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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Title: The Causes And Effects Of World War I
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