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This proposed rail link would facilitate the transportation of military resources, and potentially troops, to support the Ottoman Empire. Russia posed a significant threat as an adversary, and the entry of Italy into the war on the side of the Allies further complicated the challenges faced by the Austro-Hungarian forces.
This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time.
Military operations began on the French frontier, Libau was bombarded by a German cruiser SMS Augsburg and the British government guaranteed naval protection for French coasts. On 3 August the Belgian Government refused German demands and the British government guaranteed military support to Belgium should the German army invade.
Civilian deaths: 2,000,000+ Russian Empire: 410,000 civilians died due to military action 730,000 civilians died of war-related causes [16] Kingdom of Romania: 130,000 civilians died due to military action 200,000 civilians died of war-related causes [17] Austria-Hungary: 120,000 civilians died due to military action
4,700,000 civilians killed or died of disease The European theatre was the main theatre of operations during World War I and was where the war began and ended. During the four years of conflict, battle was joined by armies of unprecedented size, which were equipped with new mechanized technologies.
Elsewhere martial law prevailed. For the majority of the occupation, the German military governor was Moritz von Bissing (1914–17). Beneath the governor was a network of regional and local German kommandanturen and each locality was under the ultimate control of a German officer. [8] Many civilians fled the war zones to safer parts of Belgium.
Nancy Gentile Ford: Civilian and Military Power (USA), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. John Paul Newman: Civilian and Military Power (South-East-Europe), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Nazan Maksudyan: Civilian and Military Power (Ottoman Empire), in: 1914-1918 ...
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."