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The armistice of Belgrade was an agreement on the termination of World War I hostilities between the Triple Entente and the Kingdom of Hungary concluded in Belgrade on 13 November 1918. It was largely negotiated by General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey , as the commanding officer of the Allied Army of the Orient , and Hungarian Prime Minister ...
3 November 1918 World War I: Central Powers Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria (1915–18) Allies: France British Empire Russia (1914–17) Italy United States (1917–18) Serbia and others. Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved. Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) 1,200,000 to 1,494,200 ...
Although the Kingdom of Hungary comprised only 42% of the population of Austria–Hungary, [76] the thin majority – more than 3.8 million soldiers – of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces were conscripted from the Kingdom of Hungary during the First World War. Roughly 600,000 soldiers were killed in action, and 700,000 soldiers were wounded ...
Collapse of Austria-Hungary. There was a period of revolutions and interventions in Hungary between 1918 and 1920. The First Hungarian Republic was founded from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Mihály Károlyi during the Aster Revolution in 1918, at the end of World War I.
The dissolution of Austria-Hungary was a major political event that occurred as a result of the growth of internal social contradictions and the separation of different parts of Austria-Hungary. The more immediate reasons for the collapse of the state were World War I, the 1918 crop failure, general starvation and the economic crisis.
In 1915, the Kingdom of Italy entered the First World War on the side of the Entente following the signing of the Treaty of London, which promised Italy territorial gains at the expense of Austria-Hungary. The treaty was opposed by representatives of the South Slavs living in Austria-Hungary, who were organised as the Yugoslav Committee. [1]
18 January – Count Plunkett, Seán T. O'Kelly and others protested at the forcible feeding of Sinn Féin prisoners in Mountjoy Prison. 5 February – SS Tuscania (1914) was torpedoed off the Irish coast; it was the first ship carrying United States troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
After 1918, Hungary did not have access to the sea, which pre-war Hungary formerly had directly through the Rijeka coastline and indirectly through Croatia-Slavonia. [citation needed] 1885 ethnographic map of the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, i.e. Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia according to the 1880 census