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Germany became a unified nation
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Germany becomes an Industrial Power, Between 1871 and 1913, Germany surpassed Britain to become Europe’s leading industrial power. These developments dramatically altered the balance of power in Europe.
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Germany's Alliances,Bismarck’s foreign policy was shaped by his goal to protect Germany from the two potential enemies on its borders which was France and Russia. He reduced the threat from Russia in 1881 by forming an alliance with Russia and Austria-Hungary -
Russia seized Chinese Manchuria and established a protectorate over Mongolia
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Russia's Trans-Siberian Railroad was completed.
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Russia's expansionism brought conflict with Japan which was also looking to expand. Neither Russia or Japan was satisfied with the outcome of the war.
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The United States increased power in Latin America to protect investments and disable European imperialism from entering the region
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The British created a naval blockade to stop food, clothing, and weapons from reaching Germany
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The most important front, the western front was a brutal killing field reliant on trench warfare.
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The eastern front featured trench warfare but it was not as common as the western front, it included more modern warfare techniques
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In response to Britain's illegal blockade of Germany, the Germans established their own illegal blockade which attacked ships sending resources to Britain.
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Huge artillery, poison gas, and barbed wire were created to further a sides advancement or defensive ability.
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With the German's destruction of multiple Britain ships with American casualties, America declared war on Germany.
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Planes were used to bomb enemies and caused mass devastation
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Russia is pulled out of the war after collapsing from advancing German troops. Thanks to a new Russian government -
President Woodrow Wilson issues a statement of war goals called the fourteen points, the overall points advocated for nationalism and every nation's right for self-determination. -
Germany surrendered partly based off the peace movements that came with the 14 points, but was mostly due to the overwhelming forces the United States brought to the war.
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With more than 500k troupes on the Western Front, Germany hoped to overwhelm the French and British troops quickly before US reinforcements could arrive.
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Economic recovery was rough after the war,many books had been written about those events in the next few years to come as well
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Many art and novels were made to depict the bitter scenes of war
