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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).
Britain's isolation during the 1899–1902 Second Boer War and Russia's defeat in the 1905 Russo-Japanese War prompted both countries to seek allies. The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 resolved disputes in Asia and paved the way for the establishment of the Triple Entente with France, although this alliance was largely informal.
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 ...
Military alliances shortly before World War I. Germany and the Ottoman Empire allied after the outbreak of war.. This is the list of military alliances.A military alliance is a formal agreement between two or more parties concerning national security in which the contracting parties agree to mutually protect and support one another militarily in case of a crisis that has not been identified in ...
The origins of the First World War (Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26185-6) Keiger, John F.V. (1983). France and the Origins of the First World War. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 978-1-349-17209-2. Kennan, George F. The fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War (Manchester UP, 1984).
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)
The Allies had many more puppet states than all the Central Powers collectively: the United Kingdom had the largest empire in the world. In addition, several countries captured land in the years leading up to the war, which then became puppet states; those states which are immediately relevant to the war are also included here.
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 ...