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| | Articles - World War I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The Allied Powers (led by Britain and France, and, after 1917, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire), and led to the collapse of four empires and a radical change in the map of Europe. |
 | | However, the latter treaty with the Ottoman Empire was followed by strife (the Turkish Independence War) and a final peace treaty was signed by the Allied Powers and the country that would shortly become the Republic of Turkey, at Lausanne on 24 July 1923. |
 | | Many war memorials date the end of the war as being when the Versaille treaty was signed, 1919; by contrast, most commemorations of the war´s end concentrate on the Armistice of 1918; however, the formal ending of all hostilities was not until 1923. |
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