However, despite pressure from the IOC, the hosts stuck to their decision about not inviting the countries that had invaded their country during WWI - Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Also the Soviet Union did not receive an invitation to the sporting event....
Austria-Hungary Germany Turkey Ottoman-Empire(Middle East) Archduke Franze Ferdinand heir to the Austrian throne who was assassinated no man's land a barren expanse of mud; marked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire ("unowned land") trench warfare armies fought for mere yards...