The Great War

The Great War (English: The Great War, Russian: Великая война,Spanish: La Gran Guerra, Latin: Magnus Bellum, Ukrainian: Велика війна,Turkish: Büyük Savaşı,Chinese: 伟大的战争,Japanese: 大戦争) was an international conflict which occurred beginning 1891 and saw its official conclusion on December 16th 1970 when Crimea and The Soviet Union signed an official treaty to put an end to the war. More than 9 million combatants were killed; a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in some of the nations involved.

The war itself drew all of the worlds major powers, such as the Allies ( Which was based off of the alliance of the Four Romes (Italy, Germany, Rum, and Russia) Other major members consisted of: Japan, Great Britain, Netherlands, Arabia, Crimea, Hungary, Zanzibar, Guyane, Ilkhanate, Portugal and any colonial holdings of aformentioned nations) and their opposing counterpart, the Axis (China, Dzungaria, CSA, Quebec, al-Mayiquh, Rio Grande, Tehuantepec, Caucasia, URCA, Venezuela, Ukraine-Romania, Yugoslavia, Galicia, and Czechoslovakia) into the largest war in human history.

Although regional tensions building in Europe and in east Asia were underlying causes of the war, the immidate trigger was the Black Sea Crisis in which a Russian ship guarding a Rumite trade vessel was sunken by a Ukrainan ship upholding the Crimean Embargo. Within days the lines of the alliances were drawn and the two coalitions went to war. The first shots being fired in the Perekop Peninsula in Crimea on August 19, 1891 between the Ukraine-Romanian and Crimean armies.

However, the event that turned it into a "World War" occurred on December 7, 1891, when the Confederate States of America launched a surprise attack on the Japanese island of Oahu, bringing the Pacific front into a bloody battle.