The Great War Notes

Triple Entente (Allies) - France, Great Britain, Russia (Leaves 1917), America (Enters 1917)

Triple Alliance (Central Powers) - Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary are on the decline

Italy switches sides in 1915

France - George Clemenceau

Great Britain - 1. King George the 5th 2. David Lloyd George (Prime Minister)

Russia - 1. Czar Nicholas the 2nd 2. Vladimir Lenin (Makes USSR)

Germany - Kaiser Wilhem the 2nd

Italy - Vittorio Orlando (Prime Minister)

Austria-Hungary - 1. Emperor Franz Joseph 2. Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand gets assassinated by Gavrillo Princip of the Serbian Nationalist Group (a.k.a. The Black Hand)

Schlieffen Plan - An attempt to prevent a two-front war (Failed).

Treaty of Versailles - participants were Lloyd George (GB), Clemenceau (FR), Orlando (IT) and Woodrow Wilson (US).