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By 1871, Germany finally became a Unified Nation where they finished a distant third to France and Great Britain within the mixed colonies. Which didn't go well with the German Leaders.
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Between 1871 and 1913, is where Germany surpassed Britain to become Europe’s leading industrial power.
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By 1882, Italy & Austria Hungary formed with the Triple Alliance which then became the Central Powers. -
The Olympic Games shows excellent promise as an international event -
The United States announced that it would take charge in any Latin American nation that could not properly manage its affairs in 1904. It took such action in several nations between 1904 and 1916. -
In 1904 Russia and Japan went to war over Manchuria and Korea—another area of rivalry between the two nations -
By 1910 is where Russia agreed to respect Japan who took control over Korea. Causing it to become a Japanese colony. -
Europe enjoyed a century of the relative peace in 1914.
Causing the great powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Britain,
France, & Russia.) have a general distrust of one another. They signed treaties for peace however the result was the opposite. Thus where World War I began. -
In Sept 1914, The British & French troops pushed back the German drive along the Marne River.
(the first battle of Marne ended Germany's hopes for a quick victory within the Western Front) -
By August 1914, Russian armies pushed into eastern Germany. Then the Russians suffered the defeat at Tannnenberg, causing them to retreat. Russia was poorly equipped to fight a modern war. -
In 1915, this is where the Allies sent a massive force of British, Indian, Australian & New Zealander troops to open up the strait -
The Human Cost happened because of the stalemate on the Western Front. Both of the Allies & Central powers launched massive offensives in 1916.
- This gave a 11 month struggle cost more than a half a million soldiers wounded, killed or missing.
(Somme River was even more deadly than before.) -
Turkish troops trapped the Allies on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. By January 1916, after 10 months & 200,000 injuries, the Allies finally withdrew from the Dardanelles. -
By 1917, they were directing artillery fire and dropping bombs on military and civilian targets which were on the planes. -
By 1918, this large disease killed 20 million people worldwide. -
Germany finally surrender and all the nations agreed to stop fighting. -
Finally after Germany surrendered, 1919 on November came in where all the Nations (Germany, Allied Nations, Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed a treaty for peace. This caused many people to celebrate with parades and such.
