Wank War I (in the right place, this time)

Pick a nation involved in WWI, and wank them in some way, without actually going ASB. Then, the next poster can wank another nation in response, and so forth, leading to a truly wanked-out version of the Great War.
 

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August 24, 1915 - The Ottoman High Command today demanded the immediate surrender of the British garrison in Cairo, as the siege of the city reached its 227th day.
 
November 12, 1916:
...With the recent Dutch declaration of war on the Entente, Australian Imperial Forces are set to invade West Papua...
 
Paris, September 29th, 1914
Kaiser Wilhelm II. today inspected the victorious 1. Army, which has taken the French capital in the previous week. Colonel General von Kluck was promoted General Field Marshal and received the Blücher Cross of the Iron Cross.
 
A History of World War 1

Italy gained a lot from the treaty of versailles, with Trieste, Syria, Albania, Cameroon, Tanzania and Slovenia under their control.

they also gained 3 billion Lira in War reparations from Austria-hungary and the Ottoman Empire

The Empire of Japan also gained Colonies in German New Guinea
 
The fall of Paris to belligerent German forces proved to be just the thing to push America over the edge into joining the war. Amid cries of "Remember Lafayette!", the United States has send an Expeditionary force; analysts predict that the US with have half a million troops in Europe by Christmas, with full cavalry and artillery support, with another two million to follow in the next year.
 
February 28, 1917:
...The Dutch, in response to the Australian invasion of West Papua, have begun preparations for an invasion of the Australia's Northern Territory, in what will be the largest amphibious assault since the British Gallipoli campaign of 1915...
 
OOC: How has Italy gained so much land at the Treaty of Versallies when Germany won the war?

July 8, 1915

The end of the Russian Great Offensive. The Tsarist government, having sucesfully captured Galacia, signed the Pragmatic Peace on December 16th (Neither Nicholas I nor Kaiser Wilhelm had wanted the war in the first place, so rights to annex all ethnic Germans in the Austrian Empire were traded for hegemony in the Balkans- France, it was assumed, would have to face another humiliating peace.).

Following up on this, the brilliant strategies of the Eight Week Campaign led to the capture of Budapest with minimal resistance. As Austria-Hungary collapsed, Russia proclaimed the Dominion of the Balkans...
 
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