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  2. Allies of World War I - Wikipedia

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    The Allies, the Entente or the Triple 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).

  3. Russian entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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    The outbreak of war on August 1, 1914, caught Russia severely unprepared. [28] The Allies relied heavily on the Russian army, which had a pre-war regular strength of 1,400,000 and added 3,100,000 reserves through mobilization. However, Russia was ill-equipped in other aspects for the war effort.

  4. Russia in the First World War - Wikipedia

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    The Allies waited for Russia to continue its war effort. In March 1917, the French called for a major offensive in the east to support their own Chemin des Dames offensive, but General Alekseyev replied that this was impossible: the thaw had made the roads impassable, horses and fodder were in short supply, and the troops had lost all ...

  5. List of military engagements of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Central Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918-1920) Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918-1925) North Russia Campaign (1918–1919) 1917 French Army mutinies; Finnish Civil War (1918) (for battles see eastern front) Romanian military intervention in Bessarabia (1918)

  6. Eastern Front (World War I) - Wikipedia

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    Even the entry of the United States into the war did not immediately help the Allies recover from the loss of strength and assistance that the Russian army had brought to the Allied war effort. [85] Winston Churchill also confirms the strength of the Russian army: "History was not so merciless to any country as to Russia. Her ship was pulled ...

  7. Allied leaders of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Map of the World showing the participants in World War I. Those fighting along with the Allied Powers (at one point or another) are depicted in blue, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey. The Allied leaders of World War I were the political and military figures that fought for or supported the Allied Powers during World ...

  8. Triple Entente - Wikipedia

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    France developed a strong bond with Russia by ratifying the Franco-Russian Alliance, which was designed to create a strong counter to the Triple Alliance. France's main concerns were to protect against an attack from Germany and to regain Alsace-Lorraine. A 1914 Russian poster in which the upper inscription reads "agreement".

  9. Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers - Wikipedia

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    Signing of the armistice between Russia and the Central Powers on 15 December 1917. On 15 December [O.S. 2 December] 1917, an armistice was signed between the Russian Republic led by the Bolsheviks on the one side, [1] and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire—the Central Powers—on the other. [2]