The Triple Alliance vs The Allied powers vs The Allies
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The Triple Alliance - Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy were always called that or the Central Powers (along with the Ottoman Empire.)
The countries fighting the Central Powers were referred to as The Allies at the start and during the course of the First World War.
The countries fighting the Central Powers are referred to in treaties as The Allied Powers or The Allied and Associated Powers after the First World War.
England, Russia, and France who also fought the Central Powers were the Triple Entente, i.e., The Triple Entente was a subset of The Allies or The Allied powers or The Allied and Associated Powers.
Reference: Re: WWI, is the term "Allies" a retronym?
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At first, it was "three against three." The Triple Alliance was Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. The Triple Entente was Britain, France and Russia.
Italy left the Triple Alliance at the beginning of the war, and later joined the Entente in 1915. Later in the war, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined Germany and Austria-Hungary, which were renamed "the Central Powers." That would make it four against four.
But the Central Powers attacked/fought with a bunch of smaller nations, Belgium, Luxembourg, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Greece, Japan, and ultimately the United States, all of which aligned with the Entente.
Because it was a case of "everyone else" against "four," the "everyone else" became known as the "Allies." They are not "Triple Alliance," nor are they the "Triple Entente," but an "expanded" version of what had been the Entente.
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The terms are not really interchangeable - the Triple Entente refers to the common alliance of France, Russia, and the UK leading up to the war. It originated in separate agreements between France and the UK, and France and Russia. German aggression and familial ties between royal families of the UK and Russia eventually led to the three-way agreement.
Almost as soon as the war started, a number of other nations in alliance with on or more members of the original Triple Entente entered into the war, and so this group became the Allies of World War I. After the war, the Treaty of Sèvres defined the term Allied Powers and Principal Allied Powers (UK, France, Italy, Japan, Serbia).
The Triple Alliance of Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been in place since 1882. At the start of the war in 1914, the Central Powers were simply Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire - but were soon joined by the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. Italy decided not to join the war as part of the Triple Alliance (due to a disagreement with the Austro-Hungarian Empire over territory), and eventually joined as the Allies in 1915.
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