 European military alliances in 1915. The Central Powers are depicted in puce, the Allies in grey and neutral countries in yellow. This is a list of countries that participated in World War I, sorted by alphabetical order. Note: The Entente Forces are sometimes also referred to as the Entente Powers or Allies of World War I.  Austria-Hungary (now Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, partially Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, partially Ukraine) Bulgaria German Empire (now Burundi, Cameroon, small parts of People's Republic of China, partially Gabon, Germany, Namibia, northern Papua New Guinea, partially Poland, partially Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Samoa, Tanzania, Togo, and various Islands in Micronesia) Ottoman Empire (now Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, partially Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey) [edit] Neutral states [edit] Declarations of War  European military alliances prior to the war.  Allies and Central Powers, early August 1914.  Allies and Central Powers, mid 1918. The following table shows the timeline of the several declarations of war [2] among the belligerent powers. - ^ The British Empire was the common term for the United Kingdom and its overseas possessions at this time. The term refers to the colonies it controlled, to the Indian Empire, which, while not officially designated a colony, was functionally indistinguishable from one, and the British Dominions - former colonies which were self-governing in most respects but whose foreign policy was controlled by London; Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa. At that time, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland also included the entire island of Ireland.
- ^ Entries on a yellowish background refer to severed diplomatic relations only, not to actual declarations of war
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