Question: who fought in the western front in ww1
Answer: 11 November 1918 ( 4 years , 3 months and 1 week ) Location Belgium , north - eastern France , Alsace - Lorraine , western Germany Result Decisive Allied Powers victory Belligerents Allied Powers : France ( show ) French West Africa French Equatorial Africa French Indochina British Empire ( show ) Australia Bermuda Canada India Newfoundland New Zealand Southern Rhodesia South Africa United Kingdom Belgium from 1915 : ( show ) Italy from 1916 : Portugal Russia from 1917 : Siam United States Central Powers : German Empire Austria - Hungary Commanders and leaders Joseph Joffre Robert Nivelle Philippe Pétain Ferdinand Foch John French Douglas Haig Albert I of Belgium others : ( show ) Arthur Currie Fernando de Abreu Gomes da Costa John J.