World War I 1914-1918

"The first big war in the world-World War I, military conflict, from August 1914 to November 1918, that involved many of the countries of Europe as well as the United States and other nations throughout the world, but the United States joined the war later. So in the beginning of the war the United States stayed in neutral. World War I was one of the most violent and destructive wars in European history. The term World War I did not come into general use until a second worldwide conflict broke out in 1939. Before that year, the war was known as the Great War or the World War. World War I was the first total war. Once the war began, the countries involved mobilized their entire populations and economic resources to achieve victory on the battlefield. The term home front, which was widely employed for the first time during World War I, perfectly symbolized this new concept of a war in which the civilian population behind the lines was directly and critically involved in the war effort. The war began as a clash between two coalitions of European countries. The first coalition, known as the Allied Powers, included the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, and the Russian Empire. The Central Powers, which opposed them, consisted of the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Japan joined the Allied Powers in 1914. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in 1914, as did Bulgaria in 1915. In the same year, Italy entered the war on the Allied side. Although the United States initially remained neutral, it joined the Allies in 1917. The conflict eventually involved 32 countries, 28 of which supported the Allies. Some of these nations, however, did not participate in the actual fighting. The immediate cause of the war was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by a Serbian nationalist. The fundamental causes of the conflict, however, were rooted deeply in the European history of the previous century, particularly in the political and economic policies that prevailed in Europe after 1871, the year that Germany emerged as a major European power."

World War I was begin in August 1914. There are many countries had joined the war, but the United States was the last country entered the big war. The United States joined the Allies side. The other side was call Central. This war was very terrible in the world many people died during this big war. There were 5,497,600 died in the Allied side. In the other side there were 3,382,500 people died. In World War I there were many kinds of weapons had been used the first of the war. The United States entered to the war had been influenced United States' life. The United States need to provided food, clothes, and armies. Because United States need to provided a lot of merchandises to Europe so the United States will lost a lot of merchandises and the merchandises' prices will decrease. Also all the people's salary will decrease too. During the war the women had entered to the company to work. This was the first time that women have right to work in a company. So the war changed many things in the United States.