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Monument in Coimbra, Portugal, to the Portuguese soldiers who died in World War I. The Kingdom of Portugal had been allied with England since 1373, and thus the Republic of Portugal was an ally of the United Kingdom. However, Portugal remained neutral from the start of World War I in 1914 until early 1916.
"World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress. "Timeline of the First World War on 1914-1918-Online.
Defeat in Europe Victory in South America. Treaty of Badajoz; Question of Olivença; Treaty of Madrid; Territory of Brazil expanded in the south, but decrease in the north. Portugal quits from Coalition Wars until 1807. Invasion of Portugal (1807) Part of Napoleonic Wars; Location: Iberian Peninsula Portugal: French Empire Spain Defeat
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."
In 2010, the official infant mortality rate was 2.53 per mil, the lowest ever recorded in Portugal (1.6‰ below the UE-27, 2010 average), [18] [19] placing the country among the top-5 in the European Union in this particular value of Human Development.
A Diplomatic History of Europe Since the Congress of Vienna (1958), 736pp; a basic introduction, 1815–1955 online free to borrow; Baumgart, Winfried. Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880–1914 (1982) Betts, Raymond F. The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (1975)
Portugal: March 15, 1916 Austria-Hungary: August 28, 1916 Romania Austria-Hungary German Empire Romania: August 30, 1916 Ottoman Empire: September 1, 1916 Bulgaria: April 6, 1917 United States German Empire: April 7, 1917 Panama: Cuba: June 27, 1917 Greece Austria-Hungary German Empire Bulgaria Ottoman Empire: July 22, 1917 Siam Austria-Hungary
The Allies or the Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).