Overview

US Allies and Enemies Spring 2012

• • There were two opposing groups that fought in World War I: the Central Powers, made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, and the Allied Powers, also known as the Triple Entente. The Allied powers were formed by the British Empire, France, and Russia.

  • Otto Von Bismark was responsible for the creation of a secret alliance system some time before the first World War. This alliance system was one of the greatest contributing factors to the start of the war.

  • In World War I many other nations started to join the war after 1914.

  • The war was a global conflict. Thirty-two nations were eventually involved. Twenty-eight of these constituted the Allied and Associated Powers, whose principal belligerents were the British Empire, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, and the United States of America.