The first world war

The first world war or the great war was a global conflict killing nearly 20 million people and is the first recorded use of chemical warfare, the conflict was started near a sandwich shop in the Balkans.

Plot

The world war is started due to a number of reasons and for the sake of time I am only going to cover the major players, this is a list of why each major nation joined:

Austria: Austria was the first nation to declare war in the conflict, the reason being that Serbian terrorists had killed the Austrian arch duke.

Serbia: Serbia joined because Austria declared war on them.

Russia: Russia joined to defend Serbia and as an attempt by the Czar to gain public support

Germany: Germany joined because it was allies with Austria and wanted to gain territory from neighboring nations

France: France was an allied with Russia so it was dragged into the war against Germany.

Britain: Britain joined because Germany entered France through neutral Belgium.

Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman Empire was allied with Germany

FIRST OFFENSIVES

The first major offensives of the war was the German invasion of Belgium, they had invaded in hopes of being able to avoid confrontation with the french defensive fortifications but ultimately this only aided in drawing the British into the war Quicker.

The Russian army staged an offensive into Austria and Germany from the east but this was a short lived victory as for the rest of the war with Russia, Russia would be pushed back into Russia by the Superior German military.

This eventually settled down into a handful of fronts:

The famous western front where the battles where defined by trenches and static battle lines.

The eastern front, more mobile but also more one sided.

The Austrian-Italian front, a brutal front fought in the alps of northern Italy.

The African front, where a German general repeatedly decimated British forces despite having almost no supply lines.

The Pacific front where Japanese forces captured German colonies.

The Ottoman front, most notable for the one major offensive against the defended entrance to the black sea, In which Ottoman guns proceeded to decimate the British French fleet, forcing them to preform a land invasion, which also achieved nothing.

MID GAME

Germany had a powerful industrial sector and the allies where purchasing material from America in order to stay in the war so the majority of world war one was stalemate, with attempts to develop weapons to defeat this stalemate, but the other side creating copies before a significant impact is made

these weapons include (but are not limited to):

Flamethrowers

The Paris gun

New Dreadnoughts such as the Queen Elizabeth, and the Bayern class super dreadnoughts

Tanks

Big fuck you guns

Poison gas

a multitude of sub-machine guns

A very fat British flamethrower

Aircraft and fighter craft

Zeppelin airships

And many others.

Result: no one really won this garbage fire of a war