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Name the central powers

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In World War 1 the central powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman empire. Italy was part of that alliance but because it switched sides before the name changed from the triple alliance to the central powers it is generally not considered a central power.

Before WW1, in 1882, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Germany signed the Triple Alliance, mainly to isolate France from the rest of Europe. Then France, Russia and Great Britain signed the Triple Entente, to oppose the powerful German block. At the outbreak of WW1, the Entente all declared war on Germany and Austria, and they become the Alliance of Powers. Italy broke the treaty declaring itself neutral at the outbreak of the war, even joining the allied powers in 1915. That left Austria and Germany alone until they recived the aid from the Ottoman Empire in 1914 and Bulgaria in 1915, forming the Central powers, because all of them were between France and the Western front and Russia and the rest of the Eastern front.

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