But Great War also raged on Russian, Balkan and Italian fronts, and spread to Middle East, Africa and Asia, where Japan sided with Allies to seize German islands in 1914.. Immediately at the outbreak of war, Ottoman empire -- allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary -- closed Bosphorus..…
On Saturday afternoon he will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the town of Compiegne where the armistice ending the war was signed by Allies and Germany in forest clearing on November 11, 1918.. ..…
The American entry into the war did have the desired effect for the Allies: Germany ran out of money, out of food, and began to suffer reversals in the west. ..…