Tensions in Europe had been heating up for decades prior to WW1, MAIN
Self-Determination: Idea that people of the same ethnicity, culture, language, ideals, should be united and form their own independent nation-state.
World War One Alliances
Allied Powers | Central Powers | Neutral States |
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France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Greece | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria | Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Albania |
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