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 European......

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Title: The Causes And Effects Of World War I
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