On 19 January 1919 , the Paris Peace Conference , a meeting Social_event of Allied nations that set Placing the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers , including the Ottoman Empire , was first held .

The danger for the Axis Powers was now apparent .

Their mother , Julie Powers Schenecker , was arrested Arrest on suspicion of their murder after an alleged confession .

King William refrained from future military action and appealed Request to the Great Powers .

The single-seat aircraft , flown Motion by pilot Francis Gary Powers , was hit Attack by an S-75 Dvina ( SA-2 Guideline ) surface-to-air missile and crashed Catastrophe near Sverdlovsk ( today 's Yekaterinburg ) .

Powers parachuted Self_motion safely and was captured Arrest .

Powers was convicted Rewards_and_punishments of espionage and sentenced Rewards_and_punishments to three years of imprisonment plus seven years of hard labor but was released Releasing two years later on 10 February 1962 during a prisoner exchange Exchange for Soviet officer Rudolf Abel .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Romani was the last ground attack Attack of the Central Powers on the Suez Canal at the beginning Process_start of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the First World War Hostile_encounter .

This British Empire victory Getting , the first against the Ottoman Empire in the war , ensured Preventing_or_letting the safety of the Suez Canal from ground attacks Attack and ended Process_end the Central Powers ' plans Arranging to disrupt traffic through the canal by gaining Getting control Control of the strategically important northern approaches to it .

The unconditional surrender Surrendering of the border fortress of Rupel in May 1916 to the Central Powers ' forces , mainly composed of Bulgarian troops , was the first event that led to Causation the Noemvriana .

The Allies feared Change_sentiment the possibility of a secret pact between the Greek royalist government and the Central Powers .

The king wanted Greece to maintain her neutrality , a position that would favor the Central Powers plans in the Balkans while the Allies wanted demobilization of the Greek army and the surrender Surrendering of war materiel equivalent to what was lost Earnings_and_losses at Fort Rupel as a guarantee of Greece 's neutrality .

The Allied army shortly thereafter defeated Conquering the Central Powers forces in the Balkans , followed Self_motion by the liberation of Serbia and the conclusion of World War I .

Renamed Name_conferral Yavuz Sultan Selim and Midili '' , the former `` Goeben '' and `` Breslau '' were ordered Request by their German commander to attack Attack Russian positions , in doing so bringing Bringing the Ottoman Empire into the war on the side of the Central Powers .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Bucharest , also known as the `` Argeş–Neajlov Defensive Operation Hostile_encounter '' in Romania , was the last battle Hostile_encounter of the Romanian Campaign Military_operation of 1916 in World War Military_operation I , in which the Central Powers ' combatants , led Bringing by General Erich von Falkenhayn , occupied Control the Romanian capital and forced Request the Romanian Government , as well as the remnants of the Romanian Army to retreat Escaping to Moldavia and re-establish Recovering its capital at Iaşi .

The outcome of the two battles Hostile_encounter was Bucharest being occupied Control on 19 December by the Central Powers and the Romanian and Russian forces ' retreat Escaping to Moldavia , all the way to the Siret .

The Serbian victory Getting over the Austro-Hungarians marked Recording the first Allied victory Getting over the Central Powers in the opening Process_start days of the First World War Hostile_encounter , and the first aerial dogfight of the war Hostile_encounter took place Process_start during the battle Hostile_encounter .

The combatants were , on one side , the Ottoman Empire ( including Kurds and some Arab tribes ) , with some assistance Assistance from the other Central Powers ; and on the other side , the British ( with the help Assistance of Jews , Greeks , Assyrians and the majority of the Arabs , along with Indians under its empire ) , the Russians ( with the help Assistance of Armenians ) and the French from among the Allied Powers .

The combatants were , on one side , the Ottoman Empire ( including Kurds and some Arab tribes ) , with some assistance Assistance from the other Central Powers ; and on the other side , the British ( with the help Assistance of Jews , Greeks , Assyrians and the majority of the Arabs , along with Indians under its empire ) , the Russians ( with the help Assistance of Armenians ) and the French from among the Allied Powers .

The bombing was extremely controversial , and led Causation the US Congress to pass Motion_directional the War Powers Resolution .

Romania was also forced Motion to surrender Surrendering and signed Sign_agreement a similar treaty , though both of the treaties were nullified Destroying with the surrender Surrendering of the Central Powers in November 1918 .

The Entente defeat Conquering at Kosturino led to Causation the complete withdrawal Escaping of Allied forces Causation from Serbia , thus enabling Preventing_or_letting the Central Powers to build Building the Berlin to Constantinople rail line .

Later during the war Hostile_encounter , Rava-Ruska was re-captured Attack by the Central Powers armies on June 21 , 1915 .

The Maritime Powers ( England and the Dutch Republic ) were also financially exhausted Expend_resource , and when Savoy defected Escaping from the Alliance , all parties were keen to negotiate a settlement .

The Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive Attack during World War Hostile_encounter I was initially conceived Creating as a minor German offensive Attack to relieve Cure Russian pressure Influence on the Austro-Hungarians to their south on the Eastern Front , but resulted in Causation the Central Powers ' chief offensive Attack effort of 1915 , causing Causation the total collapse Destroying of the Russian lines and their retreat Escaping far into Russia .

The primary cause Causation of the Central Powers victory Earnings_and_losses was their superior artillery firepower .

After the Bolshevik government withdrew Escaping from World War Military_operation I , the Allied Powers openly backed the anti-communist White forces in Russia .

These factors , together with the evacuation Escaping of the Czechoslovak Legion , compelled Influence the Allied Powers to withdraw Escaping from North Russia and Siberia in 1920 , though Japanese forces occupied Control parts of Siberia until 1922 and the northern half of Sakhalin until 1925 .

The offensive involved Participation a major Russian attack Attack against the armies of the Central Powers on the Eastern Front .