Axis & Allies 1914 Board GameThis is not World War II. Progress during "The War to End All Wars" was measured by yards, not miles. The Italians were on the side of the Allies, while Turkey then at the center of the Ottoman Empire was one of the members of what was known as the Central Powers. Imperial Germany and the Austro Hungarian Empire were the two other main Central Powers. The major Allies, sometimes referred to as the Entente, consisted of the British Empire, France,