World War I (The Timeline of Principles)

World War I
Date 24 May 1911 – 17 October 1915 (4 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Place Europe, Africa, Asia Result Allied Powers victory
Belligerents
Allied Powers: France England Russia Holy Roman Empire Slovakia Belarus United States	Grand Alliance: Italy Hungary Ottoman Empire Poland-Lithuania Denmark-Norway

World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, was a global conflict that lasted from 24 May 1911 to 17 October 1915. Two coalitions fought in the war, the Allied Powers and the Grand Alliance. World War I resulted in the deaths of 7 million soldiers and 4 million civilians.

The war began on 24 May 1911, after Italy invaded France without declaring war, which led to England and Russia joining the war on France's side. Meanwhile, states such as Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Poland-Lithuania joined the war on the side of Italy. Despite the early successes of the Grand Alliance in the war, they slowly but surely began to lose. On 17 October 1915, an armistice was signed at Marseilles between the two sides, ending all fighting and ending the war. After the war, the Paris Peace Conference was held where treaties were negotiated between the Allies and the Grand Alliance. The main treaty was the Treaty of Versailles which was signed on 21 May 1916 and became effective on 1 January 1917.

The war caused problems for both sides as each of the countries came to a crisis which caused civil wars which helped the rise of syndicalism thus creating several syndicalist states in Europe. Meanwhile, the crisis in Russia reached the point that Konstantin Rodzaevsky came to power in 1933, abolishing the monarchy and declaring the State of All-Slavic Russia. This post-war instability led to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.