Germany
War justifications
In early July 1914, in the aftermath of the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinandand the immediate likelihood of

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South African Republic
In opposition to offensive operations by Union of South Africa, which had joined the war, Boer army officers of what is now known as the Maritz Rebellion "refounded" the South African Republicin September 1914. Germany assisted

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With the Bolshevik attack of late 1917, the General Secretariat of Ukraine sought military protection first from the Central Powers and later from the

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States listed in this section were not officially members of the Central Powers. Still, during the war, they cooperated with one or more Central Powers members on a level that makes their

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Bulgaria signed an armistice with the Allies on 29 September 1918, following a successful Allied advance in Macedonia. The Ottoman Empire followed suit on 30 October 1918 in the face of British and Arab gains in Palestine and Syria. Austria and Hungaryconcluded

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• Central Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War
• Color books, transcripts of official documents released by each nation early in the war
• Diplomatic history of World War I
• Home front during World War Icovering

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Other movements supported the efforts of the Central Powers for their own reasons, such as the radical Irish Nationalists who launched the

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