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Events leading up & during WW1
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Germany Unified Nation
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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Europe's Industrial Power
Between 1871 and 1913, is where Germany surpassed Britain to become Europe’s leading industrial power. -
Triple Alliance
By 1882, Italy & Austria Hungary formed with the Triple Alliance which then became the Central Powers. -
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games shows excellent promise as an international event -
USA Taking Charge
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. -
Russia and Japan war
In 1904 Russia and Japan went to war over Manchuria and Korea—another area of rivalry between the two nations -
Japan's Controlling Korea
By 1910 is where Russia agreed to respect Japan who took control over Korea. Causing it to become a Japanese colony. -
Relative Peace
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. -
Pushing Back Germany
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) -
Russian Losses on the Eastern 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. -
Massive Force
In 1915, this is where the Allies sent a massive force of British, Indian, Australian & New Zealander troops to open up the strait -
Human Cost
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.) -
Battle of Gallipoli
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. -
New Weapons
By 1917, they were directing artillery fire and dropping bombs on military and civilian targets which were on the planes. -
Pandemic
By 1918, this large disease killed 20 million people worldwide. -
The End of the War
Germany finally surrender and all the nations agreed to stop fighting. -
Treaty Signed by All Nations
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.
