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Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom during World War I. Five-sixths of the island left to form the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland, in 1922. A total of 206,000 Irishmen served in the British forces during the war. [98] The number of Irish deaths in the British Army recorded by the registrar general was 27,405. [99]
The 2010 Quadriennal Defense Review (PDF). Center for Strategic and International Studies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2010; Cordesman, Anthony; Nerguizian, Aram (22 April 2010). The Gulf Military Balance in 2010 (PDF). Center for Strategic and International Studies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2010
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
Allied Powers in blue, Central Powers in orange, and the neutral countries are in grey. The identification of the causes of World War I remains a debated issue. World War I began in the Balkans on July 28, 1914, and hostilities ended on November 11, 1918 , leaving 17 million dead and 25 million wounded .
Low Countries Spanish Civil War: 0.35–0.47 million [131] [132] [133] 1936–1939 [e] Nationalists vs. Republicans: Iberian Peninsula Colombian conflict: 0.45 million [137] 1964–present Colombia vs. Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and paramilitaries vs. FARC: Colombia Polish–Ottoman Wars: 0.43 million [138] [139] 1485–1699
French Army in World War I French villages destroyed in the First World War Russia during World War I – food shortages in the major urban centres, and poor morale due to lost battles and heavy losses sustained, brought about civil unrest which led to the February Revolution, the abdication of the Tsar, and the end of the Russian Empire.
Similarly, the losses of the central powers in the East in the period from 1914 to 1916 were greater than similar losses on all other fronts, the Russian army was able to inflict damage to the enemy, estimates range from 4,600,000 [2] to 5,400,000 [141] people from a total loss of 8,090,000.
Feldman, Gerald D. Army, industry, and labor in Germany, 1914–1918 (1966) Healy, Maureen. Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (2007) Herwig, Holger H. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (2009) Howard, N.P.