Politics

Allied Powers

The coalition fighting the Central Powers: chiefly Britain and its empire, France, Russia, Italy (from 1915), Japan and, from 1917, the United States. President Wilson insisted that the United States was an "Associated Power" rather than an Ally, to keep its freedom of action.

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• Chapter II Thirty-Seven Days to War §10 Who Was to Blame?
• Chapter III The War of Movement §3 The Rape of Belgium and the Franc-Tireur Myth§5 The First Battle of the Marne§9 The War Spreads: Turkey, the Seas and the Colonies
• Chapter IV Deadlock Overview§2 The Western Front: From Neuve Chapelle to Loos§3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack§4 Gallipoli: The Campaign That Failed§5 Italy Enters the War: The Isonzo and the Mountains§6 The Eastern Front: Gorlice-Tarnów and the Great Retreat§7 The Conquest of Serbia and the Salonika Landing§10 The Lusitania, Zeppelins and the War in the Air
• Chapter V The Year of Attrition §1 The Plan for 1916: Chantilly§4 The Ottoman Fronts: Kut, Erzurum and the Arab Revolt§10 Romania's Gamble and Germany's New Masters
• Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions Overview§2 America Enters, and the World Follows§3 Russia: The February Revolution and the Dual Power§6 Russia's Summer: Kerensky's Offensive, the July Days and Kornilov§9 Peace Moves, the October Revolution and the Armistice in the East
• Chapter VII The Last Gamble Overview§1 Wilson's Fourteen Points§2 Brest-Litovsk: Peace in the East§3 Operation Michael: The Kaiser's Battle§4 Georgette, the Marne, and Why It Failed§5 The Americans Arrive, and the Second Marne§6 Amiens: The Black Day of the German Army§7 The Hundred Days: Breaking the Hindenburg Line§8 The Collapse of Germany's Allies§9 Germany's Revolution§10 The Eleventh Hour: Compiègne
• Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking Overview§3 The Treaty of Versailles§4 The Other Treaties and the New Map§5 Red and White: Russia's Civil War and the Battle for Warsaw§8 Mandates, Sèvres and the Making of Turkey§9 Empire, Independence and the Wilsonian Moment
• Chapter IX In the Trenches §1 Anatomy of a Trench System§10 Other Fronts, Other Trenches
• Chapter X The Machinery of War §3 Poison Gas: The Fear and the Figures§9 Flames, Grenades, Mortars and Clubs
• Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings §2 The Distant Blockade and the Hunger Winters§3 Raiders and Hunters: Spee, Emden and Königsberg§5 Barrages and Raids: Dover, Otranto and Zeebrugge§7 The Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic§8 The Birth of Air Power: Scouts, Fighters and Aces
• Chapter XIII A World on Fire Overview§2 Togoland, Kamerun and South West Africa§7 The Americas: Neutrality, Telegram and Entry§8 The Economic World War§10 Legacies: Nationalism After the War