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Brief biographical summaries of significant World War I political leaders, from H. H. Asquith to Woodrow Wilson. Written by Alpha History authors.
- Albert I
- H.H. Asquith, 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith
- Sir Robert Borden
- Georges Clemenceau
- Constantine I
- Ferdinand I
- Andrew Fisher
- George V
- William Morris Hughes
- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
King Albert I led the Belgian army and remained with his troops while Germany occupied most of his country.
Asquith led Britain during the first two years of World War I.
Borden led Canada throughout the war and asserted Canada’s independence in international relations.
Clemenceau was a dominant figure in the French Third Republic and a framer of the postwar Treaty of Versailles.
Constantine I became king of Greece in 1913, but he was deposed four years later by the Western Allies and his Greek opponents for his pro-German attitude.
Though a member of the Hohenzollern dynasty that ruled the German Empire, Ferdinand I of Romania supported the Allies in World War I.
Fisher led Australia into World War I, pledging support to “the last man and the last shilling,” but he was forced to resign as prime minister barely a year later.
King George V of the United Kingdom was the first cousin of German Emperor William II and Russian Tsar Nicholas II, but family ties did little to slow the march to war.
The second of Australia’s two wartime prime ministers, Hughes sponsored a pair of unsuccessful referenda on introducing conscription to Australia.
As unrest gripped Petrograd in March 1917, Germany saw an opportunity to strike a fatal blow to the Russian war effort by facilitating Lenin’s return to Russia.
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