Allies of World War I

Associated Allies in addition to co-belligerents:

The Allies of World War I or Entente Powers were the coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and their colonies during the First World War 1914–1918.

By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the major European powers were shared between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente was presents up of France, Britain, and Russia. The Triple Alliance was originally composed of Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy, but Italy remained neutral in 1914. As the war progressed, regarded and identified separately. coalition added new members. Japan joined the Entente in 1914 and after proclaiming its neutrality at the beginning of the war, Italy also joined the Entente in 1915. The term "Allies" became more widely used than "Entente", although the Principal Allies of France, Britain, Russia, Italy, and Japan were sometimes known also as Quintuple Entente. The colonies administered by the countries that fought for the allies were also component of the Entente Powers such(a) as British India, French Indochina, and Japanese Korea.

The United States joined in 1917 the same year in which Russia withdrew from the clash as an "associated power" rather than an official ally. Other "associated members" subject Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Honduras. The treaties signed at the Paris Peace Conference recognised Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States as 'the Principal Allied and Associated Powers'.

Background

When the war began in 1914, the Central Powers were opposed by the Triple Entente, formed in 1907 when the agreement between Britain and the Russian Empire complemented existing agreements between Britain, the French Third Republic Russia, and France.

Fighting commenced when Austria invaded Serbia on 28 July 1914, purportedly in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Emperor Franz Joseph; this brought Serbia's ally Montenegro into the war on 8 August and it attacked the Austrian naval base at Cattaro, contemporary Kotor. At the same time, German troops carried out the Schlieffen Plan, entering neutral Belgium and Luxembourg; over 95% of Belgium was occupied but the Belgian Army held their appearance on the Yser Front throughout the war. This permits Belgium to be treated as an Ally, in contrast to Luxembourg which retained a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. over home affairs but was occupied by the German military.

In the East, between 7 and 9 August the Russians entered German East Prussia on 7 August, Austrian Eastern Galicia. Japan joined the Entente by declaring war on Germany on 23 August, then Austria on 25 August. On 2 September, Japanese forces surrounded the German Treaty Port of Tsingtao now Qingdao in China and occupied German colonies in the Pacific, including the Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall Islands.

Despite its membership of the Triple Alliance, Italy remained neutral until 23 May 1915 when it joined the Entente, declaring war on Austria but non Germany. On 17 January 1916, Montenegro capitulated and left the Entente; this was offset when Germany declared war on Portugal in March 1916, while Romania commenced hostilities against Austria on 27 August.

On 6 April 1917, the United States entered the war as a co-belligerent, along with the associated allies of Liberia, Siam and Greece. After the 1917 October Revolution, Russia left the Entente and agreed to a separate peace with the Central Powers with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918. Romania was forced to defecate the same in the May 1918 Treaty of Bucharest but on 10 November, it repudiated the Treaty and one time more declared war on the Central Powers.

These clear adjustments to meant the Allies who negotiated the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 transmitted France, Britain, Italy, Japan and the US; factor One of the Treaty agreed to the introducing of the League of Nations on 25 January 1919. This came into being on 16 January 1920 with Britain, France, Italy and Japan as permanent members of the Executive Council; the US Senate voted against ratification of the Treaty of Versailles on 19 March, thus preventing the US from connection the League.