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Central Powers

noun

In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies.

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... did not enter the World War. She perceived from the very beginning that Germany and Austria were the attackers and were not the nations attacked. Her people began to understand what victory for the Central Powers would mean and clamored for war on the side of the Allies. Then the cry went up to redeem the lost Italian provinces held by Austria and called "Italia Irredenta" or "Unredeemed Italy," and Italy entered ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood