First World War (The Great Game)

First World War
French soldiers moving through the trenches on the Western Front
Date 27th July 1914 - 27th December 1917 Location Europe, Africa, the Middle East, China Result Allied victory Austria-Hungary loses territory to new states Ottoman Empire collapses End of the German Empire End of the French Empire Formation of the USSR
Combatants
France Russian Empire Prussia Spain Sweden Xia China	Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Republic of China
Commanders
Raymond Poincaré Nicholas II Wilhem II Alfonso XIII Gustaf V Jiong of Xia	Ernst I Franz-Joseph I Mehmed V Ferdinand I Yuan Shikai
Strength
France - 8,500,00 Russian Empire - 13,000,000 Prussia - 5,500,000 Spain - 2,500,00 Sweden - 1,600,000 Xia China - 9,000,000 Total: 40.1 million	Germany - 7,800,000 Austria-Hungary - 8,000,000 Ottoman Empire - 3,500,000 Bulgaria - 1,100,000 Republic of China - 15,000,000 Total: 35.4 million

The First World War was a global war that was centred in Europe and involved all the world's major powers except Great Britain. More than 75 million soldiers were mobilised and over 8 million combatants killed.