Why world war I started and who started,why started, what did they gain, where it took
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Why WW1 started
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
Who started it
Britain, France, Ireland and Russia were part of an alliance called the Triple Entente, while Germany aligned itself with Austria-Hungary – known as the Central Powers. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914, it triggered a chain of events that resulted in World War 1.
what was gained/ lost from WW1
Nations that gained or regained territory or independence after World War I. ... France: gained Alsace-Lorraine as well as various African colonies from the German Empire, and Middle East territories from the Ottoman Empire.
Germany lost World War I. In the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany. In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France.
Hungary became an independent nation. The Czechs and the Slovaks were joined together into Czechoslovakia.
Where it took place
most of Europe, North side of Africa, most of Asia