The First World War was fought between the Central Powers (Germany, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) and the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy). The aim of the war was to set the world back in order and to prevent war in future It was a standout amongst the most dangerous wars in present day history. About ten million soldiers died of the conflict as a result of hostilities. The huge losses on all sides of the contention brought about to part from the presentation of new weapons, similar to the automatic rifle and gas warfare, and the disappointment of military pioneers to modify their strategies to the undeniably mechanised nature of fighting. A strategy of attrition, especially on the Western Front, cost the lives of a huge number of soldiers. No official organizations kept careful and exact numbers of non military personnel looses amid the war years, however, scholars propose that upwards of thirteen million civilians died as a result of the war. The war removed or dislodged a huge number of people from their homes in Europe and Asia. Property and industry losses were cataclysmic, particularly in France, Belgium, Poland, and Serbia, where war had it 's most impact. In January 1918, approximately ten months before the end of World War I, US President Woodrow Wilson had composed a list of proposed war points which he called the "Fourteen Points." Eight of these points focused particularly with regional and political