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World War I was a military conflict from 1914 to 1918. It began as a local
European war between Austria - Hungary and Serbia on July 28, 1914. It was
transformed into a general European struggle by declaration of war against
Russia on August 1, 1914 and eventually became a global war involving 32
nations. Twenty - eight of these nations, known as the Allies and the
Associated Powers, and including Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and
the United States, opposed the coalition known as the Central Powers,
consisting of Germany, Austria - Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria. The immediate
cause of the war between Austria - Hungary and Serbia was the assassination
of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, at Sarajevo in Bosnia by
Gavrilo Princip, a Serb nationalist. (Microsoft Encarta, 1996) On July 28
Austria declared war against Serbia, either because it felt Russia would not
actually fight for Serbia, or because it was prepared to risk a general......

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