Central Powers
There was 4 central powers in World War 1 and they were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria. They are called the central powers because of their position in Europe.
Germany, it was no doubt-ably the country that was most involved with the war. They lost the most soldiers in battle with over 2 million people killed in action. The German leader was Kaiser Wilhelm.
The 2nd largest country and 3rd highest population in Europe at the time of WW1 was Austria-Hungary. With their large population they were easily a stronger country then many others. They supposedly started the war because they were trying to take over another country, Serbia.
Turkey was also known as the Ottomann Empire during the World War. They were heavily courted by Germany and they joined forces to take on Russia. They had the greatest loss of people with diseases which was 2 million and then a loss of 800,00 in the field.
Just like Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria entered the war to fight against Serbia. The bad thing for them was that their country was surrounded by hostile countries that wanted to fight them. Their primary weapons during the war were the Mannlicher Rifle in which they had a quarter of a million of and 150 million rounds of ammunition.
In my opinion, I think the central powers were the bad guys of the war. Because of how they wanted to take over Europe and other surrounding areas.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/germanyduringww1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
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