Joined the war in 1916 when they saw that the Russians were successfully defending against attacks by the Germans, as such, they wanted to seize the opportunity and joined the war
The central powers launched offensives into Romania and caused them to lose half their country to Bulgarians, Germans and Austria Hungarians
Germany took over Bucharest in December 1916. When Russia tried to help to defend them, the Russians were already weak and Romania was forced to surrender to the Germans, losing a lot of land.
The treaty of Trianon in 1920 transferred Romania was given Transylvania
Romania
Albania and Montenegro
Neutral during the war but had ties to Austria-Hungary. As such, Austria-Hungary invaded Albania and Montenegro to continue to pursue the Serbians who were being evacuated at Albanian ports
Balkan nations
Bulgaria
Salty about losing the Balkan war and wanted more land, especially Greek Macedonia and Serbian Macedonia
Promised land from Serbia the central powers, Bulgaria joined the central powers to attack Serbia and successfully took over
Serbia, forcing Serbian troops to retreat to Albania
First to collapse in the war in the war in 1917
Greece
indecisive about whether to join the war
Ethnic Greeks living outside greece were 4 times as many as compared to those that lived inside Greece’s borders.(late 1800s)
Prime Minister wanted to join the allies
King wanted to remain neutral
After a “national Schism", the King of Greece abdicated, the country was united and they joined the allies. They gained Kavala from Bulgaria
Serbia
Part of the allies
Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination of archduke Ferdinand.
265,000 Serbian soldiers died during WW1
At the start of WW1, Serbia had 360,000 men, resisting 3 offensives from Austria-Hungary