Primera Guerra Mundial

World War I

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This article is about the major war of 1914–18. For other uses, see World War One (disambiguation).
"Great War" redirects here. For other uses, see Great War (disambiguation).
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|World War I|
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|Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV Tank crossing atrench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking |
|after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and German Albatros D.III biplanes |
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|Date|
|28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 (Armistice) |
|Treaty of Versailles signed 28 June 1919|
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|Location |
|Europe, Africa and the Middle East (briefly in China and the Pacific Islands)|
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|Result |
|Allied victory; end of the German, Russian, Ottoman, andAustro-Hungarian Empires; foundation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East; |
|transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers; establishment of the League of Nations. |
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|Belligerents|
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|Allied (Entente) Powers |
|[pic] Russia (1914–17)|
|[pic]France |
|[pic]British Empire |
|[pic] Italy (1915–18)...