The First World War (1914–1918) erupted as a large-scale conflict between two opposing alliances: the Tripartite Alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary on one side, and the Entente Powers—composed of England, France, and Russia—on the other.
The "August 1949 provocations" were a series of attacks undertaken by Greek military forces against the People's Republic of Albania during the civil war in Greece. The Greeks alleged that Albania was assisting the opposing forces