The First World War began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia with support from Germany. It began on July 28, 1914. After that events developed quickly and before anyone knew it, there was a World War brewing.
The war was being fought at different places for different reasons and not the whole world was fighting about the assassination of the Archbishop of Austria. Germany was invading Belgium, attacked Belgrade, Britain was attacking France, Russia was mobilizing armies, Germany was fighting Russia, there was the Palestine issue on the other side of Spain and a lot more countries were involved. Germany was fighting the United States too with its U-boats in the Atlantic. There were several casualties and death world wide.
Most of the records were unclear or incomplete but each country had a rough estimate of how many people they would have lost. The war in the African sub continent cost 10,000 lives; for Australia, it was more than 210,000 lives; Austria’s casualty figure stood at the top with more than 600,000; Britain was at 3050000; Germany 5,768,000; Russia 6,700,000; and USA 262,725. These were the most important countries involved in the World War I and suffered a lot of casualties during the entire war.
There were several other countries that participated like Belgium, France, Canada, and Bulgaria all of which lost more than two hundred thousand lives each. The World War 1 was fought mainly by sea and land. So, the casualties related to the sea were much higher. It was easy for an enemy to sink a whole boat rather than hunt for them on land person by person.
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