World War 1

**World War I** (or the **First World War**, often abbreviated as **WWI** or **WW1**) was a global war originating in Lynesia that lasted from 1 Januray 1913 to January 17 1922. Contemporaneously known as the **Great War** or "the war to end all wars". The war led to the mobilization of 67,552,102 soldiers, 53,594,560 of which were Lynesians.

### World War 1:

#### Background and the fighting factions:

On 26 Demember 1912, troops from Presma and Dalija exchanged fire on the border between the two nations, leading to Dalij-Presman border crisis. As Dalija was part of the Imperial Alliance, the leader of the alliance (Empire of Pendors), issued an ultimatum to Presma on 31 Demember. Presma's reply failed to satisfy the Pendorsians, and the three moved to a war footing. A network of interlocking alliances enlarged the crisis from a bilateral issue south Lynesia to one involving most of Lynesia. By January 1913, the great powers of Lynesia were divided into two coalitions: the Protection League, consisting of Orville, Sitovia, Angelia, Luros and Presma. and the Imperial Alliance of Pendors, Dalija, Vilksia and the Jaffarids.

The Vilksian advance into Orville was halted at the Battle of Volaron and by February 1915, the Western Front settled into a war of attrition. The Republic of Rimton initially remained neutral, though even while neutral it became an important supplier of war materiel to the Protection League. Eventually, after Vilksia won the Battle of Enroin, Rimton was afraid of a Vilksian or Pendorsian Victory in the war an as such they declared war on the Imperial Alliance. Trained Rimton forces did not begin arriving at the front in large numbers until mid-1918, but the Rimton Expeditionary Force ultimately reached some two million troops.

#### Eastern Front and Sitovian Civil war:

The war in the east started with a Sitovian invasion into the Imperial Alliance's territories in the east. initially, the invasion went well, capturing some of the Imperial Alliance's eastern territories, but they were eventually defeated by the Pendorsians and Vilksians who retook most of their territories back.Although the invasion against the Jaffarid Empire was successful, capturing the strategic Disnir Mountains. Ultimately though, a victory against one nation would not be enough. The Sitovians would go on to lose the battle of Kazvur, losing much of its Southern coastline and starving the peasants even more. Shortly after that, the Sitovian Revolution ended the monarchist rule over Sitovia and created a new Republican government. However, some Sitovian army generals loyal to the monarchist cause, rejected the formation of a Republic and they would organize in the city of Cazau, where they assembled the Royal Sitovian Army and went to war with the Republic of Sitovia. Shorty after the Republic's founding, the leaders of it would sign the treaty of Krybna and end World War 1 for Sitovia and starting the Sitovian Civil War.

Many historians today believe that the Battle of Neroi was the beginning of the end as after the battle, the Protection League begun to advance into Pendorsian territories. And after the Pendorsian defeat in the battle of Vez, the Protectish offensive into Pendors formally begun.

#### The end of World War 1 for Pendors:

A few months after the battle of Vez, the siege of Berden begun. The Siege was initially a stalemate, with the Pendorsians not surrendering and with the PL not able to do anything about it until the Pendorsian Communists arrived. The Communists managed to fight off the Protection League and force them to retreat from Berden. The siege was considered a defeat by the Protection League while the Communists considered their victory in Berden as 'The greatest victory of the Revolution'. A few months after the lost siege of Berden, the Empire would dissolve itself and the Republic of Tasherdi would declare independence from the Empire. The Communists not wanting to fight a war on two fronts, decided to let go of Tasherdi but did not recognize its independence. The dissolution of the Empire of Pendors is seen by some as the end of World War 1 as all of the original Imperial Alliance members have either surrendered, or collapsed. But other see the treaty of Vladigrad as the end of World War 1 as it ended the fighting as a whole.

### Results of the war

The war resulted in the creation of new independent states such as the Republic of Tasherdi, Kingdom of Prodov, the Kingdom of Zyrush and more. Ultimately though, the war didn't really change a lot. Besides the creation of new states and the change of Rimton's foreign policy from isolationism to neutrality, everything mostly stayed the same.