The offensives and objectives / combatants Expansion of the war was swift. Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia on 6 August, 1914. Then France and Great Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary, there were large amounts of wars in the east, and the main combatants in the east were armies of Russia and Austria-Hungary and Germany. Before the war actually started, there were already conflicts between Austria and Russia. In the Balkans, there was fierce rivalry between the two countries, …showed first 75 words of 1167 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1167 total…face the disgrace, Samsonov, the Russian commander committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on August 29, 1914. The offensive in the beginning was a really big miscalculation, and this failure had lead to disastrous loss of men. The First World War redrew the map of Europe and the Middle East. The four great empires, the Romanov, the Hohenzollern, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman, were defeated and collapsed. They were replaced by a number of states.