alliance with Germany on 2 August 1914. It joined the war on the side of the Central Powers on 29 October 1914.}}{{efn|Although the [[Treaty of Sèvres]] was intended to end the war between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire, it was never ratified by the Ottoman Empire. After the [[Turkish War of Independence]], the Allies and the [[Republic of Turkey]], the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, agreed to the Treaty of Lausanne.}}
|학명 = ''Canis aureus''
|학명_명명 = [[칼 폰 린네|Linnaeus]], [[1758년|1758]] <ref>{{서적 인용 |last=Linnæus |first=Carl |title=Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I|year=1758|publisher=Laurentius Salvius|location=Holmiæ (Stockholm)|pages=40–41|url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/80764#page/50/mode/1up|edition=10|accessdate=24 November 2012|language=Latin}}</ref>
|지도 = World goldschakal.png
|지도_설명 = 황금자칼의 서식 지역
}}
}}
|place=Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the [[Pacific Islands]], China and off the coast of South and North America
|casus=[[Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] (28 June) followed by Austro-Hungarian declaration of war on [[Kingdom of Serbia]] (28 July) and Russian mobilisation against [[Austria-Hungary]] (29 July).
|result=[[Allies of World War I|Allied]] victory
* End of the [[German Empire|German]], [[Russian Empire|Russian]], [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]], and [[Austro-Hungarian]] empires
* Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
* Transfer of [[German colonies]] and [[Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire|regions of the former Ottoman Empire]] to other powers
* Establishment of the [[League of Nations]]. ([[World War I#Aftermath|more...]])
|combatant1='''[[Allies of World War I|Allied Powers]] ([[Triple Entente|Entente]])'''
{{flagcountry|French Third Republic}}</br>
{{flagicon|British Empire}} [[British Empire]]
* {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
* {{flag|Australia}}
* {{flag|Canada|1868}}
* {{flag|British India}}
* {{flag|Newfoundland}}
* {{flag|New Zealand}}
* {{flagcountry|Union of South Africa|1912}}
{{flagcountry|Russian Empire}} <small>(1914–17)</small><br />
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy}} <small>(1915–18)</small><br />
{{flag|United States|1912}} <small>(1917–18)</small>{{efn|The United States did not declare war on Bulgaria or the Ottoman Empire.}}<br />
{{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}}<br />
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Serbia}}<br />
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Montenegro}}<br />
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Romania}} <small>(1916–18)</small><br />
{{flag|Belgium}}<br />
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece}} <small>(1917–18)</small><br />
{{flagicon image|Flag of Portugal.svg}} [[First Portuguese Republic|Portugal]] <small>(1916–18)</small><br />
<small>[[Participants in World War I#The Entente Powers|...''and others'']]</small>
|combatant2='''[[Central Powers]]'''
{{flagcountry|German Empire}} <br />
* {{flag|Baden}}
* {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bavaria}}
* {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Prussia}}
* {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Saxony}}
* {{flag|Württemberg}}
{{flag|Austria-Hungary}}<br />
{{flag|Ottoman Empire}}<br />
{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Bulgaria}} <small>(1915–18)</small><br />
----
'''Co-belligerents'''<br />
{{flagicon image|Flag of Darfur.svg}} [[Sultanate of Darfur|Darfur]] <small>(1914-16)</small><br />
{{flagicon image|Dervish flag.svg}} [[Dervish state|Dervish State]]<br />
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Emirate of Ha'il.svg}} [[Emirate of Jabal Shammar|Jabal Shammar]]<br />
<small>[[Central Powers#Non-state combatants|...''and others'']]</small>
|commander1='''[[Allies of World War I#Leaders|Allied leaders]]'''
{{flagicon|French Third Republic}} [[Georges Clemenceau]]<br />
{{flagicon|French Third Republic}} [[Raymond Poincaré]]<br />
{{flagicon|French Third Republic}} [[Ferdinand Foch]]<br />
{{flagicon|British Empire}} [[H. H. Asquith]]<br />
{{flagicon|British Empire}} [[David Lloyd George]]<br />
{{flagicon|British Empire}} [[Douglas Haig]]<br />
{{flagicon|Russian Empire}} [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]]<br />
{{flagicon|Russian Empire}} [[Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929)|Nicholas Nikolaevich]]<br />
{{flagicon|Russian Empire}} [[Aleksei Brusilov]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Victor Emmanuel III]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Vittorio Emanuele Orlando|Vittorio Orlando]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Luigi Cadorna]]<br />
{{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Woodrow Wilson]]<br />
{{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[John J. Pershing]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Romania}} [[Ferdinand I of Romania|Ferdinand I]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Romania}} [[Constantin Prezan]]<br />
{{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Emperor Taishō|Taishō]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Serbia}} [[Peter I of Serbia|Peter I]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Serbia}} [[Radomir Putnik]]<br />
<small>[[Allies of World War I#Leaders|...''and others'']]</small>
|commander2='''[[Central Powers#Leaders|Central Powers leaders]]'''
{{flagicon|German Empire}} [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II]]<br />
{{flagicon|German Empire}} [[Paul von Hindenburg]]<br />
{{flagicon|German Empire}} [[Erich Ludendorff]]<br />
{{flagicon|German Empire}} [[Erich von Falkenhayn]]<br />
{{flagicon|German Empire}} [[Helmuth von Moltke the Younger|Helmuth von Moltke]]<br />
{{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph I]] <small>(1914–16)</small><br />
{{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} [[Charles I of Austria|Karl I]] <small>(1916–18)</small><br />
{{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} [[Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf|Conrad von Hötzendorf]]<br />
{{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} [[Arthur Arz von Straußenburg|Arz von Straußenburg]]<br />
{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Enver Pasha]]<br />
{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Otto Liman von Sanders|Liman von Sanders]]<br />
{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Talaat Pasha]]<br />
{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Djemal Pasha]]<br />
{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Bulgaria}} [[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria|Ferdinand I]]<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Bulgaria}} [[Nikola Zhekov]]<br />
<small>[[Central Powers#Leaders|...''and others'']]</small>
|strength1=<ref name="Tucker 2005 273">{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=273}}</ref>
{{flagicon|Russian Empire}} 12,000,000<br />
{{flagicon|British Empire}} 8,841,541<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1914-1918.net/faq.htm|title=British Army statistics of the Great War|publisher=1914-1918.net|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref><ref>Figures are for the British Empire</ref><br />
{{flagicon|French Third Republic}} 8,660,000<ref>Figures are for Metropolitan France and its colonies</ref><br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} 5,615,140<br />
{{flagicon|United States|1912}} 4,743,826<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Romania}} 1,234,000<br />
{{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} 800,000<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Serbia}} 707,343<br />
{{flagicon|Belgium}} 380,000<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Greece}} 250,000<br />
''Total: 42,959,850''
|strength2=<ref name="Tucker 2005 273"/>
{{flagicon|German Empire}} 13,250,000<br />
{{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} 7,800,000<br />
{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} 2,998,321<br />
{{flagicon|Kingdom of Bulgaria}} 1,200,000<br />
''Total: 25,248,321''
|casualties1='''Military dead:'''<br />5,525,000<br />'''Military wounded:'''<br />12,831,500<br />'''Military missing:'''<br />4,121,000<br />'''Total:'''<br />22,477,500&nbsp;KIA, WIA or MIA [[World War I casualties|...''further details''.]]</small>
|casualties2='''Military dead:'''<br />4,386,000<br />'''Military wounded:'''<br />8,388,000<br />'''Military missing:'''<br />3,629,000<br />'''Total:''' <br />16,403,000&nbsp;KIA, WIA or MIA [[World War I casualties|...''further details''.]]</small>
}}
{{제1차 세계 대전 전역상자}}
'''제1차 세계 대전''' ('''WWI''' 또는 '''WW1''') was a [[World war|global war]] centred in [[Europe]] that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. From the time of its occurrence until the approach of [[World War II]], it was called simply the '''World War''' or the '''Great War''', and thereafter the First World War or World War I.<ref name="Julia">{{cite book|author=Hargrove, Julia|title=Tomb of the Unknowns|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-9FuoN0LHKQC&pg=PA5|accessdate=18 July 2013|year=2010|publisher=Lorenz Educational Press|isbn=978-0-7877-8592-5|page=5}}</ref><ref name="Zeinert2001">{{cite book|author=Karen Zeinert|title=Those Extraordinary Women of World War 1|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DsATANBmr68C&pg=PA14|year=2001|publisher=Twenty-First Century Books|isbn=978-0-7613-1913-9|page=14}}</ref><ref name="Rasor2000">{{cite book|author=Eugene L. Rasor|title=Winston S. Churchill: 1874–1965 ; a Comprehensive Historiography and Annotated Bibliography|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6PpNUK5u1lkC&pg=PA64|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30546-7|page=64}}</ref> In America, it was initially called the '''European War'''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Were they always called World War I and World War II?|url=http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/were-they-always-called-world-war-i-and-world-war-ii|work=Ask History|accessdate=24 October 2013}}</ref> More than 9&nbsp;million [[combatants]] [[World War I casualties|were killed]]; a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was [[List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll|one of the deadliest conflicts in history]], paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved.<ref>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|p=307}}</ref>


The war drew in all the world's economic [[great power]]s,<ref>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|pp=10–11}}</ref> which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]] (based on the [[Triple Entente]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]], [[French Third Republic|France]] and the [[Russian Empire]]) and the [[Central Powers]] of [[German Empire|Germany]] and [[Austria-Hungary]]. Although [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] had also been a member of the [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]] alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary, it did not join the Central Powers, as Austria-Hungary had taken the offensive against the terms of the alliance.<ref name=Willmott15>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|p=15}}</ref> These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war: Italy, [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] and the [[United States]] joined the Allies, and the [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] the Central Powers. Ultimately, more than 70&nbsp;million [[military personnel]], including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.<ref>{{harvnb|Keegan|1988|p=8}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Bade|Brown|2003|pp=167–168}}</ref>
'''황금자칼''' (''Canis aureus'', {{llang|en|golden jackal}}), '''커먼자칼'''({{llang|en|'common jackal}}), '''아시아자칼'''({{llang|en|Asiatic jackal}}),<ref name="z157"/> '''황금늑대'''({{llang|en|gold-wolf}})<ref name="s904">{{Harvnb|Brehm|1895|pp=196}}</ref>는 아프리카 북부와 북동부, 유럽 중부와 남동부(최대 오스트리아-헝가리 지역으로 알려졌으나 최근에는 에스토니아 북쪽까지 밝혀짐), 소아시아, 중동 및 남아시아에 서식하는 [[개과]]의 종이다. [[IUCN]]에서는 황금자칼의 광대한 서식 지역, 최적의 먹이 등으로 인해 관심 필요 등급만을 책정했다.<ref name="iucn"/> 이름에 자칼이 들어가지만 [[자칼]]과 황금자칼은 밀접한 관련이 없고 오히려 [[늑대]]와 [[코요테]]와 더욱 많은 관련이 있다.<ref name="z157"/><ref name="genome"/> 이 종은 기본적인 사회 단위인 한 번식 가능 쌍으로 이루어지며 자손을 낳는다.<ref name="z159"/> 황금자칼은 [[과일]], [[곤충]]서부터 작은 [[유제류]]까지 광범위한 먹이를 섭취할 수 있다.<ref name="z158"/>


Although a [[Neo-imperialism|resurgence of imperialism]] was an underlying cause, the immediate trigger for war was the 28 June 1914 [[assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]], heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by [[Yugoslav nationalism|Yugoslav nationalist]] [[Gavrilo Princip]] in [[Sarajevo]]. This set off a [[July Crisis|diplomatic crisis]] when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the [[Kingdom of Serbia]],<ref name="AJPT2">{{harvnb|Taylor|1998|pp=80–93}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Djokić|2003|p=24}}</ref> and international alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked. Within weeks, the major powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world.
== 진화 ==
아프리카가 기원인 다른 자칼 종과는 달리, 황금자칼은 아시아에서 등장하였다.<ref name=genome>Lindblad-Toh ''et al.'' 2005. [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7069/pdf/nature04338.pdf Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog.] Nature '''438''': 803-819.</ref> 황금자칼의 직접적인 조상은 빌라프란치엔(Villafranchian, [[플리오세]] 말에서 [[플라이스토세]] 초기<ref>{{cite doi|10.1016/j.quaint.2010.01.007}}</ref>) 시기의 [[카니스 쿠르쿠센시스]](Canis kuruksaensis)로 추측한다. 개과는 [[타지키스탄]]에서 원생했다. 선사 시대 자칼의 또 다른 조상일 것이라 추측했던 카니스 아르넨시스(''Canis arnensis'')는 나중에는 유럽 출신인 [[코요테]]와 더욱 밀접한 관계로 알려졌다. 황금자칼은 [[플라이스토세]] 후기 동안 유럽 대륙에 번식하게 되었다고 추정한다.<ref name="marinis216">{{Harvnb|Spagnesi|De Marina Marinis|2002|p=216}}</ref>


On 28 July, the [[Austro-Hungarian]]s fired the first shots in preparation for the [[Serbian Campaign (World War I)|invasion of Serbia]].<ref>{{harvnb|Evans|2004|p=12}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Martel|2003|p=xii ff}}</ref> As Russia mobilised, Germany invaded neutral [[Belgium]] and [[Luxembourg]] before moving towards France, leading Britain to declare war on Germany. After the German march on Paris was halted, what became known as the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] settled into a [[Attrition warfare|battle of attrition]], with a [[trench warfare|trench line]] that would change little until 1917. Meanwhile, on the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|Eastern Front]], the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, but was stopped in its [[invasion of East Prussia]] by the Germans. In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the war, opening fronts in the [[Caucasus]], [[Mesopotamia]] and the [[Sinai]]. Italy and Bulgaria went to war in 1915, [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] in 1916, and the [[United States]] in 1917.
황금자칼은 [[개속]]의 가장 일반적인 동물이다.<ref name="z156">{{Harvnb|Sillero-Zubiri|Hoffman|MacDonald|2004|pp=156}}</ref> 황금자칼은 상대적으로 짧은 얼굴 영역과 덜 열육성인 치아, 약하게 발달된 두개골 등 늑대보다 덜 전문종이 된 형태이다. 이러한 구조로 인해, 황금자칼은 주로 작은 새, 설치류, 작은 척삭동물, 곤충, 썩은 고기 등을 먹는다.<ref name="h132">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=132–134}}</ref> 황금 자칼은 넓은 식단에 적응한 [[일반종과 전문종|일반종]]에 가까우며, 다른 서식지와 다양성을 갖추고 많은 먹이를 섭취할 수 있게 해 준다. 유연한 몸과 긴 다리는 먹이를 찾아 먼 거리를 다닐 수 있게 해 준다. 물을 포기하면서 신선한 먹이와 물이 있는 곳을 찾는 능력이 있다.<ref name="z159">{{Harvnb|Sillero-Zubiri|Hoffman|MacDonald|2004|pp=159}}</ref> 황금자칼 두개골의 특성과<ref name="z157">{{Harvnb|Sillero-Zubiri|Hoffman|MacDonald|2004|pp=157}}</ref> 유전적 구성은 [[검은등자칼]]이나 [[가로줄무늬자칼]]보다 늑대나 [[코요테]]와 비슷하다는 것이 밝혀졌다.<ref name="genome"/>

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The war approached a resolution after the Russian government [[February Revolution|collapsed in March 1917]], and [[October Revolution|a subsequent revolution in November]] brought the Russians to terms with the Central Powers. On [[Armistice of Villa Giusti|4 November 1918]], the Austro-Hungarian empire agreed to an armistice. After a 1918 German offensive along the western front, the Allies drove back the Germans in a series of successful offensives and began entering the trenches. Germany, which had [[German Revolution of 1918–19|its own trouble with revolutionaries]], agreed to an armistice on 11 November 1918, ending the war in victory for the Allies.
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By the end of the war, four major imperial powers—the [[German Empire|German]], [[Russian Empire|Russian]], Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires—ceased to exist. The successor states of the former two lost substantial territory, while the latter two were dismantled. The maps of Europe and [[Southwest Asia]] were redrawn, with several independent nations restored or created. The [[League of Nations]] was formed with the aim of preventing any repetition of such an appalling conflict. This aim, however, failed with weakened states, renewed European nationalism and the German feeling of humiliation contributing to the rise of fascism. All of these conditions eventually led to [[World War II]].
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In Canada, ''[[Maclean's|Maclean's Magazine]]'' in October 1914 said, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/81104 |chapter=great, adj., adv., and n. |title=Oxford English Dictionary |accessdate=March 2012}}</ref> A history of the origins and early months of the war published in New York in late 1914 was titled ''The World War''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baldwin |first=Elbert Francis |title=The World War: How It Looks to the Nations Involved and What It Means to Us |location=New York |publisher=MacMillan Company |year=1914}} This book covers the war up to 20 November 1914.</ref> During the Interwar period, the war was most often called the ''World War'' and the ''Great War'' in English-speaking countries.
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The term "First World War" was first used in September 1914 by the German philosopher [[Ernst Haeckel]], who claimed that "there is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European War'&nbsp;... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word."<ref>{{harvnb|Shapiro|Epstein|2006|p=329}} citing a wire service report in ''The Indianapolis Star'', 20 September 1914.</ref> ''The First World War'' was also the title of a 1920 history by the officer and journalist [[Charles à Court Repington]].<ref>{{harvnb|Repington|1920}}</ref> After the onset of the Second World War in 1939, the terms ''World War I'' or ''the First World War'' became standard, with British and Canadian historians favouring the ''First World War'', and Americans ''World War I''.
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{{Main|Causes of World War I}}
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In the 19th century, the major European powers had gone to great lengths to maintain a [[balance of power (international relations)|balance of power]] throughout Europe, resulting in the existence of a complex network of political and military alliances throughout the continent by 1900.<ref name=Willmott15/> These had started in 1815, with the [[Holy Alliance]] between [[Prussia]], Russia, and Austria. Then, in October 1873, German Chancellor [[Otto von Bismarck]] negotiated the [[League of the Three Emperors]] (German: ''Dreikaiserbund'') between the monarchs of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany. This agreement failed because Austria-Hungary and Russia could not agree over Balkan policy, leaving Germany and Austria-Hungary in an alliance formed in 1879, called the [[Dual Alliance, 1879|Dual Alliance]]. This was seen as a method of countering Russian influence in the [[Balkans]] as the [[Ottoman Empire]] continued to weaken.<ref name=Willmott15/> In 1882, this alliance was expanded to include Italy in what became the [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]].<ref name=keegan52>{{harvnb|Keegan|1998|p=52}}</ref>
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Bismarck had especially worked to hold Russia at Germany's side to avoid a two-front war with France and Russia. When [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II]] ascended to the throne as [[German Emperor]] (''Kaiser''), Bismarck was compelled to retire and his system of alliances was gradually de-emphasised. For example, the Kaiser refused to renew the [[Reinsurance Treaty]] with Russia in 1890. Two years later, the [[Franco-Russian Alliance]] was signed to counteract the force of the Triple Alliance. In 1904, Britain signed a series of agreements with France, the [[Entente Cordiale]], and in 1907, Britain and Russia signed the [[Anglo-Russian Convention]]. While these agreements did not formally ally Britain with France or Russia, they made British entry into any future conflict involving France or Russia a possibility, and the system of interlocking bilateral agreements became known as the [[Triple Entente]].<ref name=Willmott15/>
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German industrial and economic power had grown greatly after [[unification of Germany|unification and the foundation of the Empire]] in 1871 following the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. From the mid-1890s on, the government of Wilhelm II used this base to devote significant economic resources for building up the ''Kaiserliche Marine'' ([[Imperial German Navy]]), established by Admiral [[Alfred von Tirpitz]], in rivalry with the British [[Royal Navy]] for world naval supremacy.<ref name=willmott21/> As a result, each nation strove to out-build the other in terms of [[capital ship]]s. With the launch of {{HMS|Dreadnought|1906|6}} in 1906, the British Empire expanded on its significant advantage over its German rival.<ref name=willmott21>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|p=21}}</ref> The arms race between Britain and Germany eventually extended to the rest of Europe, with all the major powers devoting their industrial base to producing the equipment and weapons necessary for a pan-European conflict.<ref>{{harvnb|Prior|1999|p=18}}</ref> Between 1908 and 1913, the military spending of the European powers increased by 50%.<ref name="Fromkin2004">{{harvnb|Fromkin|2004|p=94}}</ref>
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[[File:1908-10-07 - Moritz Schiller's Delicatessen.jpg|thumb|250px|Sarajevo citizens reading a poster with the proclamation of the [[Bosnian Crisis|Austrian annexation in 1908]].]]
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===Conflicts in the Balkans===
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Austria-Hungary precipitated the [[Bosnian crisis]] of 1908–1909 by officially annexing the former Ottoman territory of [[Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878]]. This angered the [[Kingdom of Serbia]] and its patron, the [[Pan-Slavism|Pan-Slavic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] [[Russian Empire]].<ref name=keegan48-49>{{harvnb|Keegan|1998|pp=48–49}}</ref> Russian political manoeuvring in the region destabilised peace accords, which were already fracturing in what was known as "the [[powder keg of Europe]]".<ref name=keegan48-49/> In 1912 and 1913, the [[First Balkan War]] was fought between the [[Balkan League]] and the fracturing Ottoman Empire. The resulting [[Treaty of London (1913)|Treaty of London]] further shrank the Ottoman Empire, creating an independent Albanian State while enlarging the territorial holdings of Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. When Bulgaria attacked Serbia and Greece on 16 June 1913, it lost most of Macedonia to Serbia and Greece and [[Southern Dobruja]] to Romania in the 33-day [[Second Balkan War]], further destabilising the region.<ref name=Willmott22-23>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|pp=2–23}}</ref>
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==Prelude==
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[[File:Gavrilo Princip captured in Sarajevo 1914.jpg|right|thumb|250px|This picture is usually associated with the arrest of [[Gavrilo Princip]], although some<ref name="FinestoneMassie">{{cite book|author1=Jeffrey Finestone|author2=Robert K. Massie|title=The last courts of Europe|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-1cvAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Dent|page=247}}</ref><ref name="OneMorningSarajevo">{{cite book|author1=David James Smith|title=One Morning In Sarajevo|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GzsnSU9J5sAC|year=2010|publisher=Hachette UK|quote=He was photographed on the way to the station and the photograph has been reproduced many times in books and articles, claiming to depict the arrest of Gavrilo Princip. But there is no photograph of Gavro's arrest - this photograph shows the arrest of Behr.}}</ref> believe it depicts Ferdinand Behr, a bystander.]]

===Sarajevo assassination===
{{Main|Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand}}

On 28 June 1914, Austrian [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] visited the [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian]] capital, [[Sarajevo]]. A group of six assassins ([[Cvjetko Popović]], [[Gavrilo Princip]], [[Muhamed Mehmedbašić]], [[Nedeljko Čabrinović]], [[Trifko Grabež]], [[Vaso Čubrilović]]) from the nationalist group [[Young Bosnia|Mlada Bosna]], supplied by the [[Black Hand (Serbia)|Black Hand]], had gathered on the street where the Archduke's motorcade would pass. Čabrinović threw a [[hand grenade|grenade]] at the car, but missed. It injured some people nearby, and Franz Ferdinand's convoy could carry on. The other assassins failed to act as the cars drove past them quickly. About an hour later, when Franz Ferdinand was returning from a visit at the Sarajevo Hospital, the convoy took a wrong turn into a street where, by coincidence, Princip stood. With a pistol, Princip shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife [[Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg|Sophie]]. The reaction among the people in Austria was mild, almost indifferent. As historian [[Zbyněk Zeman]] later wrote, "the event almost failed to make any impression whatsoever. On Sunday and Monday [June 28 and 29], the crowds in Vienna listened to music and drank wine, as if nothing had happened."<ref name="history">{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/european-powers-maintain-focus-despite-killings-in-sarajevo|title=European powers maintain focus despite killings in Sarajevo&nbsp;— History.com This Day in History&nbsp;— 6/30/1914|publisher=History.com|accessdate=26 December 2013}}</ref><ref name="Willmott26">{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|p=26}}</ref>

[[File:1914-06-29 - Aftermath of attacks against Serbs in Sarajevo.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Crowds on the streets in the aftermath of the [[Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo]], 29 June 1914.]]

===Escalation of violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina===
{{Main|Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo|Schutzkorps}}

However, in Sarajevo itself, Austrian authorities encouraged<ref name="DjordjevićSpence1992">{{cite book|author1=Dimitrije Djordjević|author2=Richard B. Spence|title=Scholar, patriot, mentor: historical essays in honor of Dimitrije Djordjević|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CDJpAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=East European Monographs|isbn=978-0-88033-217-0|page=313|quote=Following the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Croats and Muslims in Sarajevo joined forces in an anti-Serb pogrom. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Reports Service: Southeast Europe series|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QGtWAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=7 December 2013|year=1964|publisher=American Universities Field Staff.|page=44|quote=...&nbsp;the assassination was followed by officially encouraged anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo&nbsp;...}}</ref> violence against the Serb residents, which resulted in the [[Anti-Serb riots of Sarajevo]], in which [[Croats]] and [[Bosnian Muslims]] killed two ethnic Serbs and damaged numerous Serb-owned buildings. The events have been described as having the characteristics of a [[pogrom]]. Writer [[Ivo Andrić]] referred to the violence as the "Sarajevo frenzy of hate."<ref name="Gioseffi1993">{{cite book|author=Daniela Gioseffi|title=On Prejudice: A Global Perspective|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=iuF9AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2 September 2013|year=1993|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=978-0-385-46938-8|page=246|quote=...&nbsp;Andric describes the "Sarajevo frenzy of hate" that erupted among Muslims, Roman Catholics, and Orthodox believers following the assassination on June 28, 1914, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo&nbsp;...}}</ref> Violent actions against ethnic Serbs were organized not only in Sarajevo, but also in many other large Austro-Hungarian cities in modern-day [[Croatia]] and [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]].<ref name="Mitrović2007">{{cite book|author=Andrej Mitrović|title=Serbia's Great War, 1914–1918|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=viqqqQ2KT7kC&pg=PA18|accessdate=7 December 2013|year=2007|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-477-4|page=19}}</ref> Austro-Hungarian authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina imprisoned and extradited approximately 5,500 prominent Serbs, 700 to 2,200 of whom died in prison. 460 Serbs were sentenced to death and a predominantly Muslim<ref>{{harvnb|Tomasevich |2001|p=485}}{{quote|The Bosnian wartime militia (Schutzkorps), which became known for its persecution of Serbs, was overwhelmingly Muslim.}}</ref><ref name="Schindler2007">{{cite book|author=John R. Schindler|title=Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=c8Xb6x2XYvIC&pg=PA29|year=2007|publisher=Zenith Imprint|isbn=978-1-61673-964-5|page=29}}</ref><ref name="Velikonja 2003 141">{{harvnb|Velikonja|2003|p=141}}</ref> special militia known as the ''[[Schutzkorps]]'' was established and carried out the persecution of Serbs.<ref name="Kröll2008">{{cite book|author=Herbert Kröll|title=Austrian-Greek encounters over the centuries: history, diplomacy, politics, arts, economics|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=uJRnAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 September 2013|date=28 February 2008|publisher=Studienverlag|isbn=978-3-7065-4526-6|page=55|quote=...&nbsp;arrested and interned some 5.500 prominent Serbs and sentenced to death some 460 persons, a new Schutzkorps, an auxiliary militia, widened the anti-Serb repression.}}</ref>

===July Crisis===
{{Main|July Crisis}}

The assassination led to a month of diplomatic manoeuvring between Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, and Britain which was called the [[July Crisis]]. Believing correctly that Serbian officials (especially the officers of the [[Black Hand (Serbia)|Black Hand]]) were involved in the plot, and wanting to finally end Serbian interference in Bosnia,<ref>{{harvnb|Stevenson|1996|p=12}}</ref> Austria-Hungary delivered to Serbia the [[July Ultimatum]], a series of ten demands that were intentionally made unacceptable to provoke a war with Serbia.<ref name=Willmott27>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|p=27}}</ref> When Serbia agreed to only eight of the ten demands, Austria-Hungary declared war on 28 July 1914. Military historian [[Hew Strachan]] argues, "Whether an equivocal and early response by Serbia would have made any difference to Austria-Hungary's behaviour must be doubtful. Franz Ferdinand was not the sort of personality who commanded popularity, and his demise did not cast the empire into deepest mourning".<ref>{{harvnb|Strachan|2003|p=68}}</ref>

The Russian Empire, unwilling to allow Austria-Hungary to eliminate its influence in the Balkans, and in support of its longtime Serb protégé, ordered a partial mobilisation one day later, 29 July.<ref name=keegan52/> Germany mobilised on 30 July, and Russia responded by declaring a full mobilisation that same day.<ref name=Crowe>{{cite book|last=Crowe|first=David|title=The Essentials of European History: 1914 to 1935, World War I and Europe in Crisis|year=2001|publisher=Research & Education Assoc.|isbn=978-0-7386-7106-2|pages=4–5}}</ref> Germany imposed an ultimatum on Russia, through its ambassador in Berlin, to demobilise within 12 hours or face war.<ref name=Crowe /> Russia responded by offering to negotiate the terms of a demobilisation. However, Germany refused to negotiate, declaring war against Russia on 1 August 1914.<ref name=Crowe />

Germany's war plan, the [[Schlieffen Plan]], relied on a quick, massive invasion of France to eliminate the threat on the West, before turning east against Russia. Simultaneously with its mobilisation against Russia, therefore, the German government issued demands that France remain neutral. The French cabinet resisted military pressure to commence immediate mobilisation, and ordered its troops to withdraw {{convert|10|km|0|abbr=on}} from the border to avoid any incident. Germany attacked Luxembourg on 2 August, and on 3 August declared war on France.<ref name=Crowe /> On 4 August, after Belgium refused to permit German troops to cross its borders into France, Germany declared war on Belgium as well.<ref name=Crowe /><ref>{{cite book|last=Dell|first=Pamela|title=A World War I Timeline (Smithsonian War Timelines Series)|year=2013|publisher=Capstone|isbn=978-1-4765-4159-4|pages=10–12}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Willmott|2003|p=29}}</ref> Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, following an "unsatisfactory reply" to the British ultimatum that Belgium must be kept [[Neutrality (international relations)|neutral]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/mirror01_01.shtml|publisher=BBC|title=Daily Mirror Headlines: The Declaration of War, Published 4 August 1914|accessdate=9 February 2010}}</ref>

==Progress of the war==

===Opening hostilities===

====Confusion among the Central Powers====
The strategy of the Central Powers suffered from miscommunication. Germany had promised to support Austria-Hungary's invasion of Serbia, but interpretations of what this meant differed. Previously tested deployment plans had been replaced early in 1914, but the replacements had never been tested in exercises. Austro-Hungarian leaders believed Germany would cover its northern flank against Russia.<ref>{{harvnb|Strachan|2003|pp=292–296, 343–354}}</ref><!-- may be able to find more on this in Samuel R. Williamson, Jr: "Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War" --> Germany, however, envisioned Austria-Hungary directing most of its troops against Russia, while Germany dealt with France. This confusion forced the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] to divide its forces between the Russian and Serbian fronts.

On 9 September 1914, the ''[[Septemberprogramm]]'', a possible plan that detailed Germany's specific war aims and the conditions that Germany sought to force on the Allied Powers, was outlined by the [[Chancellor of Germany|German Chancellor]], [[Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg]]. It was never officially adopted.

====Serbian campaign====
[[File:FirstSerbianArmedPlane1915.jpg|thumbnail|Serbian Army [[Blériot XI]] "Oluj", 1915.]]
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Austria invaded and fought the Serbian army at the [[Battle of Cer]] and [[Battle of Kolubara]] beginning on 12 August. Over the next two weeks, Austrian attacks were thrown back with heavy losses, which marked the first major Allied victories of the war and dashed Austro-Hungarian hopes of a swift victory. As a result, Austria had to keep sizable forces on the Serbian front, weakening its efforts against Russia.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=172}}</ref> Serbia's defeat of the Austro-Hungarian invasion of 1914 counts among the major upset victories of the last century.<ref>{{cite web|author=John R. Schindler |url=http://wih.sagepub.com/content/9/2/159.abstract |title=Disaster on the Drina: The Austro-Hungarian Army in Serbia, 1914 |publisher=Wih.sagepub.com |date=1 April 2002 |accessdate=2013-03-13}}</ref>

This campaign had the youngest known soldier of World War I. [[Momčilo Gavrić (soldier)|Momčilo Gavrić]], born in [[Trbušnica (Loznica)|Trbušnica]], joined the 6th Artillery Division of the [[Serbian Army]] when he was 8 years old, after Austro-Hungarian troops killed his parents, grandmother, and seven of his siblings in August 1914.<ref name="novosti">[http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/drustvo/aktuelno.290.html:451827-Momcilo-Gavric---najmladji-vojnik-Prvog-svetskog-rata Momčilo Gavrić - najmlađi vojnik Prvog svetskog rata] ("Večernje novosti", 31 August 2013)</ref><ref name=AuntieMabel>{{cite book|last1=Wenzel|first1=Marian|last2=Cornish|first2=John|title=Auntie Mabel's war: an account of her part in the hostilities of 1914–18|year=1980|publisher=Allen Lane|page=112}}</ref><ref name=BiografskiRecnik>{{cite book|title=Srpski biografski rečnik, vol II|year=2004|publisher=Budućnost|page=601}}</ref> At the age of 10 he was promoted to Corporal,<ref name=AuntieMabel/><ref name=BiografskiRecnik/> and at the age of 11 he became a Lance Sergeant.<ref name=BiografskiRecnik/>

====German forces in Belgium and France====
{{Main|Western Front (World War I)}}

[[File:Hospital ward.jpg|thumb|left|British hospital at the Western front.]]

At the outbreak of World War I, the German army (consisting in the West of [[German Army order of battle (1914)|seven field armies]]) carried out a modified version of the [[Schlieffen Plan]]. This marched German armies through neutral Belgium and into France, before turning southwards to encircle the French army on the German border.<ref name=AJPT2/> Since France had declared that it would "keep full freedom of acting in case of a war between Germany and Russia", Germany had to expect the possibility of an attack by France on one front and by Russia on the other. To meet such a scenario, the Schlieffen Plan stated that Germany must try to defeat France quickly (as had happened in the [[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870–71). It further suggested that to repeat a fast victory in the west, Germany should not attack through the difficult terrain of Alsace-Lorraine (which had a direct border west of the river Rhine), instead, the idea was to try to quickly cut Paris off from the English Channel and British assistance, and take Paris, thus winning the war. Then the armies would be moved over to the east to meet Russia. Russia was believed to need a long period of [[mobilisation]] before they could become a real threat to the Central Powers.

[[File:German soldiers in a railroad car on the way to the front during early World War I, taken in 1914. Taken from greatwar.nl site.jpg|thumb|right|German soldiers in a railway [[goods wagon]] on the way to the front in 1914. Early in the war, all sides expected the conflict to be a short one.]]

The only existing German plan for any war had German armies marching through Belgium. Germany wanted free escort through Belgium (and originally the Netherlands as well, a plan which Kaiser [[Wilhelm II]] rejected) to invade France. Neutral Belgium rejected this idea, so the Germans decided to invade through Belgium instead. France also wanted to move their troops into Belgium, but Belgium originally rejected this "suggestion" as well, in the hope of avoiding any war on Belgian soil. In the end, after the German invasion, Belgium did try to join their army with the French, but a large part of the Belgian army retreated to [[Antwerp]] where they were forced to surrender when all hope of help was gone.

The plan called for the right flank of the German advance to bypass the French armies (which were concentrated on the Franco-German border, leaving the Belgian border without significant French forces) and move south to Paris. Initially the Germans were successful, particularly in the [[Battle of the Frontiers]] (14–24 August). By 12 September, the French, with assistance from the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|British forces]], halted the German advance east of Paris at the [[First Battle of the Marne]] (5–12 September), and pushed the German forces back some {{convert|50|km|0|abbr=on}}. The last days of this battle signified the end of [[Maneuver warfare|mobile warfare]] in the west.<ref name=AJPT2/> The French offensive into Southern Alsace, launched on 20 August with the [[Battle of Mulhouse]], had limited success.

In the east, the Russians invaded with two armies, surprising the German staff who had not expected the Russians to move so early. A field army, the 8th, was rapidly moved from its previous role as reserve for the invasion of France, to [[East Prussia]] by rail across the German Empire. This army, led by general [[Paul von Hindenburg]] defeated Russia in a series of battles collectively known as the First [[Battle of Tannenberg]] (17 August&nbsp;– 2 September). But the failed Russian invasion, causing the fresh German troops to move to the east, allowed the tactical Allied victory at the [[First Battle of the Marne]]. The Central Powers were denied a quick victory in France and forced to fight a war on two fronts. The German army had fought its way into a good defensive position inside France and had permanently incapacitated 230,000 more French and British troops than it had lost itself. Despite this, communications problems and questionable command decisions cost Germany the chance of early victory.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|pp=376–8}}</ref>

====Asia and the Pacific====
[[File:Melbourne recruiting WWI.jpg|thumb|[[Military recruitment]] in [[Melbourne]], 1914.]]
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New Zealand [[Occupation of German Samoa|occupied]] [[German Samoa]] (later Western Samoa) on 30 August 1914. On 11 September, the [[Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force]] landed on the island of [[New Britain|Neu Pommern]] (later New Britain), which formed part of [[German New Guinea]]. On 28 October, the German cruiser {{SMS|Emden|1908|6}} sank the [[Russian cruiser Zhemchug]] in the [[Battle of Penang]]. Japan seized Germany's Micronesian colonies and, after the [[Siege of Tsingtao]], the German coaling port of [[Qingdao]] in the Chinese [[Shandong]] peninsula. As Vienna refused to withdraw the Austro-Hungarian cruiser {{SMS|Kaiserin Elisabeth}} from Tsingtao, Japan declared war not only on Germany, but also on Austria-Hungary; the ship participated in the defense of Tsingtao where it was sunk in November 1914.<ref>DONKO, Wilhelm M.: "A Brief History of the Austrian Navy" epubli GmbH, Berlin, 2012, page 79</ref> Within a few months, the Allied forces had seized all the German territories in the Pacific; only isolated commerce raiders and a few holdouts in New Guinea remained.<ref>{{harvnb|Keegan|1968|pp=224–232}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Falls|1960|pp=79–80}}</ref>

====African campaigns====
{{Main|African theatre of World War I}}

Some of the first clashes of the war involved British, French, and German colonial forces in Africa. On 6–7 August, French and British troops invaded the German protectorate of [[Togoland]] and [[Kamerun]]. On 10 August, German forces in [[German South-West Africa|South-West Africa]] attacked South Africa; sporadic and fierce fighting continued for the rest of the war. The German colonial forces in [[German East Africa]], led by Colonel [[Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]], fought a [[guerrilla warfare]] campaign during World War I and only surrendered two weeks after the armistice took effect in Europe.<ref>{{harvnb|Farwell|1989|p=353}}</ref>

====Indian support for the Allies====
{{Further2|[[Third Anglo-Afghan War]]|[[Hindu–German Conspiracy]]}}

Contrary to British fears of a revolt in India, the outbreak of the war saw an unprecedented outpouring of loyalty and goodwill towards Britain.<ref>{{harvnb|Brown|1994|pp=197–198}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Brown|1994|pp=201–203}}</ref> Indian political leaders from the [[Indian National Congress]] and other groups were eager to support the British war effort, since they believed that strong support for the war effort would further the cause of [[Indian Home Rule Movement|Indian Home Rule]]. The [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] in fact outnumbered the British Army at the beginning of the war; about 1.3&nbsp;million Indian soldiers and labourers served in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, while the central government and the [[princely state]]s sent large supplies of food, money, and ammunition. In all, 140,000&nbsp;men served on the Western Front and nearly 700,000 in the Middle East. Casualties of Indian soldiers totalled 47,746 killed and 65,126 wounded during World War I.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.mgtrust.org/ind1.htm|title=Participants from the Indian subcontinent in the First World War|publisher=Memorial Gates Trust|accessdate=12 December 2008|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref>
The suffering engendered by the war, as well as the failure of the British government to grant self-government to India after the end of hostilities, bred disillusionment and fuelled [[Indian independence movement|the campaign for full independence]] that would be led by [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] and others.

===Western Front===
{{Main|Western Front (World War I)}}

====Trench warfare begins====
[[File:Royal Irish Rifles ration party Somme July 1916.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Mud stained British soldiers at rest |[[Royal Irish Rifles]] in a communications trench, [[first day on the Somme]], 1916.]]
Military tactics before World War I had failed to keep pace with advances in technology and had become obsolete. These advances had allowed the creation of strong defencive systems, which out-of-date military tactics could not break through for most of the war. [[Barbed wire]] was a significant hindrance to massed infantry advances, while [[artillery]], vastly<!--between HE & hydraulic recoil mechanisms, something like two orders of magnitude--> more lethal than in the 1870s, coupled with [[machine gun]]s, made crossing open ground extremely difficult.<ref>{{harvnb|Raudzens|1990|pp=424}}</ref> Commanders on both sides failed to develop tactics for [[trench warfare|breaching entrenched]] positions without heavy casualties. In time, however, technology began to produce new offensive weapons, such as [[Chemical weapons in World War I|gas warfare]] and the [[Tanks in World War I|tank]].<ref>{{harvnb|Raudzens|1990|pp=421–423}}</ref>

Just after the [[First Battle of the Marne]] (5–12 September 1914), [[Triple Entente|Entente]] and German forces repeatedly attempted manoeuvering to the north to outflank each other: this series of manoeuvres became known as the "[[Race to the Sea]]". When these outflanking efforts failed, Britain and France soon found themselves facing an uninterrupted line of entrenched German forces from [[Lorraine (duchy)|Lorraine]] to Belgium's coast.<ref name=AJPT2/> Britain and France sought to take the offensive, while Germany defended the occupied territories. Consequently, German trenches were much better constructed than those of their enemy; Anglo-French trenches were only intended to be "temporary" before their forces broke through the German defences.<ref>{{harvnb|Goodspeed|1985|p=199 (footnote)}}</ref>

Both sides tried to break the stalemate using scientific and technological advances. On 22 April 1915, at the [[Second Battle of Ypres]], the Germans (violating the [[Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907|Hague Convention]]) used [[chlorine]] gas for the first time on the Western Front. Several types of gas soon became widely used by both sides, and though it never proved a decisive, battle-winning weapon, poison gas became one of the most-feared and best-remembered horrors of the war.<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Duffy |url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/gas.htm |title=Weapons of War: Poison Gas |publisher=Firstworldwar.com |date=22 August 2009 |accessdate=5 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Love|1996}}</ref> Tanks were first used in combat by the British during the [[Battle of Flers-Courcelette]] (part of the wider [[Battle of the Somme|Somme]] offensive) on 15 September 1916, with only partial success. However, their effectiveness would grow as the war progressed; the Germans employed only very small numbers of their own design, supplemented by captured Allied tanks.

[[File:French 87th Regiment Cote 34 Verdun 1916.jpg|thumb|right|French 87th regiment near Verdun, 1916.]]

====Continuation of trench warfare====
[[File:Canadian tank and soldiers Vimy 1917.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Files of soldiers with rifles slung follow close behind a tank, there is a dead body in the foreground|Canadian troops advancing with a British [[Mark I tank#Mark II|Mark II tank]] at the [[Battle of Vimy Ridge]], 1917.]]
Neither side proved able to deliver a decisive blow for the next two years. Throughout 1915–17, the British Empire and France suffered more casualties than Germany, because of both the strategic and tactical stances chosen by the sides. Strategically, while the Germans only mounted one major offensive, the Allies made several attempts to break through the German lines.

In February 1916 the Germans attacked the French defensive positions at [[Battle of Verdun|Verdun]]. Running until December 1916, the battle saw initial German gains, before French counterattacks returned matters to near their starting point. Casualties were greater for the French, but the Germans bled heavily as well, with anywhere from 700,000<ref>{{harvnb|Dupuy|1993|pp=1042}}</ref> to 975,000<ref>{{harvnb|Grant|2005|pp=276}}</ref> casualties suffered between the two combatants. Verdun became a symbol of French determination and self-sacrifice.<ref>{{cite news
| last=Lichfield | first=John | date=21 February 2006
| title=Verdun: myths and memories of the 'lost villages' of France | work=The Independent
| url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/verdun-myths-and-memories-of-the-lost-villages-of-france-467285.html | accessdate=23 July 2013 }}</ref>

The [[Battle of the Somme]] was an Anglo-French offensive that ran from July to November 1916. The opening of this offensive (1 July 1916) saw the [[British Army]] endure the bloodiest day in its history, suffering 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead, on the [[first day on the Somme|first day]] alone. The entire Somme offensive cost the British Army some 420,000 casualties. The French suffered another estimated 200,000 casualties, and the Germans an estimated 500,000.<ref>{{harvnb|Harris|2008|pp=271}}</ref>

Protracted action at Verdun throughout 1916,<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=1221}}</ref> combined with the bloodletting at the Somme, brought the exhausted French army to the brink of collapse. Futile attempts at frontal assault came at a high price for both the British and the French ''[[poilu]]'' and led to the widespread [[French Army Mutinies]], after the failure of the costly [[Nivelle Offensive]] of April–May 1917.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=854}}</ref> The concurrent British [[Battle of Arras (1917)|Battle of Arras]] was more limited in scope, and more successful, although ultimately of little strategic value.<ref>{{harvnb|Keegan|1998|pp=325–326}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Strachan|2003|pp=244}}</ref> A smaller part of the Arras offensive, the capture of Vimy Ridge by the [[Canadian Corps]], became highly significant to that country: the idea that Canada's national identity was born out of the battle is an opinion widely held in military and general histories of Canada.<ref>{{harvnb|Inglis|1995|pp=2}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Humphries|2007|pp=66}}</ref>

The last large-scale offensive of this period was a British attack (with French support) at [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]] (July–November 1917). This offensive opened with great promise for the Allies, before bogging down in the October mud. Casualties, though disputed, were roughly equal, at some 200,000–400,000 per side.

These years of trench warfare in the West saw no major exchanges of territory and, as a result, are often thought of as static and unchanging. However, throughout this period, British, French, and German [[Tactical development on the Western Front in 1917|tactics constantly evolved]] to meet new battlefield challenges.

===Naval war===
[[File:Hochseeflotte 2.jpg|thumb|right|Battleships of the [[High Seas Fleet|''Hochseeflotte'']], 1917. ]]
{{Main|Naval warfare of World War I}}

At the start of the war, the German Empire had [[cruiser]]s scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied [[merchant shipping]]. The British [[Royal Navy]] systematically hunted them down, though not without some embarrassment from its inability to protect Allied shipping. For example, the German detached light cruiser [[SMS Emden (1908)|SMS ''Emden'']], part of the East-Asia squadron stationed at [[Qingdao]], seized or destroyed 15 merchantmen, as well as sinking a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer. However, most of the [[German East Asia Squadron|German East-Asia squadron]]—consisting of the armoured cruisers {{SMS|Scharnhorst||2}} and {{SMS|Gneisenau||2}}, light cruisers {{SMS|Nürnberg|1906|2}} and {{SMS|Leipzig||2}} and two transport ships—did not have orders to raid shipping and was instead underway to Germany when it met British warships. The German flotilla and {{SMS|Dresden|1907|2}} sank two armoured cruisers at the [[Battle of Coronel]], but was almost destroyed at the [[Battle of the Falkland Islands]] in December 1914, with only ''Dresden'' and a few auxiliaries escaping, but at the [[Battle of Más a Tierra]] these too were destroyed or interned.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2007|pp=39–47}}</ref>

Soon after the outbreak of hostilities, Britain began a naval [[blockade of Germany]]. The strategy proved effective, cutting off vital military and civilian supplies, although this blockade violated accepted international law codified by several international agreements of the past two centuries.<ref name="isbn0-313-33181-2">{{harvnb|Keene|2006|p=5}}</ref> Britain mined international waters to prevent any ships from entering entire sections of ocean, causing danger to even neutral ships.<ref name="isbn1-85728-498-4">{{harvnb|Halpern|1995|p=293}}</ref> Since there was limited response to this tactic, Germany expected a similar response to its unrestricted submarine warfare.<ref name="isbn0-8476-9645-6">{{harvnb|Zieger|2001|p=50}}</ref>

The 1916 [[Battle of Jutland]] (German: ''Skagerrakschlacht'', or "Battle of the [[Skagerrak]]") developed into the largest naval battle of the war, the only full-scale clash of battleships during the war, and one of the largest in history. It took place on 31 May&nbsp;– 1 June 1916, in the [[North Sea]] off [[Jutland]]. The Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral [[Reinhard Scheer]], squared off against the Royal Navy's [[Grand Fleet]], led by Admiral Sir [[John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe|John Jellicoe]]. The engagement was a stand off, as the Germans, outmanoeuvred by the larger British fleet, managed to escape and inflicted more damage to the British fleet than they received. Strategically, however, the British asserted their control of the sea, and the bulk of the German surface fleet remained confined to port for the duration of the war.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|pp=619–24}}</ref>

[[File:NationaalArchief uboat155London.jpg|thumb|left|[[German submarine Deutschland|U-155]] exhibited near Tower Bridge in London, after the 1918 Armistice.]]
German [[U-boat]]s attempted to cut the supply lines between North America and Britain.<ref name="Sheffield">{{citation|last=Sheffield|first=Garry|title=The First Battle of the Atlantic|work=World Wars In Depth|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/battle_atlantic_ww1_01.shtml|publisher=BBC|accessdate=11 November 2009 }}</ref> The nature of [[submarine warfare]] meant that attacks often came without warning, giving the crews of the merchant ships little hope of survival.<ref name="Sheffield"/><ref name="isbn0-8050-7617-4">{{harvnb|Gilbert|2004|p=306}}</ref> The United States launched a protest, and Germany changed its rules of engagement. After the sinking of the passenger ship [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] in 1915, Germany promised not to target passenger liners, while Britain armed its merchant ships, placing them beyond the protection of the "[[Prize rules|cruiser rules]]", which demanded warning and placing crews in "a place of safety" (a standard that lifeboats did not meet).<ref>{{harvnb|von der Porten|1969}}</ref> Finally, in early 1917, Germany adopted a policy of [[unrestricted submarine warfare]], realising that the Americans would eventually enter the war.<ref name="Sheffield"/><ref name="isbn0-8420-2918-4">{{harvnb|Jones|2001|p=80}}</ref> Germany sought to strangle Allied [[sea lane]]s before the United States could transport a large army overseas, but could maintain only five long-range U-boats on station, to limited effect.<ref name="Sheffield"/>

The U-boat threat lessened in 1917, when merchant ships began travelling in [[Convoys in World War I|convoys]], escorted by [[destroyer]]s. This tactic made it difficult for U-boats to find targets, which significantly lessened losses; after the [[hydrophone]] and [[depth charge]]s were introduced, accompanying destroyers might attack a submerged submarine with some hope of success. Convoys slowed the flow of supplies, since ships had to wait as convoys were assembled. The solution to the delays was an extensive program of building new freighters. Troopships were too fast for the submarines and did not travel the North Atlantic in convoys.<ref>{{citation|url=http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/committees/committee_hansard/C11/va_2006nov09|title=Committee Hansard|date=9 November 2006|author1=Nova Scotia House of Assembly Committee on Veterans' Affairs|accessdate=12 March 2013|work=Hansard}}</ref> The U-boats had sunk more than 5,000 Allied ships, at a cost of 199 submarines.<ref>{{Citation|author=Roger Chickering, Stig Förster, Bernd Greiner; German Historical Institute |location=Washington, D.C. |year=2005 |page=[http://books.google.com/books?id=evVPoSwqrG4C&pg=PA73 73] |title=A world at total war: global conflict and the politics of destruction, 1937–1945 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-83432-5 }}</ref> World War I also saw the first use of [[aircraft carrier]]s in combat, with {{HMS|Furious|47|6}} launching [[Sopwith Camel]]s in a successful raid against the [[Zeppelin]] hangars at [[Tondern raid|Tondern]] in July 1918, as well as [[blimp]]s for antisubmarine patrol.<ref name="price1980">{{harvnb|Price|1980}}</ref>

===Southern theatres===

====War in the Balkans====
{{Main|Balkans Campaign (World War I)|Bulgaria during World War I|Serbian Campaign (World War I)|Macedonian Front}}

[[File:Austrians executing Serbs 1917.JPG|thumb|left|Austro-Hungarian troops executing captured Serbians, 1917. [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]] lost about 850,000 people during the war, a quarter of its pre-war population.<ref>"[http://international.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+yu0021) The Balkan Wars and World War I]". ''[[Library of Congress Country Studies]]''.</ref>]]

Faced with Russia, Austria-Hungary could spare only one-third of its army to attack Serbia. After suffering heavy losses, the Austrians briefly occupied the Serbian capital, [[Belgrade]]. A Serbian counterattack in the [[battle of Kolubara]], however, succeeded in driving them from the country by the end of 1914. For the first ten months of 1915, Austria-Hungary used most of its military reserves to fight Italy. German and Austro-Hungarian diplomats, however, scored a coup by persuading Bulgaria to join the attack on Serbia. The Austro-Hungarian provinces of [[Slovenia]], Croatia and [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]] provided troops for Austria-Hungary, invading Serbia as well as fighting Russia and Italy. Montenegro allied itself with Serbia.<ref>{{harvnb|Neiberg|2005|pp=54–55}}</ref>

[[File:Flüchtlingstransport Leibnitz - k.k. Innenministerium - 1914.jpg|thumb|right|Refugee transport from Serbia in [[Leibnitz]], [[Styria]], 1914.]]

Serbia was conquered in a little more than a month, as the Central Powers, now including Bulgaria, sent in 600,000 troops. The Serbian army, fighting on two fronts and facing certain defeat, retreated into northern [[Principality of Albania|Albania]] (which they had invaded at the beginning of the war{{dubious|date=September 2012}}). The Serbs suffered defeat in the [[Kosovo Offensive (1915)|Battle of Kosovo]]. Montenegro covered the Serbian retreat towards the Adriatic coast in the [[Battle of Mojkovac]] in 6–7 January 1916, but ultimately the Austrians conquered Montenegro, too. The surviving Serbian soldiers were evacuated by ship to Greece.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|pp=1075–6}}</ref> After conquest, Serbia was divided between Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria.

In late 1915, a Franco-British force landed at [[Salonica]] in Greece, to offer assistance and to pressure the government to declare war against the Central Powers. However, the pro-German [[Constantine I of Greece|King Constantine I]] dismissed the pro-Allied government of [[Eleftherios Venizelos]] before the Allied expeditionary force arrived.<ref>{{harvnb|Neiberg|2005|pp=108–10}}</ref> The friction between the King of Greece and the Allies continued to accumulate with the [[National Schism]], which effectively divided Greece between regions still loyal to the king and the new provisional government of Venizelos in Salonica. After intense negotiations and an armed confrontation in [[Athens]] between Allied and royalist forces (an incident known as [[Noemvriana]]), the King of Greece resigned and his second son [[Alexander of Greece|Alexander]] took his place; Greece then officially joined the war on the side of the Allies.
[[File:Bulgaria southern front.jpg|thumb|Bulgarian soldiers in a trench, preparing to fire against an incoming airplane.]]

In the beginning, the Macedonian Front was mostly static. French and Serbian forces retook limited areas of Macedonia by recapturing [[Bitola]] on 19 November 1916 following the costly [[Monastir Offensive]], which brought stabilization of the front.

Serbian and French troops finally made a breakthrough in September 1918, after most of the German and Austro-Hungarian troops had been withdrawn. The Bulgarians suffered their only defeat of the war at the [[Battle of Dobro Pole]]: Bulgaria capitulated two weeks later, on 29 September 1918.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Wood|Murphy|1999|p=120}}</ref> The German high command responded by despatching troops to hold the line, but these forces were far too weak to reestablish a front.<ref name=militera>{{cite web|url=http://militera.lib.ru/h/korsun_ng4/06.html|title=The Balkan Front of the World War (in Russian)|first=N.Korsun|publisher=militera.lib.ru|accessdate=27 September 2010}}</ref>

The disappearance of the Macedonian Front meant that the road to [[Budapest]] and [[Vienna]] was now opened to Allied forces. Hindenburg and Ludendorff concluded that the strategic and operational balance had now shifted decidedly against the [[Central Powers]] and, a day after the Bulgarian collapse, insisted on an immediate peace settlement.<ref name=Doughty>{{harvnb|Doughty|2005|p=491}}</ref>

====Ottoman Empire====
{{Main|Middle Eastern theatre of World War I}}

The [[Ottoman Empire]] joined the Central Powers in the war, the secret [[Ottoman–German Alliance]] having been signed in August 1914.<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/turkgerm.asp The Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey] 2 August 1914, Yale University</ref> It threatened Russia's [[Caucasus|Caucasian]] territories and Britain's communications with India ''via'' the [[Suez Canal]].

In [[Asia Minor]] itself, the [[Ottoman Turks]], together with [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] and [[Circassians|Circassian]] allies, conducted large scale massacres of the indigenous [[Greeks|Greek]], [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] and [[Armenian people|Armenian]] Christian populations in the form of the [[Greek Genocide]], [[Armenian Genocide]] and [[Assyrian Genocide]], leading these peoples to join the war on the side of the Russians and British.<ref>Naayem, Shall This Nation Die?, p. 281, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hokGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA281&dq=Agha+Petrus++Malik+Khochaba&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Agha%20Petrus%20%20Malik%20Khochaba&f=false</ref>

The British and French opened overseas fronts with the [[Gallipoli Campaign|Gallipoli]] (1915) and [[Mesopotamian campaign]]s. In Gallipoli, the Ottoman Empire successfully repelled the British, French, and [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]] (ANZACs). In [[Mesopotamia]], by contrast, after the disastrous [[Siege of Kut]] (1915–16), British Imperial forces reorganised and captured [[Baghdad]] in March 1917. The British were aided in Mesopotamia by local Arab and Assyrian tribesmen, while the Ottomans employed local Kurdish and Turcoman tribes.
[[File:Capture of Jerusalem 1917d.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Foreground, a battery of 16 heavy guns. Background, conical tents and support vehicles.|British artillery battery on [[Mount Scopus]] in the [[Battle of Jerusalem (1917)|Battle of Jerusalem]], 1917.]]

Further to the west, the [[Suez Canal]] was successfully defended from Ottoman attacks in 1915 and 1916; in August, a joint [[German Empire|German]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] force was defeated at the [[Battle of Romani]] by the [[ANZAC Mounted Division|ANZAC Mounted]] and the [[52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division]]s. Following this victory, a [[British Empire]] [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force]] advanced across the [[Sinai Peninsula]], pushing Ottoman forces back in the [[Battle of Magdhaba]] in December and the [[Battle of Rafa]] on the border between the Egyptian [[Sinai]] and Ottoman Palestine in January 1917.

[[File:Sarikam.jpg|thumb|Russian forest trench at the 1914–1915 [[Battle of Sarikamish]].]]
[[File:Detail of Xmas card from British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 1917.jpg|thumb|Xmas card from British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force with list of engagements, Basra, 1917]]

Russian armies generally had the best of it in the Caucasus. [[Enver Pasha]], supreme commander of the Ottoman armed forces, was ambitious and dreamed of re-conquering central Asia and areas that had been lost to Russia previously. He was, however, a poor commander.<ref name="isbn0-8050-6884-8">{{harvnb|Fromkin|2001|p=119}}</ref> He launched an offensive against the Russians in the Caucasus in December 1914 with 100,000 troops; insisting on a frontal attack against mountainous Russian positions in winter, he lost 86% of his force at the [[Battle of Sarikamish]].<ref name=caven>{{harvnb|Hinterhoff|1984|pp=499–503}}</ref>

In December 1914 the Ottoman Empire, with German support, invaded [[Persia]] (modern [[Iran]]) in an effort to cut off British and Russian access to [[petroleum reservoir]]s around the [[Caspian Sea]].<ref>a b c The Encyclopedia Americana, 1920, v.28, p.403</ref> Persia, ostensibly neutral, had long been under spheres of British and Russian influence. The Ottomans and Germans were aided by [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] and [[Azeri]] forces, together with a large number of major Iranian tribes, such as the [[Qashqai people|Qashqai]], [[Tangistani]]s, [[Luristani]]s, and [[Khamseh]], while the Russians and British had the support of [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] and [[Armenians|Armenian]] forces. The [[Persian Campaign]] was to last until 1918 and end in failure for the Ottomans and their allies, however the Russian withdrawal from the war in 1917 led to Armenian and Assyrian forces, who had hitherto inflicted a series of embarrassing defeats upon the far larger forces of the Ottomans and their allies, being cut off from supply lines, outnumbered, outgunned and isolated, forcing them to fight and flee towards British lines in northern Mesopotamia.<ref>a b c d e f g (Northcote 1922, pp. 788)</ref>

General [[Nikolai Yudenich|Yudenich]], the Russian commander from 1915 to 1916, drove the Turks out of most of the southern Caucasus with a string of victories.<ref name=caven/> In 1917, Russian [[Grand Duke Nicholas]] assumed command of the Caucasus front. Nicholas planned a railway from Russian Georgia to the conquered territories, so that fresh supplies could be brought up for a new offensive in 1917. However, in March 1917 (February in the pre-revolutionary Russian calendar), the Czar abdicated in the course of the [[February Revolution]] and the [[Russian Caucasus Army (World War I)|Russian Caucasus Army]] began to fall apart.

Instigated by the Arab bureau of the British [[Foreign Office]], the [[Arab Revolt]] started with the help of Britain in June 1916 at the [[Battle of Mecca (1916)|Battle of Mecca]], led by [[Sherif Hussein]] of [[Mecca]], and ended with the Ottoman surrender of Damascus. [[Fakhri Pasha]], the Ottoman commander of [[Medina]], resisted for more than two and half years during the [[Siege of Medina]].<ref>{{harvnb|Sachar|1970|pp=122–138}}</ref>

Along the border of Italian Libya and British Egypt, the [[Senussi]] tribe, incited and armed by the Turks, waged a small-scale guerrilla war against Allied troops. The British were forced to dispatch 12,000 troops to oppose them in the [[Senussi Campaign]]. Their rebellion was finally crushed in mid-1916.<ref>{{harvnb|Gilbert|1994}}</ref>

Total Allied casualties on the Ottoman fronts amounted 650,000 men. Total Ottoman casualties were 725,000 (325,000 dead and 400,000 wounded).<ref name="Brief Ottoman History">{{Citation |last=Hanioglu |first=M. Sukru |title=A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2010 |pages=180–181 |isbn=978-0-691-13452-9}}</ref>

====Italian participation====
[[File:Austro-Hungarian mountain corps.jpg|thumb|Austro-Hungarian troops, Tyrol.]]
[[File:Kämpfe auf dem Doberdo.JPG|thumb|Depiction of the [[Battle of Doberdò]], fought in August 1916 between the Italian and the Austro-Hungarian armies.]]

{{Main|Italian Campaign (World War I)}}
{{Further|Battles of the Isonzo}}

Italy had been allied with the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires since 1882 as part of the [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]]. However, the nation had its own designs on Austrian territory in [[Trentino]], the [[Austrian Littoral]], [[Rijeka|Fiume]] (Rijeka) and [[Dalmatia]]. Rome had a secret 1902 pact with France, effectively nullifying its alliance.<ref>{{harvnb|Page}}</ref> At the start of hostilities, Italy refused to commit troops, arguing that the Triple Alliance was defensive and that Austria-Hungary was an aggressor. The Austro-Hungarian government began negotiations to secure Italian neutrality, offering the French colony of Tunisia in return. The Allies made a counter-offer in which Italy would receive the [[Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol|Southern Tyrol]], [[Austrian Littoral]] and territory on the [[Dalmatia]]n coast after the defeat of Austria-Hungary. This was formalised by the [[Treaty of London (1915)|Treaty of London]]. Further encouraged by the Allied invasion of Turkey in April 1915, Italy joined the Triple Entente and declared war on Austria-Hungary on 23 May. Fifteen months later, Italy declared war on Germany.

Italy's entry was engineered in secret by three individuals—the Prime Minister, [[Antonio Salandra]], the Foreign Minister, [[Sidney Sonnino]], and King [[Victor Emmanuel III]].

{{quote|On February 16, 1915, despite concurrent negotiations with Austria, a courier was dispatched in great secrecy to London with the suggestion that Italy was open to a good offer from the Entente.&nbsp;... The final choice was aided by the arrival of news in March of Russian victories in the Carpathians. Salandra began to think that victory for the Entente was in sight, and was so anxious not to arrive too late for a share in the profits that he instructed his envoy in London to drop some demands and reach agreement quickly.&nbsp;... The Treaty of London was concluded on April 26 binding Italy to fight within one month.&nbsp;... Not until May 4 did Salandra denounce the Triple Alliance in a private note to its signatories.<ref>Denis Mack Smith, ''Modern Italy: A Political History'', Univ. of Michigan Press (1997) p. 262</ref>}}

Militarily, the Italians had numerical superiority. This advantage, however, was lost, not only because of the difficult terrain in which fighting took place, but also because of the strategies and tactics employed. [[Field Marshal]] [[Luigi Cadorna]], a staunch proponent of the frontal assault, had dreams of breaking into the [[Slovenia]]n plateau, taking [[Ljubljana]] and threatening [[Vienna]]. Cadorna's plan did not take into account the difficulties of the rugged [[Julian Alps|Alpine]] and [[Karst Plateau|Karstic]] terrain, or the technological changes that created [[trench warfare]], giving rise to a series of bloody and inconclusive stalemated offensives.

On the Trentino front, the Austro-Hungarians took advantage of the mountainous terrain, which favoured the defender. After an initial strategic retreat, the front remained largely unchanged, while Austrian [[Kaiserschützen]] and [[Standschützen]] engaged Italian [[Alpini]] in bitter hand-to-hand combat throughout the summer. The Austro-Hungarians counterattacked in the [[Asiago|Altopiano of Asiago]], towards Verona and Padua, in the spring of 1916 (''[[Battle of Asiago|Strafexpedition]]''), but made little progress.

Beginning in 1915, the Italians under Cadorna mounted eleven offensives on the [[Battles of the Isonzo|Isonzo front]] along the [[Soča|Isonzo]] (Soča) River, northeast of [[Trieste]]. All eleven offensives were repelled by the Austro-Hungarians, who held the higher ground. In the summer of 1916, after the [[Battle of Doberdò]], the Italians captured the town of [[Gorizia]]. After this minor victory, the front remained static for over a year, despite several Italian offensives, centred on the [[Banjšice Plateau|Banjšice]] and [[Karst Plateau]] east of Gorizia. In the autumn of 1917, thanks to the improving situation on the Eastern front, the Austro-Hungarian troops received large numbers of reinforcements, including German [[Stormtrooper]]s and the elite [[Alpenkorps (German Empire)|Alpenkorps]].

The Central Powers launched a crushing offensive on 26 October 1917, spearheaded by the Germans. They achieved a victory at [[Battle of Caporetto|Caporetto]] ([[Kobarid]]). The Italian Army was routed and retreated more than {{convert|100|km|mi}} to reorganise, stabilising the front at the [[Battle of the Piave River|Piave River]]. Since the Italian Army had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Caporetto, the Italian Government called to arms the so-called '''99 Boys'' (''Ragazzi del '99''): that is, all males who were 18 years old or older. In 1918, the Austro-Hungarians failed to break through in a series of battles on the [[Battle of the Piave River|Piave River]], and were finally decisively defeated in the [[Battle of Vittorio Veneto]] in October of that year. On 1 November, the Italian Navy destroyed much of the Austro-Hungarian fleet stationed in [[Pula]], preventing it to be handed over to the new [[State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs]]. On 3 November, the Italians occupied [[Trieste]] from the sea. On the same day, the [[Armistice of Villa Giusti]] was signed. By mid November 1918, the Italian military occupied the entire former [[Austrian Littoral]], and seized control of the entire portion of Dalmatia that had been guaranteed to Italy by the London Pact.<ref>Giuseppe Praga, Franco Luxardo. ''History of Dalmatia''. Giardini, 1993. Pp. 281.</ref> By the end of hostilities in November 1918,<ref name="Paul O 2005. Pp. 17">Paul O'Brien. ''Mussolini in the First World War: the Journalist, the Soldier, the Fascist''. Oxford, England, UK; New York, New York, USA: Berg, 2005. Pp. 17.</ref> In 1918, Admiral [[Enrico Millo]] declared himself Italy's Governor of Dalmatia.<ref name="Paul O 2005. Pp. 17"/> Austria-Hungary surrendered in early November 1918.<ref>{{harvnb|Hickey|2003|pp=60–65}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|2005|pp=585–9}}</ref>

====Romanian participation====
{{Main|Romania during World War I}}

[[File:Marshal Joffre inspecting Romanian troops during WWI.jpg|thumb|left|Marshal [[Joffre]] inspecting Romanian troops, 1916.]]

Romania had been allied with the Central Powers since 1882. When the war began, however, it declared its neutrality, arguing that because Austria-Hungary had itself declared war on Serbia, Romania was under no obligation to join the war. When the Entente Powers promised Romania large territories of eastern Hungary ([[Transylvania]] and [[Banat]]), which had a large Romanian population, in exchange for Romania's declaring war on the Central Powers, the Romanian government renounced its neutrality and, on 27 August 1916, the Romanian Army [[Battle of Transylvania|launched an attack]] against Austria-Hungary, with limited Russian support. The Romanian offensive was initially successful, pushing back the Austro-Hungarian troops in Transylvania, but a counterattack by the forces of the [[Central Powers]] drove back the Russo-Romanian forces.<ref>Michael B. Barrett, ''Prelude to Blitzkrieg: The 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania'' (2013)</ref> As a result of the [[Battle of Bucharest]], the Central Powers occupied Bucharest on 6 December 1916. Fighting in Moldova [[Romanian Campaign#Stabilization and stalemate (1917)|continued in 1917]], resulting in a costly stalemate for the Central Powers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldwar2.ro/primulrazboi/?language=en&article=116|title=The Battle of Marasti (July 1917)|publisher=WorldWar2.ro|date=22 July 1917|accessdate=8 May 2011}}</ref><ref>Cyril Falls, ''The Great War'', p. 285</ref> Russian withdrawal from the war in late 1917 as a result of the [[October Revolution]] meant that Romania was forced to sign an armistice with the Central Powers on 9 December 1917.
[[File:Romanian troops at Marasesti in 1917.jpg|thumb|Romanian troops during the [[Battle of Mărăşeşti]], 1917.]]

In January 1918, Romanian forces established control over [[Bessarabia]] as the Russian Army abandoned the province. Although a treaty was signed by the Romanian and the [[Bolshevik]] Russian government following talks from 5–9 March 1918 on the withdrawal of Romanian forces from Bessarabia within two months, on 27 March 1918 Romania attached Bessarabia to its territory, formally based on a resolution passed by the local assembly of the territory on the unification with Romania.

Romania officially made peace with the Central Powers by signing the [[Treaty of Bucharest (1918)|Treaty of Bucharest]] on 7 May 1918. Under that treaty, Romania was obliged to end the war with the Central Powers and make small territorial concessions to Austria-Hungary, ceding control of some passes in the [[Carpathian Mountains]], and grant oil concessions to Germany. In exchange, the Central Powers recognised the sovereignty of Romania over [[Bessarabia]]. The treaty was renounced in October 1918 by the [[Alexandru Marghiloman]] government, and Romania nominally re-entered the war on 10 November 1918. The next day, the Treaty of Bucharest was nullified by the terms of the Armistice of [[Compiègne]].<ref>{{citation|last=Béla|first=Köpeczi|title=Erdély története|publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó|url=http://mek.oszk.hu/02100/02109/html/571.html}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Béla|first=Köpeczi|title=History of Transylvania|publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó|url=http://mek.niif.hu/03400/03407/html/429.html|isbn=84-8371-020-X}}</ref> Total Romanian deaths from 1914 to 1918, military and civilian, within contemporary borders, were estimated at 748,000.<ref>{{Citation|title=Poteri narodonaseleniia v XX veke : spravochnik|last=Erlikman|first=Vadim|year=2004|location=Moscow|isbn=5-93165-107-1}}</ref>

===Eastern Front===
{{Main|Eastern Front (World War I)}}

====Initial actions====
[[File:Russian Troops NGM-v31-p379.jpg|thumb|upright|Russian troops in a trench, awaiting a German attack, 1917.]]

While the Western Front had reached stalemate, the war continued in East Europe. Initial Russian plans called for simultaneous invasions of Austrian [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]] and German [[East Prussia]]. Although Russia's initial advance into Galicia was largely successful, it was driven back from East Prussia by [[Paul von Hindenburg|Hindenburg]] and [[Erich Ludendorff|Ludendorff]] at [[Battle of Tannenberg|Tannenberg]] and the [[First Battle of the Masurian Lakes|Masurian Lakes]] in August and September 1914.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|2005|p=715}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Meyer|2006|pp=152–4, 161, 163, 175, 182}}</ref> Russia's less developed industrial base and ineffective military leadership was instrumental in the events that unfolded. 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.<ref name="Smele">{{harvnb|Smele}}</ref> On 5 August, they captured [[Warsaw]] and forced the Russians to withdraw from Poland.

====Russian Revolution====
{{Main|Russian Revolution}}

Despite the success of the June 1916 [[Brusilov Offensive]] in eastern [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]],<ref>{{harvnb|Schindler|2003}}</ref> dissatisfaction with the Russian government's conduct of the war grew. The offensive's success was undermined by the reluctance of other generals to commit their forces to support the victory. Allied and Russian forces were revived only temporarily by Romania's entry into the war on 27 August. German forces came to the aid of embattled Austro-Hungarian units in [[Transylvania]] while a German-Bulgarian force attacked from the south, and [[Bucharest]] fell to the Central Powers on 6 December. Meanwhile, unrest grew in Russia, as the [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar]] remained at the front. [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Empress Alexandra's]] increasingly incompetent rule drew protests and resulted in the murder of her favourite, [[Grigori Rasputin|Rasputin]], at the end of 1916.

In March 1917, demonstrations in [[Saint Petersburg|Petrograd]] culminated in the abdication of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]] and the appointment of a weak [[Russian Provisional Government|Provisional Government]], which shared power with the [[Petrograd Soviet]] socialists. This arrangement led to confusion and chaos both at the front and at home. The army became increasingly ineffective.<ref name="Smele"/>

[[File:Brest-litovsk treaty.jpg|thumb|[[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]], 1918.<br>1. [[Count Ottokar von Czernin]]<br>2. [[Richard von Kühlmann]]<br>3. [[Vasil Radoslavov]]]]

Discontent and the weaknesses of the Provisional Government led to a rise in the popularity of the [[Bolshevik]] Party, led by [[Vladimir Lenin]], which demanded an immediate end to the war. The [[October Revolution|successful armed uprising by the Bolsheviks]] of November was followed in December by an armistice and negotiations with Germany. At first, the Bolsheviks refused the German terms, but when German troops began marching across the Ukraine unopposed, the new government acceded to the [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]] on 3 March 1918. The treaty ceded vast territories, including Finland, the [[Baltic states|Baltic provinces]], parts of Poland and Ukraine to the Central Powers.<ref>{{harvnb|Wheeler-Bennett|1956}}</ref> Despite this enormous apparent German success, the manpower required for German occupation of former Russian territory may have contributed to the failure of the Spring Offensive and secured relatively little food or other [[materiel]].

With the adoption of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Entente no longer existed. The Allied powers led [[Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War|a small-scale invasion]] of Russia, partly to stop Germany from exploiting Russian resources and, to a lesser extent, to support the "Whites" (as opposed to the "Reds") in the [[Russian Civil War]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Mawdsley|2008|pp=54–55}}</ref> Allied troops landed in [[Arkhangelsk]] and in [[Vladivostok]] as part of the [[North Russia Intervention]].

====Czechoslovak Legion====
[[File:Czech Troops.jpg|thumb|[[Czechoslovak Legion]], Vladivostok, 1918.]]
{{Main|Czechoslovak Legion}}
The Czechoslovak Legion fought together with the Entente—their goal was to win support for the independence of [[Czechoslovakia]]. The Legion in [[Russia]] was established in 1917, in December 1917 in [[France]] (including volunteers from America) and in April 1918 in [[Italy]]. Czechoslovak Legion troops defeated the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] army at the Ukrainian village [[Battle of Zborov (1917)|Zborov]] in July 1917. After this success, the number of Czechoslovak legionaries increased, as well as Czechoslovak military power. In the [[Battle of Bakhmach]], the Legion defeated the [[German Empire|Germans]] and forced them to make a truce.

In Russia, they were heavily involved in the [[Russian Civil War]] fighting the [[Bolsheviks]], at times controlling most of the [[Trans-Siberian railway]] and conquering all major cities in [[Siberia]]. The presence of the Czechoslovak Legion near the [[Yekaterinburg]] appears to have been one of the motivating forces for the Bolshevik [[Shooting of the Romanov family|execution of the Tsar and his family]] in July 1918. Legionaries came less than a week afterwards and captured the city.

Because Russia's European ports were not safe, the corps was to be evacuated by a long detour via the port of [[Vladivostok]]. The last transport was the American ship Heffron in September 1920.

===Central Powers proposal for starting peace negotiations===
[[File:River Crossing NGM-v31-p338.jpg|thumb|right|"''[[They shall not pass]]"'', a phrase typically associated with the defense of Verdun.]]

In December 1916, after ten brutal months of the [[Battle of Verdun]] and a [[Romania during World War I#The counteroffensive of the Central Powers (September–December 1916)|successful offensive against Romania]], the Germans attempted to negotiate a peace with the Allies. Soon after, the US president, Woodrow Wilson, attempted to intervene as a peacemaker, asking in a note for both sides to state their demands. [[David Lloyd George|Lloyd George's]] War Cabinet considered the German offer to be a ploy to create divisions amongst the Allies. After initial outrage and much deliberation, they took Wilson's note as a separate effort, signalling that the United States was on the verge of entering the war against Germany following the "submarine outrages". While the Allies debated a response to Wilson's offer, the Germans chose to rebuff it in favour of "a direct exchange of views". Learning of the German response, the Allied governments were free to make clear demands in their response of 14 January. They sought restoration of damages, the evacuation of occupied territories, reparations for France, Russia and Romania, and a recognition of the principle of nationalities. This included the liberation of Italians, Slavs, Romanians, Czecho-Slovaks, and the creation of a "free and united Poland". On the question of security, the Allies sought guarantees that would prevent or limit future wars, complete with sanctions, as a condition of any peace settlement.<ref>{{harvnb|Kernek|1970|pp=721–766}}</ref> The negotiations failed and the Entente powers rejected the German offer, because Germany did not state any specific proposals. To Wilson, the Entente powers stated that they would not start peace negotiations until the Central powers evacuated all occupied Allied territories and provided indemnities for all damage which had been done.<ref>Stracham (1998), p. 61</ref>

===1917–1918===

====Developments in 1917====
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1983-0323-501, Kriegskinematograph im Schützengraben.jpg|thumb|German<!--UFA?--> film crew recording the action.]]

Events of 1917 proved decisive in ending the war, although their effects were not fully felt until 1918.

The British naval blockade began to have a serious impact on Germany. In response, in February 1917, the [[German General Staff]] convinced [[Chancellor]] [[Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg]] to declare unrestricted submarine warfare, with the goal of starving Britain out of the war. German planners estimated that unrestricted submarine warfare would cost Britain a monthly shipping loss of 600,000 tons. The General Staff acknowledged that the policy would almost certainly bring the United States into the conflict, but calculated that British shipping losses would be so high that they would be forced to sue for peace after 5 to 6 months, before American intervention could make an impact. In reality, tonnage sunk rose above 500,000&nbsp;tons per month from February to July. It peaked at 860,000&nbsp;tons in April. After July, the newly re-introduced [[convoy]] system became extremely effective in reducing the [[U-boat]] threat. Britain was safe from starvation, while German industrial output fell and the United States troops joined the war in large numbers far earlier than Germany had anticipated.

[[File:Guetteur au poste de l'écluse 26.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Haut-Rhin]], France, 1917.]]

On 3 May 1917, during the [[Nivelle Offensive]], the weary French 2nd Colonial Division, veterans of the Battle of Verdun, refused their orders, arriving drunk and without their weapons. Their officers lacked the means to punish an entire division, and harsh measures were not immediately implemented. Then, the [[French Army Mutinies]] afflicted an additional 54 French divisions and saw 20,000 men desert. The other Allied forces attacked, but sustained tremendous casualties.<ref>{{harvnb|Lyons|1999|p=243}}</ref> However, appeals to patriotism and duty, as well as mass arrests and trials, encouraged the soldiers to return to defend their trenches, although the French soldiers refused to participate in further offensive action.<ref>Marshall, 292.</ref> [[Robert Nivelle]] was removed from command by 15 May, replaced by General [[Philippe Pétain]], who suspended bloody large-scale attacks.

The victory of Austria-Hungary and Germany at the [[Battle of Caporetto]] led the Allies to convene the [[Rapallo Conference]] at which they formed the [[Supreme War Council]] to coordinate planning. Previously, British and French armies had operated under separate commands.

In December, the Central Powers signed an armistice with Russia. This released large numbers of German troops for use in the west. With German reinforcements and new American troops pouring in, the outcome was to be decided on the Western Front. 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. Furthermore, the leaders of the Central Powers and the Allies became increasingly fearful of social unrest and revolution in Europe. Thus, both sides urgently sought a decisive victory.<ref name="isbn0-313-29880-7">{{harvnb|Heyman|1997|pp=146–147}}</ref>

In 1917, Emperor [[Charles I of Austria]] secretly attempted separate peace negotiations with Clemenceau, with his wife's brother [[Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma|Sixtus]] in Belgium as an intermediary, without the knowledge of Germany. Italy opposed the proposals. When the negotiations failed, his attempt was revealed to Germany, resulting in a diplomatic catastrophe.<ref name="Kurlander">{{harvnb|Kurlander|2006}}</ref><ref name="Shanafelt">{{harvnb|Shanafelt|1985|pp=125–30}}</ref>

====Ottoman Empire conflict, 1917–1918====
{{main|Sinai and Palestine Campaign}}
[[File:British Troops Marching in Mesopotamia.jpg|thumb|British troops on the march in [[Mesopotamian campaign|Mesopotamia]], 1917.]]
In March and April 1917, at the [[First Battle of Gaza|First]] and [[Second Battle of Gaza|Second Battles of Gaza]], German and Ottoman forces stopped the advance of the [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force]], which had begun in August 1916 at [[Battle of Romani|Romani]]. At the end of October, the [[Sinai and Palestine Campaign]] resumed, when General [[Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby|Edmund Allenby]]'s [[XX Corps (United Kingdom)|XXth Corps]], [[XXI Corps (United Kingdom)|XXI Corps]] and [[Desert Mounted Corps]] won the [[Battle of Beersheba (1917)|Battle of Beersheba]]. Two Ottoman armies were defeated a few weeks later at the [[Battle of Mughar Ridge]] and, early in December, [[Jerusalem]] was captured following another Ottoman defeat at the [[Battle of Jerusalem (1917)]]. About this time, [[Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein]] was relieved of his duties as the Eighth Army's commander, replaced by [[Cevat Çobanlı|Djevad Pasha]], and a few months later the commander of the [[Ottoman Army]] in Palestine, [[Erich von Falkenhayn]], was replaced by [[Otto Liman von Sanders]].

Early in 1918, the front line was [[Capture of Jericho (1918)|extended]] into the [[Occupation of the Jordan Valley (1918)|Jordan Valley]], which continued to be occupied, following the [[First Transjordan attack on Amman|First Transjordan]] and the [[Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt (1918)|Second Transjordan]] attack by British Empire forces in March and April 1918, into the summer. During March, most of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's British infantry and [[Yeomanry]] cavalry were sent to fight on the Western Front as a consequence of the Spring Offensive. They were replaced by Indian Army units. During several months of reorganisation and training during the summer, a [[Sinai and Palestine Campaign#Summer front line operations|number of attacks]] were carried out on sections of the Ottoman front line. These pushed the front line north to more advantageous positions in preparation for an attack and to acclimatise the newly arrived Indian Army infantry. It was not until the middle of September that the integrated force was ready for large-scale operations.

The reorganised Egyptian Expeditionary Force, with an additional mounted division, broke Ottoman forces at the [[Battle of Megiddo (1918)|Battle of Megiddo]] in September 1918. In two days the British and [[British Indian Army|Indian]] infantry supported by a creeping barrage broke the Ottoman front line and captured the headquarters of the [[Eighth Army (Ottoman Empire)]] at [[Battle of Tulkarm (1918)|Tulkarm]], the continuous trench lines at [[Battle of Tabsor (1918)|Tabsor]], [[Battle of Arara|Arara]] and the [[Seventh Army (Ottoman Empire)]] headquarters at [[Battle of Nablus (1918)|Nablus]]. The [[Desert Mounted Corps]] rode through the break in the front line created by the infantry and, during virtually continuous operations by [[Australian Light Horse]], British [[Yeomanry|mounted Yeomanry]], Indian [[Lancers]] and New Zealand [[Mounted Riflemen|Mounted Rifle]] brigades in the [[Jezreel Valley]], they captured [[Battle of Nazareth (1918)|Nazareth]], [[Capture of Afulah and Beisan|Afulah and Beisan]], [[Capture of Jenin (1918)|Jenin]], along with [[Battle of Haifa (1918)|Haifa]] on the Mediterranean coast and [[Daraa]] east of the Jordan River on the Hejaz railway. [[Battle of Samakh (1918)|Samakh]] and [[Tiberias]] on the [[Sea of Galilee]], were captured on the way northwards to [[Damascus]]. Meanwhile, [[Third Transjordan attack|Chaytor's Force]] of Australian light horse, New Zealand mounted rifles, Indian, British West Indies and Jewish infantry captured the crossings of the [[Jordan River]], [[Salt, Jordan|Es Salt]], [[Amman]] and at Ziza most of the [[Fourth Army (Ottoman Empire)]]. The [[Armistice of Mudros]], signed at the end of October ended hostilities with the Ottoman Empire when fighting was continuing north of [[Aleppo]].

====Entry of the United States====
{{Main|American entry into World War I}}

[[File:USA bryter de diplomatiska förbindelserna med Tyskland 3 februari 1917.jpg|thumb|right|[[Woodrow Wilson|President Wilson]] before Congress, announcing the break in official relations with Germany on 3 February 1917.]]

At the outbreak of the war, the United States pursued a policy of [[non-intervention]], avoiding conflict while trying to broker a peace. When a German U-boat [[Sinking of the RMS Lusitania|sank the British liner RMS ''Lusitania'']] on 7 May 1915 with 128 Americans among the dead, President [[Woodrow Wilson]] insisted that "America is too proud to fight" but demanded an end to attacks on passenger ships. Germany complied. Wilson unsuccessfully tried to mediate a settlement. However, he also repeatedly warned that the United States would not tolerate unrestricted submarine warfare, in violation of international law. The former president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] denounced German acts as "piracy".<ref>{{harvnb|Brands|1997|p=756}}</ref> Wilson was narrowly reelected in [[United States presidential election, 1916|1916]] as his supporters emphasized "he kept us out of war".

In January 1917, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, realizing it would mean American entry. The German Foreign Minister, in the [[Zimmermann Telegram]], invited Mexico to join the war as Germany's ally against the United States. In return, the Germans would finance Mexico's war and help it recover the territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.<ref>{{harvnb|Tuchman|1966}}</ref> The United Kingdom intercepted the message and presented it to the US embassy in the UK. From there it made its way to President Wilson who released the Zimmerman note to the public, and Americans saw it as ''[[casus belli]]''. Wilson called on antiwar elements to end all wars, by winning this one and eliminating militarism from the globe. He argued that the war was so important that the US had to have a voice in the peace conference.<ref name="Karp-PoW-1979">{{harvnb|Karp|1979}}</ref> After the sinking of seven US merchant ships by submarines and the publication of the Zimmerman telegram, Wilson called for war on Germany,<ref>[[S: Woodrow Wilson Urges Congress to Declare War on Germany|"Woodrow Wilson Urges Congress to Declare War on Germany"]] (Wikisource)</ref> which the [[US Congress]] [[United States declaration of war on Germany (1917)|declared on 6 April 1917]].

The United States was never formally a member of the Allies but became a self-styled "Associated Power". The United States had a small army, but, after the passage of the [[Selective Service Act of 1917|Selective Service Act]], it drafted 2.8 million men,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sss.gov/induct.htm|title=Selective Service System: History and Records|publisher=Sss.gov|accessdate=27 July 2010}}</ref> and, by summer 1918, was sending 10,000 fresh soldiers to France every day. In 1917, the US Congress gave US citizenship to Puerto Ricans when they were drafted to participate in World War I, as part of the [[Jones–Shafroth Act|Jones Act]]. Germany had miscalculated, believing it would be many more months before American soldiers would arrive and that their arrival could be stopped by U-boats.<ref>{{harvnb|Wilgus|1931|p=52}}</ref>

The [[United States Navy]] sent a [[United States Battleship Division Nine (World War I)|battleship group]] to [[Scapa Flow]] to join with the British Grand Fleet, [[destroyer]]s to [[Cobh|Queenstown]], [[Ireland]], and [[submarine]]s to help guard convoys. Several regiments of [[US Marines]] were also dispatched to France. The British and French wanted American units used to reinforce their troops already on the battle lines and not waste scarce shipping on bringing over supplies. General [[John J. Pershing]], [[American Expeditionary Forces]] (AEF) commander, refused to break up American units to be used as reinforcements for British Empire and French units. As an exception, he did allow African-American combat regiments to be used in French divisions. The [[Harlem Hellfighters]] fought as part of the French 16th Division, earning a unit [[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de Guerre]] for their actions at [[Battle of Château-Thierry (1918)|Château-Thierry]], [[Battle of Belleau Wood|Belleau Wood]], and Sechault.<ref>{{citation|publisher=US [[National Archives and Records Administration]]|url=http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/369th-infantry/|title=Teaching With Documents: Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans during World War I|accessdate=29 October 2009|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref> AEF doctrine called for the use of frontal assaults, which had long since been discarded by British Empire and French commanders because of the large loss of life.<ref>{{harvnb|Millett|Murray|1988|p=143}}</ref>

====German Spring Offensive of 1918====
{{Main|Spring Offensive}}

[[File:British 55th Division gas casualties 10 April 1918.jpg|thumb|British [[55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division|55th Infantry Division]] soldiers, blinded by tear gas during the [[Battle of the Lys (1918)|Battle of Estaires]], 10 April 1918.]]
[[File:General gouraud french army world war i machinegun marne 1918.JPEG|thumb|French soldiers under [[Henri Gouraud (French Army officer)|General Gouraud]], with machine guns amongst the ruins of a cathedral near the [[Marne (river)|Marne]], 1918.]]

German General [[Erich Ludendorff]] drew up plans ([[Code name|codenamed]] [[Operation Michael]]) for the 1918 offensive on the Western Front. The Spring Offensive sought to divide the British and French forces with a series of feints and advances. The German leadership hoped to end the war before significant US forces arrived. The operation commenced on 21 March 1918, with an attack on British forces near [[Amiens]]. German forces achieved an unprecedented advance of {{convert|60|km|mi}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Westwell|2004}}</ref>

British and French trenches were penetrated using novel [[infiltration tactics]], also named ''Hutier'' tactics, after General [[Oskar von Hutier]], by specially trained units called [[Stosstruppen]]. Previously, attacks had been characterised by long artillery bombardments and massed assaults. However, in the Spring Offensive of 1918, Ludendorff used artillery only briefly and infiltrated small groups of infantry at weak points. They attacked command and logistics areas and bypassed points of serious resistance. More heavily armed infantry then destroyed these isolated positions. German success relied greatly on the element of surprise.<ref>{{harvnb|Posen|1984|pp=190&191}}</ref>

The front moved to within {{convert|120|km|mi}} of Paris. Three heavy [[Krupp]] [[railway gun]]s fired 183&nbsp;shells on the capital, causing many Parisians to flee. The initial offensive was so successful that Kaiser Wilhelm II declared 24 March a [[Public holiday|national holiday]]. Many Germans thought victory was near. After heavy fighting, however, the offensive was halted. Lacking tanks or [[Self-propelled artillery|motorised artillery]], the Germans were unable to consolidate their gains. This situation was not helped by the supply lines now being stretched as a result of their rapid advance over devastated ground.<ref>{{harvnb|Gray|1991|p=86}}</ref>

[[Ferdinand Foch|General Foch]] pressed to use the arriving American troops as individual replacements, whereas Pershing sought to field American units as an independent force. These units were assigned to the depleted French and British Empire commands on 28 March. A Supreme War Council of Allied forces was created at the [[Doullens Conference]] on 5 November 1917.<ref name=moon/> General Foch was appointed as supreme commander of the allied forces. Haig, Petain, and Pershing retained tactical control of their respective armies; Foch assumed a coordinating rather than a directing role, and the British, French, and US commands operated largely independently.<ref name=moon>{{harvnb|Moon|1996|pp=495–196}}</ref>

Following Operation Michael, Germany launched [[Battle of the Lys (1918)|Operation Georgette]] against the northern [[English Channel]] ports. The Allies halted the drive after limited territorial gains by Germany. The German Army to the south then conducted [[Third Battle of the Aisne|Operations Blücher and Yorck]], pushing broadly towards Paris. Operation Marne was launched on 15 July, attempting to encircle [[Reims]] and beginning the [[Second Battle of the Marne]]. The resulting counterattack, starting the [[Hundred Days Offensive]], marked the first successful Allied offensive of the war.

By 20 July, the Germans were back across the Marne at their starting lines,<ref>{{harvnb|Rickard|2007}}</ref> having achieved little. Following this last phase of the war in the West, the German Army never regained the initiative. German casualties between March and April 1918 were 270,000, including many highly trained [[Stormtrooper|storm troopers]].

Meanwhile, Germany was falling apart at home. [[Anti-war]] marches became frequent and morale in the army fell. Industrial output was 53% of 1913 levels.

====New states under war zone====
In the late spring of 1918, three new states were formed in the [[South Caucasus]]: the [[First Republic of Armenia]], the [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]], and the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]], which declared their independence from the Russian Empire.<ref name="Hovannisian">{{harvnb|Hovannisian|1967|pp=1–39}}</ref> Two other minor entities were established, the [[Centrocaspian Dictatorship]] and [[South West Caucasian Republic]] (the former was liquidated by Azerbaijan in the autumn of 1918 and the latter by a joint Armenian-British task force in early 1919). With the withdrawal of the Russian armies from the Caucasus front in the winter of 1917–18, the three major republics braced for an imminent Ottoman advance, which commenced in the early months of 1918. Solidarity was briefly maintained when the [[Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic|Transcaucasian Federative Republic]] was created in the spring of 1918, but this collapsed in May, when the Georgians asked and received protection from Germany and the Azerbaijanis concluded a treaty with the Ottoman Empire that was more akin to a military alliance. Armenia was left to fend for itself and struggled for five months against the threat of a full-fledged occupation by the Ottoman Turks.<ref name="Hovannisian"/>

===Allied victory: summer 1918 onwards===

====Hundred Days Offensive====
{{Main|Hundred Days Offensive|Weimar Republic}}

[[File:Aerial view of ruins of Vaux, France, 1918, ca. 03-1918 - ca. 11-1918 - NARA - 512862.tif|thumb|Aerial view of ruins of [[Vaux-devant-Damloup]], France, 1918.]]

The Allied counteroffensive, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, began on 8 August 1918, with the [[Battle of Amiens (1918)|Battle of Amiens]]. The battle involved over 400 tanks and 120,000 British, [[Dominion]], and French troops, and by the end of its first day a gap {{convert |15|mi|km| abbr = on}} long had been created in the German lines. The defenders displayed a marked collapse in morale, causing [[Erich Ludendorff]] to refer to this day as the "Black Day of the German army".<ref>{{cite book | publisher = Vanwell | origyear = 1977 | year = 2004| title = Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War | last = Schreiber | first= Shane B| place= St. Catharines, ON | isbn= 1-55125-096-9| oclc = 57063659}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Rickard|2001}}</ref> After an advance as far as {{convert|14|mi|km|0}}, German resistance stiffened, and the battle was concluded on 12 August.

Rather than continuing the Amiens battle past the point of initial success, as had been done so many times in the past, the Allies shifted their attention elsewhere. Allied leaders had now realised that to continue an attack after resistance had hardened was a waste of lives, and it was better to turn a line than to try to roll over it. They began to undertake attacks in quick order to take advantage of successful advances on the flanks, then broke them off when each attack lost its initial impetus.<ref name="Pitt-1962">{{harvnb|Pitt|2003}}</ref>

[[File:Canadian Scottish at Canal du Nord Sept 1918 IWM CO 3289.jpg|thumb|left|[[16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), CEF|Canadian Scottish]], advancing during the [[Battle of the Canal du Nord]], 1918.]]

British and Dominion forces launched the next phase of the campaign with the [[Battle of Albert (1918)|Battle of Albert]] on 21 August;.<ref>{{harvnb|Terraine|1963}}</ref> The assault was widened by French<ref name="Chron-FWW">{{harvnb|Gray|Argyle|1990}}</ref> and then further British forces in the following days. During the last week of August the pressure along a {{convert|70|mi|km|0|sing=on}} front against the enemy was heavy and unrelenting. From German accounts, "Each day was spent in bloody fighting against an ever and again on-storming enemy, and nights passed without sleep in retirements to new lines."<ref name="Pitt-1962" />

Faced with these advances, on 2 September the German [[Oberste Heeresleitung]] (OHL) issued orders to withdraw back into the [[Hindenburg Line]] in the south. This ceded without a fight the salient seized the previous April.<ref>{{harvnb|Nicholson|1962}}</ref> According to [[Erich Ludendorff|Ludendorff]] "We had to admit the necessity&nbsp;... to withdraw the entire front from the Scarpe to the Vesle."<ref name="Ludendorff">{{harvnb|Ludendorff|1919}}</ref>

September saw the Allied [[Hundred Days Offensive#Advance to the Hindenburg Line|advance to the Hindenburg Line]] in the north and centre. The Germans continued to fight strong rear-guard actions and launching numerous counterattacks on lost positions, but only a few succeeded, and then only temporarily. Contested towns, villages, heights, and trenches in the screening positions and outposts of the Hindenburg Line continued to fall to the Allies, with the BEF alone taking 30,441&nbsp;prisoners in the last week of September. On 24 September an assault by both the British and French came within {{convert|2|mi|km}} of St. Quentin.<ref name="Chron-FWW"/> The Germans were now completely back in the Hindenburg Line.

[[File:World War I Observation Balloon HD-SN-99-02269.JPEG|thumb|An American major, piloting an [[observation balloon]] near the front, 1918.]]

In nearly four weeks of fighting beginning 8 August, over 100,000 German prisoners were taken, 75,000 by the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|BEF]] and the rest by the French. As of "The Black Day of the German Army", the German High Command realised that the war was lost and made attempts to reach a satisfactory end. The day after that battle, Ludendorff said: "We cannot win the war any more, but we must not lose it either." On 11 August he offered his resignation to the Kaiser, who refused it, replying, "I see that we must strike a balance. We have nearly reached the limit of our powers of resistance. The war must be ended." On 13 August, at [[Spa, Belgium|Spa]], Hindenburg, Ludendorff, the Chancellor, and Foreign Minister Hintz agreed that the war could not be ended militarily and, on the following day, the German Crown Council decided that victory in the field was now most improbable. Austria and Hungary warned that they could only continue the war until December, and Ludendorff recommended immediate peace negotiations. Prince Rupprecht warned Prince Max of Baden: "Our military situation has deteriorated so rapidly that I no longer believe we can hold out over the winter; it is even possible that a catastrophe will come earlier." On 10 September Hindenburg urged peace moves to Emperor Charles of Austria, and Germany appealed to the Netherlands for mediation. On 14 September Austria sent a note to all belligerents and neutrals suggesting a meeting for peace talks on neutral soil, and on 15 September Germany made a peace offer to Belgium. Both peace offers were rejected, and on 24 September [[Oberste Heeresleitung|OHL]] informed the leaders in Berlin that armistice talks were inevitable.<ref name="Chron-FWW"/>

The [[Hundred Days Offensive#Battles of the Hindenburg Line|final assault]] on the Hindenburg Line began with the [[Meuse-Argonne Offensive]], launched by French and American troops on 26 September. The following week, cooperating French and American units broke through in [[Champagne, France|Champagne]] at the [[Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge]], forcing the Germans off the commanding heights, and closing towards the Belgian frontier.<ref>{{harvnb|McLellan|p=49}}</ref> On 8 October the line was pierced again by British and Dominion troops at the [[Battle of Cambrai (1918)|Battle of Cambrai]].<ref>{{cite book|series= For King and Empire: a social history and battlefield tour|title= The Canadians at Cambrai and the Canal du Nord, August–September 1918|publisher=CEF Books|year=1997|last=Christie|first=Norm M|isbn= 1-896979-18-1 |oclc= 166099767}}</ref> The German army had to shorten its front and use the Dutch frontier as an anchor to fight rear-guard actions as it fell back towards Germany.

When Bulgaria signed a separate armistice on 29 September, Ludendorff, having been under great stress for months, suffered something similar to a breakdown. It was evident that Germany could no longer mount a successful defence.<ref>{{harvnb|Stevenson|2004|p=380}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Hull|2006|pp=307–10}}</ref>

[[File:US 64th regiment celebrate the Armistice.jpg|thumb|left|Men of US 64th Regiment, [[7th Infantry Division (United States)|7th Infantry Division]], celebrate the news of the Armistice, 11 November 1918.]]

Meanwhile, news of Germany's impending military defeat spread throughout the German armed forces. The threat of mutiny was rife. Admiral [[Reinhard Scheer]] and Ludendorff decided to launch a last attempt to restore the "valour" of the German Navy. Knowing the government of [[Prince Maximilian of Baden]] would veto any such action, Ludendorff decided not to inform him. Nonetheless, word of the impending assault reached sailors at [[Kiel]]. Many, refusing to be part of a naval offensive, which they believed to be suicidal, rebelled and were arrested. Ludendorff took the blame; the Kaiser dismissed him on 26 October. The collapse of the Balkans meant that Germany was about to lose its main supplies of oil and food. Its reserves had been used up, even as US troops kept arriving at the rate of 10,000 per day.<ref>{{harvnb|Stevenson|2004|p=383}}</ref> The Americans supplied more than 80% of Allied oil during the war, meaning no such loss of supplies could affect the Allied effort.<ref name = "Painter 2012 25">{{Harvnb|Painter|2012|p=25}}: "Over the course of the war the United States supplied more than 80&nbsp;percent of Allied oil requirements, and after US entry into the war, the United States helped provide and protect tankers transporting oil to Europe. US oil resources meant that insufficient energy supplies did not hamper the Allies, as they did the Central Powers."</ref>

With the military faltering and with widespread loss of confidence in the Kaiser, Germany moved towards peace. [[Prince Maximilian of Baden]] took charge of a new government as Chancellor of Germany to negotiate with the Allies. Negotiations with President Wilson began immediately, in the hope that he would offer better terms than the British and French. Wilson demanded a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary control over the German military.<ref>{{harvnb|Stevenson|2004|p=385}}</ref> There was no resistance when the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democrat]] [[Philipp Scheidemann]] on 9 November declared Germany to be a republic. The Kaiser, kings and other hereditary rulers all were removed from power. Imperial Germany was dead; a new Germany had been born: the [[Weimar Republic]].<ref>{{harvnb|Stevenson|2004|ch=17}}</ref>

====Armistices and capitulations====
[[File:Armisticetrain.jpg|thumb|[[Ferdinand Foch]], second from right, pictured outside the carriage in [[Compiègne]] after agreeing to the armistice that ended the war there. The carriage was later chosen by [[Nazi Germany]] as the symbolic setting of Pétain's June 1940 armistice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.compiegne.fr/decouvrir/clairierearmistice.asp|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827142334/http://www.compiegne.fr/decouvrir/clairierearmistice.asp|archivedate=27 August 2007|title=Clairière de l'Armistice|publisher=Ville de [[Compiègne]]|language=French}}</ref>]]
The collapse of the Central Powers came swiftly. Bulgaria was the first to sign an armistice, on 29 September 1918 at [[Saloniki]].<ref name="indiana.edu-1918">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1918.htm|work=League of Nations Photo Archive|title=1918 Timeline|accessdate=20 November 2009}}</ref> On 30 October, the Ottoman Empire capitulated at [[Moudros]], signing the [[Armistice of Mudros]].<ref name="indiana.edu-1918"/>

On 24 October, the Italians began a push that rapidly recovered territory lost after the [[Battle of Caporetto]]. This culminated in the [[Battle of Vittorio Veneto]], which marked the end of the Austro-Hungarian Army as an effective fighting force. The offensive also triggered the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the last week of October, declarations of independence were made in Budapest, Prague, and Zagreb. On 29 October, the imperial authorities asked Italy for an armistice. But the Italians continued advancing, reaching Trento, Udine, and Trieste. On 3 November, Austria-Hungary sent a [[White flag|flag of truce]] to ask for an [[armistice]]. The terms, arranged by telegraph with the Allied Authorities in Paris, were communicated to the Austrian commander and accepted. The [[Armistice of Villa Giusti|Armistice with Austria]] was signed in the Villa Giusti, near [[Padua]], on 3 November. Austria and Hungary signed separate armistices following the overthrow of the [[Habsburg Monarchy]]. Following the outbreak of the [[German Revolution of 1918–1919]], a republic was proclaimed on 9 November. The [[Kaiser]] fled to the Netherlands.

On 11 November, at 5:00 am, an [[armistice with Germany]] was signed in a railroad carriage at [[Compiègne]]. At 11&nbsp;am on 11 November 1918—"the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"—a ceasefire came into effect. During the six hours between the signing of the armistice and its taking effect, opposing armies on the Western Front began to withdraw from their positions, but fighting continued along many areas of the front, as commanders wanted to capture territory before the war ended. Canadian Private [[George Lawrence Price]] was shot by a German sniper at 10:57 and died at 10:58.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lindsay|first=Robert|url=http://www.nwbattalion.com/last.html|title=The Last Hours|work=28th (Northwest) Battalion Headquarters|accessdate=20 November 2009}}</ref> American [[Henry Gunther]] was killed 60 seconds before the armistice came into force while charging astonished German troops who were aware the Armistice was nearly upon them.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hayes|first=John|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7696021.stm|title=The last soldiers to die in World War I|publisher=BBC News|date=29 October 2008|accessdate=2013-03-12}}</ref> The last British soldier to die was Pte [[George Edwin Ellison]]. The [[occupation of the Rhineland]] took place following the Armistice. The occupying armies consisted of American, Belgian, British and French forces.

In November 1918, the Allies had ample supplies of men and [[materiel]] to invade Germany. Yet at the time of the armistice, no Allied force had crossed the German frontier; the Western Front was still some {{convert|450|mi|km|abbr=on}} from Berlin; and the Kaiser's armies had retreated from the battlefield in good order. These factors enabled Hindenburg and other senior German leaders to spread the story that their armies had not really been defeated. This resulted in the [[stab-in-the-back legend]],<ref>{{harvnb|Baker|2006}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Chickering|2004|pp=185–188}}</ref> which attributed Germany's defeat not to its inability to continue fighting (even though up to a million soldiers were suffering from the [[1918 flu pandemic]] and unfit to fight), but to the public's failure to respond to its "patriotic calling" and the supposed intentional sabotage of the war effort, particularly by Jews, Socialists, and Bolsheviks.

The Allies had much more potential wealth they could spend on the war. One estimate (using 1913 US dollars) is that the Allies spent $58 billion on the war and the Central Powers only $25 billion. Among the Allies, the UK spent $21 billion and the US $17 billion; among the Central Powers Germany spent $20 billion.<ref>Gerd Hardach, ''The First World War, 1914–1918'' (1977) p 153, using estimated made by H. Menderhausen, ''The Economics of War'' (1941) p 305</ref>

==Aftermath==
{{Main|Aftermath of World War I}}
[[File:VERDUN-OSSUAIRE DE DOUAUMONT5.JPG|thumb|The French military cemetery at the [[Douaumont ossuary]], which contains the remains of more than 130,000 unknown soldiers.]]
No other war had changed the map of Europe so dramatically. Four empires disappeared: the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian. Numerous nations regained their former independence, and new ones created. Four dynasties, together with their ancillary aristocracies, all fell after the war: the [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollerns]], the [[Habsburg]]s, the [[Romanov]]s, and the [[Ottoman Dynasty|Ottomans]]. Belgium and Serbia were badly damaged, as was France, with 1.4&nbsp;million soldiers dead,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7199127.stm "France's oldest WWI veteran dies"], ''BBC News'', 20 January 2008.</ref> not counting other casualties. Germany and Russia were similarly affected.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2YqjfHLyyj8C&pg=PA273 Spencer Tucker (2005), ''Encyclopedia of World War I''], [[ABC-CLIO]], p. 273. ISBN 1-85109-420-2</ref>

===Formal end of the war===
A formal state of war between the two sides persisted for another seven months, until the signing of the [[Treaty of Versailles]] with Germany on 28 June 1919. However, the American public opposed ratification of the treaty, mainly because of the [[League of Nations]] the treaty created. The United States did not formally end its involvement in the war until the [[Knox–Porter Resolution]] was signed on 2 July 1921 by President [[Warren G. Harding]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Staff|title=HARDING ENDS WAR; SIGNS PEACE DECREE AT SENATOR'S HOME. Thirty Persons Witness Momentous Act in Frelinghuysen Living Room at Raritan.|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B13F63C5D14738DDDAA0894DF405B818EF1D3|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 3, 1921}}</ref> For the United Kingdom and the [[British Empire]], the state of war ceased under the provisions of the ''[[Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act 1918]]'' with respect to:

:* Germany on 10 January 1920.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 31773|date= 10 February 1920|startpage= 1671}}</ref>
:* Austria on 16 July 1920.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 31991|date= 23 July 1920|startpage= 7765|endpage= 7766}}</ref>
:* Bulgaria on 9 August 1920.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 13627|date= 27 August 1920|city=e|startpage= 1924}}</ref>
:* Hungary on 26 July 1921.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 32421|date= 12 August 1921|startpage= 6371|endpage= 6372}}</ref>
:* Turkey on 6 August 1924.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 32964|date= 12 August 1924|startpage= 6030|endpage= 6031}}</ref>

After the Treaty of Versailles, treaties with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire were signed. However, the negotiation of the latter treaty with the Ottoman Empire was followed by strife (the [[Turkish War of Independence]]), and a final peace treaty between the Allied Powers and the country that would shortly become the Republic of Turkey was not signed until 24 July 1923, at [[Treaty of Lausanne|Lausanne]].

Some [[war memorial]]s date the end of the war as being when the Versailles Treaty was signed in 1919, which was when many of the troops serving abroad finally returned to their home countries; by contrast, most commemorations of the war's end concentrate on the armistice of 11 November 1918. Legally, the formal peace treaties were not complete until the last, the Treaty of Lausanne, was signed. Under its terms, the Allied forces divested [[Constantinople]] on 23 August 1923.

===Peace treaties and national boundaries===
After the war, the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]] imposed a series of peace treaties on the Central Powers officially ending the war. The 1919 [[Treaty of Versailles]] dealt with Germany, and building on [[Fourteen Points|Wilson's 14th point]], brought into being the [[League of Nations]] on 28 June 1919.<ref>{{harvnb|Magliveras|1999|pp=8–12}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Northedge|1986|pp=35–36}}</ref>

The Central Powers had to acknowledge responsibility for "all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by" their aggression. In the Treaty of Versailles, this statement was [[Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles|Article 231]]. This article became known as War Guilt clause as the majority of Germans felt humiliated and resentful. Overall the Germans felt they had been very unjustly dealt by what they called the "[[diktat]] of Versailles." Schulze says, the Treaty placed Germany, "under legal sanctions, deprived of military power, economically ruined, and politically humiliated."<ref>{{cite book|author=Hagen Schulze|title=Germany: A New History|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=B84ZaAdGbS4C&pg=PA204|year=1998|publisher=Harvard U.P.|page=204}}</ref> Belgian historian Laurence Van Ypersele emphasizes the central role played by memory of the war and the Versailles Treaty in German politics in the 1920s and 1930s:
:Active denial of war guilt in Germany and German resentment at both reparations and continued Allied occupation of the Rhineland made widespread revision of the meaning and memory of the war problematic. The legend of the "[[stab in the back]]" and the wish to revise the "Versailles diktat," and the belief in an international threat aimed at the elimination of the German nation persisted at the heart of German politics. Even a man of peace such as [[Gustav Stresemann|Stresemann]] publicly rejected German guilt. As for the Nazis, they waved the banners of domestic treason and international conspiracy in an attempt to galvanize the German nation into a spirit of revenge. Like a Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany sought to redirect the memory of the war to the benefit of its own policies.<ref>Laurence Van Ypersele, " Mourning and Memory, 1919 – 45,” in p 584 in {{cite book|author=John Horne, ed.|title=A Companion to World War I|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=EjZHLXRKjtEC&pg=PA584|year=2012|publisher=Wiley|page=584}}</ref>

Meanwhile new nations liberated from German rule viewed the treaty as recognition of wrongs committed against small nations by much larger aggressive neighbors.<ref>The Surrogate Hegemon in Polish Postcolonial Discourse Ewa Thompson, Rice University [http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ethomp/The%20Surrogate%20Hegemon.pdf]</ref> The Peace Conference required all the defeated powers to pay [[World War I reparations|reparations]] for all the damage done to civilians. However, owing to economic difficulties and Germany being the only defeated power with an intact economy, the burden fell largely on Germany.

[[File:Smyrna-massacre-refugees port-1922.jpg|thumb|right|Greek refugees from [[Smyrna]], fleeing from the [[Greek genocide|genocide in Turkey]], 1922.]]

Austria-Hungary was partitioned into several successor states, including Austria, Hungary, [[Czechoslovakia]], and [[Yugoslavia]], largely but not entirely along ethnic lines. [[Transylvania]] was shifted from Hungary to [[Greater Romania]]. The details were contained in the [[Treaty of Saint-Germain]] and the [[Treaty of Trianon]]. As a result of the [[Treaty of Trianon]], 3.3 million Hungarians came under foreign rule. Although the Hungarians made up 54% of the population of the pre-war [[Kingdom of Hungary]], only 32% of its territory was left to Hungary. Between 1920 and 1924, 354,000 Hungarians fled former Hungarian territories attached to Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

The Russian Empire, which had withdrawn from the war in 1917 after the [[October Revolution]], lost much of its western frontier as the newly independent nations of [[History of Estonia#Road to the republic|Estonia]], [[History of Finland#Independence and Civil War|Finland]], [[History of Latvia#Independence|Latvia]], [[History of Lithuania#Independent Lithuania (1918–40)|Lithuania]], and [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] were carved from it. Romania took control of [[Bessarabia]] in April 1918.<ref>{{harvnb|Clark|1927}}</ref>

The [[Ottoman Empire]] disintegrated, and much of its non-[[Anatolia]]n territory was awarded to various Allied powers as protectorates. The Turkish core in Anatolia was reorganised as the Republic of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire was to be partitioned by the [[Treaty of Sèvres]] of 1920. This treaty was never ratified by the Sultan and was rejected by the [[Turkish republican movement]], leading to the [[Turkish Independence War]] and, ultimately, to the 1923 [[Treaty of Lausanne]].

===National identities===
{{Further|Sykes–Picot Agreement}}
Poland reemerged as an independent country, after more than a century. The [[Kingdom of Serbia]] and its dynasty, as a "minor Entente nation" and the country with the most casualties per capita,<ref>{{cite news|title=Appeals to Americans to Pray for Serbians|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=27 July 1918|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9406E4D8143EE433A25754C2A9619C946996D6CF}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Serbia Restored|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=5 November 1918|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=990CEFDC113BEE3ABC4D53DFB7678383609EDE }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Minor Powers During World War One&nbsp;– Serbia|first=Matt|last=Simpson|publisher=firstworldwar.com|date=22 August 2009|url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/minorpowers_serbia.htm }}</ref> became the backbone of a new multinational state, the [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]], later renamed Yugoslavia. Czechoslovakia, combining the [[Kingdom of Bohemia]] with parts of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], became a new nation. Russia became the [[Soviet Union]] and lost Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, which became independent countries. The [[Ottoman Empire]] was soon replaced by Turkey and several other countries in the Middle East.
[[File:Map Europe 1923-en.svg|thumb|right|Map of territorial changes in Europe after World War I (as of 1923).]]
In the British Empire, the war unleashed new forms of nationalism. In Australia and New Zealand the [[Gallipoli Campaign|Battle of Gallipoli]] became known as those nations' "Baptism of Fire". It was the first major war in which the newly established countries fought, and it was one of the first times that Australian troops fought as Australians, not just subjects of the [[British Crown]]. [[Anzac Day]], commemorating the [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]], celebrates this defining moment.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9400E1DD113FE233A25755C2A9629C946796D6CF&scp=12&sq=New+Zealand+anzac&st=p|title='ANZAC Day' in London; King, Queen, and General Birdwood at Services in Abbey|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=26 April 1916}}</ref><ref name=awmtradition>
{{citation|url=http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/anzac/anzac_tradition.asp|title=The ANZAC Day tradition|publisher=[[Australian War Memorial]]|accessdate=2 May 2008|author1=Australian War Memorial}}</ref>

After the [[Battle of Vimy Ridge]], where the Canadian divisions fought together for the first time as a single corps, Canadians began to refer to theirs as a nation "forged from fire".<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/vimy-ridge-e.aspx|publisher=[[Canadian War Museum]]|title=Vimy Ridge|accessdate=22 October 2008|author1=Canadian War Museum}}</ref> Having succeeded on the same battleground where the "mother countries" had previously faltered, they were for the first time respected internationally for their own accomplishments. Canada entered the war as a [[Dominion]] of the British Empire and remained so, although it emerged with a greater measure of independence.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/war-impact-e.aspx|title=The War's Impact on Canada|publisher=[[Canadian War Museum]]|accessdate=22 October 2008|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/05/09/babcock-citizen.html|title=Canada's last WW1 vet gets his citizenship back|publisher=[[CBC News]]|date=9 May 2008|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}{{dead link|date=February 2014}}</ref> When Britain declared war in 1914, the dominions were automatically at war; at the conclusion, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were individual signatories of the [[Treaty of Versailles]].<ref>[http://foundingdocs.gov.au/item-did-23.html Documenting Democracy]. Retrieved 31 March 2012</ref>

The establishment of the modern state of Israel and the roots of the continuing [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]] are partially found in the unstable power dynamics of the Middle East that resulted from World War I.<ref name="Economist_2005">{{harvnb|Economist|2005}}</ref> Prior to the end of the war, the [[Ottoman Empire]] had maintained a modest level of peace and stability throughout the Middle East.<ref name="Hooker_1996">{{harvnb|Hooker|1996}}</ref> With the fall of the Ottoman government, power vacuums developed and conflicting claims to land and nationhood began to emerge.<ref name="Muller_2008">{{harvnb|Muller|2008}}</ref> The political boundaries drawn by the victors of World War I were quickly imposed, sometimes after only cursory consultation with the local population. In many cases, these continue to be problematic in the 21st-century struggles for [[national identity]].<ref name="Kaplan_1993">{{harvnb|Kaplan|1993}}</ref><ref name="Salibi_1993">{{harvnb|Salibi|1993}}</ref> While the dissolution of the [[Ottoman Empire]] at the end of World War I was pivotal in contributing to the modern political situation of the Middle East, including the [[Arab–Israeli conflict|Arab-Israeli conflict]],<ref name="Evans_2005">{{harvnb|Evans|2005}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Israeli Foreign Ministry}}</ref><ref name="Gelvin_2005">{{harvnb|Gelvin|2005}}</ref> the end of Ottoman rule also spawned lesser known disputes over water and other natural resources.<ref name="Isaac_1992">{{harvnb|Isaac|Hosh|1992}}</ref>

===Health effects===
The war had profound consequences in the health of the troops. Of the 60&nbsp;million European military personnel who were mobilised from 1914 to 1918, [[World War I casualties|8&nbsp;million were killed]], 7&nbsp;million were permanently disabled, and 15&nbsp;million were seriously injured. Germany lost 15.1% of its active male population, Austria-Hungary lost 17.1%, and France lost 10.5%.<ref>{{harvnb|Kitchen|2000|p=22}}</ref> In Germany civilian deaths were 474,000 higher than in peacetime, due in large part to food shortages and malnutrition that weakened resistance to disease.<ref>{{citation |author=N.P. Howard |title=The Social and Political Consequences of the Allied Food Blockade of Germany, 1918–19 |work=German History |year=1993 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=161–88 |url=http://libcom.org/files/blockade%20Germany_0.pdf }} table p 166, with 271,000 excess deaths in 1918 and 71,000 in the first half of 1919 while the blockade was still in effect.</ref> By the end of the war, famine had killed approximately 100,000&nbsp;people in Lebanon.<ref>{{harvnb|Saadi}}</ref> The best estimates of the death toll from the [[Russian famine of 1921]] run from 5&nbsp;million to 10&nbsp;million people.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/6731711.html|publisher=Hoover Institution|work=Hoover Digest|date=30 January 2007|title=Food as a Weapon|author1=Bertrand M. Patenaude}}</ref> By 1922, there were between 4.5 million and 7 million homeless children in Russia as a result of nearly a decade of devastation from World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the subsequent famine of 1920–1922.<ref>{{harvnb|Ball|1996|pp=16, 211}}</ref> Numerous anti-Soviet Russians fled the country after the Revolution; by the 1930s, the northern Chinese city of [[Harbin]] had 100,000&nbsp;Russians.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-16051029.html |title=The Russians are coming (Russian influence in Harbin, Manchuria, China; economic relations) |work=The Economist (US) |date=14 January 1995 }} (via Highbeam.com)</ref> Thousands more emigrated to France, England, and the United States.

[[File:Emergency hospital during Influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas - NCP 1603.jpg|thumb|Emergency military hospital during the [[Spanish flu]] pandemic, which killed about 675,000 people in the United States alone. Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918.]]
In Australia, the effects of the war on the economy were no less severe. The Australian prime minister, Billy Hughes, wrote to the British prime minister, Lloyd George, "You have assured us that you cannot get better terms. I much regret it, and hope even now that some way may be found of securing agreement for demanding reparation commensurate with the tremendous sacrifices made by the British Empire and her Allies."<ref name="Souter354">{{harvnb|Souter|2000|p=354}}</ref> Australia received ₤5,571,720 war reparations, but the direct cost of the war to Australia had been ₤376,993,052, and, by the mid-1930s, repatriation pensions, war gratuities, interest and sinking fund charges were ₤831,280,947.<ref name="Souter354"/> Of about 416,000 Australians who served, about 60,000 were killed and another 152,000 were wounded.<ref>{{Citation|last=Tucker|first=Spencer|title=Encyclopedia of World War I|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, CA|year=2005|page=273|isbn=1-85109-420-2|url=http://books.google.com/?id=2YqjfHLyyj8C&pg=PA273&dq&q|accessdate=7 May 2010}}</ref>

Diseases flourished in the chaotic wartime conditions. In 1914 alone, louse-borne [[epidemic typhus]] killed 200,000 in Serbia.<ref>{{harvnb|Tschanz}}</ref> From 1918 to 1922, Russia had about 25&nbsp;million infections and 3 million deaths from epidemic typhus.<ref>{{harvnb|Conlon}}</ref> Whereas before World War I Russia had about 3.5 million cases of [[malaria]], its people suffered more than 13 million cases in 1923.<ref>{{citation |pages=http://books.google.com/books?id=HcOAnAINJZAC&pg=PA65 65 |author=William Hay Taliaferro |title=Medicine and the War |year=1972|isbn=0-8369-2629-3}}</ref> In addition, a major influenza epidemic spread around the world. Overall, the [[1918 flu pandemic]] killed at least 50 million people.<ref>{{harvnb|Knobler|2005}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.influenzareport.com/ir/overview.htm|title=Influenza Report|accessdate=17 November 2009|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref>

Lobbying by [[Chaim Weizmann]] and fear that American Jews would encourage the USA to support Germany culminated in the British government's [[Balfour Declaration]] of 1917, endorsing creation of a [[Jewish homeland]] in Palestine.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/50162/Balfour-Declaration |contribution=Balfour Declaration (United Kingdom 1917) |work=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> A total of more than 1,172,000 Jewish soldiers served in the Allied and Central Power forces in World War I, including 275,000 in Austria-Hungary and 450,000 in Czarist Russia.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/Jewish+History/Zionist+Institutions/JAFI+Timeline/1917-1919.htm |title=Timeline of The Jewish Agency for Israel:1917–1919 |publisher=The Jewish Agency for Israel |accessdate=29 August 2013}}</ref>

The social disruption and widespread violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing [[Russian Civil War]] sparked more than 2,000 [[pogrom]]s in the former Russian Empire, mostly in the [[Ukraine after the Russian Revolution|Ukraine]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15895.html|title=Pogroms|work=[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]]|accessdate=17 November 2009|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref> An estimated 60,000–200,000&nbsp;civilian Jews were killed in the atrocities.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/modtimeline.html|title=Jewish Modern and Contemporary Periods (ca. 1700–1917)|work=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=17 November 2009|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref>

In the aftermath of World War I, Greece [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)|fought]] against Turkish nationalists led by [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal]], a war which resulted in a [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|massive population exchange between the two countries]] under the [[Treaty of Lausanne]].<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,451140,00.html "The Diaspora Welcomes the Pope"], ''Der Spiegel'' Online. 28 November 2006.</ref> According to various sources,<ref>[[R. J. Rummel]], "The Holocaust in Comparative and Historical Perspective," 1998, ''Idea Journal of Social Issues'', Vol.3 no.2</ref> several hundred thousand [[Pontic Greeks]] died during this period.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/17/nyregion/a-few-words-in-greek-tell-of-a-homeland-lost.html |author=Chris Hedges|title=A Few Words in Greek Tell of a Homeland Lost|work=The New York Times |date=17 September 2000}}</ref>

==Technology==
{{See also|Technology during World War I|Weapons of World War I}}

===Ground warfare===
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[[File:Austin21.jpg|thumb|right|A Russian armoured car, 1919.]]

World War I began as a clash of 20th-century technology and 19th-century [[military tactics|tactics]], with the inevitably large ensuing casualties. By the end of 1917, however, the major armies, now numbering millions of men, had modernised and were making use of telephone, [[Wireless|wireless communication]],<ref>{{harvnb|Hartcup|1988|p=154}}</ref> [[Armored car (military)|armoured cars]], [[tank]]s,<ref>{{harvnb|Hartcup|1988|pp=82–86}}</ref> and aircraft. Infantry formations were reorganised, so that 100-man companies<!--- surely most companies at the start of the war had more than 200-men!---> were no longer the main unit of manoeuvre; instead, squads of 10 or so men, under the command of a junior NCO, were favoured.

Artillery also underwent a revolution. In 1914, cannons were positioned in the front line and fired directly at their targets. By 1917, [[indirect fire]] with guns (as well as mortars and even machine guns) was commonplace, using new techniques for spotting and ranging, notably aircraft and the often overlooked [[field telephone]]. [[Counter-battery fire|Counter-battery]] missions became commonplace, also, and sound detection was used to locate enemy batteries.

Germany was far ahead of the Allies in utilising heavy indirect fire. The German Army employed {{convert|150|mm|0|abbr=on}} and {{convert|210|mm|0|abbr=on}} [[howitzer]]s in 1914, when typical French and British guns were only {{convert|75|mm|0|abbr=on}} and {{convert|105|mm|0|abbr=on}}. The British had a 6&nbsp;inch (152&nbsp;mm) howitzer, but it was so heavy it had to be hauled to the field in pieces and assembled. The Germans also fielded Austrian {{convert|305|mm|0|abbr=on}} and {{convert|420|mm|0|abbr=on}} guns and, even at the beginning of the war, had inventories of various calibers of ''[[Minenwerfer]]'', which were ideally suited for trench warfare.<ref>{{harvnb|Mosier|2001|pp=42–48}}</ref>

Much of the combat involved [[trench warfare]], in which hundreds often died for each yard gained. Many of the deadliest battles in history occurred during World War I. Such battles include [[Battle of Passchendaele|Ypres]], the [[First Battle of the Marne|Marne]], [[Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Cambrai]], the [[Battle of the Somme|Somme]], [[Battle of Verdun|Verdun]], and [[Gallipoli Campaign|Gallipoli]]. The Germans employed the [[Haber process]] of [[nitrogen fixation]] to provide their forces with a constant supply of gunpowder despite the British naval blockade.<ref>{{harvnb|Hartcup|1988}}</ref> Artillery was responsible for the largest number of casualties<ref>{{harvnb|Raudzens|1990|p=421}}</ref> and consumed vast quantities of explosives. The large number of head wounds caused by exploding shells and [[Fragmentation (weaponry)|fragmentation]] forced the combatant nations to develop the modern steel [[helmet]], led by the French, who introduced the [[Adrian helmet]] in 1915. It was quickly followed by the [[Brodie helmet]], worn by British Imperial and US troops, and in 1916 by the distinctive German ''[[Stahlhelm]]'', a design, with improvements, still in use today.

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<poem><br>Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime&nbsp;...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.</poem>
|[[Wilfred Owen]], ''[[Dulce et Decorum est]]'', 1917<ref name="Wilfred Owen 2004">''Wilfred Owen: poems'', (Faber and Faber, 2004)</ref>
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[[File:mustard gas burns.jpg|thumb|A Canadian soldier with [[mustard gas]] burns, ca. 1917–1918.]]
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The widespread use of chemical warfare was a distinguishing feature of the conflict. Gases used included [[chlorine]], [[mustard gas]] and [[phosgene]]. Few war casualties were caused by gas,<ref>{{harvnb|Raudzens|1990}}</ref> as effective countermeasures to gas attacks were quickly created, such as [[gas mask]]s. The use of [[chemical warfare]] and small-scale [[Aerial bombing of cities|strategic bombing]] were both outlawed by the [[Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907]], and both proved to be of limited effectiveness,<ref>{{harvnb|Heller|1984}}</ref> though they captured the public imagination.<ref>Postwar pulp novels on future "gas wars" included Reginald Glossop's 1932 novel ''Ghastly Dew'' and Neil Bell's 1931 novel ''The Gas War of 1940''.</ref>
=== 분류 ===
이 종은 서식 지역이 넓기 때문에, 지역 종족의 많은 수가 묘사되고 있다. 19세기 동안, 아프리카 황금자칼은 유라시아 황금자칼와는 다른 종으로 생각해서 "토아스" 또는 "토우 개"라고 불렸다.<ref name="s193">{{Harvnb|Smith|Jardine|1839|pp=193–194}}</ref> 동물학에서는 여러 번 [[동의어 (분류학)|동의어]]로 제안된 시도가 여러 번 있었지만, 서아프리카 자칼의 분류학적 위치는 현재 너무 적은 수집 자료로 인해 몇 가지 가설만 있을 뿐 정확하고 명료한 결론에 다다르기 힘들다. 1840년 이전, 서아프리카 서식 아종 10종 중 6종이 색을 통해 이름이나 명칭을 부여했다. 종간 모습의 높은 차이, 샘플의 부족과 [[유전자 이동]]을 막을 수 있는 대륙의 거대한 장애물 전무 등으로 인해 서아프리카 아종의 일부는 이러한 아종을 인정하고 있다.<ref name="r38">{{Harvnb|Rosevear|1974|pp=38–44}}</ref>


The most powerful land-based weapons were [[railway gun]]s weighing hundreds of tons apiece. These were nicknamed [[Big Bertha (howitzer)|Big Berthas]], even though the namesake was not a railway gun. Germany developed the [[Paris Gun]], able to bombard Paris from over {{convert|100|km|mi}}, though shells were relatively light at 94&nbsp;kilograms (210&nbsp;lb). While the Allies also had railway guns, German models severely out-ranged and out-classed them.
=== 아종 ===
2005년 현재,<ref name="MSW3">{{MSW3 Wozencraft | pages = | id =14000704}}</ref> 황금 자칼의 아종으로 12종이 인정받고 있다.


[[File:Vickers IWW.jpg|thumb|right|British [[Vickers machine gun]], 1917.]]
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Trenches, machine guns, air reconnaissance, barbed wire, and modern artillery with fragmentation [[Shell (projectile)|shells]] helped bring the battle lines of World War I to a stalemate. The British and the French sought a solution with the creation of the tank and [[mechanised warfare]]. The British [[Mark I (tank)|first tanks]] were used during the [[Battle of the Somme]] on 15 September 1916. Mechanical reliability was an issue, but the experiment proved its worth. Within a year, the British were fielding tanks by the hundreds, and they showed their potential during the [[Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Battle of Cambrai]] in November 1917, by breaking the Hindenburg Line, while [[combined arms]] teams captured 8,000 enemy soldiers and 100&nbsp;guns. Meanwhile, the French introduced the first tanks with a rotating turret, the Renault FT, which became a decisive tool of the victory. The conflict also saw the introduction of [[Light machine gun|Light automatic weapons]] and [[submachine gun]]s, such as the [[Lewis Gun]], the [[Browning Automatic Rifle|Browning automatic rifle]], and the [[Bergmann MP18]].
|- style="background:#115a6c;"
!아종
!3어명 명명
!서술
!범위
!동의어명
|-
|'''알제리자칼'''<br />''Canis a. algirensis''
[[File:Canisaureusalgirensis.jpg|150 px]]
|[[요한 안드레스 바그너|Wagner]], 1841
|보통자칼보다 어두운 색이며, 꼬리는 3개의 고리 모양의 색으로 이루어져 있다. 크기는 [[붉은여우]]와 비슷하다.<ref name="s218">{{Harvnb|Jardine|1839|p=218}}</ref>
|[[알제리]], [[모로코]], [[튀니지]]
|<small>''barbarus'' (C. E. H. Smith, 1839)</small><br/>
<small>''grayi'' (Hilzheimer, 1906)</small><br/>
<small>''tripolitanus'' (Wagner, 1841)</small>
|-
|'''세네갈자칼'''<br />''[[세네갈자칼|Canis a. anthus]]''
[[File:Canisaureusanthus.jpg|150 px]]
|[[프레데리치 쿠비에르|F. Cuvier]], 1820
| 이집트자칼보다 어깨가 1.6cm 이상 크며, 큰 귀를 가지고 있으며 강아지처럼 두개골이 좁다. 꼬리는 짧고, 부드럽지 않다. 코와 이마는 회색광이 나며, 목과 배 부분은 흰색이다. 검은 고리 모양이 엷고 뒷부분 검은 점의 점묘적 배치 또한 이집트자칼과 구분되는 부분이다.<ref name="s195">{{Harvnb|Jardine|1839|p=195}}</ref>
|[[세네갈]]
|<small>''senegalensis'' (C. E. H. Smith, 1839)</small>
|-
|'''보통자칼'''<br />''[[보통자칼|Canis a. aureus]]''
[[File:Commonjackal.jpg|150 px]]
|[[칼 폰 린네|Linnaeus]], 1758
|[[승명아종]]으로, 몸집이 크고 부드럽고 엷은 털을 가지고 있으며 모래 색갈을 띈다.<ref name="h140">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=140}}</ref>
|[[중동]], [[아프가니스탄]], [[이란]], [[이라크]], [[아라비아반도]], [[발루치스탄]], 인도 북서부
|<small>''balcanicus'' (Brusina, 1892)</small><br/>
<small>''caucasica'' (Kolenati, 1858)</small><br/>
<small>''dalmatinus'' (Wagner, 1841)</small><br/>
<small>''hadramauticus'' (Noack, 1896)</small><br/>
<small>''hungaricus'' (Ehik, 1938)</small><br/>
<small>''kola'' (Wroughton, 1916)</small><br/>
<small>''lanka'' (Wroughton, 1916)</small><br/>
<small>''maroccanus'' (Cabrera, 1921)</small><br/>
<small>''typicus'' (Kolenati, 1858)</small><br/>
<small>''vulgaris'' (Wagner, 1841)</small>
|-
|'''세렝게티자칼'''<br/>''Canis a. bea''
[[File:Golden Jackal, Serengeti.jpg|150 px]]
|Heller, 1914
|
|[[케냐]], [[탄자니아]] 북부
|
|-
|'''타이자칼'''<br />''Canis a. cruesemanni''
[[File:Siamjackals.jpg|150 px]]
|[[파울 매트슈체|Matschie]], 1900
|인도자칼과 비슷하여 현재 특정 저자들이 별도의 종으로 구분하는 것에 대해 이의를 제기하고 있으며, 전적으로 이 사람들은 포획한 동물을 분석한 자료에 기반하여 지적하고 있다.<ref name="thai"/>
|[[타이]], [[버마]]와 인도 동부
|-
|''Canis a. ecsedensis''
|Kretzoi, 1947
|
|
|<small>''minor'' (Mojsisovico, 1897)</small>
|-
|'''인도자칼'''<br />''[[인도자칼|Canis a. indicus]]''
[[File:Indianjackal.jpg|150 px]]
|[[브라이언 호지턴 호지슨|Hodgson]], 1833
|털은 어깨, 귀, 다리에 광택이 나 있는 검정색과 흰색이 섞여있다. 광은 높은 고도로 갈수록 확연하게 드러난다. 꼬리와 몸 뒷부분의 중간에 검은색 털이 강하게 비친다. 배, 다리, 가슴 측의 색은 화이트 크림이며 얼굴과 등측은 회색빛의 털을 가지고 있다. 성체는 길이 100cm에 높이 35~45cm까지 성장하며, 몸무게는 8~11kg 나간다.<ref name="s126"/>
|인도, [[네팔]]
|-
|'''이집트자칼'''<br />''[[이집트자칼|Canis a. lupaster]]''[[File:Egyptianjackal.jpg|150 px]]
|[[윌리엄 헴프리치|Hemprich and Ehrenberg]], 1833
|크며 늑대를 닮은 이 종은 서 있을 때 어깨높이는 41cm, 전체 길이는 127cm로<ref name=l459/> 유럽자칼보다도 더 큰 크기이다.<ref name=GW/> 이에 비례해서 짧은 귀가 단단하게 구축되어 있다. 털 색은 윗부분은 황색을 띄는 회색이며 검정색의 줄무늬와 반점이 혼합되어 있다. 턱, 귀 뒷부분, 다리 두 쌍의 바깥쪽은 붉은 빛의 노란색이고 입은 흰색의 호 모양이며, 꼬리의 끝 절반 부분은 검정으로 다른 곳보다 어둡다.<ref name="l459">{{Harvnb|Lydekker|1908|p=459}}</ref> 2011년, 옥스포드 대학의 야생동물 보호연구팀의 연구원들은 이집트자칼의 DNA와 다른 개과와 비교하여 황금자칼보다는 [[회색늑대]]와 더 비슷하다는 점을 밝혔다.
|[[이집트]]
|<small>''sacer'' (Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833)</small>
|-
|'''유럽자칼'''<br />''[[유럽자칼|Canis a. moreoticus]]''
[[File:Canisaureusmoreoticus.jpg|150 px]]
|[[이싱도르 제오포리 샹트힐라이레|I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]], 1835
| One of the largest in the world, animals of both sexes average 120–125&nbsp;cm (47–49&nbsp;in) in total length and 10–15&nbsp;kg (20-33&nbsp;lb) in body weight.<ref name="GW">Giannatos, G., 2004. [http://www.lcie.org/Docs/Action%20Plans/Greece%20Golden%20Jackal%20Action%20Plan%202004.pdf ''Conservation Action Plan for the golden jackal Canis aureus L. in Greece'']. WWF Greece. pp. 47</ref><ref name="lapini1">LAPINI L., 2003 - Canis aureus (Linnaeus, 1758). In: BOITANI L., LOVARI S. & VIGNA TAGLIANTI A. (Curatori), 2003- Fauna d’Italia. Mammalia III. Carnivora-Artiodactyla. Calderini publ., Bologna: 47-58</ref> The fur is coarse, and is generally brightly coloured with blackish tones on the back. The thighs, upper legs, ears and forehead are bright-reddish chestnut.<ref name="h140"/>
|Southeastern Europe, Asia Minor and Caucasus
|<small>''graecus'' (Wagner, 1841)</small>
|-
|'''스리랑카자칼'''<br />''[[스리랑카자칼|Canis a. naria]]''
[[File:Flickr - Rainbirder - Golden Jackal.jpg|150 px]]
|[[R. C. Wroughton|Wroughton]], 1916
|This subspecies measures 67–74&nbsp;cm (26½-29&nbsp;inches) and weighs 5-8.6&nbsp;kg (12-19&nbsp;lbs). The winter coat is shorter, smoother and not as shaggy as that of ''C. a. indicus''. The coat is also darker on the back, being black and speckled with white. The underside is more pigmented on the chin, hind throat, chest and forebelly, while the limbs are rusty ochreous or rich tan. Moulting occurs earlier in the season than with ''C. a. indicus'', and the pelt generally does not lighten in colour.<ref name="pocock">[http://ia341313.us.archive.org/0/items/PocockMammalia2/pocock2.pdf ''Fauna of British India: Mammals Volume 2'' by R. I. Pocock, printed by Taylor and Francis, 1941]</ref>
|Southern India, [[Sri Lanka]]
|<small>''lanka'' (Wroughton, 1838)</small>
|-
|''Canis a. riparius''
|[[Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich|Hemprich and Ehrenberg]], 1832
| A dwarf subspecies measuring only a dozen inches in shoulder height, it is generally of a greyish-yellow colour, mingled with only a small proportion of black. The muzzle and legs are more decidedly yellow, and the underparts are white.<ref name="l460">{{Harvnb|Lydekker|1908|p=460}}</ref>
|Somaliland and coast of [[Ethiopia]] and [[Eritrea]]
|<small>''hagenbecki'' (Noack, 1897)</small><br/>
<small>''mengesi'' (Noack, 1897)</small><br/>
<small>''somalicus'' (Lorenz, 1906)</small>
|-
|'''Variegated jackal'''<br/>''[[Variegated jackal|Canis a. soudanicus]]''
[[File:Paintedthousdog.jpg|150 px]]
|[[Oldfield Thomas|Thomas]], 1903
|Smaller and more lightly built than ''C. a. lupaster'', it stands 38&nbsp;cm (15&nbsp;in) at the shoulder, and is 102&nbsp;cm (40&nbsp;in) in length. Compared with the wolf-like ''C. a. lupaster'', ''C. a. soudanicus'' is built more like a greyhound. The ears are somewhat larger than in ''C. a. lupaster'', and the body colour is generally pale stone-buff, with blotches of black.<ref name=l460/>
|[[Sudan]] and [[Somaliland]]
|<small>''doederleini'' (Hilzheimer, 1906)</small><br/>
<small>''nubianus'' (Cabrera, 1921)</small><br/>
<small>''thooides'' (Hilzheimer, 1906)</small><br/>
<small>''variegatus'' (Cretzschmar, 1826)</small>
|-
|'''시리아자칼'''<br/>''[[Syrian Jackal|Canis a. syriacus]]''
[[File:Canus aureus Revivim (2).JPG|150 px]]
|[[Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich|Hemprich and Ehrenberg]], 1833
|It weighs 5–12&nbsp;kg (11–27&nbsp;lb), and has a body length of 60–90&nbsp;cm (24–35&nbsp;in).<ref name="holy">Qumsiyeh, Marzin B. (1996) ''Mammals of the Holy Land'', Texas Tech University Press, ISBN 0-89672-364-X</ref> Distinguished by its brown ears, each hair of the back consists of four distinct colours: white at the root, then black, then foxy-red, and the point is black.<ref name="s215">{{Harvnb|Smith|Jardine|1839|pp=215–216}}</ref>
|[[Israel]], western [[Jordan]]
|
|}


Another new weapon, the [[flamethrower]], was first used by the German army and later adopted by other forces. Although not of high tactical value, the flamethrower was a powerful, demoralising weapon that caused terror on the battlefield. It was a dangerous weapon to wield, as its heavy weight made operators vulnerable targets.
==Physical description==
[[File:Rosevear golden jackal skull.png|thumb|left|Skull, as illustrated in Rosevear's ''The Carnivores of West Africa'']]
[[File:Volkshakal.JPG|thumb|Golden jackal and [[grey wolf]] exhibit at [[Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences|The Museum of Zoology]], [[St. Petersburg]] - note the jackal's smaller size and narrower muzzle.]]


[[Trench railways]] evolved to supply the enormous quantities of food, water, and ammunition required to support large numbers of soldiers in areas where conventional transportation systems had been destroyed. Internal combustion engines and improved traction systems for automobiles and trucks/lorries eventually rendered trench railways obsolete.
===Build===
The golden jackal is very similar to the wolf in general appearance, but is much smaller in size and lighter in weight, and has shorter legs, a more elongated torso and a shorter tail. The end of the tail just reaches the heel or a bit below it. The head is lighter than the wolf's, with a less-prominent forehead, and the muzzle is narrower and more pointed. The [[iris (anatomy)|iris]] is light or dark brownish. The species has five pairs of [[teat]]s.<ref name="h129">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=129–131}}</ref>


===Naval===
Its skull is similar to the wolf's, but is smaller and less massive; its nasal region is lower and its facial region shorter. The [[sagittal crest|sagittal]] and occipital crests are strongly developed, but weaker than the wolf's. Its [[canine teeth]] are large and strong, but relatively thinner than the wolf's, and its [[carnassial]]s are relatively weaker.<ref name="h131">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=131}}</ref> Eighteen characteristics distinguish the skulls of golden jackals from those of domestic dogs; among them, the jackal has a smaller inflation of the [[Frontal bone|frontal region]], a shallower [[forehead]], smaller upward curvature of the [[zygomatic arch]]es and a longer and thinner [[lower jaw]].<ref name=o365>{{Harvnb|Osborn|Helmy|1980|p=365}}</ref> Compared to the skull of the [[side-striped jackal]], the golden jackal's profile descends from the frontal to the nasal bones, as opposed to having a flat outline. The [[rostrum (anatomy)|rostrum]] is shorter, less tapering and slender than the side-striped jackal's, and the lower jaw is curved and more powerfully built. Differences in dentition are also apparent, with the golden jackal having larger carnassials.<ref name="r46">{{Harvnb|Rosevear|1974|p=46}}</ref> Occasionally, it develops a [[Jackal's horn|horny growth]] on the skull which is associated with magical powers in southeastern Asia. This horn usually measures half an inch in length, and is concealed by fur.<ref name="t36">{{Harvnb|Tennent|1861|p=36}}</ref>
Germany deployed [[U-boat]]s ([[submarine]]s) after the war began. Alternating between restricted and unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic, the [[Kaiserliche Marine]] employed them to deprive the British Isles of vital supplies. The deaths of British merchant sailors and the seeming invulnerability of U-boats led to the development of depth charges (1916), [[hydrophone]]s (passive [[sonar]], 1917), [[blimp]]s, [[hunter-killer submarine]]s ([[British R-class submarine|HMS ''R-1'']], 1917), forward-throwing [[anti-submarine weapon]]s, and dipping hydrophones (the latter two both abandoned in 1918).<ref name="price1980"/> To extend their operations, the Germans proposed supply submarines (1916). Most of these would be forgotten in the [[interwar period]] until World War II revived the need.


===Aviation===
Adults measure {{convert|60|–|106|cm|in|abbr=on}} in body length,<ref name="h131"/><ref name="Burnie">Burnie D and Wilson DE (Eds.), ''Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife''. DK Adult (2005), ISBN 0789477645</ref> not counting a tail of {{convert|20|-|30|cm|in|abbr=on}}, and 44.5–50.0&nbsp;cm (18-20&nbsp;inches) in shoulder height.<ref name="h132"/> Weights differ 12% between the sexes;<ref name="z156"/> males weigh 6.3–15&nbsp;kg (13.9-33&nbsp;lbs), while females weigh 7.0-11.2&nbsp;kg (15.4-24.7&nbsp;lbs).<ref name="h132"/><ref name="Burnie"/>
:{{main|Aviation in World War I}}
[[File:Sopwith F-1 Camel.jpg|thumb|right|[[RAF]] [[Sopwith Camel]]. In April 1917, the average life expectancy of a British pilot on the Western Front was 93 flying hours.<ref>Eric Lawson, Jane Lawson (2002). "''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9PGHckhHiX0C&pg=PT123 The First Air Campaign: August 1914– November 1918]''". Da Capo Press. p.123. ISBN 0-306-81213-4</ref>]]


[[Fixed-wing aircraft]] were first used militarily by the Italians in Libya on 23 October 1911 during the [[Italo-Turkish War]] for reconnaissance, soon followed by the dropping of grenades and [[aerial photography]] the next year. By 1914, their military utility was obvious. They were initially used for [[reconnaissance]] and [[Close air support|ground attack]]. To shoot down enemy planes, [[anti-aircraft guns]] and [[fighter aircraft]] were developed. [[Strategic bomber]]s were created, principally by the Germans and British, though the former used [[Zeppelin]]s as well.<ref name="Cross 1991">{{harvnb|Cross|1991}}</ref> Towards the end of the conflict, [[aircraft carrier]]s were used for the first time, with {{HMS|Furious|47|6}} launching [[Sopwith Camels]] in [[Tondern raid|a raid]] to destroy the Zeppelin hangars at [[Tondern]] in 1918.<ref>{{harvnb|Cross|1991|pp=56–57}}</ref>
===Fur===
The winter fur is generally either of a dirty reddish-grey color, strongly highlighted with blackish tones due to the black guard hairs, or a brighter, rusty-reddish color. The anterior part of the muzzle, the area around the eyes and the forehead are ochreous, rusty-reddish. A blackish stripe is present above each eye. The margins of the lips and lower cheeks are dirty white. The upper part of the forehead and occiput are ochreous. The back of the ears is pale rusty. The inside of the ears is covered with dirty whitish hairs. The chin and throat are whitish, with a dirty tint. The guard hairs are black, and are especially developed on the back, but less so on the flanks; the general color of these parts is brighter and clearer. The belly is whitish along the midline, while the lower region is mixed with a reddish tint. The limbs are ochreous red, with the internal surfaces being of a lighter color. The tail is grey with an ochreous tint with a strongly defined, dark shade on the dorsal side and tip. The summer fur is sparser, coarser and shorter, and has the same color as the winter fur, but is brighter, with less-defined dark tints. Newborn golden jackals have very soft fur, which varies in color from light-grey to dark-brown. This pelage remains on the cubs for one month, with the adult coat growing in August. The color of the fur varies geographically,<ref name="h129"/> with animals from high elevations having buffier coats than their lowland counterparts.<ref name="s126">{{Harvnb|Shreshta|1997|pp=126}}</ref> [[Melanism|Melanist]]s occasionally occur,<ref name="k19">{{Harvnb|Kingdon|1988|p=19}}</ref> and were once considered "by no means rare" in Bengal.<ref name="j142">{{Harvnb|Jerdon|1874|pp=142}}</ref>


Manned [[observation balloon]]s, floating high above the trenches, were used as stationary reconnaissance platforms, reporting enemy movements and directing artillery. Balloons commonly had a crew of two, equipped with [[parachute]]s,<ref>{{harvnb|Winter|1983}}</ref> so that if there was an enemy air attack the crew could parachute to safety. (At the time, parachutes were too heavy to be used by pilots of aircraft (with their marginal power output), and smaller versions were not developed until the end of the war; they were also opposed by the British leadership, who feared they might promote cowardice.)<ref name=FullCircle>{{harvnb|Johnson|2001}}</ref>
The golden jackal moults twice a year, in spring and autumn. In Transcaucasia and Tajikistan, the spring moult begins in mid- to late February, while in winter it starts in mid-March and ends in mid- to late May. In healthy specimens, the moult lasts 60–65 days. The spring moult begins on the head and limbs, then extends to the flanks, chest, belly and rump, with the tail being last. The autumn moult takes place from mid-September onwards. The shedding of the summer fur and the growth of the winter coat is simultaneous. The development of the autumn coat starts with the rump and tail, spreading to the back, flanks, belly, chest, limbs and head, with full winter fur being attained at the end of November.<ref name="h156">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=156–157}}</ref>


Recognised for their value as observation platforms, balloons were important targets for enemy aircraft. To defend them against air attack, they were heavily protected by antiaircraft guns and patrolled by friendly aircraft; to attack them, unusual weapons such as air-to-air rockets were even tried. Thus, the reconnaissance value of blimps and balloons contributed to the development of air-to-air combat between all types of aircraft, and to the trench stalemate, because it was impossible to move large numbers of troops undetected. The Germans conducted air raids on England during 1915 and 1916 with airships, hoping to damage British morale and cause aircraft to be diverted from the front lines, and indeed the resulting panic led to the diversion of several squadrons of fighters from France.<ref name="Cross 1991"/><ref name=FullCircle/>
==Behaviour==
===Social and territorial behaviours===
The golden jackal's social organisation is extremely flexible, being dependable on the availability and distribution of food. The basic social unit is a breeding pair, followed by its current offspring, or offspring of former litters.<ref name="z159"/> It usually lives in pairs, but is also found either singly, or in pairs and families up to five individuals.<ref name="h153">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=153}}</ref> A golden jackal may pair up with a member of the opposite sex before leaving its natal range. Pairs typically first meet each other on the boundaries of their parents' territories.<ref name="e400">{{Harvnb|Estes|1992|p=400}}</ref> The pair patrols and [[territorial marking|marks its territory]] in tandem. Both partners and helpers will react aggressively with intruders, though the greatest aggression is reserved for intruders of the same sex; pair members do not assist each other in repelling intruders of the opposite sex.<ref name="e402">{{Harvnb|Estes|1992|p=402}}</ref> [[territorial marking|Territories are marked]] with urine and faeces.<ref name="z159"/> The golden jackal holds rather loosely defined hunting ranges which are not seriously defended, and are seemingly somewhat arbitrary. The size of the territory also varies considerably according to environmental factors. It may be only about 2.5 square kilometres or, where game is more thinly spread, 20 square kilometres or more.<ref name="r47"/>


==War crimes==
===Reproduction and development===
[[File:Flickr - Rainbirder - Golden Jackal Female.jpg|thumb|[[Lactating]] female [[Sri Lankan jackal]] (''Canis a. naria'') (note the [[teat]]s)]]
The golden jackal's courtship rituals are remarkably long, during which the breeding pair remains almost constantly together.<ref name="e402"/> The mating process may last 26–28 days. In Transcaucasia, [[estrus]] begins in early February, and occasionally late January during warm winters. [[Spermatogenesis]] in males occurs 10–12 days before the females enter [[estrus]] and, during this time, males' [[testicle]]s triple in weight. Estrus lasts for three to four days, and females failing to mate during this time will undergo a loss of receptivity which lasts six to eight days. Females undergoing their first estrus are often pursued by several males, which will quarrel amongst themselves.<ref name="h154">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=154–155}}</ref> Prior to mating, the pair patrols and [[scent mark]]s its territory. [[animal sexual behavior|Copulation]] is preceded by the female holding her tail out and angled in such a way that the genitalia are exposed. The two approach each other, whimpering, lifting their tails and bristling their fur, displaying varying intensities of offensive and defensive behaviour. The female sniffs and licks the male's genitals, whilst the male nuzzles the female's fur. They may circle each other and fight briefly.<ref name="e402"/> The male then proceeds to lick the female's vulva, and repeatedly mounts her without [[erection]] or [[hip thrusting]]. Actual copulation takes place days later, and continues for about a week.<ref name="e402"/> The [[copulatory tie]] lasts 20–45 minutes in Eurasia,<ref name="h154"/> while in Africa it lasts roughly four minutes.<ref name="e402"/> Toward the end of estrus, the pair drifts apart, with the female often approaching the male in a more submissive manner than before. In anticipation of the role he will take in raising pups, the male [[disgorge]]s{{disambiguation needed|date=September 2012}} or surrenders any food he has to the female.<ref name="e403">{{Harvnb|Estes|1992|p=403}}</ref>


===Baralong incidents===
In Transcaucasia, pups are usually born in late March to late April,<ref name="h154"/> in northeastern Italy probably in late April,<ref name="lapini1"/> in the Serengeti in December and January,<ref name="e403"/> and in Nepal, they are born at any time of the year.<ref name="s126"/> The number of pups in a single litter varies geographically; jackals in Uzbekistan give birth to two to eight pups, in Bulgaria four to seven, in Michurinsk only three to five, and in India the average is four. Pups are born with shut eyelids and soft fur, which ranges in colour from light grey to dark brown. At the age of one month, their fur is shed and replaced with a new pelt of reddish colour with black speckles. Their eyes typically open on their eighth to 11th day of life. The ears become erect after 10–13 days. The eruption of their [[adult dentition]] is completed after five months. The pups have a fast growth rate; at the age of two days, they weigh 201–214 g, 560–726 g at one month, and 2700–3250 g at four months.<ref name="h156"/>
{{Main|Baralong incidents}}


On 19 August 1915, the German submarine [[SM U-27 (Germany)|U-27]] was sunk by the British [[Q-ship]] [[HMS Baralong|HMS ''Baralong'']]. All German survivors were [[summarily executed]] by ''Baralong'''s crew on the orders of Lieutenant [[Godfrey Herbert]], the captain of the ship. The shooting was reported to the media by American citizens who were on board the ''Nicosia'', a British freighter loaded with war supplies, which was stopped by U-27 just minutes before the incident.<ref>Halpern, Paul G. (1994). A Naval History of World War I. Routledge, p. 301; ISBN 1-85728-498-4</ref>
The length of the nursing period varies; in the Caucasus it lasts 50–70 days, while in Tajikistan it lasts up to 90 days. The lactation period ends in mid-July, though in some areas it ends in early August. In Eurasia, the pups begin to eat solid food at the age of 15–20 days,<ref name="h156"/> while in Africa they begin after a month. [[Weaning]] starts at the age of two months, and ends at four months. At this stage, the pups are semi-independent, venturing up to 50 metres from the den, even sleeping in the open. Their playing behaviour becomes increasingly more aggressive, with the pups competing for rank, which is established after six months. The female feeds the pups more frequently than the male or helpers do, though the presence of the latter allows the breeding pair to leave the den and hunt without leaving the litter unprotected.<ref name="e403"/> Once the lactation period concludes, the female drives off the pups. Pups born late remain with their mother until early autumn, at which point they leave either singly or in groups of two to four individuals.<ref name="h156"/>


On 24 September, ''Baralong'' destroyed [[SM U-41 (Germany)|U-41]], which was in the process of sinking the cargo ship ''Urbino''. According to Karl Goetz, the submarine's commander, ''Baralong'' continued to fly the US flag after firing on U-41 and then rammed the lifeboat - carrying the German survivors - sinking it.<ref>Hadley, Michael L. (1995). Count Not the Dead: The Popular Image of the German Submarine. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, p. 36; ISBN 0-7735-1282-9.</ref>
===Denning and sheltering behaviours===
In the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, female golden jackals usually give birth in burrows dug with the assistance of males, or they occupy derelict fox or badger dens. The burrow is dug a few days before parturition, with both the male and female taking turns digging. The burrow is located either in thick shrubs, on the slopes of [[gulley]]s or on flat surfaces. A golden jackal burrow is a simple structure with a single opening. Its length is about 2 metres, while the nest chamber occurs at a depth of 1.0-1.4 metres. In Dagestan and Azerbaijan, litters are sometimes are located within the hollows of fallen trees, tree roots and under stones on river banks. In Middle Asia, the golden jackal does not dig burrows, but constructs lairs in dense [[tugai]] thickets. Jackals in the Vakhsh tugais construct 3-metre-long burrows under tree roots or directly in dense thickets. Jackals in the tugais and cultivated lands of Tajikistan construct lairs in long grass plumes, shrubs and reed openings.<ref name="h151">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=151–153}}</ref>


===HMHS Llandovery Castle===
===Diet and hunting behaviours===
[[File:Golden Jackal, navigating Wildebeest, Ngorongoro.jpg|thumb|right|Serengeti jackal (''C. a. bea'') carefully navigating a herd of [[blue wildebeest]] in the [[Ngorongoro National Park]], [[Tanzania]]]]
The golden jackal is an omnivorous and opportunistic forager; its diet varies according to season and habitat. In [[Bharatpur, Rajasthan|Bharatpur]], India, over 60% of its diet consists of [[rodent]]s, [[bird]]s and fruit, while 80% of its diet consists of rodents, [[reptile]]s and fruit in [[Kanha]].<ref name="z158">{{Harvnb|Sillero-Zubiri|Hoffman|MacDonald|2004|pp=158}}</ref> In the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, the golden jackal primarily hunts [[hare]]s and [[mouse]]-like [[rodent]]s, as well as [[pheasant]]s, [[francolin]]s, [[duck]]s, [[coot]]s, [[moorhen]]s and [[passerine]]s. Vegetable matter eaten by jackals in these areas includes fruits, such as [[pear]]s, [[Crataegus|hawthorn]], [[dogwood]] and the cones of [[common medlar]]s. It is implicated in the destruction of [[grape]]s, [[watermelon]]s, [[muskmelon]]s and [[nut (fruit)|nut]]s.<ref name="h147">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=147}}</ref> Near the [[Vakhsh River]], the jackal's spring diet consists almost exclusively of plant bulbs and the roots of wild [[sugar cane]], while in winter it feeds on the fruit stones of [[Elaeagnus angustifolia|wild stony olive]]s. In the edges of the [[Karakum Desert]], the golden jackal feeds on [[gerbil]]s, [[lizard]]s, [[snake]]s, [[fish]] and [[muskrat]]s. Karakum jackals also eat the fruits of wild stony olives, [[mulberry]] and dried [[apricot]]s, as well as watermelons, muskmelons, [[tomato]]es and grapes.<ref name="h148">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=148}}</ref> In Hungary, its most frequent prey animals are [[common vole]]s and [[bank vole]]s.<ref name="hungary">Lanszki J, Heltai M (2002) ''[http://www.vvt.gau.hu/kutatas/HM/taplalkozas_osszehasonlitas_LJHM.pdf Feeding habits of golden jackal and red fox in south-western Hungary during winter and spring]''. Mammalian Biology 67: 129–136</ref> Information on the diet of the golden jackal in northeastern Italy is scant, but it certainly preys on small [[roe deer]] and hares.<ref name="lapini1"/> In west Africa, it mostly confines itself to small prey, such as [[hare]]s, [[rat]]s, [[ground squirrel]]s and [[Cane rat|grass cutter]]s. Other prey items include lizards, snakes, and ground-nesting birds, such as francolins and [[bustard]]s. It also consumes a large amount of insects, including [[dung beetle]]s, [[larvae]], [[termite]]s and [[grasshopper]]s.<ref name="r46"/> It will also kill young [[gazelle]]s, [[duiker]]s and [[warthog]]s.<ref name="r47">{{Harvnb|Rosevear|1974|p=47}}</ref> In East Africa, it consumes invertebrates and fruit, though 60% of its diet consists of rodents, lizards, snakes, birds, hares and [[Thompson's gazelle]]s.<ref name="z158"/> During the [[wildebeest]] calving season, golden jackals will feed almost exclusively on their [[afterbirth]].<ref name="k19">{{Harvnb|Kingdon|1988|pp=19–21}}</ref> In the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater, less than 20% of its diet comes from scavenging.<ref name="e400"/> In Israel, golden jackals have been shown to be significant predators of snakes, including venomous snakes; an increase in snakebites occurred during a period of poisoning campaign against golden jackals while a decrease in snakebites occurred once the poisoning ceased.<ref>Alderton, David. Foxes, Wolves, and Wild Dogs of the World. London: Blandford, 1998. p139.</ref>


The Canadian hospital ship [[HMHS Llandovery Castle]] was torpedoed by the German submarine [[SM U-86]] on 27 June 1918 in violation of international law. Only 24 of the 258 medical personnel, patients, and crew survived. Survivors reported that the U-boat surfaced and ran down the lifeboats, machine-gunning survivors in the water. The U-boat captain, [[Helmut Patzig]], was charged with war crimes in Germany following the war, but escaped prosecution by going to the Free City of Danzig, beyond the jurisdiction of German courts.<ref name="Davies2013c">{{cite book|author=J D Davies|authorlink=J. D. Davies (historian and author)|title=Britannia's Dragon: A Naval History of Wales|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=urs7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PR158|year=2013|publisher=History Press Limited|isbn=978-0-7524-9410-4|page=158}}</ref>
The golden jackal rarely forms small packs when hunting, though packs of 8–12 jackals consisting of more than one family have been observed in the summer periods in Transcaucasia. When hunting singly, the golden jackal will trot around an area, occasionally stopping to sniff and listen. Once prey is located, it will conceal itself, quickly approach, then pounce. When hunting in pairs or packs, jackals run parallel and overtake their prey in unison. When hunting aquatic rodents or birds, they will run along both sides of narrow rivers or streams, driving their prey from one jackal to another.<ref name="h152">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=152}}</ref> The golden jackal catches hares with difficulty, as they are faster than it, and gazelle mothers (often working in groups of two or three) are formidable when defending their young against single jackals. It is much more successful in hunting gazelle fawns when working in a pair. Jackal pairs will methodically search for concealed gazelle fawns within herds, tall grass, bushes and other likely hiding places. Although it is known to kill animals up to three times its own weight, the golden jackal overall targets mammalian prey much less frequently than the black-backed jackal.<ref name="e400"/> Upon capturing large prey, the golden jackal makes no attempt to kill its prey, but rips open its belly and eats the entrails. Small prey is typically killed by shaking, though snakes may be eaten alive from the tail end. The golden jackal often carries away more food than it can consume, and [[hoarding (animal behavior)|caches]] the surplus, which is generally recovered within 24 hours.<ref name="r47"/> When foraging for insects, the golden jackal turns over dung piles to find dung beetles. During the dry seasons, it excavates dung balls to reach the larvae within. Grasshoppers and flying termites are caught either by pouncing or are caught in mid-air.<ref name="e400"/>


===Relationships with other predators===
===Chemical weapons in warfare===
{{Main|Chemical weapons in World War I}}
[[File:Lydekker hyenas and jackals.png|thumb|Golden jackals and [[striped hyena]]s at a kill, as illustrated in [[Richard Lydekker|Lydekker]]'s ''Wild Life of the World'']]
[[File:French soldiers making a gas and flame attack on German trenches in Flanders. Belgium., ca. 1900 - 1982 - NARA - 530722.tif|thumb|French soldiers making a gas and flame attack on German trenches in Flanders]]
The golden jackal is warier of [[lion]]s than the black-backed jackal is, but is bolder with [[African wild dog]]s and [[spotted hyena]]s.<ref name="e400"/>
The use of [[Chemical warfare|poison gas]], as a weapon, was introduced by Imperial Germany on 31 January 1915 during the [[Battle of Bolimov]], and was later subsequently used by all major belligerents against enemy combatants throughout the war. It is estimated that the use of chemical weapons employed by both sides throughout the war had inflicted 1.3 million casualties. For example, the British had over 180,000 chemical weapon casualties during the war, and up to one-third of US casualties were caused by gas and mustard. The Russian Army reportedly suffered roughly 500,000 chemical weapon casualties in World War I.<ref>Schneider, Barry R. (February 28, 1999). Future War and Counterproliferation: US Military Responses to NBC. Praeger, p. 84; ISBN 0-275-96278-4</ref> The use of chemical weapons in warfare was in direct violation of the [[Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907#Hague Convention of 1899|1899 Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases]] and the [[Hague Convention of 1907|1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare]], which prohibited their use.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=hEH7KcpN-OcC&pg=PT34&dq=poison+gas+violated+1907+Hague+Convention&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H9TAUe__GeGgiQKs1YHABg&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAg|title=The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir|author=Telford Taylor|date=1 November 1993|publisher=[[Little, Brown and Company]]|isbn=0-316-83400-9|accessdate=20 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0PYx0j3wRvAC&pg=PA7&dq=poison+gas+Declaration+1899+WW1+1907&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qvnWUeD9KIaMigKB7IGQAg&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=poison%20gas%20Declaration%201899%20WW1%201907&f=false|title=Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era|author=Thomas Graham, Damien J. Lavera|date=May 2003|pages=7–9|publisher=[[University of Washington Press]]|isbn=0-295-98296-9|accessdate=5 July 2013}}</ref>


Poison gas was not only limited to combatants but also civilians as civilian towns were at risk from winds blowing the poison gases through. Civilians rarely had a warning system put into place to alert their neighbors of the danger. In addition to poor warning systems, civilians often did not have access to effective gas masks. An estimated 100,000-260,000 civilian casualties were caused by chemical weapons during the conflict and tens of thousands of more (along with military personnel) died from scarring of the lungs, skin damage, and cerebral damage in the years after the conflict ended. Many commanders on both sides knew that such weapon would cause major harm to civilians as wind would blow poison gases into nearby civilian towns but nonetheless continued to use them throughout the war. British [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Sir Douglas Haig]] wrote in his diary: "My officers and I were aware that such weapon would cause harm to women and children living in nearby towns, as strong winds were common in the battlefront. However, because the weapon was to be directed against the enemy, none of us were overly concern at all."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War |author=L. F. Haber |date=February 20, 1986 |pages=106–108 |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |isbn=0-19-858142-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon of Mass |author=Joel A. Vilensky |date=February 20, 1986 |pages=78–80 |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |isbn=0-253-34612-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Second Edition |author=D. Hank Ellison |date=August 24, 2007 |pages=567–570 |publisher=[[CRC Press]] |isbn=0-8493-1434-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World |author=Max Boot |date=August 16, 2007 |pages=245–250 |publisher=Gotham |isbn=1-59240-315-8}}</ref>
The golden jackal dominates [[Old World Vulture|vulture]]s on kills, and can singly hold dozens at bay by threatening, snapping and lunging at them. Sometimes, it jumps in the air to bite at a vulture alighting too closely.<ref name="e400"/>


===Genocide and ethnic cleansing===
Golden jackals tend to dominate smaller canid species. In Africa, golden jackals have been observed to kill the pups of [[black-backed jackal]]s.<ref name="z165">{{Harvnb|Sillero-Zubiri|Hoffman|MacDonald|2004|pp=165}}</ref> In [[Israel]], [[red fox]]es are a commonly occurring predator and, although smaller than jackals, their dietary habits are identical, and the two species are therefore in direct competition with one another. Foxes generally ignore jackal scents or tracks in their territories, though they will avoid close physical proximity with jackals themselves. Studies have shown that in areas where jackals became very abundant, the population size of foxes decreased significantly, apparently because of competitive exclusion.<ref name="RF">{{cite web | title = Behavioural responses of red foxes to an increase in the presence of golden jackals: a field experiment | work = | publisher = Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University | url = http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/zoology/members/yom-tov/articles/Behavioural_responses_of_red_foxes.pdf | accessdate = 2007-07-31}}</ref> Conversely, jackals are shown to vacate areas inhabited by [[Gray Wolf|wolves]]. Wolves are often actively intolerant of jackals in their established territories and have been known to approach jackal-calling stations at a quick trotting pace, presumably to chase off the competitors.<ref name="GW"/> The jackal's recent expansion throughout eastern and western Europe has been attributed to historical declines in wolf populations. The present diffusion of the golden jackal in the northern Adriatic hinterland seems to be in rapid expansion<ref name="lapini2">Lapini L., Molinari P., Dorigo L., Are G. & Beraldo P., 2009. [http://www.canids.org/papers/canis%20aureus%2012_lapini%20et%20al%202009.pdf Reproduction of the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus moreoticus I. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 1835) in Julian Pre-Alps, with new data on its range-expansion in the High-Adriatic Hinterland] (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae). Boll. Mus. Civ. St. nat. Venezia, 60 (2009): 169-186.</ref> in various areas where the wolf is absent or very rare (see also:<ref name="udine">{{it icon}}[http://www.altofriuli.com/ambiente/?id_evento=1266&layout=leggi_evento ''Scoperto in Val Tagliamento lo sciacallo dorato'' by Maria Clementi]</ref><ref name="slovenia">[http://web.bf.uni-lj.si/bi/NATURA-SLOVENIAE/pdf/NatSlo_10_1_5.pdf ''First record of a golden jackal (Canis aureus) in the Savinja Valley (Northern Slovenia)'' by Miha KROFEL and Hubert POTOČNIK of the Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia]</ref>). Jackals have been observed to follow and feed alongside wolves without evoking any hostility.<ref name="z160">{{Harvnb|Sillero-Zubiri|Hoffman|MacDonald|2004|pp=160}}</ref> In Africa, golden jackals often eat alongside African wild dogs, and will stand their ground if the dogs try to harass them.<ref name="e401"/> In South-eastern Asia, golden jackals have been known to hunt alongside [[dhole]] packs,<ref name="thai">Lekagul, B. & McNeely, J. ''Mammals of Thailand'', Darnsutha Press; Second edition edition (January 1, 1988), ISBN 974-86806-1-4</ref> and there is one record of a golden jackal pack adopting a male [[Ethiopian wolf]].<ref>Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio ; Gottelli, Dada [http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-485-01-0001.pdf ''Canis simensis''], December 1994, The American Society of Mammologists</ref>
[[File:Hromadná poprava srbského obyvatelstva.jpg|thumb|right|Austro-Hungarian soldiers executing men and women in Serbia, 1916.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Honzík|first1=Miroslav|last2=Honzíková|first2=Hana|title=1914/1918, Léta zkázy a naděje|year=1984|publisher=Panorama|location=Czech Republic}}</ref>]]
[[File:Morgenthau336.jpg|thumb|Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide. Image taken from ''Ambassador Morgenthau's Story'', written by [[Henry Morgenthau, Sr.]] and published in 1918.<ref>{{citation|publisher=BYU|url=http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/comment/morgenthau/Morgen25.htm|title=Ambassador Morgenthau's Story|year=1918|chapter=Twenty-Five|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref>]]
{{Main|Ottoman casualties of World War I}}
{{See also|Armenian Genocide|Assyrian Genocide|Greek genocide|Genocide denial}}


The [[ethnic cleansing]] of the Ottoman Empire's [[Armenians|Armenian]] population, including mass deportations and executions, during the final years of the Ottoman Empire is considered [[genocide]].<ref name="IAGSletter">{{cite web|url=http://www.genocidewatch.org/TurkishPMIAGSOpenLetterreArmenia6-13-05.htm|archiveurl=//web.archive.org/web/20071006024502/http://www.genocidewatch.org/TurkishPMIAGSOpenLetterreArmenia6-13-05.htm|archivedate=6 October 2007|author=[[International Association of Genocide Scholars]]|title=Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan|date=13 June 2005|publisher=[[Genocide Watch]] (via archive.org)}}{{dead link|date=February 2014}}</ref> The Ottomans saw the entire Armenian population as an [[Fifth column|enemy]]<ref>{{harvnb|Lewy|2005|p=57}}</ref> that had chosen to side with Russia at the beginning of the war.<ref>{{harvnb|Ferguson|2006|p=177}}</ref> In early 1915, a number of Armenians joined the Russian forces, and the Ottoman government used this as a pretext to issue the [[Tehcir Law]] (Law on Deportation). This authorized the deportation of Armenians from the Empire's eastern provinces to Syria between 1915 and 1917. The exact number of deaths is unknown: while Balakian gives a range of 250,000 to 1.5 million for the deaths of Armenians,<ref>{{harvnb|Balakian|2003|pp=195–196}}</ref> the [[International Association of Genocide Scholars]] estimates over 1 million.<ref name="IAGSletter"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genocidescholars.org/sites/default/files/document%09%5Bcurrent-page%3A1%5D/documents/US%20Congress_%20Armenian%20Resolution.pdf |title=International Association Of Genocide Scholars |format=PDF |accessdate=2013-03-12}}</ref> The government of Turkey has consistently [[Armenian Genocide denial|rejected charges of genocide]], arguing that those who died were victims of inter-ethnic fighting, famine, or disease during World War I.<ref>{{harvnb|Fromkin|1989|pp=212–215}}</ref> Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including [[Assyrian Genocide|Assyrians]] and [[Greek genocide|Greeks]], and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination.<ref>{{cite web |author=International Association of Genocide Scholars |format=PDF |url=http://www.genocidescholars.org/images/Resolution_on_genocides_committed_by_the_Ottoman_Empire.pdf |archiveurl=//web.archive.org/web/20080422005726/http://genocidescholars.org/images/Resolution_on_genocides_committed_by_the_Ottoman_Empire.pdf |archivedate=22 April 2008 |deadurl=yes |title=Resolution on genocides committed by the Ottoman empire }}</ref><ref>Gaunt, David. ''[http://books.google.se/books?id=4mug9LrpLKcC Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I]''. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2006.</ref><ref>{{Citation|doi=10.1080/14623520801950820|last1=Schaller|first1=Dominik J|last2=Zimmerer|first2=Jürgen|year=2008|title=Late Ottoman genocides: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies&nbsp;– introduction |journal=Journal of Genocide Research|volume=10|issue=1|pages=7–14|postscript=. }}</ref>
In India, lone jackals expelled from their pack have been known to form [[Commensalism|commensal relationship]]s with [[tiger]]s. These solitary jackals, known as ''kol-bahl'', will attach themselves to a particular tiger, trailing it at a safe distance to feed on the big cat's kills. A ''kol-bahl'' will even alert a tiger to a kill with a loud ''pheal''. Tigers have been known to tolerate these jackals: one report describes how a jackal confidently walked in and out between three tigers walking together a few feet away from each other.<ref name="perry">{{cite book | author = Perry, Richard | title = The World of the Tiger | year = 1965 | page = 260 | id = ASIN: B0007DU2IU}}</ref> Tigers will, however, kill jackals on occasion; the now extinct tigers of the [[Amu-Darya]] region were known to frequently eat jackals.<ref name="USSR">Heptner, V. G. & Sludskii, A. A. 1992. [http://books.google.com/books?id=UxWZ-OmTqVoC&pg=PA177&dq=mammals+of+the+soviet+union+tigers+bears#v=onepage&q=jackals&f=false Mammals of the Soviet Union]. Vol. II, part 2, Carnivores(Feloidea), p. 177. Leiden, E. J. Brill. 784 pp. ISBN 90-04-08876-8</ref>


====Russian Empire====
Jackals will feed alongside [[spotted hyena]]s, though they will be chased if they approach too closely. Spotted hyenas will sometimes follow jackals during the gazelle fawning season, as jackals are effective at tracking and catching young animals. Hyenas do not take to eating jackal flesh readily: four hyenas were reported to take half an hour in eating one. Overall, the two animals typically ignore each other when no food or young is at stake.<ref name="Kruuk">Kruuk, Hans (1972) ''The Spotted Hyena: A Study of Predation and Social Behaviour'' The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637</ref> Jackals will confront a hyena approaching too closely to their dens by taking turns in biting the hyena's hocks until it retreats.<ref name="e401"/> [[Striped hyena]]s have been known to prey on golden jackals in [[Kutch]], India; one striped hyena den contained three dead jackals.<ref name="z160"/>
{{Main|Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire}}
{{See also|Russian occupation of Eastern Galicia, 1914–1915|Volhynia|Volga Germans}}
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Many [[pogrom]]s accompanied the [[Russian Revolution]] of 1917 and the ensuing [[Russian Civil War]]. 60,000–200,000 civilian Jews were killed in the atrocities throughout the former Russian Empire (mostly within the [[Pale of Settlement]] in present-day [[Ukraine]]).<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15895.html|title=Pogroms|work=[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]]|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=17 November 2009|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref><!--<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/modtimeline.html|title=Jewish Modern and Contemporary Periods (ca. 1700–1917)|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=17 November 2009|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref>-->
==Communication==
[[File:Canis aureus 2.jpg|thumb|European jackal (''C. a. moreoticus'') howling, Szeged Zoo.]]


===Body language===
==="Rape of Belgium"===
{{Main|Rape of Belgium}}
Golden jackals frequently groom one another, particularly during courtship, during which it can last up to ½ hour.<ref name="e401">{{Harvnb|Estes|1992|p=401}}</ref> Nibbling of the face and neck is observed during greeting ceremonies. When fighting, the golden jackal slams its opponents with its hips, and bites and shakes the shoulder. The species' postures are typically canine, and it has more facial mobility than the black-backed and side-striped jackals, being able to expose its canine teeth like a dog.<ref name="e402" />
The German invaders treated any resistance—such as sabotaging rail lines—as illegal and immoral, and shot the offenders and burned buildings in retaliation. In addition, they tended to suspect that most civilians were potential "[[franc-tireurs]]" ([[guerrillas]]) and, accordingly, took and sometimes killed hostages from among the civilian population. The German army executed over 6,500 French and Belgian civilians between August and November 1914, usually in near-random large-scale shootings of civilians ordered by junior German officers. The German Army destroyed 15,000–20,000 buildings—most famously the university library at [[Leuven|Louvain]]—and generated a wave of refugees of over a million people. Over half the German regiments in Belgium were involved in major incidents.<ref>{{harvnb|Horne|Kramer|2001|loc=ch 1–2, esp. p. 76}}</ref> Thousands of workers were shipped to Germany to work in factories. British propaganda dramatizing the "[[Rape of Belgium]]" attracted much attention in the United States, while Berlin said it was both lawful and necessary because of the threat of "franc-tireurs" like those in France in 1870.<ref>The claim of "franc-tireurs" in Belgium has been rejected: {{harvnb|Horne|Kramer|2001|loc=ch 3–4}}</ref> The British and French magnified the reports and disseminated them at home and in the United States, where they played a major role in dissolving support for Germany.<ref>{{harvnb|Horne|Kramer|2001|loc=ch 5–8}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Keegan|1998|pp=82–83}}</ref>


==Soldiers' experiences==
===Vocalisations===
{{Main|List of last surviving World War I veterans by country|World War I casualties|Commonwealth War Graves Commission|American Battle Monuments Commission}}
The vocabulary of the golden jackal is similar to that of dogs, with seven different sounds having been recorded. Different subspecies can be recognised by differences in their howls. Among African canids, the golden jackal has the most dog-like vocalisations.<ref name="k22">{{Harvnb|Kingdon|1988|p=22}}</ref> Its cry consists of a long, wailing howl which is repeated three or four times, each repetition in a note a little higher than the preceding, and then a succession of usually three quick yelps, also repeated two or three times. It was commonly rendered in [[English language|English]] as "Dead Hindoo, where, where, where". This sound is usually uttered shortly after dark or before dawn.<ref name="p62" /> The golden jackal may howl for different reasons, such as to call other jackals or, seemingly, to announce changes in weather. It has been recorded to howl upon hearing church bells, sirens or the whistles of steam engines and boats. It typically howls at dawn, midday and the evening hours.<ref name="h152"/> Groups will occasionally howl in chorus, which is thought to reinforce family bonds, as well as advertise territorial status.<ref name="e401" /> When in the vicinity of tigers or leopards or any other cause for alarm, the golden jackal emits a cry transliterated as "pheal", "phion" or "phnew".<ref name="p62">{{Harvnb|Pocock|1941|pp=62–63}}</ref> When hunting in a pack, the dominant jackal initiates an attack by repeatedly emitting a sound transliterated as "okkay!".<ref name="t35">{{Harvnb|Tennent|1861|p=35}}</ref>
[[File:BVRC-Great-War-Contingent 1914.jpg|thumb|The First Contingent of the [[Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps]] to the [[Royal Lincolnshire Regiment|1 Lincolns]], training in Bermuda for the Western Front, winter 1914–1915. The two BVRC contingents suffered 75% casualties.]]


The British soldiers of the war were initially volunteers but increasingly were [[conscription|conscripted]] into service. Surviving veterans, returning home, often found that they could only discuss their experiences amongst themselves. Grouping together, they formed "veterans' associations" or "Legions".
==Range and expansion==
In [[Africa]], golden jackals are widespread in the north and northeastern portions of the continent, being present from [[Senegal]] on Africa's west coast to [[Egypt]] in the East. This range includes [[Morocco]], [[Algeria]], and [[Libya]] in the north to [[Nigeria]], [[Chad]] and [[Tanzania]] in the south. They also occur in the [[Arabian Peninsula]], and have a patchy distribution in [[Europe]].


===Prisoners of war===
[[File:Jackal expansion europe.jpg|thumb|Jackal expansion in Europe, by year <ref name="Rosler"/>]]
{{Main|World War I prisoners of war in Germany}}
In their European range, jackals are found in the [[Balkans]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]] and southwestern [[Ukraine]].<ref name="Rosler">
[[File:German prisoners in a French prison camp. French Pictorial Service., 1917 - 1919 - NARA - 533724.tif|thumb|left|German prisoners in a French prison camp, during the later part of the war.]]
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About eight million men surrendered and were held in [[Prisoner-of-war camp|POW camps]] during the war. All nations pledged to follow the [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|Hague Conventions]] on fair treatment of [[prisoners of war]]. POWs' rate of survival was generally much higher than that of their peers at the front.<ref>{{harvnb|Phillimore|Bellot|1919|pp=4–64}}</ref> Individual surrenders were uncommon; large units usually surrendered en masse. At the siege of Maubeuge about 40,000 French soldiers surrendered, at the [[battle of Galicia]] Russians took about 100,000 to 120,000 Austrian captives, at the [[Brusilov Offensive]] about 325,000 to 417,000 Germans and Austrians surrendered to Russians, at the [[Battle of Tannenberg]] 92,000 Russians surrendered. When the besieged garrison of [[Kaunas]] surrendered in 1915, some 20,000 Russians became prisoners, at the battle near Przasnysz (February–March 1915) 14,000 Germans surrendered to Russians, at the [[First Battle of the Marne]] about 12,000 Germans surrendered to the Allies. 25–31% of Russian losses (as a proportion of those captured, wounded, or killed) were to prisoner status; for Austria-Hungary 32%, for Italy 26%, for France 12%, for Germany 9%; for Britain 7%. Prisoners from the Allied armies totalled about 1.4&nbsp;million (not including Russia, which lost 2.–3.5{{clarify|2-point-what? Does this mean 2.5–3.5? Or 2 million to 3.5?|date=October 2010}} million men as prisoners. In some research it is stated that the number of Russian prisoners was 2,417,000). From the Central Powers about 3.3&nbsp;million men became prisoners; most of them surrendered to Russians.<ref>{{harvnb|Ferguson|1999|pp=368–9}}</ref>
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</ref> They are found also in [[Austria]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]], and northeastern [[Italy]]<ref name="iucn"/><ref name="lapini1"/> (Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto), where their distribution has recently increased, encompassing also the region Trentino Alto Adige.<ref name="lapini2">Lapini L., Molinari P., Dorigo L., Are G. & Beraldo P., 2009. Reproduction of the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus moreoticus I. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 1835) in Julian Pre-Alps, with new data on its range-expansion in the High-Adriatic Hinterland (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae). Boll. Mus. Civ. St. nat. Venezia, 60 (2009): 169-186.</ref>


Germany held 2.5&nbsp;million prisoners; Russia held 2.2–2.9&nbsp;million; while Britain and France held about 720,000. Most were captured just prior to the Armistice. The United States held 48,000. The most dangerous moment was the act of surrender, when helpless soldiers were sometimes gunned down.<ref>{{harvnb|Blair|2005}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Cook|2006|pp=637&-665}}</ref> Once prisoners reached a camp, conditions were, in general, satisfactory (and much better than in World War II), thanks in part to the efforts of the [[International Red Cross]] and inspections by neutral nations. However, conditions were terrible in Russia: [[starvation]] was common for prisoners and civilians alike; about 15–20% of the prisoners in Russia died (in some researches it is stated that 2.5% of prisoners in Russia died, and in Central powers imprisonment—8% of Russians.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://profismart.ru/web/bookreader-115250-24.php|title=Максим Оськин – Неизвестные трагедии Первой мировой Пленные Дезертиры Беженцы – стр 24 – Читаем онлайн|publisher=Profismart.ru|accessdate=2013-03-13}}</ref> In Germany, food was scarce, but only 5% died.<ref>{{harvnb|Speed|1990}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Ferguson|1999|ch=13}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Morton|1992}}</ref>
To the east, their range includes [[Turkey]], [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]], [[Syria]], [[Iraq]], [[Iran]], [[Pakistan]], [[Central Asia]], the [[Indian subcontinent]], then east and south to [[Sri Lanka]], [[Myanmar]], [[Thailand]], and parts of [[Indochina]].<ref name="iucn"/>
Recently an isolated population was confirmed in western Estonia, much further than their common range. Whether they are an introduced population or a natural migration is yet unknown.<ref>http://eestielu.delfi.ee/eesti/laanemaa/lihula/elu/peep-mannil-laanemaal-elab-veel-vahemalt-kaks-saakalit-toenaoliselt-rohkem.d?id=65914222</ref> It has been classified as an invasive species and eradication will start this autumn.<ref>http://www.epl.ee/news/eesti/amet-saakalid-tuleb-eemaldada.d?id=66158612</ref>


[[File:Indian army soldier after siege of Kut.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Emaciate]]d Indian Army soldier who survived the [[Siege of Kut]].]]
==Diseases and parasites==
The golden jackal can carry diseases and parasites harmful to human health, including [[rabies]] and [[Leishmania donovani|Donovan's ''Leishmania'']] (which, although harmless to jackals, can cause [[leishmaniasis]] in people). Jackals in southwestern Tajikistan have been recorded to carry 16 species of [[cestode]]s, [[roundworm]]s and [[acanthocephala]]ns (''[[Sparganosis|Sparganum mansoni]]'', ''[[Diphyllobothrium mansonoides]]'', ''Taenia hydatigena'', ''[[Taenia pisiformis|T. pisiformis]]'', ''T. ovis'', ''Hydatigera taeniaeformis'', ''Diphylidium caninum'', ''Mesocestoides lineatus'', ''[[Ancylostoma caninum]]'', ''[[Uncinaria stenocephala]]'', ''[[Dioctophyma renale]]'', ''[[Toxocara canis]]'', ''[[Toxascaris leonina]]'', ''[[Dracunculus medinensis]]'', ''Filariata'' and ''Macracanthorhynchus catulinum''). Jackals infected with ''D. medinensis'' can infect water bodies with their eggs, and cause [[dracunculiasis]] in people who drink from them. Jackals may also play a large part in spreading coenurosis in sheep and cattle, and [[canine distemper]] in dogs.<ref name="h158">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=158–159}}</ref> Jackals in the Serengeti are known to carry the [[canine parvovirus]], [[canine herpesvirus]], [[canine coronavirus]] and [[canine adenovirus]].<ref name=z160/> In July 2006, a Romanian jackal was found to be carrying ''[[Trichinella britovi]]''.<ref>[http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/44/2/457.pdf R. Blaga, C. Gherman, D. Seucom, V. Cozma, and P. Boireau. ''First Identification of Trichinella sp. in Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) in Romania'', Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 44(2), 2008, pp. 457–459 © Wildlife Disease Association 2008]</ref> Jackals consuming fish and molluscs can be infected with [[metagonimiasis]], which was recently diagnosed in a male jackal from northeastern Italy.<ref name="lapini2"/> In Tajikistan, at least 12 [[tick]] species are known to be carried by golden jackals (which include ''[[Ixodes]]'', ''Rhipicephalus turanicus'', ''R. leporis'', ''R. rossicus'', ''[[Rhipicephalus sanguineus|R. sanguineus]]'', ''R. pumilio'', ''R. schulzei'', ''[[Hyalomma]] anatolicum'', ''H. scupense'' and ''H. asiaticum''), four [[flea]] species (''[[Pulex irritans]]'', ''Xenopsylla nesokiae'', ''[[Dog flea|Ctenocephanlides canis]]'' and ''[[Ctenocephalides felis|C. felis]]'') and one species of [[louse]] (''Trichodectes canis'').<ref name="h158"/> In northeastern Italy, the species is a carrier of the tick species ''[[Ixodes ricinus]]'' and ''[[Dermacentor reticulatus]]''.<ref name="lapini2"/>


The Ottoman Empire often treated POWs poorly.<ref name="isbn0-691-09278-8">{{harvnb|Bass|2002|p=107}}</ref> Some 11,800 British Empire soldiers, most of them Indians, became prisoners after the [[Siege of Kut]] in [[Mesopotamia]] in April 1916; 4,250 died in captivity.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=British National Archives|title=The Mesopotamia campaign|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/battles/mesopotamia.htm|accessdate=10 March 2007}}</ref> Although many were in very bad condition when captured, Ottoman officers forced them to march {{convert|1100|km|mi|0}} to [[Anatolia]]. A survivor said: "We were driven along like beasts; to drop out was to die."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.awm.gov.au/stolenyears/ww1/turkey/story2.asp|publisher=Australian War Memorial|work=Stolen Years: Australian Prisoners of War|title=Prisoners of Turkey: Men of Kut ''Driven along like beasts''|accessdate=10 December 2008}}</ref> The survivors were then forced to build a railway through the [[Taurus Mountains]].
==Relationships with humans==
===In folklore, mythology and literature===
{{Rquote|right|... yet the jackal seems to be placed between [the wolf and the dog]; to the savage fierceness of the wolf, it adds the impudent familiarity of the dog... It is more noisy in its pursuits even than the dog, and more voracious than the wolf.|[[Oliver Goldsmith]]<ref>Goldsmith, Oliver (1816), ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eSMOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=to+the+savage+fierceness+of+the+wolf,+it+adds+the+impudent+familiarity+of+the+dog&hl=en&ei=N-AhTtfkIIer-ga-io2lAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=to%20the%20savage%20fierceness%20of%20the%20wolf%2C%20it%20adds%20the%20impudent%20familiarity%20of%20the%20dog&f=false A history of the earth, and animated nature]'' Vol. 3, p. 56</ref>}}
[[File:Tutanhkamun jackal.jpg|thumb|left|Life-sized [[Anubis]] statue from the [[Tomb of Tutankhamun]] ([[Cairo Museum]])]]
[[File:T2JB005 - Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves.JPG|thumb|left|[[Tabaqui]] (left) torments [[Father Wolf]] and his family, as illustrated in page 5 of the 1895 edition of ''The Two [[Jungle Book]]s'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]]]


In Russia, when the prisoners from the [[Czech Legion]] of the Austro-Hungarian army were released in 1917, they re-armed themselves and briefly became a military and diplomatic force during the Russian Civil War.
The [[Ancient Egypt]]ian god of embalming, [[Anubis]], was portrayed as a jackal-headed man, or as a jackal wearing ribbons and holding a flagellum. Anubis was always shown as a jackal or dog colored black, the color of regeneration, death, and the night. It was also the color the body turned during [[mummification]]. The reason for Anubis' animal model being canine is based on what the ancient Egyptians themselves observed of the creature - dogs and jackals often haunted the edges of the desert, especially near the cemeteries where the dead were buried. In fact, the Egyptians are thought to have begun the practice of making elaborate graves and tombs to protect the dead from desecration by jackals. [[Duamutef]], one of the [[Four Sons of Horus]] and a protection god of the [[Canopic jar]]s, was also portrayed as having jackal-like features.


While the Allied prisoners of the Central Powers were quickly sent home at the end of active hostilities, the same treatment was not granted to Central Power prisoners of the Allies and Russia, many of whom served as [[forced labor]], e.g., in France until 1920. They were released only after many approaches by the Red Cross to the [[Allied Supreme Council]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57JQGQ|title=ICRC in WWI: overview of activities|publisher=Icrc.org|accessdate=15 June 2010}}</ref> German prisoners were still being held in Russia as late as 1924.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,768983,00.html|title=GERMANY: Notes, Sep. 1, 1924|work=Time|date=1 September 1924|accessdate=15 June 2010}}</ref>
In [[Hinduism]], the golden jackal is portrayed as the familiar of several deities, the most common of which being [[Chamunda]], the emaciated, devouring goddess of the cremation grounds. Another deity associated with jackals is [[Kali]], who inhabits the cremation ground and is surrounded by millions of jackals. According to the ''[[Tantrasara]]'', when offered animal flesh, Kali appears before the officiant in the form of a jackal. The goddess Shivatudi is depicted with a jackal's head.<ref name="geer">van der Geer, Alexandra Anna Enrica (2008) ''Animals in stone: Indian mammals sculptured through time'', BRILL, ISBN 90-04-16819-2</ref> Golden jackals appear prominently in [[Folklore of India|Indian folklore]] and ancient texts, such as the ''[[Jakata]]s'' and ''[[Panchtatra]]'', where they are often portrayed as intelligent and wily creatures.<ref name="z160"/> In [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s [[Mowgli]] stories collected in ''[[The Jungle Book]]'', the character [[Tabaqui]] is a jackal despised by the Sioni wolf pack, due to his mock cordiality, scavenging habits and his subservience to [[Shere Khan]].


===Military attachés and war correspondents===
The [[Authorized King James Version]] (AV) of the [[Bible]] never mentions jackals, though this could be due to a translation error. The AVs of [[Book of Isaiah|Isiah]], [[Book of Micah|Micah]], [[Book of Job|Job]] and [[Book of Malachi|Malachi]] mention "wild beasts" and "dragons" crying in desolate houses and palaces. The original [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] words used are ''lyim'' (howler) and ''tan'', respectively. According to biologist Michael Bright, ''tan'' is more likely referring to jackals than dragons, as the word is frequently used throughout the AV to describe a howling animal associated with desolation and abandoned habitations, which is consistent with the golden jackal's vast vocal repertoire and its occasional habit of living in abandoned buildings. Jeremiah makes frequent references to jackals by using the word ''shu'al'', which can mean both jackal and fox. Although the AV translates the word as fox, the behaviour described is more consistent with jackals, as shown in the books of [[Book of Lamentations|Lamentations]] and [[Book of Psalms|Psalms]], in which references are made to the ''shu'al's'' habit of eating corpses in battlefields.<ref name="BOTF">{{cite book|author=Bright, Michael|title=Beasts of the Field: The Revealing Natural History of Animals in the Bible|year=2006|page= 346|isbn=1-86105-831-4|publisher=Robson|location= London}}</ref> [[David W. Macdonald]] theorizes, because of the general scarcity and elusiveness of foxes in Israel, the author of the [[Book of Judges]] may have actually been describing the much more common golden jackals when narrating how [[Samson]] tied torches to the tails of 300 foxes to make them destroy the vineyards of the [[Philistines]].<ref name="RWTF">{{cite book | author=Macdonald, David | title=Running with the Fox | year=1987 | pages= p224 | isbn=0-04-440199-X | publisher=Unwin Hyman | location= }}</ref> According to an ancient Ethiopian folktale, jackals and man first became enemies shortly before the [[Deluge myth|Great Flood]], when [[Noah]] initially refused to allow jackals into the [[Noah's Ark|ark]], thinking they were unworthy of being saved, until being commanded by God to do so.<ref>{{it icon}} Motta, F. (editore), ''Nel Mondo della Natura: Enciclopedia Motta di Scienze Naturali, Zoologia'', Quinto Volume, 1957</ref>
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Military and civilian observers from every major power closely followed the course of the war. Many were able to report on events from a perspective somewhat akin to modern "[[embedded journalism|embedded]]" positions within the opposing land and naval forces. These [[military attaché]]s and other observers prepared voluminous first-hand accounts of the war and analytical papers.


==Support and opposition to the war==
Although present in Europe, jackals are rarely featured in European folklore or literature. Surveys taken in the high Adriatic hinterland indicate the totality of people with first-hand experience of jackals (hunters, game keepers and local people) regularly mistook red foxes affected by sarcoptic mange (or in a problematic state of moult) for golden jackals. The sighting of a true golden jackal, however, was always referred to as a wolf, or a little wolf. This was verified both with photo-trapping sessions and with a study on tracks, confirming previous observations on this matter. This erroneous and controversial perception of the golden jackal may be because its presence is still not traditional, neither in Italian and Slovenian human culture, nor in hunting and game keeping traditions.<ref name="lapini2"/>


===Support===
===Livestock, game and crop predation===
[[File:Affiche-guerre Femmes-au-travail.jpg|thumb|right|Poster urging women to join the British war effort, published by the [[Young Women's Christian Association]]]]
Golden jackals can be harmful pests, and will attack domestic animals, including [[turkeys]], lambs, [[sheep]], [[goat]]s, and one record of a jackal attacking a newborn [[domestic water buffalo]] calf. They destroy many [[grape]]s, and eat [[watermelon]]s, [[muskmelon]]s and [[Nut (fruit)|nuts]].<ref name="h160">{{Harvnb|Heptner|Naumov|1998|pp=160–164}}</ref> In Greece, jackals tend not to be as damaging to livestock as wolves and red foxes are, though they can become a serious nuisance to small stock when in high numbers.<ref name="GW"/> In southern Bulgaria, 1,053 attacks on small stock, mainly sheep and lambs, were recorded between 1982 and 1987, along with some damages to newborn deer in game farms.<ref name="GW" /> In Israel, about 1.5%–1.9% of the calves born in the Golan Heights die due to predation, mainly by golden jackals. In both cases, the high predation rate is thought to be the consequence of a jackal population explosion due to the availability of food in illegal garbage dumps.<ref name="GJP">{{cite web | title = Cattle Predation by the Golden Jackal Canis in the Golan Heights, Israel | work = | publisher = Department of zoology, Tel Aviv university | url = http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/zoology/members/yom-tov/articles/Cattle.pdf | accessdate = 2007-08-19}}</ref> Preventive measures to avoid predation were also lacking in both cases. However, even without preventive measures, the highest damages by jackals from Bulgaria are minimal when compared to the domestic animal losses by wolves.<ref name="GW" /> Golden jackals are extremely harmful to furbearing rodents, such as [[nutria]] and [[muskrat]]s. Nutria can be completely extirpated in shallow water bodies; during the winter of 1948-49 in the [[Amu Darya]], muskrats constituted 12.3% of jackal faeces contents, and 71% of muskrat houses were destroyed by jackals, 16% of which froze and became unsuitable for muskrat occupation. Jackals also harm the fur industry by eating muskrats caught in traps or taking skins left out to dry.<ref name="h160" />
In the Balkans, [[Yugoslav nationalism|Yugoslav nationalists]] such as the leader [[Ante Trumbić]] in the [[Balkans]] strongly supported the war, desiring the freedom of [[Yugoslavs]] from [[Austria-Hungary]] and other foreign powers and the creation of an independent [[Yugoslavia]].<ref name=autogenerated4>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=1189}}</ref> The [[Yugoslav Committee]] was formed in Paris on 30 April 1915 but shortly moved its office to London; Trumbić led the Committee.<ref name=autogenerated4/> In April 1918, the Rome Congress of Oppressed Nationalities met, including [[Czechoslovak]], [[Italians|Italian]], [[Poles|Polish]], [[Transylvanian]], and [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] representatives who urged the Allies to support national [[self-determination]] for the peoples residing within [[Austria-Hungary]].<ref name=autogenerated3/>


In the Middle East, [[Arab nationalism]] soared in Ottoman territories in response to the rise of Turkish nationalism during the war, with Arab nationalist leaders advocating the creation of a [[Pan-Arabism|pan-Arab]] state.<ref name=autogenerated2>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=117}}</ref> In 1916, the [[Arab Revolt]] began in Ottoman-controlled territories of the Middle East in an effort to achieve independence.<ref name=autogenerated2/>
===Hunting===
{{Main|Jackal coursing}}
[[File:Jackalhunt.jpg|thumb|left|''Hunting Jackals'' by [[Samuel Howitt]], illustrating a group of jackals rushing to the defence of a fallen packmate]]
{{Rquote|right|The jackal is, I think, a more difficult animal to kill with hounds than the fox. He does not play the game as the fox does. He is as cunning, as intelligent, as wild, but he is far less sophisticated, and it used to please me to think that perhaps in the chase of the jackal we saw hunting as it was in an earlier phase than that at which it has now arrived in England.|Thomas Francis Dale<ref name="d193">{{Harvnb|Dale|1906|pp=193}}</ref>}}
During the [[British Raj]], British sportsmen in India would hunt jackals (often nicknamed "Cousin Jack") on horseback with hounds as a substitute for the [[fox hunting]] of their native England. Although not considered as beautiful as English [[red fox]]es, golden jackals were esteemed for their endurance in the chase; one chase lasted 3½ hours. India's weather and terrain also added further challenges to jackal hunters not present in England; the hounds of India were rarely in the same good condition as English hounds were, and although the golden jackal has a strong odour, the terrain of Northern India was not good in retaining scent.<ref name="d181">{{Harvnb|Dale|1906|pp=181–182}}</ref> Also, unlike foxes, golden jackals were documented to [[feign death]] when caught, and could be ferociously protective of their captured packmates.<ref name="j143">{{Harvnb|Jerdon|1874|pp=143}}</ref> Jackals were hunted in three ways: with [[greyhound]]s, with mixed packs and with [[foxhound]]s. Hunting jackals with greyhounds offered poor sport, as greyhounds were too fast for jackals, and mixed packs were too difficult to control.<ref name="d186">{{Harvnb|Dale|1906|pp=186–187}}</ref> Some indigenous people of India, such as the [[Koli]]s and Vaghirs of [[Gujarat]] and [[Rajastan]] and the [[Narikurava]]s in [[Tamil Nadu]], hunt and eat golden jackals, but the majority of South Asian cultures consider the animal unclean. The orthodox ''[[dharma]]'' texts forbid the eating of jackals, as they have five nails (''panchanakha'').<ref name="geer"/>


A number of socialist parties initially supported the war when it began in August 1914.<ref name=autogenerated3>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=1001}}</ref> But European socialists split on national lines, with the concept of [[class conflict]] held by radical socialists such as Marxists and [[Syndicalism|syndicalists]] being overborne by their patriotic support for war.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=1069}}</ref> Once the war began, Austrian, British, French, German, and Russian socialists followed the rising nationalist current by supporting their countries' intervention in the war.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=884}}</ref>
In the former Soviet Union, jackals are not actively hunted, and are usually captured incidentally during the hunting of other animals by means of traps or shooting during drives. In the Trans-Caucasus, jackals are captured with large fishing hooks baited with meat, suspended 75–100&nbsp;cm from the ground with wire. The jackals can only reach the meat by jumping, and are hooked by the lip or jaw.<ref name="h160" />


[[Italian nationalism]] was stirred by the outbreak of the war and was initially strongly supported by a variety of political factions. One of the most prominent and popular Italian nationalist supporters of the war was [[Gabriele d'Annunzio]], who promoted [[Italian irredentism]] and helped sway the Italian public to support intervention in the war.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=335}}</ref> The [[Italian Liberal Party]], under the leadership of [[Paolo Boselli]], promoted intervention in the war on the side of the Allies and utilised the Dante Alighieri Society to promote Italian nationalism.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=219}}</ref> Italian socialists were divided on whether to support the war or oppose it; some were militant supporters of the war, including [[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Leonida Bissolati]].<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=209}}</ref> However, the [[Italian Socialist Party]] decided to oppose the war after anti-militarist protestors were killed, resulting in a [[general strike]] called [[Red Week (Italy)|Red Week]].<ref name=autogenerated6>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=596}}</ref> The Italian Socialist Party purged itself of pro-war nationalist members, including Mussolini.<ref name=autogenerated6/> Mussolini, a [[Syndicalism|syndicalist]] who supported the war on grounds of irredentist claims on Italian-populated regions of Austria-Hungary, formed the pro-interventionist ''[[Il Popolo d'Italia]]'' and the ''Fasci Rivoluzionario d'Azione Internazionalista'' ("Revolutionary [[Fasci]] for International Action") in October 1914 that later developed into the ''[[Fasci di Combattimento]]'' in 1919, the origin of fascism.<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=826}}</ref> Mussolini's nationalism enabled him to raise funds from [[Italian Ansaldo company|Ansaldo]] (an armaments firm) and other companies to create ''Il Popolo d'Italia'' to convince socialists and revolutionaries to support the war.<ref>Dennis Mack Smith. 1997. ''Modern Italy; A Political History''. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. Pp. 284.</ref>
The Greek Ministry of Agriculture annually organised shooting and poisoning campaigns against jackals until 1981. An average of 1000 jackals were killed per year in these campaigns, and a bounty was paid for each animal killed. The jackal was the first wild canid to be removed from Greece's vermin list in 1990, and it was followed by the wolf and fox in 1993, though, unlike the latter two species, jackals did not fully recolonise areas of their former range. Although jackals in Greece are rarely hunted intentionally, they are occasionally shot during the hunts of other animals, such as wild boar.<ref name="GW" />


===Opposition===
In Italy, the species has been recently protected by the National Law 157/1992, but it is occasionally shot illegally during fox hunts. This seems to be the main obstacle for the species in Italy.<ref name="lapini2"/>
{{Main|Opposition to World War I|French Army Mutinies}}
[[File:Sackville Street (Dublin) after the 1916 Easter Rising.JPG|thumb|Sackville Street (now [[O'Connell Street]]) after the 1916 [[Easter Rising]] in [[Dublin]].]]
The trade union and socialist movements had long voiced their opposition to a war, which they argued would only mean that workers would kill other workers in the interest of capitalism. Once war was declared, however, many socialists and trade unions backed their governments. Among the exceptions were the [[Bolshevik]]s, the [[Socialist Party of America]], and the [[Italian Socialist Party]], and individuals such as [[Karl Liebknecht]], [[Rosa Luxemburg]], and their followers in Germany. There were also small anti-war groups in Britain and France.


[[Benedict XV]], elected to the papacy less than three months into World War I, made the war and its consequences the main focus of his early pontificate. In stark contrast to his [[pope Pius X|predecessor]],<ref>{{cite book|title=History of the Church|year=1981|publisher=Burns & Oates|location=London|isbn=0-86012-091-0|coauthors=Margit Resch (tr.), John Dolan|volume=9|series=The Church in the industrial age|author=Roger Aubert|editor=Hubert Jedin|page=521|chapter=Chapter 37: The Outbreak of World War I|author-separator=,|display-authors=1}}</ref> five days after his election he spoke of his determination to do what he could to bring peace. His first encyclical, [[Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum]], given 1 November 1914, was concerned with this subject. Seen as being biased in favour of the other and resented for weakening national morale, Benedict XV found his abilities and unique position as a religious emissary of peace ignored by the belligerent powers. The 1915 Treaty of London between Italy and the Triple Entente included secret provisions whereby the Allies agreed with Italy to ignore papal peace moves towards the Central Powers. Consequently, the publication of Benedict's proposed seven-point Peace Note of August 1917 was roundly ignored by all parties except Austria-Hungary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Who's Who&nbsp;— Pope Benedict XV|publisher=firstworldwar.com|date=22 August 2009|url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/popebenedict.htm }}</ref>
Jackals are hunted in Vietnam for their noses, which are supposed to possess medicinal qualities.<ref>Sterling, Eleanor J. ; Hurley, Martha Maud ; Le, Minh Duc (2006), ''Vietnam: a natural history'', Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-300-10608-4</ref>


[[File:The Deserter.jpg|thumb|''The Deserter'', 1916. Anti-war cartoon depicting Jesus facing a [[firing squad]] with soldiers from five European countries.]]
===Fur use===
In [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]], in 1914, the [[Public Schools Act 1868|Public Schools]] [[Officers' Training Corps]] annual camp was held at Tidworth Pennings, near [[Salisbury Plain]]. Head of the [[British Army]] [[Lord Kitchener of Khartoum|Lord Kitchener]] was to review the [[cadet]]s, but the imminence of the war prevented him. General [[Horace Smith-Dorrien]] was sent instead. He surprised the two-or-three thousand cadets by declaring (in the words of Donald Christopher Smith, a [[Bermuda|Bermudian]] cadet who was present), "that war should be avoided at almost any cost, that war would solve nothing, that the whole of Europe and more besides would be reduced to ruin, and that the loss of life would be so large that whole populations would be decimated. In our ignorance I, and many of us, felt almost ashamed of a British General who uttered such depressing and unpatriotic sentiments, but during the next four years, those of us who survived the holocaust—probably not more than one-quarter of us—learned how right the General's prognosis was and how courageous he had been to utter it."<ref>''"Merely For the Record": The Memoirs of Donald Christopher Smith 1894–1980''. By Donald Christopher Smith. Edited by John William Cox, Jr. Bermuda.</ref> Voicing these sentiments did not hinder Smith-Dorien's career, or prevent him from doing his duty in World War I to the best of his abilities.
In [[Russia]] and other nations of the [[former Soviet Union]], golden jackals are considered furbearers, albeit ones of low quality due to their sparse, coarse and monotonously coloured fur.<ref name="h160" /> Asiatic and Near Eastern jackals produce the coarsest pelts, though this can be remedied during the dressing process. As jackal hairs have very little fur fibre, their skins have a flat appearance. The softest furs come from [[Elburz]] in northern Iran.<ref name="fur">Bachrach, M. (1953), ''Fur: a practical treatise'', 3rd edition., New York : Prentice-Hall</ref> Jackals are known to have been hunted for their fur in the 19th century: in the 1880s, 200 jackals were captured annually in Mervsk. In the Zakatal area of the Trans-Caucasus, 300 jackals were captured in 1896. During that period, a total of 10,000 jackals had been taken within Russia, and were sent exclusively to the Nizhegorod fair. In the early 1930s, 20-25 thousand jackal skins were tanned annually in the [[Soviet Union]], though the stocks were significantly underused, as over triple that amount could have been produced. Before 1949 and the onset of the [[Cold War]], the majority of jackal skins were exported to the [[USA]]. Despite their geographical variations, jackal skins are not graded according to a fur standard, and are typically used in the manufacture of cheap collars, women's coats and fur coats.<ref name="h160" />


[[File:1917 - Execution à Verdun lors des mutineries.jpg|thumb|right|Execution at [[Verdun]] at the time of the mutinies in 1917.]]
===Tameability===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R72520, Kiel, Novemberrevolution, Matrosenaufstand.jpg|thumb|right|[[German Revolution]], Kiel, 1918.]]
When taken young, golden jackals can quickly become [[taming|tame]], and will follow their owners and respond to their calls,<ref name="h153"/> as well as carry and fetch. They are however prone to stealing, and are untrustworthy toward small children.<ref name="percy">[[Thomas Byerley (journalist)|Percy, Reuben]] (1836) ''The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction, Volume 27'', J. Limbird</ref>
Many countries jailed those who spoke out against the conflict. These included [[Eugene Debs]] in the United States and [[Bertrand Russell]] in Britain. In the US, the [[Espionage Act of 1917]] and [[Sedition Act of 1918]] made it a federal crime to oppose military recruitment or make any statements deemed "disloyal". Publications at all critical of the government were removed from circulation by postal censors,<ref name="Karp-PoW-1979"/> and many served long prison sentences for statements of fact deemed unpatriotic.


A number of nationalists opposed intervention, particularly within states that the nationalists were hostile to. Although the vast majority of Irish people consented to participate in the war in 1914 and 1915, a minority of advanced [[Irish nationalism|Irish nationalists]] staunchly opposed taking part.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pennell|first=Catriona|title=A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-959058-2}}</ref> The war began amid the Home Rule crisis in Ireland that had resurfaced in 1912, and, by July 1914, there was a serious possibility of an outbreak of civil war in Ireland.<ref name=autogenerated5>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|p=584}}</ref> Irish nationalists and Marxists attempted to pursue Irish independence, culminating in the [[Easter Rising]] of 1916, with Germany sending 20,000 rifles to Ireland in order to stir unrest in Britain.<ref name=autogenerated5/> The UK government placed Ireland under [[martial law]] in response to the Easter Rising, although, once the immediate threat of revolution had dissipated, the authorities did try to make concessions to nationalist feeling.<ref>O'Halpin, Eunan, ''The Decline of the Union: British Government in Ireland, 1892–1920'', (Dublin, 1987)</ref>
====Relation to the domestic dog====
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Golden jackals are capable of reproducing with [[dog]]s. In his ''[[The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication]]'', [[Charles Darwin]] wrote of a female hybrid from an English dog and jackal kept in the Zoological Gardens of London. The hybrid was sterile, but Darwin pointed out this was an exceptional case, as there were numerous cases of jackal hybrids successfully reproducing.<ref name="darwin">{{Cite book |last= Darwin |first= Charles | author-link =Charles Darwin| year=1868 | title=The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. Volume 1 | edition=1st | publication-place = London | publisher=John Murray | url =http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_VariationunderDomestication.html | pages=32–33 }}</ref> [[Robert Armitage Sterndale]] mentioned jackal hybrids from [[British India]], noting that glaring jackal traits could be exhibited in hybrids even after three generations of crossing them with dogs.<ref name="india">[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19550/19550-h/19550-h.htm#245 Sterndale, Robert A. (1884) ''NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLON'', THACKER, SPINK, AND CO. BOMBAY: THACKER AND CO., LIMITED. LONDON: W. THACKER AND CO.]</ref>


Other opposition came from [[conscientious objector]]s—some socialist, some religious—who refused to fight. In Britain, 16,000 people asked for conscientious objector status.<ref>{{harvnb|Lehmann|van der Veer|1999|p=62}}</ref> Some of them, most notably prominent peace activist [[Stephen Henry Hobhouse]], refused both military and [[alternative service]].<ref>Brock, Peter, ''These Strange Criminals: An Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors to Military Service from the Great War to the Cold War'', p. 14, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8020-8707-8</ref> Many suffered years of prison, including [[solitary confinement]] and bread and water diets. Even after the war, in Britain many job advertisements were marked "No conscientious objectors need apply".
Scientists at Russia's DS Likhachev Scientific Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Environmental Protection began a breeding project in 1975 in which they crossed golden jackals with huskies, to create an improved breed with the jackal's power of scent and the husky's resistance to cold. In recent years, [[Aeroflot]] has used one-quarter jackal hybrids, known as [[Sulimov dog]]s, to sniff out explosives otherwise undetectable by machinery.<ref name="sulimov1">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1977094.stm Jackal blood makes 'perfect' sniffer dogs]</ref><ref name="sulimov2">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2572499.stm Russian airline's top dogs fight terror]</ref> Breeding experiments in [[Germany]] with [[poodle]]s, jackals, and later on with the resulting dog-jackal hybrids showed, unlike [[wolfdog]]s, jackal-dogs exhibit a decrease in fertility, significant communication problems, and an increase of genetic diseases after three generations of interbreeding. This led to the conclusion that dogs and jackals were not as closely related as once thought.<ref>Doris Feddersen-Petersen, Hundepsychologie, 4. Auflage, 2004, Franck-Kosmos-Verlag 2004</ref>
[[File:Domesticjackal.jpg|thumb|Illustration of domesticated jackals in a prehistoric human community]]
Following the example of Charles Darwin, who speculated that dogs originated from multiple wild canid species, [[Konrad Lorenz]] advocated the view that most dogs, particularly central European breeds, originated from golden jackals, and that wolf blood only contributed in the creation of northern dog breeds. Lorenz theorised wolf blood was added to an already-existing, jackal-derived population only when humans began colonising Arctic zones, to improve the hardiness of their animals in cold weather. He further argued that with the exception of northern dog breeds, which treat their human masters as pack leaders as wolves would do, the majority of dogs view their captors as parent animals, and display a submissive behaviour not usually found in northern breeds, a trait consistent with the golden jackal, which does not rely heavily on pack members to procure food and survive. While capable of absolute obedience, the supposed jackal-derived dogs are lacking in the deeper traits of loyalty and affection.<ref name="lorenz">Lorenz, Konrad (2002) ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Dvopnjs3h98C&pg=PA9&dq=lorenz+jackal&hl=en&ei=iZwyTv_1Oo3Aswb72vHoBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Man meets dog]'', Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26744-7</ref> He later rescinded this view upon taking into account the golden jackal's complicated repertoire of howling, which is absent in dogs and wolves.<ref>Fox, Michael W. (1975) ''The wild canids: Their systematics, behavioral ecology, and evolution'', Van Nostrand Reinhold (New York)</ref>


The [[Central Asian Revolt]] started in the summer of 1916, when the [[Russian Empire]] government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-12499.html|title=Soviet Union – Uzbeks|publisher=Country-data.com|accessdate=2013-03-13}}</ref>
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In 1917, a series of [[French Army Mutinies]] led to dozens of soldiers being executed and many more imprisoned.
=== 주석 ===

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In [[Milan]], in May 1917, [[Bolshevik]] revolutionaries organised and engaged in rioting calling for an end to the war, and managed to close down factories and stop public transportation.<ref name="Seton_6">Seton-Watson, Christopher. 1967. ''Italy from Liberalism to Fascism: 1870 to 1925.'' London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. Pp. 471</ref> The Italian army was forced to enter [[Milan]] with tanks and machine guns to face Bolsheviks and [[Anarchism|anarchists]], who fought violently until 23 May when the army gained control of the city. Almost 50 people (including three Italian soldiers) were killed and over 800 people arrested.<ref name="Seton_6"/>

In September 1917, [[Russian Expeditionary Force in France|Russian soldiers in France]] began questioning why they were fighting for the French at all and mutinied.<ref>{{harvnb|Cockfield|1997|pp=171–237}}</ref> In Russia, opposition to the war led to soldiers also establishing their own revolutionary committees, which helped foment the [[October Revolution]] of 1917, with the call going up for "bread, land, and peace". The Bolsheviks agreed to a peace treaty with Germany, the [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk|peace of Brest-Litovsk]], despite its harsh conditions.

In northern [[German Empire|Germany]], the end of October 1918, saw the beginning of the [[German Revolution of 1918–1919]]. Units of the German Navy refused to set sail for a last, large-scale operation in a war which they saw as good as lost; this initiated the uprising. The [[Wilhelmshaven mutiny|sailors' revolt]] which then ensued in the naval ports of [[Wilhelmshaven]] and [[Kiel]] spread across the whole country within days and led to the proclamation of a republic on 9 November 1918 and shortly thereafter to the abdication of [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]].

====Conscription====
[[File:Young men registering for military conscription, New York City, June 5, 1917.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Young men registering for conscription, [[New York City]], June 5, 1917.]]
The [[Conscription Crisis of 1917]] in Canada erupted when the Conservative Prime Minister, [[Robert Borden]], brought in compulsory military service through the [[Military Service Act (Canada)|Military Service Act]] over the objection of French-speaking [[Quebec]]ers.<ref>"[http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent.html&series_id=1&episode_id=12&chapter_id=2&page_id=3&lang=E The Conscription Crisis]". CBC.ca.</ref> It opened a political gap between [[French Canadian]]s, who believed their true loyalty should be to Canada and not to the British Empire, and members of the Anglophone majority, who saw the war as a duty to both Britain and Canada. Out of approximately 625,000 Canadians who served, about 60,000 were killed and another 173,000 wounded.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=World War I|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/91513/Canada/43004/World-War-I|accessdate=5 December 2009}}</ref>

In Australia, a sustained pro-conscription campaign by [[Billy Hughes]], the Prime Minister, caused a split in the [[Australian Labor Party]], so Hughes formed the [[Nationalist Party of Australia]] in 1917 to pursue the matter. Nevertheless, the [[labour movement]], the Catholic Church, and [[Irish republican|Irish nationalist]] expatriates successfully opposed Hughes' push, which was [[Australian plebiscite, 1917|rejected in two plebiscites]].

In Britain, conscription resulted in the calling up of nearly every physically fit man in Britain—six of ten million eligible. Of these, about 750,000 lost their lives and 1,700,000 were wounded. Most deaths were to young unmarried men; however, 160,000 wives lost husbands and 300,000 children lost fathers.<ref>{{harvnb|Havighurst|1985|p=131}}</ref>

==Legacy==

{{Main|World War I in popular culture}}

{{quote|<poem>...&nbsp;"Strange, friend," I said, "Here is no cause to mourn."
"None," said the other, "Save the undone years"...&nbsp;</poem>|[[Wilfred Owen]], ''Strange Meeting'', 1918<ref name="Wilfred Owen 2004"/>}}

The first tentative efforts to comprehend the meaning and consequences of modern warfare began during the initial phases of the war, and this process continued throughout and after the end of hostilities.

===Memorials===
[[File:Pagny le Chateau monument morts 002b.jpg|thumb|A typical village [[war memorial]] to soldiers killed in World War I]]
{{Main|World War I memorials}}
Memorials were erected in thousands of villages and towns. Close to battlefields, those buried in improvised burial grounds were gradually moved to formal graveyards under the care of organisations such as the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]], the [[American Battle Monuments Commission]], the [[German War Graves Commission]], and [[Le Souvenir français]]. Many of these graveyards also have central monuments to the missing or [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier|unidentified]] dead, such as the [[Menin Gate]] memorial and the [[Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme]].

On 3 May 1915, during the [[Second Battle of Ypres]], Lieutenant Alexis Helmer was killed. At his graveside, his friend [[John McCrae]], M.D., of [[Guelph]], Ontario, Canada, wrote the memorable poem ''[[In Flanders Fields]]'' as a salute to those who perished in the Great War. Published in [[Punch (magazine)|''Punch'']] on 8 December 1915, it is still recited today, especially on [[Armistice Day|Remembrance Day]] and [[Memorial Day]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10200|title=John McCrae|publisher=Historica}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/john-mccrae/ |author=Evans David |title=John McCrae |work=Canadian Encyclopedia}}</ref>

[[Liberty Memorial]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], is a United States memorial dedicated to all Americans who served in World War I. The site was dedicated on 1 November 1921, when the supreme Allied commanders spoke to a crowd of more than 100,000 people. It was the only time in history these leaders were together in one place—Lieutenant General Baron Jacques of Belgium; General [[Armando Diaz]] of Italy; Marshal [[Ferdinand Foch]] of France; General Pershing of the United States; and Admiral [[David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty|D. R. Beatty]] of Britain. After three years of construction, the Liberty Memorial was completed and President [[Calvin Coolidge]] delivered the dedication speech to a crowd of 150,000 people in 1926. Liberty Memorial is also home to [[National World War I Museum|The National World War I Museum]], the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to World War I.

The UK Government has budgeted substantial resources to the commemoration of the war during the period 2014 to 2018. The lead body is the [[Imperial War Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1914.org |title=Commemoration website |publisher=1914.org |accessdate=2014-02-28}}</ref>

===Cultural memory===
{{double image|right|John McCrae in uniform circa 1914.jpg|150|Siegfried Sassoon by George Charles Beresford (1915).jpg|150|Left: [[John McCrae]], author of ''[[In Flanders Fields]]''.<br>Right: [[Siegfried Sassoon]].}}
World War I had a lasting impact on social memory. It was seen by many in Britain as signalling the end of an era of stability stretching back to the [[Victorian era|Victorian period]], and across Europe many regarded it as a watershed.<ref>{{citation|author=Mark David Sheftall|title=Altered Memories of the Great War: Divergent Narratives of Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada|year=2010}}</ref> Historian Samuel Hynes explained:

{{quote|A generation of innocent young men, their heads full of high abstractions like Honour, Glory and England, went off to war to make the world safe for democracy. They were slaughtered in stupid battles planned by stupid generals. Those who survived were shocked, disillusioned and embittered by their war experiences, and saw that their real enemies were not the Germans, but the old men at home who had lied to them. They rejected the values of the society that had sent them to war, and in doing so separated their own generation from the past and from their cultural inheritance.<ref name="Hynes1991"/>}}

This has become the most common perception of World War I, perpetuated by the art, cinema, poems, and stories published subsequently. Films such as ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'', ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' and ''[[King & Country]]'' have perpetuated the idea, while war-time films including ''Camrades'', ''[[Poppies of Flanders]]'', and ''[[Shoulder Arms]]'' indicate that the most contemporary views of the war were overall far more positive.<ref name="Todman2005">{{Citation|last=Todman|first=Daniel|title=The Great War: myth and memory|year=2005|publisher=Hambledon and London|isbn=978-1-85285-459-1|pages=153–221}}</ref> Likewise, the art of [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]], [[John Nash (artist)|John Nash]], [[Christopher Nevinson]], and [[Henry Tonks]] in Britain painted a negative view of the conflict in keeping with the growing perception, while popular war-time artists such as [[Muirhead Bone]] painted more serene and pleasant interpretations subsequently rejected as inaccurate.<ref name="Hynes1991">{{Citation|last=Hynes|first=Samuel Lynn|title=A war imagined: the First World War and English culture|year=1991|publisher=Atheneum|isbn=978-0-689-12128-9|pages=i–xii}}</ref> Several historians like John Terraine, Niall Ferguson and Gary Sheffield have challenged these interpretations as partial and polemical views:

<blockquote>These beliefs did not become widely shared because they offered the only accurate interpretation of wartime events. In every respect, the war was much more complicated than they suggest. In recent years, historians have argued persuasively against almost every popular cliché of World War I. It has been pointed out that, although the losses were devastating, their greatest impact was socially and geographically limited. The many emotions other than horror experienced by soldiers in and out of the front line, including comradeship, boredom, and even enjoyment, have been recognised. The war is not now seen as a 'fight about nothing', but as a war of ideals, a struggle between aggressive militarism and more or less [[liberal democracy]]. It has been acknowledged that British generals were often capable men facing difficult challenges, and that it was under their command that the British army played a major part in the defeat of the Germans in 1918: a great forgotten victory.<ref name="Todman2005"/></blockquote>

Though these views have been discounted as "myths"<ref name="Hynes1991"/><ref name="Fussell2000">{{Citation|last=Fussell|first=Paul|title=The Great War and modern memory|url=http://books.google.com/?id=D9iNQYfeKdwC|accessdate=18 May 2010|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-513332-5|pages=1–78}}</ref> these perceptions of the war, they are common.<ref name="Todman2005"/> They have dynamically changed according to contemporary influences, reflecting in the 1950s perceptions of the war as "aimless" following the contrasting Second World War and emphasising conflict within the ranks during times of class conflict in the 1960s.<ref name="Todman2005"/> The majority of additions to the contrary are often rejected.<ref name="Todman2005"/>

===Social trauma===
[[File:Cover-of-book-for-WWI-veterans-by-William-Brown-Meloney-born-1878.jpg|thumb|upright|A 1919 book for veterans, from the US [[United States Department of War|War Department]].]]
The social trauma caused by unprecedented rates of casualties manifested itself in different ways, which have been the subject of subsequent historical debate.<ref name="todmanxi-xv"/> Some people{{Who|date=May 2010}} were revolted by nationalism and its results, and began to work towards a more [[internationalism (politics)|internationalist]] world, supporting organisations such as the [[League of Nations]]. [[Pacifism]] became increasingly popular. Others had the opposite reaction, feeling that only strength and military might could be relied upon in a chaotic and inhumane world. [[Development criticism|Anti-modernist]] views were an outgrowth of the many changes taking place in society.

The experiences of the war led to a [[collective trauma]] shared by many from all participating countries. The [[optimism]] of ''[[Belle Époque|la belle époque]]'' was destroyed, and those who had fought in the war were referred to as the [[Lost Generation]].<ref>{{harvnb|Roden}}</ref> For years afterwards, people mourned the dead, the missing, and the many disabled.<ref>{{harvnb|Wohl|1979}}</ref> Many soldiers returned with severe trauma, suffering from [[combat stress reaction|shell shock]] (also called neurasthenia, a condition related to [[posttraumatic stress disorder]]).<ref>{{harvnb|Tucker|Roberts|2005|pp=108–1086}}</ref> Many more returned home with few after-effects; however, their silence about the war contributed to the conflict's growing mythological status.<ref name="todmanxi-xv"/> In Britain, mass mobilisation, large casualty rates, and the collapse of the [[Edwardian era]] made a strong impression on society. Though many participants did not share in the experiences of combat or spend any significant time at the front, or had positive memories of their service, the images of suffering and trauma became the widely shared perception.<ref name="todmanxi-xv">Todman, D. ''The Great War, Myth and Memory'', p. xi–xv.</ref> Such historians as Dan Todman, Paul Fussell, and Samuel Heyns have all published works since the 1990s arguing that these common perceptions of the war are factually incorrect.<ref name="todmanxi-xv"/>

===Discontent in Germany===
The rise of [[Nazism]] and fascism included a revival of the nationalist spirit and a rejection of many post-war changes. Similarly, the popularity of the [[stab-in-the-back legend]] (German: ''Dolchstoßlegende'') was a testament to the psychological state of defeated Germany and was a rejection of responsibility for the conflict. This conspiracy theory of betrayal became common, and the German populace came to see themselves as victims. The widespread acceptance of the "stab-in-the-back" theory delegitimized the Weimar government and destabilized the system, opening it to extremes of right and left. A sense of disillusionment and cynicism became pronounced, with [[nihilism]] growing.

Communist and fascist movements around Europe drew strength from this theory and enjoyed a new level of popularity. These feelings were most pronounced in areas directly or harshly affected by the war. [[Adolf Hitler]] was able to gain popularity by utilising German discontent with the still controversial [[Treaty of Versailles]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/war_end_01.shtml|publisher=BBC|title=The Ending of World War One, and the Legacy of Peace|first=Martin |last=Kitchen}}</ref> World War II was in part a continuation of the power struggle never fully resolved by World War I. Furthermore, it was common for Germans in the 1930s to justify acts of aggression in terms of perceived injustices imposed by the victors of World War I.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110199/World-War-II|archiveurl=//web.archive.org/web/20080704030736/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110199/World-War-II|archivedate=4 July 2008|title=World War II|work=Britannica Online Encyclopedia|accessdate=12 November 2009|publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]]|author1=<Please add first missing authors to populate metadata.>}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Baker|first=Kevin|url=http://www.harpers.org/StabbedInTheBack.html |title=Stabbed in the Back! The past and future of a right-wing myth|periodical=Harper's Magazine|date=June 2006|archiveurl=//web.archive.org/web/20060715174503/http://www.harpers.org/StabbedInTheBack.html |archivedate=15 July 2006|deadurl=yes }}{{dead link|date=February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Chickering|2004}}</ref> American historian [[William Rubinstein]] wrote that:

<blockquote>The 'Age of Totalitarianism' included nearly all of the infamous examples of genocide in modern history, headed by the Jewish [[Holocaust]], but also comprising the mass murders and purges of the Communist world, other mass killings carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies, and also the Armenian genocide of 1915. All these slaughters, it is argued here, had a common origin, the collapse of the elite structure and normal modes of government of much of central, eastern and southern Europe as a result of World War I, without which surely neither Communism nor Fascism would have existed except in the minds of unknown agitators and crackpots.<ref>{{citation |last=Rubinstein |first=W. D. |year=2004 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nMMAk4VwLLwC |title=Genocide: a history |publisher=Pearson Education |page=7 |isbn=0-582-50601-8}}</ref></blockquote>

===Views in the United States===
[[File:The announcing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, was the occasion for a monster celebration in Philadelphia... - NARA - 533478.tif|thumb|The announcing of the armistice. 11 November 1918, Philadelphia.]]
US intervention in the war, as well as the Wilson administration itself, became deeply unpopular. This was reflected in the [[US Senate]]'s rejection of the [[Versailles Treaty]] and membership in the [[League of Nations]]. In the interwar era, a consensus arose that US intervention had been a mistake, and the Congress passed [[Neutrality Acts of 1930s|laws]] in an attempt to preserve US neutrality in any future conflict. Polls taken in 1937 and the opening months of World War II established that nearly 60% regarded intervention in WWI as a mistake, with only 28% opposing that view. But, in the period between the [[fall of France]] and the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]], public opinion changed dramatically and, for the first time, a narrow plurality rejected the idea that the war had been a mistake.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RPUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YEwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3742,5638207|title=1941 Gallup poll|publisher=Google|accessdate=15 June 2010}}</ref>

===Economic effects===
[[File:The Girl Behind the Gun 1915.jpg|thumb|Poster showing women workers, 1915.]]

One of the most dramatic effects of the war was the expansion of governmental powers and responsibilities in Britain, France, the United States, and the Dominions of the British Empire. In order to harness all the power of their societies, governments created new ministries and powers. New taxes were levied and laws enacted, all designed to bolster the [[war effort]]; many have lasted to this day. Similarly, the war strained the abilities of some formerly large and bureaucratised governments, such as in Austria-Hungary and Germany; however, any analysis of the long-term effects were clouded by the defeat of these governments.

[[Gross domestic product]] (GDP) increased for three Allies (Britain, Italy, and US), but decreased in France and Russia, in neutral Netherlands, and in the three main Central Powers. The shrinkage in GDP in Austria, Russia, France, and the Ottoman Empire reached 30 to 40%. In Austria, for example, most pigs were slaughtered, so at war's end there was no meat.

In all nations, the government's share of GDP increased, surpassing 50% in both Germany and France and nearly reaching that level in Britain. To pay for purchases in the United States, Britain cashed in its extensive investments in American railroads and then began borrowing heavily on [[Wall Street]]. President Wilson was on the verge of cutting off the loans in late 1916, but allowed a great increase in [[Federal government of the United States|US government]] lending to the Allies. After 1919, the US demanded repayment of these loans. The repayments were, in part, funded by German reparations, which, in turn, were supported by American loans to Germany. This circular system collapsed in 1931 and the loans were never repaid. In 1934, Britain owed the US $4.4 [[1,000,000,000|billion]]<ref>10<sup>9</sup> in this context&nbsp;– see [[Long and short scales]]</ref> of World War I debt.<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4757181.stm What's a little debt between friends?]". BBC News. 10 May 2006.</ref>

Macro- and micro-economic consequences devolved from the war. Families were altered by the departure of many men. With the death or absence of the primary wage earner, women were forced into the workforce in unprecedented numbers. At the same time, industry needed to replace the lost labourers sent to war. This aided the struggle for [[suffragette|voting rights for women]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Noakes|first=Lucy|title=Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907–1948|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon, England|isbn=0-415-39056-7|page=48}}</ref>

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00104, Inflation, Tapezieren mit Geldscheinen.jpg|180px|left|thumb|[[Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic|Hyperinflation]] reduced German banknotes' value so much that they could be used as wallpaper. Many savers were ruined.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,641758,00.html|title=Germany in the Era of Hyperinflation|work=Der Spiegel|date=14 August 2009|author=Alexander Jung|accessdate=2013-03-13}}</ref>]]
World War I further compounded the gender imbalance, adding to the phenomenon of [[surplus women]]. The deaths of nearly one million men{{clarify|date=April 2013}} during the war increased the gender gap by almost a million; from 670,000 to 1,700,000. The number of unmarried women seeking economic means grew dramatically. In addition, demobilisation and economic decline following the war caused high unemployment. The war increased female employment; however, the return of demoblised men displaced many from the workforce, as did the closure of many of the wartime factories. Hence women who had worked during the war found themselves struggling to find jobs and those approaching working age were not offered the opportunity.

In Britain, rationing was finally imposed in early 1918, limited to meat, sugar, and fats (butter and [[Margarine|oleo]]), but not bread. The new system worked smoothly. From 1914 to 1918, trade union membership doubled, from a little over four million to a little over eight million. Work stoppages and strikes became frequent in 1917–1918 as the unions expressed grievances regarding prices, alcohol control, pay disputes, fatigue from overtime and working on Sundays, and inadequate housing.

Britain turned to her colonies for help in obtaining essential war materials whose supply had become difficult from traditional sources. Geologists such as [[Albert Ernest Kitson]] were called on to find new resources of precious minerals in the African colonies. Kitson discovered important new deposits of [[manganese]], used in munitions production, in the [[Gold Coast (region)|Gold Coast]].<ref>{{harvnb|Green|1938|pp=CXXVI}}</ref>

[[Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles|Article 231]] of the [[Treaty of Versailles]] (the so-called "war guilt" clause) stated Germany accepted responsibility for "all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies."<ref>[[s: Treaty of Versailles/Part VIII|Treaty of Versailles, article 231]]</ref> It was worded as such to lay a legal basis for [[World War I reparations|reparations]], and the same clause was inserted, ''[[mutatis mutandis]]'' "in the treaties with Austria and Hungary, neither of whom interpreted it as declaration of war guilt.<ref>Marls, The Myths of Reparations, pp.&nbsp;231–2</ref> In 1921, the total reparation sum was placed at 132 billion gold marks. However, "Allied experts knew that Germany could not pay" this sum. The total sum was divided into three categories, with the third being "deliberately designed to be chimerical" and its "primary function was to mislead public opinion&nbsp;... into believing the" total sum "was being maintained."<ref name=Marks237>Marks, p. 237</ref> Thus, 50 billion gold marks (12.5 billion dollars) "represented the actual Allied assessment of German capacity to pay" and "therefore&nbsp;... represented the total German reparations" figure that had to be paid.<ref name=Marks237/> Furthermore, this figure could be paid in cash or in kind (coal, timber, chemical dyes etc.). In addition, some of the territory lost—via the treaty of Versailles—was credited towards the reparation figure as was other acts such helping to restore the Library of Louvain.<ref>Marks, pp.&nbsp;223–234</ref> In 1932 the payment of reparations was suspended by the international community, by which point Germany had only paid the equivalent of 20.598 billon gold marks in reparations.<ref>Marks, p. 233</ref> With the rise of [[Adolf Hitler]], all bonds and loans that had been issued and taken out during the 1920s and early 1930s were cancelled. [[David Andelman]] notes "refusing to pay doesn't make an agreement null and void. The bonds, the agreement, still exist." Thus, following the [[World War II|Second World War]], at the [[Agreement on German External Debts|London Conference]] in 1953, Germany agreed to resume payment on the money borrowed. On 3 October 2010, Germany made the final payment on these bonds.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2023140,00.html|title=Why Did World War I Just End?|last1=Suddath|first1=Claire|date=4 October 2010|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|accessdate=1 July 2013}}</ref>
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|[[File:Bombers of WW1.ogg|thumb|thumbtime=3|250px|alt=World War I era biplanes on bombing runs, captioned "Captain 'Eddie' Rickenbacker, American 'Ace of Aces,' over the lines&nbsp;– looking for a scrap." then "Bombing the German lines."|Allied bombing runs over German lines.]]
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|[[File:Makin's of the USA.ogg|thumb|215px|"The Makin's of the U.S.A." <br>''performed by Harry Von Tilzer and the Peerless Quartet. By Vincent Bryan. Columbia Records, March 1918.'']]
|[[File:Calling on the Kaiser.ogg|thumb|215px|"We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser" <br>''performed by Arthur Fields and the Peerless Quartet. By James A. Brennan. Edison Records, May 1918.'']]
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== 더 보기 ==
* [[World War I casualties]]
* [[Death rates in the 20th century]]
* [[European Civil War]]
* [[List of people associated with World War I]]
* [[List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll]]
* [[Lists of wars]]
* [[Lists of World War I topics]]
* [[World War I medal abbreviations]]
* [[Timeline of World War I]]

== 내용주 ==
{{Notelist}}

== 출처주 ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== 주석 ==
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:For a comprehensive bibliography see [[List of books about World War I]]
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* ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' (12th ed. 1922) comprises the 11th edition plus three new volumes 30-31-32 that cover events since 1911 with very thorough coverage of the war as well as every country and colony. [[s:1922 Encyclopædia Britannica|partly online and list of article titles]]
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*{{citation|last=Farwell|first=Byron|authorlink=Byron Farwell|year=1989|title=The Great War in Africa, 1914–1918|publisher=W.W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-30564-7}}
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== 바깥 고리 ==
== 바깥 고리 ==
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* [http://www.greatwar.nl/ The Heritage of the Great War / First World War. Graphic color photos, pictures and music]
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* [http://www.firstworldwar.com/ A multimedia history of World War I]
* [http://www.greatwar.nl/ The Heritage of the Great War, Netherlands]
* [http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page The World War I Document Archive] Wiki, Brigham Young University
* [http://maps.omniatlas.com/europe/19140905/ Maps of Europe] covering the history of World War I at omniatlas.com
* [http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en Your Family History of World War I&nbsp;– Europeana 1914–1918](Crowd-sourcing project)
* [http://project.efg1914.eu/ EFG1914&nbsp;– Film digitisation project on First World War]
* [http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/efg1914/multilingual%3A1 WWI Films on the European Film Gateway]
* [http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/landingpage/collection/WWIphoto World War I British press photograph collection] – A sampling of images distributed by the British government during the war to diplomats overseas, from the UBC Library Digital Collections
* [http://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/page/ww1-the-definitive-collection The British Pathé WW1 Film Archive]

=== 지도 애니메이션 ===
* [http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome06/ An animated map "Europe plunges into war"]
* [http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome03/ An animated map of Europe at the end of the war]

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제1차 세계 대전

위부터 시계 방향으로, 솜 전투 포격전의 여파로 파괴된 지상. 힌덴부르크 선을 넘는 마크 V 전차. 다르다넬스 해협에서 기뢰에 맞아 침몰한 HMS 일레시스티블, a British Vickers machine gun crew wears gas masks during the Battle of the Somme, Albatros D.III fighters of Jagdstaffel 11
날짜28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
Armistice with Germany
(4년 3개월 2주간)
Peace treaties
장소
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China and off the coast of South and North America
결과

Allied victory

틀:제1차 세계 대전 전역상자 제1차 세계 대전 (WWI 또는 WW1) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. From the time of its occurrence until the approach of World War II, it was called simply the World War or the Great War, and thereafter the First World War or World War I.[1][2][3] In America, it was initially called the European War.[4] More than 9 million combatants were killed; a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved.[5]

The war drew in all the world's economic great powers,[6] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire) and the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Although Italy had also been a member of the Triple Alliance alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary, it did not join the Central Powers, as Austria-Hungary had taken the offensive against the terms of the alliance.[7] These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war: Italy, Japan and the United States joined the Allies, and the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria the Central Powers. Ultimately, more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.[8][9]

Although a resurgence of imperialism was an underlying cause, the immediate trigger for war was the 28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. This set off a diplomatic crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia,[10][11] and international alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked. Within weeks, the major powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world.

On 28 July, the Austro-Hungarians fired the first shots in preparation for the invasion of Serbia.[12][13] As Russia mobilised, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, leading Britain to declare war on Germany. After the German march on Paris was halted, what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, with a trench line that would change little until 1917. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, but was stopped in its invasion of East Prussia by the Germans. In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the war, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. Italy and Bulgaria went to war in 1915, Romania in 1916, and the United States in 1917.

The war approached a resolution after the Russian government collapsed in March 1917, and a subsequent revolution in November brought the Russians to terms with the Central Powers. On 4 November 1918, the Austro-Hungarian empire agreed to an armistice. After a 1918 German offensive along the western front, the Allies drove back the Germans in a series of successful offensives and began entering the trenches. Germany, which had its own trouble with revolutionaries, agreed to an armistice on 11 November 1918, ending the war in victory for the Allies.

By the end of the war, four major imperial powers—the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires—ceased to exist. The successor states of the former two lost substantial territory, while the latter two were dismantled. The maps of Europe and Southwest Asia were redrawn, with several independent nations restored or created. The League of Nations was formed with the aim of preventing any repetition of such an appalling conflict. This aim, however, failed with weakened states, renewed European nationalism and the German feeling of humiliation contributing to the rise of fascism. All of these conditions eventually led to World War II.

Names

In Canada, Maclean's Magazine in October 1914 said, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."[14] A history of the origins and early months of the war published in New York in late 1914 was titled The World War.[15] During the Interwar period, the war was most often called the World War and the Great War in English-speaking countries.

The term "First World War" was first used in September 1914 by the German philosopher Ernst Haeckel, who claimed that "there is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European War' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word."[16] The First World War was also the title of a 1920 history by the officer and journalist Charles à Court Repington.[17] After the onset of the Second World War in 1939, the terms World War I or the First World War became standard, with British and Canadian historians favouring the First World War, and Americans World War I.

Background

Political and military alliances

In the 19th century, the major European powers had gone to great lengths to maintain a balance of power throughout Europe, resulting in the existence of a complex network of political and military alliances throughout the continent by 1900.[7] These had started in 1815, with the Holy Alliance between Prussia, Russia, and Austria. Then, in October 1873, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck negotiated the League of the Three Emperors (German: Dreikaiserbund) between the monarchs of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany. This agreement failed because Austria-Hungary and Russia could not agree over Balkan policy, leaving Germany and Austria-Hungary in an alliance formed in 1879, called the Dual Alliance. This was seen as a method of countering Russian influence in the Balkans as the Ottoman Empire continued to weaken.[7] In 1882, this alliance was expanded to include Italy in what became the Triple Alliance.[18]

Military alliances leading to World War I; Triple Entente in green; Central Powers in brown

Bismarck had especially worked to hold Russia at Germany's side to avoid a two-front war with France and Russia. When Wilhelm II ascended to the throne as German Emperor (Kaiser), Bismarck was compelled to retire and his system of alliances was gradually de-emphasised. For example, the Kaiser refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia in 1890. Two years later, the Franco-Russian Alliance was signed to counteract the force of the Triple Alliance. In 1904, Britain signed a series of agreements with France, the Entente Cordiale, and in 1907, Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Convention. While these agreements did not formally ally Britain with France or Russia, they made British entry into any future conflict involving France or Russia a possibility, and the system of interlocking bilateral agreements became known as the Triple Entente.[7]

Arms race

German industrial and economic power had grown greatly after unification and the foundation of the Empire in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War. From the mid-1890s on, the government of Wilhelm II used this base to devote significant economic resources for building up the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy), established by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, in rivalry with the British Royal Navy for world naval supremacy.[19] As a result, each nation strove to out-build the other in terms of capital ships. With the launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906, the British Empire expanded on its significant advantage over its German rival.[19] The arms race between Britain and Germany eventually extended to the rest of Europe, with all the major powers devoting their industrial base to producing the equipment and weapons necessary for a pan-European conflict.[20] Between 1908 and 1913, the military spending of the European powers increased by 50%.[21]

Sarajevo citizens reading a poster with the proclamation of the Austrian annexation in 1908.

Conflicts in the Balkans

Austria-Hungary precipitated the Bosnian crisis of 1908–1909 by officially annexing the former Ottoman territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878. This angered the Kingdom of Serbia and its patron, the Pan-Slavic and Orthodox Russian Empire.[22] Russian political manoeuvring in the region destabilised peace accords, which were already fracturing in what was known as "the powder keg of Europe".[22] In 1912 and 1913, the First Balkan War was fought between the Balkan League and the fracturing Ottoman Empire. The resulting Treaty of London further shrank the Ottoman Empire, creating an independent Albanian State while enlarging the territorial holdings of Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. When Bulgaria attacked Serbia and Greece on 16 June 1913, it lost most of Macedonia to Serbia and Greece and Southern Dobruja to Romania in the 33-day Second Balkan War, further destabilising the region.[23]

Prelude

This picture is usually associated with the arrest of Gavrilo Princip, although some[24][25] believe it depicts Ferdinand Behr, a bystander.

Sarajevo assassination

On 28 June 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. A group of six assassins (Cvjetko Popović, Gavrilo Princip, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Trifko Grabež, Vaso Čubrilović) from the nationalist group Mlada Bosna, supplied by the Black Hand, had gathered on the street where the Archduke's motorcade would pass. Čabrinović threw a grenade at the car, but missed. It injured some people nearby, and Franz Ferdinand's convoy could carry on. The other assassins failed to act as the cars drove past them quickly. About an hour later, when Franz Ferdinand was returning from a visit at the Sarajevo Hospital, the convoy took a wrong turn into a street where, by coincidence, Princip stood. With a pistol, Princip shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The reaction among the people in Austria was mild, almost indifferent. As historian Zbyněk Zeman later wrote, "the event almost failed to make any impression whatsoever. On Sunday and Monday [June 28 and 29], the crowds in Vienna listened to music and drank wine, as if nothing had happened."[26][27]

Crowds on the streets in the aftermath of the Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo, 29 June 1914.

Escalation of violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

However, in Sarajevo itself, Austrian authorities encouraged[28][29] violence against the Serb residents, which resulted in the Anti-Serb riots of Sarajevo, in which Croats and Bosnian Muslims killed two ethnic Serbs and damaged numerous Serb-owned buildings. The events have been described as having the characteristics of a pogrom. Writer Ivo Andrić referred to the violence as the "Sarajevo frenzy of hate."[30] Violent actions against ethnic Serbs were organized not only in Sarajevo, but also in many other large Austro-Hungarian cities in modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[31] Austro-Hungarian authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina imprisoned and extradited approximately 5,500 prominent Serbs, 700 to 2,200 of whom died in prison. 460 Serbs were sentenced to death and a predominantly Muslim[32][33][34] special militia known as the Schutzkorps was established and carried out the persecution of Serbs.[35]

July Crisis

The assassination led to a month of diplomatic manoeuvring between Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, and Britain which was called the July Crisis. Believing correctly that Serbian officials (especially the officers of the Black Hand) were involved in the plot, and wanting to finally end Serbian interference in Bosnia,[36] Austria-Hungary delivered to Serbia the July Ultimatum, a series of ten demands that were intentionally made unacceptable to provoke a war with Serbia.[37] When Serbia agreed to only eight of the ten demands, Austria-Hungary declared war on 28 July 1914. Military historian Hew Strachan argues, "Whether an equivocal and early response by Serbia would have made any difference to Austria-Hungary's behaviour must be doubtful. Franz Ferdinand was not the sort of personality who commanded popularity, and his demise did not cast the empire into deepest mourning".[38]

The Russian Empire, unwilling to allow Austria-Hungary to eliminate its influence in the Balkans, and in support of its longtime Serb protégé, ordered a partial mobilisation one day later, 29 July.[18] Germany mobilised on 30 July, and Russia responded by declaring a full mobilisation that same day.[39] Germany imposed an ultimatum on Russia, through its ambassador in Berlin, to demobilise within 12 hours or face war.[39] Russia responded by offering to negotiate the terms of a demobilisation. However, Germany refused to negotiate, declaring war against Russia on 1 August 1914.[39]

Germany's war plan, the Schlieffen Plan, relied on a quick, massive invasion of France to eliminate the threat on the West, before turning east against Russia. Simultaneously with its mobilisation against Russia, therefore, the German government issued demands that France remain neutral. The French cabinet resisted military pressure to commence immediate mobilisation, and ordered its troops to withdraw 10 km (6 mi) from the border to avoid any incident. Germany attacked Luxembourg on 2 August, and on 3 August declared war on France.[39] On 4 August, after Belgium refused to permit German troops to cross its borders into France, Germany declared war on Belgium as well.[39][40][41] Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, following an "unsatisfactory reply" to the British ultimatum that Belgium must be kept neutral.[42]

Progress of the war

Opening hostilities

Confusion among the Central Powers

The strategy of the Central Powers suffered from miscommunication. Germany had promised to support Austria-Hungary's invasion of Serbia, but interpretations of what this meant differed. Previously tested deployment plans had been replaced early in 1914, but the replacements had never been tested in exercises. Austro-Hungarian leaders believed Germany would cover its northern flank against Russia.[43] Germany, however, envisioned Austria-Hungary directing most of its troops against Russia, while Germany dealt with France. This confusion forced the Austro-Hungarian Army to divide its forces between the Russian and Serbian fronts.

On 9 September 1914, the Septemberprogramm, a possible plan that detailed Germany's specific war aims and the conditions that Germany sought to force on the Allied Powers, was outlined by the German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. It was never officially adopted.

Serbian campaign

Serbian Army Blériot XI "Oluj", 1915.

Austria invaded and fought the Serbian army at the Battle of Cer and Battle of Kolubara beginning on 12 August. Over the next two weeks, Austrian attacks were thrown back with heavy losses, which marked the first major Allied victories of the war and dashed Austro-Hungarian hopes of a swift victory. As a result, Austria had to keep sizable forces on the Serbian front, weakening its efforts against Russia.[44] Serbia's defeat of the Austro-Hungarian invasion of 1914 counts among the major upset victories of the last century.[45]

This campaign had the youngest known soldier of World War I. Momčilo Gavrić, born in Trbušnica, joined the 6th Artillery Division of the Serbian Army when he was 8 years old, after Austro-Hungarian troops killed his parents, grandmother, and seven of his siblings in August 1914.[46][47][48] At the age of 10 he was promoted to Corporal,[47][48] and at the age of 11 he became a Lance Sergeant.[48]

German forces in Belgium and France

British hospital at the Western front.

At the outbreak of World War I, the German army (consisting in the West of seven field armies) carried out a modified version of the Schlieffen Plan. This marched German armies through neutral Belgium and into France, before turning southwards to encircle the French army on the German border.[10] Since France had declared that it would "keep full freedom of acting in case of a war between Germany and Russia", Germany had to expect the possibility of an attack by France on one front and by Russia on the other. To meet such a scenario, the Schlieffen Plan stated that Germany must try to defeat France quickly (as had happened in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71). It further suggested that to repeat a fast victory in the west, Germany should not attack through the difficult terrain of Alsace-Lorraine (which had a direct border west of the river Rhine), instead, the idea was to try to quickly cut Paris off from the English Channel and British assistance, and take Paris, thus winning the war. Then the armies would be moved over to the east to meet Russia. Russia was believed to need a long period of mobilisation before they could become a real threat to the Central Powers.

German soldiers in a railway goods wagon on the way to the front in 1914. Early in the war, all sides expected the conflict to be a short one.

The only existing German plan for any war had German armies marching through Belgium. Germany wanted free escort through Belgium (and originally the Netherlands as well, a plan which Kaiser Wilhelm II rejected) to invade France. Neutral Belgium rejected this idea, so the Germans decided to invade through Belgium instead. France also wanted to move their troops into Belgium, but Belgium originally rejected this "suggestion" as well, in the hope of avoiding any war on Belgian soil. In the end, after the German invasion, Belgium did try to join their army with the French, but a large part of the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp where they were forced to surrender when all hope of help was gone.

The plan called for the right flank of the German advance to bypass the French armies (which were concentrated on the Franco-German border, leaving the Belgian border without significant French forces) and move south to Paris. Initially the Germans were successful, particularly in the Battle of the Frontiers (14–24 August). By 12 September, the French, with assistance from the British forces, halted the German advance east of Paris at the First Battle of the Marne (5–12 September), and pushed the German forces back some 50 km (31 mi). The last days of this battle signified the end of mobile warfare in the west.[10] The French offensive into Southern Alsace, launched on 20 August with the Battle of Mulhouse, had limited success.

In the east, the Russians invaded with two armies, surprising the German staff who had not expected the Russians to move so early. A field army, the 8th, was rapidly moved from its previous role as reserve for the invasion of France, to East Prussia by rail across the German Empire. This army, led by general Paul von Hindenburg defeated Russia in a series of battles collectively known as the First Battle of Tannenberg (17 August – 2 September). But the failed Russian invasion, causing the fresh German troops to move to the east, allowed the tactical Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne. The Central Powers were denied a quick victory in France and forced to fight a war on two fronts. The German army had fought its way into a good defensive position inside France and had permanently incapacitated 230,000 more French and British troops than it had lost itself. Despite this, communications problems and questionable command decisions cost Germany the chance of early victory.[49]

Asia and the Pacific

Military recruitment in Melbourne, 1914.

New Zealand occupied German Samoa (later Western Samoa) on 30 August 1914. On 11 September, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed on the island of Neu Pommern (later New Britain), which formed part of German New Guinea. On 28 October, the German cruiser 틀:SMS sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug in the Battle of Penang. Japan seized Germany's Micronesian colonies and, after the Siege of Tsingtao, the German coaling port of Qingdao in the Chinese Shandong peninsula. As Vienna refused to withdraw the Austro-Hungarian cruiser 틀:SMS from Tsingtao, Japan declared war not only on Germany, but also on Austria-Hungary; the ship participated in the defense of Tsingtao where it was sunk in November 1914.[50] Within a few months, the Allied forces had seized all the German territories in the Pacific; only isolated commerce raiders and a few holdouts in New Guinea remained.[51][52]

African campaigns

Some of the first clashes of the war involved British, French, and German colonial forces in Africa. On 6–7 August, French and British troops invaded the German protectorate of Togoland and Kamerun. On 10 August, German forces in South-West Africa attacked South Africa; sporadic and fierce fighting continued for the rest of the war. The German colonial forces in German East Africa, led by Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, fought a guerrilla warfare campaign during World War I and only surrendered two weeks after the armistice took effect in Europe.[53]

Indian support for the Allies

Contrary to British fears of a revolt in India, the outbreak of the war saw an unprecedented outpouring of loyalty and goodwill towards Britain.[54][55] Indian political leaders from the Indian National Congress and other groups were eager to support the British war effort, since they believed that strong support for the war effort would further the cause of Indian Home Rule. The Indian Army in fact outnumbered the British Army at the beginning of the war; about 1.3 million Indian soldiers and labourers served in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, while the central government and the princely states sent large supplies of food, money, and ammunition. In all, 140,000 men served on the Western Front and nearly 700,000 in the Middle East. Casualties of Indian soldiers totalled 47,746 killed and 65,126 wounded during World War I.[56] The suffering engendered by the war, as well as the failure of the British government to grant self-government to India after the end of hostilities, bred disillusionment and fuelled the campaign for full independence that would be led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and others.

Western Front

Trench warfare begins

Mud stained British soldiers at rest
Royal Irish Rifles in a communications trench, first day on the Somme, 1916.

Military tactics before World War I had failed to keep pace with advances in technology and had become obsolete. These advances had allowed the creation of strong defencive systems, which out-of-date military tactics could not break through for most of the war. Barbed wire was a significant hindrance to massed infantry advances, while artillery, vastly more lethal than in the 1870s, coupled with machine guns, made crossing open ground extremely difficult.[57] Commanders on both sides failed to develop tactics for breaching entrenched positions without heavy casualties. In time, however, technology began to produce new offensive weapons, such as gas warfare and the tank.[58]

Just after the First Battle of the Marne (5–12 September 1914), Entente and German forces repeatedly attempted manoeuvering to the north to outflank each other: this series of manoeuvres became known as the "Race to the Sea". When these outflanking efforts failed, Britain and France soon found themselves facing an uninterrupted line of entrenched German forces from Lorraine to Belgium's coast.[10] Britain and France sought to take the offensive, while Germany defended the occupied territories. Consequently, German trenches were much better constructed than those of their enemy; Anglo-French trenches were only intended to be "temporary" before their forces broke through the German defences.[59]

Both sides tried to break the stalemate using scientific and technological advances. On 22 April 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans (violating the Hague Convention) used chlorine gas for the first time on the Western Front. Several types of gas soon became widely used by both sides, and though it never proved a decisive, battle-winning weapon, poison gas became one of the most-feared and best-remembered horrors of the war.[60][61] Tanks were first used in combat by the British during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the wider Somme offensive) on 15 September 1916, with only partial success. However, their effectiveness would grow as the war progressed; the Germans employed only very small numbers of their own design, supplemented by captured Allied tanks.

French 87th regiment near Verdun, 1916.

Continuation of trench warfare

Files of soldiers with rifles slung follow close behind a tank, there is a dead body in the foreground
Canadian troops advancing with a British Mark II tank at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917.

Neither side proved able to deliver a decisive blow for the next two years. Throughout 1915–17, the British Empire and France suffered more casualties than Germany, because of both the strategic and tactical stances chosen by the sides. Strategically, while the Germans only mounted one major offensive, the Allies made several attempts to break through the German lines.

In February 1916 the Germans attacked the French defensive positions at Verdun. Running until December 1916, the battle saw initial German gains, before French counterattacks returned matters to near their starting point. Casualties were greater for the French, but the Germans bled heavily as well, with anywhere from 700,000[62] to 975,000[63] casualties suffered between the two combatants. Verdun became a symbol of French determination and self-sacrifice.[64]

The Battle of the Somme was an Anglo-French offensive that ran from July to November 1916. The opening of this offensive (1 July 1916) saw the British Army endure the bloodiest day in its history, suffering 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead, on the first day alone. The entire Somme offensive cost the British Army some 420,000 casualties. The French suffered another estimated 200,000 casualties, and the Germans an estimated 500,000.[65]

Protracted action at Verdun throughout 1916,[66] combined with the bloodletting at the Somme, brought the exhausted French army to the brink of collapse. Futile attempts at frontal assault came at a high price for both the British and the French poilu and led to the widespread French Army Mutinies, after the failure of the costly Nivelle Offensive of April–May 1917.[67] The concurrent British Battle of Arras was more limited in scope, and more successful, although ultimately of little strategic value.[68][69] A smaller part of the Arras offensive, the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps, became highly significant to that country: the idea that Canada's national identity was born out of the battle is an opinion widely held in military and general histories of Canada.[70][71]

The last large-scale offensive of this period was a British attack (with French support) at Passchendaele (July–November 1917). This offensive opened with great promise for the Allies, before bogging down in the October mud. Casualties, though disputed, were roughly equal, at some 200,000–400,000 per side.

These years of trench warfare in the West saw no major exchanges of territory and, as a result, are often thought of as static and unchanging. However, throughout this period, British, French, and German tactics constantly evolved to meet new battlefield challenges.

Naval war

Battleships of the Hochseeflotte, 1917.

At the start of the war, the German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied merchant shipping. The British Royal Navy systematically hunted them down, though not without some embarrassment from its inability to protect Allied shipping. For example, the German detached light cruiser SMS Emden, part of the East-Asia squadron stationed at Qingdao, seized or destroyed 15 merchantmen, as well as sinking a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer. However, most of the German East-Asia squadron—consisting of the armoured cruisers 틀:SMS and 틀:SMS, light cruisers 틀:SMS and 틀:SMS and two transport ships—did not have orders to raid shipping and was instead underway to Germany when it met British warships. The German flotilla and 틀:SMS sank two armoured cruisers at the Battle of Coronel, but was almost destroyed at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914, with only Dresden and a few auxiliaries escaping, but at the Battle of Más a Tierra these too were destroyed or interned.[72]

Soon after the outbreak of hostilities, Britain began a naval blockade of Germany. The strategy proved effective, cutting off vital military and civilian supplies, although this blockade violated accepted international law codified by several international agreements of the past two centuries.[73] Britain mined international waters to prevent any ships from entering entire sections of ocean, causing danger to even neutral ships.[74] Since there was limited response to this tactic, Germany expected a similar response to its unrestricted submarine warfare.[75]

The 1916 Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht, or "Battle of the Skagerrak") developed into the largest naval battle of the war, the only full-scale clash of battleships during the war, and one of the largest in history. It took place on 31 May – 1 June 1916, in the North Sea off Jutland. The Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer, squared off against the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, led by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. The engagement was a stand off, as the Germans, outmanoeuvred by the larger British fleet, managed to escape and inflicted more damage to the British fleet than they received. Strategically, however, the British asserted their control of the sea, and the bulk of the German surface fleet remained confined to port for the duration of the war.[76]

U-155 exhibited near Tower Bridge in London, after the 1918 Armistice.

German U-boats attempted to cut the supply lines between North America and Britain.[77] The nature of submarine warfare meant that attacks often came without warning, giving the crews of the merchant ships little hope of survival.[77][78] The United States launched a protest, and Germany changed its rules of engagement. After the sinking of the passenger ship RMS Lusitania in 1915, Germany promised not to target passenger liners, while Britain armed its merchant ships, placing them beyond the protection of the "cruiser rules", which demanded warning and placing crews in "a place of safety" (a standard that lifeboats did not meet).[79] Finally, in early 1917, Germany adopted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, realising that the Americans would eventually enter the war.[77][80] Germany sought to strangle Allied sea lanes before the United States could transport a large army overseas, but could maintain only five long-range U-boats on station, to limited effect.[77]

The U-boat threat lessened in 1917, when merchant ships began travelling in convoys, escorted by destroyers. This tactic made it difficult for U-boats to find targets, which significantly lessened losses; after the hydrophone and depth charges were introduced, accompanying destroyers might attack a submerged submarine with some hope of success. Convoys slowed the flow of supplies, since ships had to wait as convoys were assembled. The solution to the delays was an extensive program of building new freighters. Troopships were too fast for the submarines and did not travel the North Atlantic in convoys.[81] The U-boats had sunk more than 5,000 Allied ships, at a cost of 199 submarines.[82] World War I also saw the first use of aircraft carriers in combat, with HMS Furious launching Sopwith Camels in a successful raid against the Zeppelin hangars at Tondern in July 1918, as well as blimps for antisubmarine patrol.[83]

Southern theatres

War in the Balkans

Austro-Hungarian troops executing captured Serbians, 1917. Serbia lost about 850,000 people during the war, a quarter of its pre-war population.[84]

Faced with Russia, Austria-Hungary could spare only one-third of its army to attack Serbia. After suffering heavy losses, the Austrians briefly occupied the Serbian capital, Belgrade. A Serbian counterattack in the battle of Kolubara, however, succeeded in driving them from the country by the end of 1914. For the first ten months of 1915, Austria-Hungary used most of its military reserves to fight Italy. German and Austro-Hungarian diplomats, however, scored a coup by persuading Bulgaria to join the attack on Serbia. The Austro-Hungarian provinces of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia provided troops for Austria-Hungary, invading Serbia as well as fighting Russia and Italy. Montenegro allied itself with Serbia.[85]

Refugee transport from Serbia in Leibnitz, Styria, 1914.

Serbia was conquered in a little more than a month, as the Central Powers, now including Bulgaria, sent in 600,000 troops. The Serbian army, fighting on two fronts and facing certain defeat, retreated into northern Albania (which they had invaded at the beginning of the war틀:Dubious). The Serbs suffered defeat in the Battle of Kosovo. Montenegro covered the Serbian retreat towards the Adriatic coast in the Battle of Mojkovac in 6–7 January 1916, but ultimately the Austrians conquered Montenegro, too. The surviving Serbian soldiers were evacuated by ship to Greece.[86] After conquest, Serbia was divided between Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria.

In late 1915, a Franco-British force landed at Salonica in Greece, to offer assistance and to pressure the government to declare war against the Central Powers. However, the pro-German King Constantine I dismissed the pro-Allied government of Eleftherios Venizelos before the Allied expeditionary force arrived.[87] The friction between the King of Greece and the Allies continued to accumulate with the National Schism, which effectively divided Greece between regions still loyal to the king and the new provisional government of Venizelos in Salonica. After intense negotiations and an armed confrontation in Athens between Allied and royalist forces (an incident known as Noemvriana), the King of Greece resigned and his second son Alexander took his place; Greece then officially joined the war on the side of the Allies.

Bulgarian soldiers in a trench, preparing to fire against an incoming airplane.

In the beginning, the Macedonian Front was mostly static. French and Serbian forces retook limited areas of Macedonia by recapturing Bitola on 19 November 1916 following the costly Monastir Offensive, which brought stabilization of the front.

Serbian and French troops finally made a breakthrough in September 1918, after most of the German and Austro-Hungarian troops had been withdrawn. The Bulgarians suffered their only defeat of the war at the Battle of Dobro Pole: Bulgaria capitulated two weeks later, on 29 September 1918.[88] The German high command responded by despatching troops to hold the line, but these forces were far too weak to reestablish a front.[89]

The disappearance of the Macedonian Front meant that the road to Budapest and Vienna was now opened to Allied forces. Hindenburg and Ludendorff concluded that the strategic and operational balance had now shifted decidedly against the Central Powers and, a day after the Bulgarian collapse, insisted on an immediate peace settlement.[90]

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in the war, the secret Ottoman–German Alliance having been signed in August 1914.[91] It threatened Russia's Caucasian territories and Britain's communications with India via the Suez Canal.

In Asia Minor itself, the Ottoman Turks, together with Kurdish and Circassian allies, conducted large scale massacres of the indigenous Greek, Assyrian and Armenian Christian populations in the form of the Greek Genocide, Armenian Genocide and Assyrian Genocide, leading these peoples to join the war on the side of the Russians and British.[92]

The British and French opened overseas fronts with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamian campaigns. In Gallipoli, the Ottoman Empire successfully repelled the British, French, and Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs). In Mesopotamia, by contrast, after the disastrous Siege of Kut (1915–16), British Imperial forces reorganised and captured Baghdad in March 1917. The British were aided in Mesopotamia by local Arab and Assyrian tribesmen, while the Ottomans employed local Kurdish and Turcoman tribes.

Foreground, a battery of 16 heavy guns. Background, conical tents and support vehicles.
British artillery battery on Mount Scopus in the Battle of Jerusalem, 1917.

Further to the west, the Suez Canal was successfully defended from Ottoman attacks in 1915 and 1916; in August, a joint German and Ottoman force was defeated at the Battle of Romani by the ANZAC Mounted and the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Divisions. Following this victory, a British Empire Egyptian Expeditionary Force advanced across the Sinai Peninsula, pushing Ottoman forces back in the Battle of Magdhaba in December and the Battle of Rafa on the border between the Egyptian Sinai and Ottoman Palestine in January 1917.

Russian forest trench at the 1914–1915 Battle of Sarikamish.
Xmas card from British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force with list of engagements, Basra, 1917

Russian armies generally had the best of it in the Caucasus. Enver Pasha, supreme commander of the Ottoman armed forces, was ambitious and dreamed of re-conquering central Asia and areas that had been lost to Russia previously. He was, however, a poor commander.[93] He launched an offensive against the Russians in the Caucasus in December 1914 with 100,000 troops; insisting on a frontal attack against mountainous Russian positions in winter, he lost 86% of his force at the Battle of Sarikamish.[94]

In December 1914 the Ottoman Empire, with German support, invaded Persia (modern Iran) in an effort to cut off British and Russian access to petroleum reservoirs around the Caspian Sea.[95] Persia, ostensibly neutral, had long been under spheres of British and Russian influence. The Ottomans and Germans were aided by Kurdish and Azeri forces, together with a large number of major Iranian tribes, such as the Qashqai, Tangistanis, Luristanis, and Khamseh, while the Russians and British had the support of Assyrian and Armenian forces. The Persian Campaign was to last until 1918 and end in failure for the Ottomans and their allies, however the Russian withdrawal from the war in 1917 led to Armenian and Assyrian forces, who had hitherto inflicted a series of embarrassing defeats upon the far larger forces of the Ottomans and their allies, being cut off from supply lines, outnumbered, outgunned and isolated, forcing them to fight and flee towards British lines in northern Mesopotamia.[96]

General Yudenich, the Russian commander from 1915 to 1916, drove the Turks out of most of the southern Caucasus with a string of victories.[94] In 1917, Russian Grand Duke Nicholas assumed command of the Caucasus front. Nicholas planned a railway from Russian Georgia to the conquered territories, so that fresh supplies could be brought up for a new offensive in 1917. However, in March 1917 (February in the pre-revolutionary Russian calendar), the Czar abdicated in the course of the February Revolution and the Russian Caucasus Army began to fall apart.

Instigated by the Arab bureau of the British Foreign Office, the Arab Revolt started with the help of Britain in June 1916 at the Battle of Mecca, led by Sherif Hussein of Mecca, and ended with the Ottoman surrender of Damascus. Fakhri Pasha, the Ottoman commander of Medina, resisted for more than two and half years during the Siege of Medina.[97]

Along the border of Italian Libya and British Egypt, the Senussi tribe, incited and armed by the Turks, waged a small-scale guerrilla war against Allied troops. The British were forced to dispatch 12,000 troops to oppose them in the Senussi Campaign. Their rebellion was finally crushed in mid-1916.[98]

Total Allied casualties on the Ottoman fronts amounted 650,000 men. Total Ottoman casualties were 725,000 (325,000 dead and 400,000 wounded).[99]

Italian participation

Austro-Hungarian troops, Tyrol.
Depiction of the Battle of Doberdò, fought in August 1916 between the Italian and the Austro-Hungarian armies.

Italy had been allied with the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires since 1882 as part of the Triple Alliance. However, the nation had its own designs on Austrian territory in Trentino, the Austrian Littoral, Fiume (Rijeka) and Dalmatia. Rome had a secret 1902 pact with France, effectively nullifying its alliance.[100] At the start of hostilities, Italy refused to commit troops, arguing that the Triple Alliance was defensive and that Austria-Hungary was an aggressor. The Austro-Hungarian government began negotiations to secure Italian neutrality, offering the French colony of Tunisia in return. The Allies made a counter-offer in which Italy would receive the Southern Tyrol, Austrian Littoral and territory on the Dalmatian coast after the defeat of Austria-Hungary. This was formalised by the Treaty of London. Further encouraged by the Allied invasion of Turkey in April 1915, Italy joined the Triple Entente and declared war on Austria-Hungary on 23 May. Fifteen months later, Italy declared war on Germany.

Italy's entry was engineered in secret by three individuals—the Prime Minister, Antonio Salandra, the Foreign Minister, Sidney Sonnino, and King Victor Emmanuel III.

On February 16, 1915, despite concurrent negotiations with Austria, a courier was dispatched in great secrecy to London with the suggestion that Italy was open to a good offer from the Entente. ... The final choice was aided by the arrival of news in March of Russian victories in the Carpathians. Salandra began to think that victory for the Entente was in sight, and was so anxious not to arrive too late for a share in the profits that he instructed his envoy in London to drop some demands and reach agreement quickly. ... The Treaty of London was concluded on April 26 binding Italy to fight within one month. ... Not until May 4 did Salandra denounce the Triple Alliance in a private note to its signatories.[101]

Militarily, the Italians had numerical superiority. This advantage, however, was lost, not only because of the difficult terrain in which fighting took place, but also because of the strategies and tactics employed. Field Marshal Luigi Cadorna, a staunch proponent of the frontal assault, had dreams of breaking into the Slovenian plateau, taking Ljubljana and threatening Vienna. Cadorna's plan did not take into account the difficulties of the rugged Alpine and Karstic terrain, or the technological changes that created trench warfare, giving rise to a series of bloody and inconclusive stalemated offensives.

On the Trentino front, the Austro-Hungarians took advantage of the mountainous terrain, which favoured the defender. After an initial strategic retreat, the front remained largely unchanged, while Austrian Kaiserschützen and Standschützen engaged Italian Alpini in bitter hand-to-hand combat throughout the summer. The Austro-Hungarians counterattacked in the Altopiano of Asiago, towards Verona and Padua, in the spring of 1916 (Strafexpedition), but made little progress.

Beginning in 1915, the Italians under Cadorna mounted eleven offensives on the Isonzo front along the Isonzo (Soča) River, northeast of Trieste. All eleven offensives were repelled by the Austro-Hungarians, who held the higher ground. In the summer of 1916, after the Battle of Doberdò, the Italians captured the town of Gorizia. After this minor victory, the front remained static for over a year, despite several Italian offensives, centred on the Banjšice and Karst Plateau east of Gorizia. In the autumn of 1917, thanks to the improving situation on the Eastern front, the Austro-Hungarian troops received large numbers of reinforcements, including German Stormtroopers and the elite Alpenkorps.

The Central Powers launched a crushing offensive on 26 October 1917, spearheaded by the Germans. They achieved a victory at Caporetto (Kobarid). The Italian Army was routed and retreated more than 100 킬로미터 (62 mi) to reorganise, stabilising the front at the Piave River. Since the Italian Army had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Caporetto, the Italian Government called to arms the so-called '99 Boys (Ragazzi del '99): that is, all males who were 18 years old or older. In 1918, the Austro-Hungarians failed to break through in a series of battles on the Piave River, and were finally decisively defeated in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto in October of that year. On 1 November, the Italian Navy destroyed much of the Austro-Hungarian fleet stationed in Pula, preventing it to be handed over to the new State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. On 3 November, the Italians occupied Trieste from the sea. On the same day, the Armistice of Villa Giusti was signed. By mid November 1918, the Italian military occupied the entire former Austrian Littoral, and seized control of the entire portion of Dalmatia that had been guaranteed to Italy by the London Pact.[102] By the end of hostilities in November 1918,[103] In 1918, Admiral Enrico Millo declared himself Italy's Governor of Dalmatia.[103] Austria-Hungary surrendered in early November 1918.[104][105]

Romanian participation

Marshal Joffre inspecting Romanian troops, 1916.

Romania had been allied with the Central Powers since 1882. When the war began, however, it declared its neutrality, arguing that because Austria-Hungary had itself declared war on Serbia, Romania was under no obligation to join the war. When the Entente Powers promised Romania large territories of eastern Hungary (Transylvania and Banat), which had a large Romanian population, in exchange for Romania's declaring war on the Central Powers, the Romanian government renounced its neutrality and, on 27 August 1916, the Romanian Army launched an attack against Austria-Hungary, with limited Russian support. The Romanian offensive was initially successful, pushing back the Austro-Hungarian troops in Transylvania, but a counterattack by the forces of the Central Powers drove back the Russo-Romanian forces.[106] As a result of the Battle of Bucharest, the Central Powers occupied Bucharest on 6 December 1916. Fighting in Moldova continued in 1917, resulting in a costly stalemate for the Central Powers.[107][108] Russian withdrawal from the war in late 1917 as a result of the October Revolution meant that Romania was forced to sign an armistice with the Central Powers on 9 December 1917.

Romanian troops during the Battle of Mărăşeşti, 1917.

In January 1918, Romanian forces established control over Bessarabia as the Russian Army abandoned the province. Although a treaty was signed by the Romanian and the Bolshevik Russian government following talks from 5–9 March 1918 on the withdrawal of Romanian forces from Bessarabia within two months, on 27 March 1918 Romania attached Bessarabia to its territory, formally based on a resolution passed by the local assembly of the territory on the unification with Romania.

Romania officially made peace with the Central Powers by signing the Treaty of Bucharest on 7 May 1918. Under that treaty, Romania was obliged to end the war with the Central Powers and make small territorial concessions to Austria-Hungary, ceding control of some passes in the Carpathian Mountains, and grant oil concessions to Germany. In exchange, the Central Powers recognised the sovereignty of Romania over Bessarabia. The treaty was renounced in October 1918 by the Alexandru Marghiloman government, and Romania nominally re-entered the war on 10 November 1918. The next day, the Treaty of Bucharest was nullified by the terms of the Armistice of Compiègne.[109][110] Total Romanian deaths from 1914 to 1918, military and civilian, within contemporary borders, were estimated at 748,000.[111]

Eastern Front

Initial actions

Russian troops in a trench, awaiting a German attack, 1917.

While the Western Front had reached stalemate, the war continued in East Europe. Initial Russian plans called for simultaneous invasions of Austrian Galicia and German East Prussia. Although Russia's initial advance into Galicia was largely successful, it was driven back from East Prussia by Hindenburg and Ludendorff at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in August and September 1914.[112][113] Russia's less developed industrial base and ineffective military leadership was instrumental in the events that unfolded. 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.[114] On 5 August, they captured Warsaw and forced the Russians to withdraw from Poland.

Russian Revolution

Despite the success of the June 1916 Brusilov Offensive in eastern Galicia,[115] dissatisfaction with the Russian government's conduct of the war grew. The offensive's success was undermined by the reluctance of other generals to commit their forces to support the victory. Allied and Russian forces were revived only temporarily by Romania's entry into the war on 27 August. German forces came to the aid of embattled Austro-Hungarian units in Transylvania while a German-Bulgarian force attacked from the south, and Bucharest fell to the Central Powers on 6 December. Meanwhile, unrest grew in Russia, as the Tsar remained at the front. Empress Alexandra's increasingly incompetent rule drew protests and resulted in the murder of her favourite, Rasputin, at the end of 1916.

In March 1917, demonstrations in Petrograd culminated in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the appointment of a weak Provisional Government, which shared power with the Petrograd Soviet socialists. This arrangement led to confusion and chaos both at the front and at home. The army became increasingly ineffective.[114]

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918.
1. Count Ottokar von Czernin
2. Richard von Kühlmann
3. Vasil Radoslavov

Discontent and the weaknesses of the Provisional Government led to a rise in the popularity of the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, which demanded an immediate end to the war. The successful armed uprising by the Bolsheviks of November was followed in December by an armistice and negotiations with Germany. At first, the Bolsheviks refused the German terms, but when German troops began marching across the Ukraine unopposed, the new government acceded to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918. The treaty ceded vast territories, including Finland, the Baltic provinces, parts of Poland and Ukraine to the Central Powers.[116] Despite this enormous apparent German success, the manpower required for German occupation of former Russian territory may have contributed to the failure of the Spring Offensive and secured relatively little food or other materiel.

With the adoption of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Entente no longer existed. The Allied powers led a small-scale invasion of Russia, partly to stop Germany from exploiting Russian resources and, to a lesser extent, to support the "Whites" (as opposed to the "Reds") in the Russian Civil War.[117] Allied troops landed in Arkhangelsk and in Vladivostok as part of the North Russia Intervention.

Czechoslovak Legion

Czechoslovak Legion, Vladivostok, 1918.

The Czechoslovak Legion fought together with the Entente—their goal was to win support for the independence of Czechoslovakia. The Legion in Russia was established in 1917, in December 1917 in France (including volunteers from America) and in April 1918 in Italy. Czechoslovak Legion troops defeated the Austro-Hungarian army at the Ukrainian village Zborov in July 1917. After this success, the number of Czechoslovak legionaries increased, as well as Czechoslovak military power. In the Battle of Bakhmach, the Legion defeated the Germans and forced them to make a truce.

In Russia, they were heavily involved in the Russian Civil War fighting the Bolsheviks, at times controlling most of the Trans-Siberian railway and conquering all major cities in Siberia. The presence of the Czechoslovak Legion near the Yekaterinburg appears to have been one of the motivating forces for the Bolshevik execution of the Tsar and his family in July 1918. Legionaries came less than a week afterwards and captured the city.

Because Russia's European ports were not safe, the corps was to be evacuated by a long detour via the port of Vladivostok. The last transport was the American ship Heffron in September 1920.

Central Powers proposal for starting peace negotiations

"They shall not pass", a phrase typically associated with the defense of Verdun.

In December 1916, after ten brutal months of the Battle of Verdun and a successful offensive against Romania, the Germans attempted to negotiate a peace with the Allies. Soon after, the US president, Woodrow Wilson, attempted to intervene as a peacemaker, asking in a note for both sides to state their demands. Lloyd George's War Cabinet considered the German offer to be a ploy to create divisions amongst the Allies. After initial outrage and much deliberation, they took Wilson's note as a separate effort, signalling that the United States was on the verge of entering the war against Germany following the "submarine outrages". While the Allies debated a response to Wilson's offer, the Germans chose to rebuff it in favour of "a direct exchange of views". Learning of the German response, the Allied governments were free to make clear demands in their response of 14 January. They sought restoration of damages, the evacuation of occupied territories, reparations for France, Russia and Romania, and a recognition of the principle of nationalities. This included the liberation of Italians, Slavs, Romanians, Czecho-Slovaks, and the creation of a "free and united Poland". On the question of security, the Allies sought guarantees that would prevent or limit future wars, complete with sanctions, as a condition of any peace settlement.[118] The negotiations failed and the Entente powers rejected the German offer, because Germany did not state any specific proposals. To Wilson, the Entente powers stated that they would not start peace negotiations until the Central powers evacuated all occupied Allied territories and provided indemnities for all damage which had been done.[119]

1917–1918

Developments in 1917

German film crew recording the action.

Events of 1917 proved decisive in ending the war, although their effects were not fully felt until 1918.

The British naval blockade began to have a serious impact on Germany. In response, in February 1917, the German General Staff convinced Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to declare unrestricted submarine warfare, with the goal of starving Britain out of the war. German planners estimated that unrestricted submarine warfare would cost Britain a monthly shipping loss of 600,000 tons. The General Staff acknowledged that the policy would almost certainly bring the United States into the conflict, but calculated that British shipping losses would be so high that they would be forced to sue for peace after 5 to 6 months, before American intervention could make an impact. In reality, tonnage sunk rose above 500,000 tons per month from February to July. It peaked at 860,000 tons in April. After July, the newly re-introduced convoy system became extremely effective in reducing the U-boat threat. Britain was safe from starvation, while German industrial output fell and the United States troops joined the war in large numbers far earlier than Germany had anticipated.

Haut-Rhin, France, 1917.

On 3 May 1917, during the Nivelle Offensive, the weary French 2nd Colonial Division, veterans of the Battle of Verdun, refused their orders, arriving drunk and without their weapons. Their officers lacked the means to punish an entire division, and harsh measures were not immediately implemented. Then, the French Army Mutinies afflicted an additional 54 French divisions and saw 20,000 men desert. The other Allied forces attacked, but sustained tremendous casualties.[120] However, appeals to patriotism and duty, as well as mass arrests and trials, encouraged the soldiers to return to defend their trenches, although the French soldiers refused to participate in further offensive action.[121] Robert Nivelle was removed from command by 15 May, replaced by General Philippe Pétain, who suspended bloody large-scale attacks.

The victory of Austria-Hungary and Germany at the Battle of Caporetto led the Allies to convene the Rapallo Conference at which they formed the Supreme War Council to coordinate planning. Previously, British and French armies had operated under separate commands.

In December, the Central Powers signed an armistice with Russia. This released large numbers of German troops for use in the west. With German reinforcements and new American troops pouring in, the outcome was to be decided on the Western Front. 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. Furthermore, the leaders of the Central Powers and the Allies became increasingly fearful of social unrest and revolution in Europe. Thus, both sides urgently sought a decisive victory.[122]

In 1917, Emperor Charles I of Austria secretly attempted separate peace negotiations with Clemenceau, with his wife's brother Sixtus in Belgium as an intermediary, without the knowledge of Germany. Italy opposed the proposals. When the negotiations failed, his attempt was revealed to Germany, resulting in a diplomatic catastrophe.[123][124]

Ottoman Empire conflict, 1917–1918

British troops on the march in Mesopotamia, 1917.

In March and April 1917, at the First and Second Battles of Gaza, German and Ottoman forces stopped the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, which had begun in August 1916 at Romani. At the end of October, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign resumed, when General Edmund Allenby's XXth Corps, XXI Corps and Desert Mounted Corps won the Battle of Beersheba. Two Ottoman armies were defeated a few weeks later at the Battle of Mughar Ridge and, early in December, Jerusalem was captured following another Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Jerusalem (1917). About this time, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein was relieved of his duties as the Eighth Army's commander, replaced by Djevad Pasha, and a few months later the commander of the Ottoman Army in Palestine, Erich von Falkenhayn, was replaced by Otto Liman von Sanders.

Early in 1918, the front line was extended into the Jordan Valley, which continued to be occupied, following the First Transjordan and the Second Transjordan attack by British Empire forces in March and April 1918, into the summer. During March, most of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's British infantry and Yeomanry cavalry were sent to fight on the Western Front as a consequence of the Spring Offensive. They were replaced by Indian Army units. During several months of reorganisation and training during the summer, a number of attacks were carried out on sections of the Ottoman front line. These pushed the front line north to more advantageous positions in preparation for an attack and to acclimatise the newly arrived Indian Army infantry. It was not until the middle of September that the integrated force was ready for large-scale operations.

The reorganised Egyptian Expeditionary Force, with an additional mounted division, broke Ottoman forces at the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918. In two days the British and Indian infantry supported by a creeping barrage broke the Ottoman front line and captured the headquarters of the Eighth Army (Ottoman Empire) at Tulkarm, the continuous trench lines at Tabsor, Arara and the Seventh Army (Ottoman Empire) headquarters at Nablus. The Desert Mounted Corps rode through the break in the front line created by the infantry and, during virtually continuous operations by Australian Light Horse, British mounted Yeomanry, Indian Lancers and New Zealand Mounted Rifle brigades in the Jezreel Valley, they captured Nazareth, Afulah and Beisan, Jenin, along with Haifa on the Mediterranean coast and Daraa east of the Jordan River on the Hejaz railway. Samakh and Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, were captured on the way northwards to Damascus. Meanwhile, Chaytor's Force of Australian light horse, New Zealand mounted rifles, Indian, British West Indies and Jewish infantry captured the crossings of the Jordan River, Es Salt, Amman and at Ziza most of the Fourth Army (Ottoman Empire). The Armistice of Mudros, signed at the end of October ended hostilities with the Ottoman Empire when fighting was continuing north of Aleppo.

Entry of the United States

President Wilson before Congress, announcing the break in official relations with Germany on 3 February 1917.

At the outbreak of the war, the United States pursued a policy of non-intervention, avoiding conflict while trying to broker a peace. When a German U-boat sank the British liner RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915 with 128 Americans among the dead, President Woodrow Wilson insisted that "America is too proud to fight" but demanded an end to attacks on passenger ships. Germany complied. Wilson unsuccessfully tried to mediate a settlement. However, he also repeatedly warned that the United States would not tolerate unrestricted submarine warfare, in violation of international law. The former president Theodore Roosevelt denounced German acts as "piracy".[125] Wilson was narrowly reelected in 1916 as his supporters emphasized "he kept us out of war".

In January 1917, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, realizing it would mean American entry. The German Foreign Minister, in the Zimmermann Telegram, invited Mexico to join the war as Germany's ally against the United States. In return, the Germans would finance Mexico's war and help it recover the territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.[126] The United Kingdom intercepted the message and presented it to the US embassy in the UK. From there it made its way to President Wilson who released the Zimmerman note to the public, and Americans saw it as casus belli. Wilson called on antiwar elements to end all wars, by winning this one and eliminating militarism from the globe. He argued that the war was so important that the US had to have a voice in the peace conference.[127] After the sinking of seven US merchant ships by submarines and the publication of the Zimmerman telegram, Wilson called for war on Germany,[128] which the US Congress declared on 6 April 1917.

The United States was never formally a member of the Allies but became a self-styled "Associated Power". The United States had a small army, but, after the passage of the Selective Service Act, it drafted 2.8 million men,[129] and, by summer 1918, was sending 10,000 fresh soldiers to France every day. In 1917, the US Congress gave US citizenship to Puerto Ricans when they were drafted to participate in World War I, as part of the Jones Act. Germany had miscalculated, believing it would be many more months before American soldiers would arrive and that their arrival could be stopped by U-boats.[130]

The United States Navy sent a battleship group to Scapa Flow to join with the British Grand Fleet, destroyers to Queenstown, Ireland, and submarines to help guard convoys. Several regiments of US Marines were also dispatched to France. The British and French wanted American units used to reinforce their troops already on the battle lines and not waste scarce shipping on bringing over supplies. General John J. Pershing, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) commander, refused to break up American units to be used as reinforcements for British Empire and French units. As an exception, he did allow African-American combat regiments to be used in French divisions. The Harlem Hellfighters fought as part of the French 16th Division, earning a unit Croix de Guerre for their actions at Château-Thierry, Belleau Wood, and Sechault.[131] AEF doctrine called for the use of frontal assaults, which had long since been discarded by British Empire and French commanders because of the large loss of life.[132]

German Spring Offensive of 1918

British 55th Infantry Division soldiers, blinded by tear gas during the Battle of Estaires, 10 April 1918.
French soldiers under General Gouraud, with machine guns amongst the ruins of a cathedral near the Marne, 1918.

German General Erich Ludendorff drew up plans (codenamed Operation Michael) for the 1918 offensive on the Western Front. The Spring Offensive sought to divide the British and French forces with a series of feints and advances. The German leadership hoped to end the war before significant US forces arrived. The operation commenced on 21 March 1918, with an attack on British forces near Amiens. German forces achieved an unprecedented advance of 60 킬로미터 (37 mi).[133]

British and French trenches were penetrated using novel infiltration tactics, also named Hutier tactics, after General Oskar von Hutier, by specially trained units called Stosstruppen. Previously, attacks had been characterised by long artillery bombardments and massed assaults. However, in the Spring Offensive of 1918, Ludendorff used artillery only briefly and infiltrated small groups of infantry at weak points. They attacked command and logistics areas and bypassed points of serious resistance. More heavily armed infantry then destroyed these isolated positions. German success relied greatly on the element of surprise.[134]

The front moved to within 120 킬로미터 (75 mi) of Paris. Three heavy Krupp railway guns fired 183 shells on the capital, causing many Parisians to flee. The initial offensive was so successful that Kaiser Wilhelm II declared 24 March a national holiday. Many Germans thought victory was near. After heavy fighting, however, the offensive was halted. Lacking tanks or motorised artillery, the Germans were unable to consolidate their gains. This situation was not helped by the supply lines now being stretched as a result of their rapid advance over devastated ground.[135]

General Foch pressed to use the arriving American troops as individual replacements, whereas Pershing sought to field American units as an independent force. These units were assigned to the depleted French and British Empire commands on 28 March. A Supreme War Council of Allied forces was created at the Doullens Conference on 5 November 1917.[136] General Foch was appointed as supreme commander of the allied forces. Haig, Petain, and Pershing retained tactical control of their respective armies; Foch assumed a coordinating rather than a directing role, and the British, French, and US commands operated largely independently.[136]

Following Operation Michael, Germany launched Operation Georgette against the northern English Channel ports. The Allies halted the drive after limited territorial gains by Germany. The German Army to the south then conducted Operations Blücher and Yorck, pushing broadly towards Paris. Operation Marne was launched on 15 July, attempting to encircle Reims and beginning the Second Battle of the Marne. The resulting counterattack, starting the Hundred Days Offensive, marked the first successful Allied offensive of the war.

By 20 July, the Germans were back across the Marne at their starting lines,[137] having achieved little. Following this last phase of the war in the West, the German Army never regained the initiative. German casualties between March and April 1918 were 270,000, including many highly trained storm troopers.

Meanwhile, Germany was falling apart at home. Anti-war marches became frequent and morale in the army fell. Industrial output was 53% of 1913 levels.

New states under war zone

In the late spring of 1918, three new states were formed in the South Caucasus: the First Republic of Armenia, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Georgia, which declared their independence from the Russian Empire.[138] Two other minor entities were established, the Centrocaspian Dictatorship and South West Caucasian Republic (the former was liquidated by Azerbaijan in the autumn of 1918 and the latter by a joint Armenian-British task force in early 1919). With the withdrawal of the Russian armies from the Caucasus front in the winter of 1917–18, the three major republics braced for an imminent Ottoman advance, which commenced in the early months of 1918. Solidarity was briefly maintained when the Transcaucasian Federative Republic was created in the spring of 1918, but this collapsed in May, when the Georgians asked and received protection from Germany and the Azerbaijanis concluded a treaty with the Ottoman Empire that was more akin to a military alliance. Armenia was left to fend for itself and struggled for five months against the threat of a full-fledged occupation by the Ottoman Turks.[138]

Allied victory: summer 1918 onwards

Hundred Days Offensive

Aerial view of ruins of Vaux-devant-Damloup, France, 1918.

The Allied counteroffensive, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, began on 8 August 1918, with the Battle of Amiens. The battle involved over 400 tanks and 120,000 British, Dominion, and French troops, and by the end of its first day a gap 15 mi (24 km) long had been created in the German lines. The defenders displayed a marked collapse in morale, causing Erich Ludendorff to refer to this day as the "Black Day of the German army".[139][140] After an advance as far as 14 마일 (23 km), German resistance stiffened, and the battle was concluded on 12 August.

Rather than continuing the Amiens battle past the point of initial success, as had been done so many times in the past, the Allies shifted their attention elsewhere. Allied leaders had now realised that to continue an attack after resistance had hardened was a waste of lives, and it was better to turn a line than to try to roll over it. They began to undertake attacks in quick order to take advantage of successful advances on the flanks, then broke them off when each attack lost its initial impetus.[141]

Canadian Scottish, advancing during the Battle of the Canal du Nord, 1918.

British and Dominion forces launched the next phase of the campaign with the Battle of Albert on 21 August;.[142] The assault was widened by French[143] and then further British forces in the following days. During the last week of August the pressure along a 70-마일 (113 km) front against the enemy was heavy and unrelenting. From German accounts, "Each day was spent in bloody fighting against an ever and again on-storming enemy, and nights passed without sleep in retirements to new lines."[141]

Faced with these advances, on 2 September the German Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL) issued orders to withdraw back into the Hindenburg Line in the south. This ceded without a fight the salient seized the previous April.[144] According to Ludendorff "We had to admit the necessity ... to withdraw the entire front from the Scarpe to the Vesle."[145]

September saw the Allied advance to the Hindenburg Line in the north and centre. The Germans continued to fight strong rear-guard actions and launching numerous counterattacks on lost positions, but only a few succeeded, and then only temporarily. Contested towns, villages, heights, and trenches in the screening positions and outposts of the Hindenburg Line continued to fall to the Allies, with the BEF alone taking 30,441 prisoners in the last week of September. On 24 September an assault by both the British and French came within 2 마일 (3.2 km) of St. Quentin.[143] The Germans were now completely back in the Hindenburg Line.

An American major, piloting an observation balloon near the front, 1918.

In nearly four weeks of fighting beginning 8 August, over 100,000 German prisoners were taken, 75,000 by the BEF and the rest by the French. As of "The Black Day of the German Army", the German High Command realised that the war was lost and made attempts to reach a satisfactory end. The day after that battle, Ludendorff said: "We cannot win the war any more, but we must not lose it either." On 11 August he offered his resignation to the Kaiser, who refused it, replying, "I see that we must strike a balance. We have nearly reached the limit of our powers of resistance. The war must be ended." On 13 August, at Spa, Hindenburg, Ludendorff, the Chancellor, and Foreign Minister Hintz agreed that the war could not be ended militarily and, on the following day, the German Crown Council decided that victory in the field was now most improbable. Austria and Hungary warned that they could only continue the war until December, and Ludendorff recommended immediate peace negotiations. Prince Rupprecht warned Prince Max of Baden: "Our military situation has deteriorated so rapidly that I no longer believe we can hold out over the winter; it is even possible that a catastrophe will come earlier." On 10 September Hindenburg urged peace moves to Emperor Charles of Austria, and Germany appealed to the Netherlands for mediation. On 14 September Austria sent a note to all belligerents and neutrals suggesting a meeting for peace talks on neutral soil, and on 15 September Germany made a peace offer to Belgium. Both peace offers were rejected, and on 24 September OHL informed the leaders in Berlin that armistice talks were inevitable.[143]

The final assault on the Hindenburg Line began with the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, launched by French and American troops on 26 September. The following week, cooperating French and American units broke through in Champagne at the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge, forcing the Germans off the commanding heights, and closing towards the Belgian frontier.[146] On 8 October the line was pierced again by British and Dominion troops at the Battle of Cambrai.[147] The German army had to shorten its front and use the Dutch frontier as an anchor to fight rear-guard actions as it fell back towards Germany.

When Bulgaria signed a separate armistice on 29 September, Ludendorff, having been under great stress for months, suffered something similar to a breakdown. It was evident that Germany could no longer mount a successful defence.[148][149]

Men of US 64th Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, celebrate the news of the Armistice, 11 November 1918.

Meanwhile, news of Germany's impending military defeat spread throughout the German armed forces. The threat of mutiny was rife. Admiral Reinhard Scheer and Ludendorff decided to launch a last attempt to restore the "valour" of the German Navy. Knowing the government of Prince Maximilian of Baden would veto any such action, Ludendorff decided not to inform him. Nonetheless, word of the impending assault reached sailors at Kiel. Many, refusing to be part of a naval offensive, which they believed to be suicidal, rebelled and were arrested. Ludendorff took the blame; the Kaiser dismissed him on 26 October. The collapse of the Balkans meant that Germany was about to lose its main supplies of oil and food. Its reserves had been used up, even as US troops kept arriving at the rate of 10,000 per day.[150] The Americans supplied more than 80% of Allied oil during the war, meaning no such loss of supplies could affect the Allied effort.[151]

With the military faltering and with widespread loss of confidence in the Kaiser, Germany moved towards peace. Prince Maximilian of Baden took charge of a new government as Chancellor of Germany to negotiate with the Allies. Negotiations with President Wilson began immediately, in the hope that he would offer better terms than the British and French. Wilson demanded a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary control over the German military.[152] There was no resistance when the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann on 9 November declared Germany to be a republic. The Kaiser, kings and other hereditary rulers all were removed from power. Imperial Germany was dead; a new Germany had been born: the Weimar Republic.[153]

Armistices and capitulations

Ferdinand Foch, second from right, pictured outside the carriage in Compiègne after agreeing to the armistice that ended the war there. The carriage was later chosen by Nazi Germany as the symbolic setting of Pétain's June 1940 armistice.[154]

The collapse of the Central Powers came swiftly. Bulgaria was the first to sign an armistice, on 29 September 1918 at Saloniki.[155] On 30 October, the Ottoman Empire capitulated at Moudros, signing the Armistice of Mudros.[155]

On 24 October, the Italians began a push that rapidly recovered territory lost after the Battle of Caporetto. This culminated in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, which marked the end of the Austro-Hungarian Army as an effective fighting force. The offensive also triggered the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the last week of October, declarations of independence were made in Budapest, Prague, and Zagreb. On 29 October, the imperial authorities asked Italy for an armistice. But the Italians continued advancing, reaching Trento, Udine, and Trieste. On 3 November, Austria-Hungary sent a flag of truce to ask for an armistice. The terms, arranged by telegraph with the Allied Authorities in Paris, were communicated to the Austrian commander and accepted. The Armistice with Austria was signed in the Villa Giusti, near Padua, on 3 November. Austria and Hungary signed separate armistices following the overthrow of the Habsburg Monarchy. Following the outbreak of the German Revolution of 1918–1919, a republic was proclaimed on 9 November. The Kaiser fled to the Netherlands.

On 11 November, at 5:00 am, an armistice with Germany was signed in a railroad carriage at Compiègne. At 11 am on 11 November 1918—"the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"—a ceasefire came into effect. During the six hours between the signing of the armistice and its taking effect, opposing armies on the Western Front began to withdraw from their positions, but fighting continued along many areas of the front, as commanders wanted to capture territory before the war ended. Canadian Private George Lawrence Price was shot by a German sniper at 10:57 and died at 10:58.[156] American Henry Gunther was killed 60 seconds before the armistice came into force while charging astonished German troops who were aware the Armistice was nearly upon them.[157] The last British soldier to die was Pte George Edwin Ellison. The occupation of the Rhineland took place following the Armistice. The occupying armies consisted of American, Belgian, British and French forces.

In November 1918, the Allies had ample supplies of men and materiel to invade Germany. Yet at the time of the armistice, no Allied force had crossed the German frontier; the Western Front was still some 450 mi (720 km) from Berlin; and the Kaiser's armies had retreated from the battlefield in good order. These factors enabled Hindenburg and other senior German leaders to spread the story that their armies had not really been defeated. This resulted in the stab-in-the-back legend,[158][159] which attributed Germany's defeat not to its inability to continue fighting (even though up to a million soldiers were suffering from the 1918 flu pandemic and unfit to fight), but to the public's failure to respond to its "patriotic calling" and the supposed intentional sabotage of the war effort, particularly by Jews, Socialists, and Bolsheviks.

The Allies had much more potential wealth they could spend on the war. One estimate (using 1913 US dollars) is that the Allies spent $58 billion on the war and the Central Powers only $25 billion. Among the Allies, the UK spent $21 billion and the US $17 billion; among the Central Powers Germany spent $20 billion.[160]

Aftermath

The French military cemetery at the Douaumont ossuary, which contains the remains of more than 130,000 unknown soldiers.

No other war had changed the map of Europe so dramatically. Four empires disappeared: the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian. Numerous nations regained their former independence, and new ones created. Four dynasties, together with their ancillary aristocracies, all fell after the war: the Hohenzollerns, the Habsburgs, the Romanovs, and the Ottomans. Belgium and Serbia were badly damaged, as was France, with 1.4 million soldiers dead,[161] not counting other casualties. Germany and Russia were similarly affected.[162]

Formal end of the war

A formal state of war between the two sides persisted for another seven months, until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles with Germany on 28 June 1919. However, the American public opposed ratification of the treaty, mainly because of the League of Nations the treaty created. The United States did not formally end its involvement in the war until the Knox–Porter Resolution was signed on 2 July 1921 by President Warren G. Harding.[163] For the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the state of war ceased under the provisions of the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act 1918 with respect to:

  • Germany on 10 January 1920.[164]
  • Austria on 16 July 1920.[165]
  • Bulgaria on 9 August 1920.[166]
  • Hungary on 26 July 1921.[167]
  • Turkey on 6 August 1924.[168]

After the Treaty of Versailles, treaties with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire were signed. However, the negotiation of the latter treaty with the Ottoman Empire was followed by strife (the Turkish War of Independence), and a final peace treaty between the Allied Powers and the country that would shortly become the Republic of Turkey was not signed until 24 July 1923, at Lausanne.

Some war memorials date the end of the war as being when the Versailles Treaty was signed in 1919, which was when many of the troops serving abroad finally returned to their home countries; by contrast, most commemorations of the war's end concentrate on the armistice of 11 November 1918. Legally, the formal peace treaties were not complete until the last, the Treaty of Lausanne, was signed. Under its terms, the Allied forces divested Constantinople on 23 August 1923.

Peace treaties and national boundaries

After the war, the Paris Peace Conference imposed a series of peace treaties on the Central Powers officially ending the war. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles dealt with Germany, and building on Wilson's 14th point, brought into being the League of Nations on 28 June 1919.[169][170]

The Central Powers had to acknowledge responsibility for "all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by" their aggression. In the Treaty of Versailles, this statement was Article 231. This article became known as War Guilt clause as the majority of Germans felt humiliated and resentful. Overall the Germans felt they had been very unjustly dealt by what they called the "diktat of Versailles." Schulze says, the Treaty placed Germany, "under legal sanctions, deprived of military power, economically ruined, and politically humiliated."[171] Belgian historian Laurence Van Ypersele emphasizes the central role played by memory of the war and the Versailles Treaty in German politics in the 1920s and 1930s:

Active denial of war guilt in Germany and German resentment at both reparations and continued Allied occupation of the Rhineland made widespread revision of the meaning and memory of the war problematic. The legend of the "stab in the back" and the wish to revise the "Versailles diktat," and the belief in an international threat aimed at the elimination of the German nation persisted at the heart of German politics. Even a man of peace such as Stresemann publicly rejected German guilt. As for the Nazis, they waved the banners of domestic treason and international conspiracy in an attempt to galvanize the German nation into a spirit of revenge. Like a Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany sought to redirect the memory of the war to the benefit of its own policies.[172]

Meanwhile new nations liberated from German rule viewed the treaty as recognition of wrongs committed against small nations by much larger aggressive neighbors.[173] The Peace Conference required all the defeated powers to pay reparations for all the damage done to civilians. However, owing to economic difficulties and Germany being the only defeated power with an intact economy, the burden fell largely on Germany.

Greek refugees from Smyrna, fleeing from the genocide in Turkey, 1922.

Austria-Hungary was partitioned into several successor states, including Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, largely but not entirely along ethnic lines. Transylvania was shifted from Hungary to Greater Romania. The details were contained in the Treaty of Saint-Germain and the Treaty of Trianon. As a result of the Treaty of Trianon, 3.3 million Hungarians came under foreign rule. Although the Hungarians made up 54% of the population of the pre-war Kingdom of Hungary, only 32% of its territory was left to Hungary. Between 1920 and 1924, 354,000 Hungarians fled former Hungarian territories attached to Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

The Russian Empire, which had withdrawn from the war in 1917 after the October Revolution, lost much of its western frontier as the newly independent nations of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland were carved from it. Romania took control of Bessarabia in April 1918.[174]

The Ottoman Empire disintegrated, and much of its non-Anatolian territory was awarded to various Allied powers as protectorates. The Turkish core in Anatolia was reorganised as the Republic of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire was to be partitioned by the Treaty of Sèvres of 1920. This treaty was never ratified by the Sultan and was rejected by the Turkish republican movement, leading to the Turkish Independence War and, ultimately, to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.

National identities

Poland reemerged as an independent country, after more than a century. The Kingdom of Serbia and its dynasty, as a "minor Entente nation" and the country with the most casualties per capita,[175][176][177] became the backbone of a new multinational state, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia. Czechoslovakia, combining the Kingdom of Bohemia with parts of the Kingdom of Hungary, became a new nation. Russia became the Soviet Union and lost Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, which became independent countries. The Ottoman Empire was soon replaced by Turkey and several other countries in the Middle East.

Map of territorial changes in Europe after World War I (as of 1923).

In the British Empire, the war unleashed new forms of nationalism. In Australia and New Zealand the Battle of Gallipoli became known as those nations' "Baptism of Fire". It was the first major war in which the newly established countries fought, and it was one of the first times that Australian troops fought as Australians, not just subjects of the British Crown. Anzac Day, commemorating the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, celebrates this defining moment.[178][179]

After the Battle of Vimy Ridge, where the Canadian divisions fought together for the first time as a single corps, Canadians began to refer to theirs as a nation "forged from fire".[180] Having succeeded on the same battleground where the "mother countries" had previously faltered, they were for the first time respected internationally for their own accomplishments. Canada entered the war as a Dominion of the British Empire and remained so, although it emerged with a greater measure of independence.[181][182] When Britain declared war in 1914, the dominions were automatically at war; at the conclusion, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were individual signatories of the Treaty of Versailles.[183]

The establishment of the modern state of Israel and the roots of the continuing Israeli–Palestinian conflict are partially found in the unstable power dynamics of the Middle East that resulted from World War I.[184] Prior to the end of the war, the Ottoman Empire had maintained a modest level of peace and stability throughout the Middle East.[185] With the fall of the Ottoman government, power vacuums developed and conflicting claims to land and nationhood began to emerge.[186] The political boundaries drawn by the victors of World War I were quickly imposed, sometimes after only cursory consultation with the local population. In many cases, these continue to be problematic in the 21st-century struggles for national identity.[187][188] While the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I was pivotal in contributing to the modern political situation of the Middle East, including the Arab-Israeli conflict,[189][190][191] the end of Ottoman rule also spawned lesser known disputes over water and other natural resources.[192]

Health effects

The war had profound consequences in the health of the troops. Of the 60 million European military personnel who were mobilised from 1914 to 1918, 8 million were killed, 7 million were permanently disabled, and 15 million were seriously injured. Germany lost 15.1% of its active male population, Austria-Hungary lost 17.1%, and France lost 10.5%.[193] In Germany civilian deaths were 474,000 higher than in peacetime, due in large part to food shortages and malnutrition that weakened resistance to disease.[194] By the end of the war, famine had killed approximately 100,000 people in Lebanon.[195] The best estimates of the death toll from the Russian famine of 1921 run from 5 million to 10 million people.[196] By 1922, there were between 4.5 million and 7 million homeless children in Russia as a result of nearly a decade of devastation from World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the subsequent famine of 1920–1922.[197] Numerous anti-Soviet Russians fled the country after the Revolution; by the 1930s, the northern Chinese city of Harbin had 100,000 Russians.[198] Thousands more emigrated to France, England, and the United States.

Emergency military hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed about 675,000 people in the United States alone. Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918.

In Australia, the effects of the war on the economy were no less severe. The Australian prime minister, Billy Hughes, wrote to the British prime minister, Lloyd George, "You have assured us that you cannot get better terms. I much regret it, and hope even now that some way may be found of securing agreement for demanding reparation commensurate with the tremendous sacrifices made by the British Empire and her Allies."[199] Australia received ₤5,571,720 war reparations, but the direct cost of the war to Australia had been ₤376,993,052, and, by the mid-1930s, repatriation pensions, war gratuities, interest and sinking fund charges were ₤831,280,947.[199] Of about 416,000 Australians who served, about 60,000 were killed and another 152,000 were wounded.[200]

Diseases flourished in the chaotic wartime conditions. In 1914 alone, louse-borne epidemic typhus killed 200,000 in Serbia.[201] From 1918 to 1922, Russia had about 25 million infections and 3 million deaths from epidemic typhus.[202] Whereas before World War I Russia had about 3.5 million cases of malaria, its people suffered more than 13 million cases in 1923.[203] In addition, a major influenza epidemic spread around the world. Overall, the 1918 flu pandemic killed at least 50 million people.[204][205]

Lobbying by Chaim Weizmann and fear that American Jews would encourage the USA to support Germany culminated in the British government's Balfour Declaration of 1917, endorsing creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.[206] A total of more than 1,172,000 Jewish soldiers served in the Allied and Central Power forces in World War I, including 275,000 in Austria-Hungary and 450,000 in Czarist Russia.[207]

The social disruption and widespread violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War sparked more than 2,000 pogroms in the former Russian Empire, mostly in the Ukraine.[208] An estimated 60,000–200,000 civilian Jews were killed in the atrocities.[209]

In the aftermath of World War I, Greece fought against Turkish nationalists led by Mustafa Kemal, a war which resulted in a massive population exchange between the two countries under the Treaty of Lausanne.[210] According to various sources,[211] several hundred thousand Pontic Greeks died during this period.[212]

Technology

Ground warfare

A Russian armoured car, 1919.

World War I began as a clash of 20th-century technology and 19th-century tactics, with the inevitably large ensuing casualties. By the end of 1917, however, the major armies, now numbering millions of men, had modernised and were making use of telephone, wireless communication,[213] armoured cars, tanks,[214] and aircraft. Infantry formations were reorganised, so that 100-man companies were no longer the main unit of manoeuvre; instead, squads of 10 or so men, under the command of a junior NCO, were favoured.

Artillery also underwent a revolution. In 1914, cannons were positioned in the front line and fired directly at their targets. By 1917, indirect fire with guns (as well as mortars and even machine guns) was commonplace, using new techniques for spotting and ranging, notably aircraft and the often overlooked field telephone. Counter-battery missions became commonplace, also, and sound detection was used to locate enemy batteries.

Germany was far ahead of the Allies in utilising heavy indirect fire. The German Army employed 150 mm (6 in) and 210 mm (8 in) howitzers in 1914, when typical French and British guns were only 75 mm (3 in) and 105 mm (4 in). The British had a 6 inch (152 mm) howitzer, but it was so heavy it had to be hauled to the field in pieces and assembled. The Germans also fielded Austrian 305 mm (12 in) and 420 mm (17 in) guns and, even at the beginning of the war, had inventories of various calibers of Minenwerfer, which were ideally suited for trench warfare.[215]

Much of the combat involved trench warfare, in which hundreds often died for each yard gained. Many of the deadliest battles in history occurred during World War I. Such battles include Ypres, the Marne, Cambrai, the Somme, Verdun, and Gallipoli. The Germans employed the Haber process of nitrogen fixation to provide their forces with a constant supply of gunpowder despite the British naval blockade.[216] Artillery was responsible for the largest number of casualties[217] and consumed vast quantities of explosives. The large number of head wounds caused by exploding shells and fragmentation forced the combatant nations to develop the modern steel helmet, led by the French, who introduced the Adrian helmet in 1915. It was quickly followed by the Brodie helmet, worn by British Imperial and US troops, and in 1916 by the distinctive German Stahlhelm, a design, with improvements, still in use today.

The widespread use of chemical warfare was a distinguishing feature of the conflict. Gases used included chlorine, mustard gas and phosgene. Few war casualties were caused by gas,[219] as effective countermeasures to gas attacks were quickly created, such as gas masks. The use of chemical warfare and small-scale strategic bombing were both outlawed by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, and both proved to be of limited effectiveness,[220] though they captured the public imagination.[221]

The most powerful land-based weapons were railway guns weighing hundreds of tons apiece. These were nicknamed Big Berthas, even though the namesake was not a railway gun. Germany developed the Paris Gun, able to bombard Paris from over 100 킬로미터 (62 mi), though shells were relatively light at 94 kilograms (210 lb). While the Allies also had railway guns, German models severely out-ranged and out-classed them.

British Vickers machine gun, 1917.

Trenches, machine guns, air reconnaissance, barbed wire, and modern artillery with fragmentation shells helped bring the battle lines of World War I to a stalemate. The British and the French sought a solution with the creation of the tank and mechanised warfare. The British first tanks were used during the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916. Mechanical reliability was an issue, but the experiment proved its worth. Within a year, the British were fielding tanks by the hundreds, and they showed their potential during the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917, by breaking the Hindenburg Line, while combined arms teams captured 8,000 enemy soldiers and 100 guns. Meanwhile, the French introduced the first tanks with a rotating turret, the Renault FT, which became a decisive tool of the victory. The conflict also saw the introduction of Light automatic weapons and submachine guns, such as the Lewis Gun, the Browning automatic rifle, and the Bergmann MP18.

Another new weapon, the flamethrower, was first used by the German army and later adopted by other forces. Although not of high tactical value, the flamethrower was a powerful, demoralising weapon that caused terror on the battlefield. It was a dangerous weapon to wield, as its heavy weight made operators vulnerable targets.

Trench railways evolved to supply the enormous quantities of food, water, and ammunition required to support large numbers of soldiers in areas where conventional transportation systems had been destroyed. Internal combustion engines and improved traction systems for automobiles and trucks/lorries eventually rendered trench railways obsolete.

Naval

Germany deployed U-boats (submarines) after the war began. Alternating between restricted and unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic, the Kaiserliche Marine employed them to deprive the British Isles of vital supplies. The deaths of British merchant sailors and the seeming invulnerability of U-boats led to the development of depth charges (1916), hydrophones (passive sonar, 1917), blimps, hunter-killer submarines (HMS R-1, 1917), forward-throwing anti-submarine weapons, and dipping hydrophones (the latter two both abandoned in 1918).[83] To extend their operations, the Germans proposed supply submarines (1916). Most of these would be forgotten in the interwar period until World War II revived the need.

Aviation

RAF Sopwith Camel. In April 1917, the average life expectancy of a British pilot on the Western Front was 93 flying hours.[222]

Fixed-wing aircraft were first used militarily by the Italians in Libya on 23 October 1911 during the Italo-Turkish War for reconnaissance, soon followed by the dropping of grenades and aerial photography the next year. By 1914, their military utility was obvious. They were initially used for reconnaissance and ground attack. To shoot down enemy planes, anti-aircraft guns and fighter aircraft were developed. Strategic bombers were created, principally by the Germans and British, though the former used Zeppelins as well.[223] Towards the end of the conflict, aircraft carriers were used for the first time, with HMS Furious launching Sopwith Camels in a raid to destroy the Zeppelin hangars at Tondern in 1918.[224]

Manned observation balloons, floating high above the trenches, were used as stationary reconnaissance platforms, reporting enemy movements and directing artillery. Balloons commonly had a crew of two, equipped with parachutes,[225] so that if there was an enemy air attack the crew could parachute to safety. (At the time, parachutes were too heavy to be used by pilots of aircraft (with their marginal power output), and smaller versions were not developed until the end of the war; they were also opposed by the British leadership, who feared they might promote cowardice.)[226]

Recognised for their value as observation platforms, balloons were important targets for enemy aircraft. To defend them against air attack, they were heavily protected by antiaircraft guns and patrolled by friendly aircraft; to attack them, unusual weapons such as air-to-air rockets were even tried. Thus, the reconnaissance value of blimps and balloons contributed to the development of air-to-air combat between all types of aircraft, and to the trench stalemate, because it was impossible to move large numbers of troops undetected. The Germans conducted air raids on England during 1915 and 1916 with airships, hoping to damage British morale and cause aircraft to be diverted from the front lines, and indeed the resulting panic led to the diversion of several squadrons of fighters from France.[223][226]

War crimes

Baralong incidents

On 19 August 1915, the German submarine U-27 was sunk by the British Q-ship HMS Baralong. All German survivors were summarily executed by Baralong's crew on the orders of Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert, the captain of the ship. The shooting was reported to the media by American citizens who were on board the Nicosia, a British freighter loaded with war supplies, which was stopped by U-27 just minutes before the incident.[227]

On 24 September, Baralong destroyed U-41, which was in the process of sinking the cargo ship Urbino. According to Karl Goetz, the submarine's commander, Baralong continued to fly the US flag after firing on U-41 and then rammed the lifeboat - carrying the German survivors - sinking it.[228]

HMHS Llandovery Castle

The Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed by the German submarine SM U-86 on 27 June 1918 in violation of international law. Only 24 of the 258 medical personnel, patients, and crew survived. Survivors reported that the U-boat surfaced and ran down the lifeboats, machine-gunning survivors in the water. The U-boat captain, Helmut Patzig, was charged with war crimes in Germany following the war, but escaped prosecution by going to the Free City of Danzig, beyond the jurisdiction of German courts.[229]

Chemical weapons in warfare

French soldiers making a gas and flame attack on German trenches in Flanders

The use of poison gas, as a weapon, was introduced by Imperial Germany on 31 January 1915 during the Battle of Bolimov, and was later subsequently used by all major belligerents against enemy combatants throughout the war. It is estimated that the use of chemical weapons employed by both sides throughout the war had inflicted 1.3 million casualties. For example, the British had over 180,000 chemical weapon casualties during the war, and up to one-third of US casualties were caused by gas and mustard. The Russian Army reportedly suffered roughly 500,000 chemical weapon casualties in World War I.[230] The use of chemical weapons in warfare was in direct violation of the 1899 Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases and the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare, which prohibited their use.[231][232]

Poison gas was not only limited to combatants but also civilians as civilian towns were at risk from winds blowing the poison gases through. Civilians rarely had a warning system put into place to alert their neighbors of the danger. In addition to poor warning systems, civilians often did not have access to effective gas masks. An estimated 100,000-260,000 civilian casualties were caused by chemical weapons during the conflict and tens of thousands of more (along with military personnel) died from scarring of the lungs, skin damage, and cerebral damage in the years after the conflict ended. Many commanders on both sides knew that such weapon would cause major harm to civilians as wind would blow poison gases into nearby civilian towns but nonetheless continued to use them throughout the war. British Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig wrote in his diary: "My officers and I were aware that such weapon would cause harm to women and children living in nearby towns, as strong winds were common in the battlefront. However, because the weapon was to be directed against the enemy, none of us were overly concern at all."[233][234][235][236]

Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Austro-Hungarian soldiers executing men and women in Serbia, 1916.[237]
Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide. Image taken from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, written by Henry Morgenthau, Sr. and published in 1918.[238]

The ethnic cleansing of the Ottoman Empire's Armenian population, including mass deportations and executions, during the final years of the Ottoman Empire is considered genocide.[239] The Ottomans saw the entire Armenian population as an enemy[240] that had chosen to side with Russia at the beginning of the war.[241] In early 1915, a number of Armenians joined the Russian forces, and the Ottoman government used this as a pretext to issue the Tehcir Law (Law on Deportation). This authorized the deportation of Armenians from the Empire's eastern provinces to Syria between 1915 and 1917. The exact number of deaths is unknown: while Balakian gives a range of 250,000 to 1.5 million for the deaths of Armenians,[242] the International Association of Genocide Scholars estimates over 1 million.[239][243] The government of Turkey has consistently rejected charges of genocide, arguing that those who died were victims of inter-ethnic fighting, famine, or disease during World War I.[244] Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination.[245][246][247]

Russian Empire

Many pogroms accompanied the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War. 60,000–200,000 civilian Jews were killed in the atrocities throughout the former Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement in present-day Ukraine).[248]

"Rape of Belgium"

The German invaders treated any resistance—such as sabotaging rail lines—as illegal and immoral, and shot the offenders and burned buildings in retaliation. In addition, they tended to suspect that most civilians were potential "franc-tireurs" (guerrillas) and, accordingly, took and sometimes killed hostages from among the civilian population. The German army executed over 6,500 French and Belgian civilians between August and November 1914, usually in near-random large-scale shootings of civilians ordered by junior German officers. The German Army destroyed 15,000–20,000 buildings—most famously the university library at Louvain—and generated a wave of refugees of over a million people. Over half the German regiments in Belgium were involved in major incidents.[249] Thousands of workers were shipped to Germany to work in factories. British propaganda dramatizing the "Rape of Belgium" attracted much attention in the United States, while Berlin said it was both lawful and necessary because of the threat of "franc-tireurs" like those in France in 1870.[250] The British and French magnified the reports and disseminated them at home and in the United States, where they played a major role in dissolving support for Germany.[251][252]

Soldiers' experiences

The First Contingent of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps to the 1 Lincolns, training in Bermuda for the Western Front, winter 1914–1915. The two BVRC contingents suffered 75% casualties.

The British soldiers of the war were initially volunteers but increasingly were conscripted into service. Surviving veterans, returning home, often found that they could only discuss their experiences amongst themselves. Grouping together, they formed "veterans' associations" or "Legions".

Prisoners of war

German prisoners in a French prison camp, during the later part of the war.

About eight million men surrendered and were held in POW camps during the war. All nations pledged to follow the Hague Conventions on fair treatment of prisoners of war. POWs' rate of survival was generally much higher than that of their peers at the front.[253] Individual surrenders were uncommon; large units usually surrendered en masse. At the siege of Maubeuge about 40,000 French soldiers surrendered, at the battle of Galicia Russians took about 100,000 to 120,000 Austrian captives, at the Brusilov Offensive about 325,000 to 417,000 Germans and Austrians surrendered to Russians, at the Battle of Tannenberg 92,000 Russians surrendered. When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, some 20,000 Russians became prisoners, at the battle near Przasnysz (February–March 1915) 14,000 Germans surrendered to Russians, at the First Battle of the Marne about 12,000 Germans surrendered to the Allies. 25–31% of Russian losses (as a proportion of those captured, wounded, or killed) were to prisoner status; for Austria-Hungary 32%, for Italy 26%, for France 12%, for Germany 9%; for Britain 7%. Prisoners from the Allied armies totalled about 1.4 million (not including Russia, which lost 2.–3.52-point-what? Does this mean 2.5–3.5? Or 2 million to 3.5?[모호한 표현] million men as prisoners. In some research it is stated that the number of Russian prisoners was 2,417,000). From the Central Powers about 3.3 million men became prisoners; most of them surrendered to Russians.[254]

Germany held 2.5 million prisoners; Russia held 2.2–2.9 million; while Britain and France held about 720,000. Most were captured just prior to the Armistice. The United States held 48,000. The most dangerous moment was the act of surrender, when helpless soldiers were sometimes gunned down.[255][256] Once prisoners reached a camp, conditions were, in general, satisfactory (and much better than in World War II), thanks in part to the efforts of the International Red Cross and inspections by neutral nations. However, conditions were terrible in Russia: starvation was common for prisoners and civilians alike; about 15–20% of the prisoners in Russia died (in some researches it is stated that 2.5% of prisoners in Russia died, and in Central powers imprisonment—8% of Russians.[257] In Germany, food was scarce, but only 5% died.[258][259][260]

Emaciated Indian Army soldier who survived the Siege of Kut.

The Ottoman Empire often treated POWs poorly.[261] Some 11,800 British Empire soldiers, most of them Indians, became prisoners after the Siege of Kut in Mesopotamia in April 1916; 4,250 died in captivity.[262] Although many were in very bad condition when captured, Ottoman officers forced them to march 1,100 킬로미터 (684 mi) to Anatolia. A survivor said: "We were driven along like beasts; to drop out was to die."[263] The survivors were then forced to build a railway through the Taurus Mountains.

In Russia, when the prisoners from the Czech Legion of the Austro-Hungarian army were released in 1917, they re-armed themselves and briefly became a military and diplomatic force during the Russian Civil War.

While the Allied prisoners of the Central Powers were quickly sent home at the end of active hostilities, the same treatment was not granted to Central Power prisoners of the Allies and Russia, many of whom served as forced labor, e.g., in France until 1920. They were released only after many approaches by the Red Cross to the Allied Supreme Council.[264] German prisoners were still being held in Russia as late as 1924.[265]

Military attachés and war correspondents

Military and civilian observers from every major power closely followed the course of the war. Many were able to report on events from a perspective somewhat akin to modern "embedded" positions within the opposing land and naval forces. These military attachés and other observers prepared voluminous first-hand accounts of the war and analytical papers.

Support and opposition to the war

Support

Poster urging women to join the British war effort, published by the Young Women's Christian Association

In the Balkans, Yugoslav nationalists such as the leader Ante Trumbić in the Balkans strongly supported the war, desiring the freedom of Yugoslavs from Austria-Hungary and other foreign powers and the creation of an independent Yugoslavia.[266] The Yugoslav Committee was formed in Paris on 30 April 1915 but shortly moved its office to London; Trumbić led the Committee.[266] In April 1918, the Rome Congress of Oppressed Nationalities met, including Czechoslovak, Italian, Polish, Transylvanian, and Yugoslav representatives who urged the Allies to support national self-determination for the peoples residing within Austria-Hungary.[267]

In the Middle East, Arab nationalism soared in Ottoman territories in response to the rise of Turkish nationalism during the war, with Arab nationalist leaders advocating the creation of a pan-Arab state.[268] In 1916, the Arab Revolt began in Ottoman-controlled territories of the Middle East in an effort to achieve independence.[268]

A number of socialist parties initially supported the war when it began in August 1914.[267] But European socialists split on national lines, with the concept of class conflict held by radical socialists such as Marxists and syndicalists being overborne by their patriotic support for war.[269] Once the war began, Austrian, British, French, German, and Russian socialists followed the rising nationalist current by supporting their countries' intervention in the war.[270]

Italian nationalism was stirred by the outbreak of the war and was initially strongly supported by a variety of political factions. One of the most prominent and popular Italian nationalist supporters of the war was Gabriele d'Annunzio, who promoted Italian irredentism and helped sway the Italian public to support intervention in the war.[271] The Italian Liberal Party, under the leadership of Paolo Boselli, promoted intervention in the war on the side of the Allies and utilised the Dante Alighieri Society to promote Italian nationalism.[272] Italian socialists were divided on whether to support the war or oppose it; some were militant supporters of the war, including Benito Mussolini and Leonida Bissolati.[273] However, the Italian Socialist Party decided to oppose the war after anti-militarist protestors were killed, resulting in a general strike called Red Week.[274] The Italian Socialist Party purged itself of pro-war nationalist members, including Mussolini.[274] Mussolini, a syndicalist who supported the war on grounds of irredentist claims on Italian-populated regions of Austria-Hungary, formed the pro-interventionist Il Popolo d'Italia and the Fasci Rivoluzionario d'Azione Internazionalista ("Revolutionary Fasci for International Action") in October 1914 that later developed into the Fasci di Combattimento in 1919, the origin of fascism.[275] Mussolini's nationalism enabled him to raise funds from Ansaldo (an armaments firm) and other companies to create Il Popolo d'Italia to convince socialists and revolutionaries to support the war.[276]

Opposition

Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) after the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

The trade union and socialist movements had long voiced their opposition to a war, which they argued would only mean that workers would kill other workers in the interest of capitalism. Once war was declared, however, many socialists and trade unions backed their governments. Among the exceptions were the Bolsheviks, the Socialist Party of America, and the Italian Socialist Party, and individuals such as Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, and their followers in Germany. There were also small anti-war groups in Britain and France.

Benedict XV, elected to the papacy less than three months into World War I, made the war and its consequences the main focus of his early pontificate. In stark contrast to his predecessor,[277] five days after his election he spoke of his determination to do what he could to bring peace. His first encyclical, Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum, given 1 November 1914, was concerned with this subject. Seen as being biased in favour of the other and resented for weakening national morale, Benedict XV found his abilities and unique position as a religious emissary of peace ignored by the belligerent powers. The 1915 Treaty of London between Italy and the Triple Entente included secret provisions whereby the Allies agreed with Italy to ignore papal peace moves towards the Central Powers. Consequently, the publication of Benedict's proposed seven-point Peace Note of August 1917 was roundly ignored by all parties except Austria-Hungary.[278]

The Deserter, 1916. Anti-war cartoon depicting Jesus facing a firing squad with soldiers from five European countries.

In Britain, in 1914, the Public Schools Officers' Training Corps annual camp was held at Tidworth Pennings, near Salisbury Plain. Head of the British Army Lord Kitchener was to review the cadets, but the imminence of the war prevented him. General Horace Smith-Dorrien was sent instead. He surprised the two-or-three thousand cadets by declaring (in the words of Donald Christopher Smith, a Bermudian cadet who was present), "that war should be avoided at almost any cost, that war would solve nothing, that the whole of Europe and more besides would be reduced to ruin, and that the loss of life would be so large that whole populations would be decimated. In our ignorance I, and many of us, felt almost ashamed of a British General who uttered such depressing and unpatriotic sentiments, but during the next four years, those of us who survived the holocaust—probably not more than one-quarter of us—learned how right the General's prognosis was and how courageous he had been to utter it."[279] Voicing these sentiments did not hinder Smith-Dorien's career, or prevent him from doing his duty in World War I to the best of his abilities.

Execution at Verdun at the time of the mutinies in 1917.
German Revolution, Kiel, 1918.

Many countries jailed those who spoke out against the conflict. These included Eugene Debs in the United States and Bertrand Russell in Britain. In the US, the Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918 made it a federal crime to oppose military recruitment or make any statements deemed "disloyal". Publications at all critical of the government were removed from circulation by postal censors,[127] and many served long prison sentences for statements of fact deemed unpatriotic.

A number of nationalists opposed intervention, particularly within states that the nationalists were hostile to. Although the vast majority of Irish people consented to participate in the war in 1914 and 1915, a minority of advanced Irish nationalists staunchly opposed taking part.[280] The war began amid the Home Rule crisis in Ireland that had resurfaced in 1912, and, by July 1914, there was a serious possibility of an outbreak of civil war in Ireland.[281] Irish nationalists and Marxists attempted to pursue Irish independence, culminating in the Easter Rising of 1916, with Germany sending 20,000 rifles to Ireland in order to stir unrest in Britain.[281] The UK government placed Ireland under martial law in response to the Easter Rising, although, once the immediate threat of revolution had dissipated, the authorities did try to make concessions to nationalist feeling.[282]

Other opposition came from conscientious objectors—some socialist, some religious—who refused to fight. In Britain, 16,000 people asked for conscientious objector status.[283] Some of them, most notably prominent peace activist Stephen Henry Hobhouse, refused both military and alternative service.[284] Many suffered years of prison, including solitary confinement and bread and water diets. Even after the war, in Britain many job advertisements were marked "No conscientious objectors need apply".

The Central Asian Revolt started in the summer of 1916, when the Russian Empire government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service.[285]

In 1917, a series of French Army Mutinies led to dozens of soldiers being executed and many more imprisoned.

In Milan, in May 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries organised and engaged in rioting calling for an end to the war, and managed to close down factories and stop public transportation.[286] The Italian army was forced to enter Milan with tanks and machine guns to face Bolsheviks and anarchists, who fought violently until 23 May when the army gained control of the city. Almost 50 people (including three Italian soldiers) were killed and over 800 people arrested.[286]

In September 1917, Russian soldiers in France began questioning why they were fighting for the French at all and mutinied.[287] In Russia, opposition to the war led to soldiers also establishing their own revolutionary committees, which helped foment the October Revolution of 1917, with the call going up for "bread, land, and peace". The Bolsheviks agreed to a peace treaty with Germany, the peace of Brest-Litovsk, despite its harsh conditions.

In northern Germany, the end of October 1918, saw the beginning of the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Units of the German Navy refused to set sail for a last, large-scale operation in a war which they saw as good as lost; this initiated the uprising. The sailors' revolt which then ensued in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven and Kiel spread across the whole country within days and led to the proclamation of a republic on 9 November 1918 and shortly thereafter to the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Conscription

Young men registering for conscription, New York City, June 5, 1917.

The Conscription Crisis of 1917 in Canada erupted when the Conservative Prime Minister, Robert Borden, brought in compulsory military service through the Military Service Act over the objection of French-speaking Quebecers.[288] It opened a political gap between French Canadians, who believed their true loyalty should be to Canada and not to the British Empire, and members of the Anglophone majority, who saw the war as a duty to both Britain and Canada. Out of approximately 625,000 Canadians who served, about 60,000 were killed and another 173,000 wounded.[289]

In Australia, a sustained pro-conscription campaign by Billy Hughes, the Prime Minister, caused a split in the Australian Labor Party, so Hughes formed the Nationalist Party of Australia in 1917 to pursue the matter. Nevertheless, the labour movement, the Catholic Church, and Irish nationalist expatriates successfully opposed Hughes' push, which was rejected in two plebiscites.

In Britain, conscription resulted in the calling up of nearly every physically fit man in Britain—six of ten million eligible. Of these, about 750,000 lost their lives and 1,700,000 were wounded. Most deaths were to young unmarried men; however, 160,000 wives lost husbands and 300,000 children lost fathers.[290]

Legacy

... "Strange, friend," I said, "Here is no cause to mourn."
"None," said the other, "Save the undone years"... 

— Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting, 1918[218]

The first tentative efforts to comprehend the meaning and consequences of modern warfare began during the initial phases of the war, and this process continued throughout and after the end of hostilities.

Memorials

A typical village war memorial to soldiers killed in World War I

Memorials were erected in thousands of villages and towns. Close to battlefields, those buried in improvised burial grounds were gradually moved to formal graveyards under the care of organisations such as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the American Battle Monuments Commission, the German War Graves Commission, and Le Souvenir français. Many of these graveyards also have central monuments to the missing or unidentified dead, such as the Menin Gate memorial and the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.

On 3 May 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer was killed. At his graveside, his friend John McCrae, M.D., of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, wrote the memorable poem In Flanders Fields as a salute to those who perished in the Great War. Published in Punch on 8 December 1915, it is still recited today, especially on Remembrance Day and Memorial Day.[291][292]

Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, is a United States memorial dedicated to all Americans who served in World War I. The site was dedicated on 1 November 1921, when the supreme Allied commanders spoke to a crowd of more than 100,000 people. It was the only time in history these leaders were together in one place—Lieutenant General Baron Jacques of Belgium; General Armando Diaz of Italy; Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France; General Pershing of the United States; and Admiral D. R. Beatty of Britain. After three years of construction, the Liberty Memorial was completed and President Calvin Coolidge delivered the dedication speech to a crowd of 150,000 people in 1926. Liberty Memorial is also home to The National World War I Museum, the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to World War I.

The UK Government has budgeted substantial resources to the commemoration of the war during the period 2014 to 2018. The lead body is the Imperial War Museum.[293]

Cultural memory

World War I had a lasting impact on social memory. It was seen by many in Britain as signalling the end of an era of stability stretching back to the Victorian period, and across Europe many regarded it as a watershed.[294] Historian Samuel Hynes explained:

A generation of innocent young men, their heads full of high abstractions like Honour, Glory and England, went off to war to make the world safe for democracy. They were slaughtered in stupid battles planned by stupid generals. Those who survived were shocked, disillusioned and embittered by their war experiences, and saw that their real enemies were not the Germans, but the old men at home who had lied to them. They rejected the values of the society that had sent them to war, and in doing so separated their own generation from the past and from their cultural inheritance.[295]

This has become the most common perception of World War I, perpetuated by the art, cinema, poems, and stories published subsequently. Films such as All Quiet on the Western Front, Paths of Glory and King & Country have perpetuated the idea, while war-time films including Camrades, Poppies of Flanders, and Shoulder Arms indicate that the most contemporary views of the war were overall far more positive.[296] Likewise, the art of Paul Nash, John Nash, Christopher Nevinson, and Henry Tonks in Britain painted a negative view of the conflict in keeping with the growing perception, while popular war-time artists such as Muirhead Bone painted more serene and pleasant interpretations subsequently rejected as inaccurate.[295] Several historians like John Terraine, Niall Ferguson and Gary Sheffield have challenged these interpretations as partial and polemical views:

These beliefs did not become widely shared because they offered the only accurate interpretation of wartime events. In every respect, the war was much more complicated than they suggest. In recent years, historians have argued persuasively against almost every popular cliché of World War I. It has been pointed out that, although the losses were devastating, their greatest impact was socially and geographically limited. The many emotions other than horror experienced by soldiers in and out of the front line, including comradeship, boredom, and even enjoyment, have been recognised. The war is not now seen as a 'fight about nothing', but as a war of ideals, a struggle between aggressive militarism and more or less liberal democracy. It has been acknowledged that British generals were often capable men facing difficult challenges, and that it was under their command that the British army played a major part in the defeat of the Germans in 1918: a great forgotten victory.[296]

Though these views have been discounted as "myths"[295][297] these perceptions of the war, they are common.[296] They have dynamically changed according to contemporary influences, reflecting in the 1950s perceptions of the war as "aimless" following the contrasting Second World War and emphasising conflict within the ranks during times of class conflict in the 1960s.[296] The majority of additions to the contrary are often rejected.[296]

Social trauma

A 1919 book for veterans, from the US War Department.

The social trauma caused by unprecedented rates of casualties manifested itself in different ways, which have been the subject of subsequent historical debate.[298] Some people[누가?] were revolted by nationalism and its results, and began to work towards a more internationalist world, supporting organisations such as the League of Nations. Pacifism became increasingly popular. Others had the opposite reaction, feeling that only strength and military might could be relied upon in a chaotic and inhumane world. Anti-modernist views were an outgrowth of the many changes taking place in society.

The experiences of the war led to a collective trauma shared by many from all participating countries. The optimism of la belle époque was destroyed, and those who had fought in the war were referred to as the Lost Generation.[299] For years afterwards, people mourned the dead, the missing, and the many disabled.[300] Many soldiers returned with severe trauma, suffering from shell shock (also called neurasthenia, a condition related to posttraumatic stress disorder).[301] Many more returned home with few after-effects; however, their silence about the war contributed to the conflict's growing mythological status.[298] In Britain, mass mobilisation, large casualty rates, and the collapse of the Edwardian era made a strong impression on society. Though many participants did not share in the experiences of combat or spend any significant time at the front, or had positive memories of their service, the images of suffering and trauma became the widely shared perception.[298] Such historians as Dan Todman, Paul Fussell, and Samuel Heyns have all published works since the 1990s arguing that these common perceptions of the war are factually incorrect.[298]

Discontent in Germany

The rise of Nazism and fascism included a revival of the nationalist spirit and a rejection of many post-war changes. Similarly, the popularity of the stab-in-the-back legend (German: Dolchstoßlegende) was a testament to the psychological state of defeated Germany and was a rejection of responsibility for the conflict. This conspiracy theory of betrayal became common, and the German populace came to see themselves as victims. The widespread acceptance of the "stab-in-the-back" theory delegitimized the Weimar government and destabilized the system, opening it to extremes of right and left. A sense of disillusionment and cynicism became pronounced, with nihilism growing.

Communist and fascist movements around Europe drew strength from this theory and enjoyed a new level of popularity. These feelings were most pronounced in areas directly or harshly affected by the war. Adolf Hitler was able to gain popularity by utilising German discontent with the still controversial Treaty of Versailles.[302] World War II was in part a continuation of the power struggle never fully resolved by World War I. Furthermore, it was common for Germans in the 1930s to justify acts of aggression in terms of perceived injustices imposed by the victors of World War I.[303][304][305] American historian William Rubinstein wrote that:

The 'Age of Totalitarianism' included nearly all of the infamous examples of genocide in modern history, headed by the Jewish Holocaust, but also comprising the mass murders and purges of the Communist world, other mass killings carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies, and also the Armenian genocide of 1915. All these slaughters, it is argued here, had a common origin, the collapse of the elite structure and normal modes of government of much of central, eastern and southern Europe as a result of World War I, without which surely neither Communism nor Fascism would have existed except in the minds of unknown agitators and crackpots.[306]

Views in the United States

The announcing of the armistice. 11 November 1918, Philadelphia.

US intervention in the war, as well as the Wilson administration itself, became deeply unpopular. This was reflected in the US Senate's rejection of the Versailles Treaty and membership in the League of Nations. In the interwar era, a consensus arose that US intervention had been a mistake, and the Congress passed laws in an attempt to preserve US neutrality in any future conflict. Polls taken in 1937 and the opening months of World War II established that nearly 60% regarded intervention in WWI as a mistake, with only 28% opposing that view. But, in the period between the fall of France and the attack on Pearl Harbor, public opinion changed dramatically and, for the first time, a narrow plurality rejected the idea that the war had been a mistake.[307]

Economic effects

Poster showing women workers, 1915.

One of the most dramatic effects of the war was the expansion of governmental powers and responsibilities in Britain, France, the United States, and the Dominions of the British Empire. In order to harness all the power of their societies, governments created new ministries and powers. New taxes were levied and laws enacted, all designed to bolster the war effort; many have lasted to this day. Similarly, the war strained the abilities of some formerly large and bureaucratised governments, such as in Austria-Hungary and Germany; however, any analysis of the long-term effects were clouded by the defeat of these governments.

Gross domestic product (GDP) increased for three Allies (Britain, Italy, and US), but decreased in France and Russia, in neutral Netherlands, and in the three main Central Powers. The shrinkage in GDP in Austria, Russia, France, and the Ottoman Empire reached 30 to 40%. In Austria, for example, most pigs were slaughtered, so at war's end there was no meat.

In all nations, the government's share of GDP increased, surpassing 50% in both Germany and France and nearly reaching that level in Britain. To pay for purchases in the United States, Britain cashed in its extensive investments in American railroads and then began borrowing heavily on Wall Street. President Wilson was on the verge of cutting off the loans in late 1916, but allowed a great increase in US government lending to the Allies. After 1919, the US demanded repayment of these loans. The repayments were, in part, funded by German reparations, which, in turn, were supported by American loans to Germany. This circular system collapsed in 1931 and the loans were never repaid. In 1934, Britain owed the US $4.4 billion[308] of World War I debt.[309]

Macro- and micro-economic consequences devolved from the war. Families were altered by the departure of many men. With the death or absence of the primary wage earner, women were forced into the workforce in unprecedented numbers. At the same time, industry needed to replace the lost labourers sent to war. This aided the struggle for voting rights for women.[310]

Hyperinflation reduced German banknotes' value so much that they could be used as wallpaper. Many savers were ruined.[311]

World War I further compounded the gender imbalance, adding to the phenomenon of surplus women. The deaths of nearly one million men[모호한 표현] during the war increased the gender gap by almost a million; from 670,000 to 1,700,000. The number of unmarried women seeking economic means grew dramatically. In addition, demobilisation and economic decline following the war caused high unemployment. The war increased female employment; however, the return of demoblised men displaced many from the workforce, as did the closure of many of the wartime factories. Hence women who had worked during the war found themselves struggling to find jobs and those approaching working age were not offered the opportunity.

In Britain, rationing was finally imposed in early 1918, limited to meat, sugar, and fats (butter and oleo), but not bread. The new system worked smoothly. From 1914 to 1918, trade union membership doubled, from a little over four million to a little over eight million. Work stoppages and strikes became frequent in 1917–1918 as the unions expressed grievances regarding prices, alcohol control, pay disputes, fatigue from overtime and working on Sundays, and inadequate housing.

Britain turned to her colonies for help in obtaining essential war materials whose supply had become difficult from traditional sources. Geologists such as Albert Ernest Kitson were called on to find new resources of precious minerals in the African colonies. Kitson discovered important new deposits of manganese, used in munitions production, in the Gold Coast.[312]

Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles (the so-called "war guilt" clause) stated Germany accepted responsibility for "all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies."[313] It was worded as such to lay a legal basis for reparations, and the same clause was inserted, mutatis mutandis "in the treaties with Austria and Hungary, neither of whom interpreted it as declaration of war guilt.[314] In 1921, the total reparation sum was placed at 132 billion gold marks. However, "Allied experts knew that Germany could not pay" this sum. The total sum was divided into three categories, with the third being "deliberately designed to be chimerical" and its "primary function was to mislead public opinion ... into believing the" total sum "was being maintained."[315] Thus, 50 billion gold marks (12.5 billion dollars) "represented the actual Allied assessment of German capacity to pay" and "therefore ... represented the total German reparations" figure that had to be paid.[315] Furthermore, this figure could be paid in cash or in kind (coal, timber, chemical dyes etc.). In addition, some of the territory lost—via the treaty of Versailles—was credited towards the reparation figure as was other acts such helping to restore the Library of Louvain.[316] In 1932 the payment of reparations was suspended by the international community, by which point Germany had only paid the equivalent of 20.598 billon gold marks in reparations.[317] With the rise of Adolf Hitler, all bonds and loans that had been issued and taken out during the 1920s and early 1930s were cancelled. David Andelman notes "refusing to pay doesn't make an agreement null and void. The bonds, the agreement, still exist." Thus, following the Second World War, at the London Conference in 1953, Germany agreed to resume payment on the money borrowed. On 3 October 2010, Germany made the final payment on these bonds.[318]

Media

Allied bombing runs over German lines.
French and British WWI-era tanks.
"The Makin's of the U.S.A."
performed by Harry Von Tilzer and the Peerless Quartet. By Vincent Bryan. Columbia Records, March 1918.
"We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser"
performed by Arthur Fields and the Peerless Quartet. By James A. Brennan. Edison Records, May 1918.

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  1. The United States did not declare war on Bulgaria or the Ottoman Empire.
  2. The United States did not ratify any of the treaties agreed to at the Paris Peace Conference.
  3. Bulgaria joined the Central Powers on 14 October 1915.
  4. The United States declared war on Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.
  5. Austria was considered one of the successor states to Austria-Hungary.
  6. The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.
  7. Hungary was considered one of the successor states to Austria-Hungary.
  8. The Ottoman Empire agreed to a secret alliance with Germany on 2 August 1914. It joined the war on the side of the Central Powers on 29 October 1914.
  9. Although the Treaty of Sèvres was intended to end the war between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire, it was never ratified by the Ottoman Empire. After the Turkish War of Independence, the Allies and the Republic of Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, agreed to the Treaty of Lausanne.

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