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In 1871 Germany finally became a unified nation. Germany competed against Great Britain and France in an attempt to gain new colonies. The unification of Germany allowed it to be much more appealing to many other colonies which made it overall more powerful in the long run against GB and France. -
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German foreign secretary Bernhard von Bulowed that, as one of the leaders of Germany, standing to one side while others imperialize more land would be foolish so in 1899 it became clear that this would not be something that would be done. -
At a specific time in the early 1900's, Russia seized Chinese Manchuria and established a protectorate over Mongolia, which had declared independence from China. -
In 1904 Russia and Japan went into war over Manchuria and Korea, which at the time was a large area of rivalry over the two nations. -
In 1904 Russia's vast empire spread from its border with Germany east to the Pacific Ocean. This was later given the name of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and it was the first link between Europe and Asia. -
In 1904, the United States decided that it would take control of any Latin American country that could not properly manage its affairs. This action was taken between 1904 and 1916, and this policy ensured European powers from taking any more control in Latin America to protect their investments.
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The war between Russia and Japan went badly for Russia and ended in 1905. The United States forced a settlement with the help of German and British territory. -
In 1906 a rebellion broke out that was led by South African officers who fought against the British and were pro German stalled the fighting there. -
In 1910 Korea became a Japanese colony. After Monchoria was returned to Russia, Russia agreed to respect Japan's control over Korea. -
After the end of the first Balkan war in 1912 the Armenian population found itself subject to oppression by other Balkans. The war brought a loss of 85 percent of the Ottoman Empire’s European territory, forcing a mass flood of Muslim refugees into the Anatolian region, -
In 1914 the French begged Russia to take the pressure off of the Western Front by invading Germany. Although Russian armies were not ready to fight, they did anyway and it resulted in many deaths. -
The war that lasted between 1914-1918, it cost 8.5 million soldier lives and 13 millions lives of civilians. It was an international conflict that almost every nation in Europe took part in and had bubbled up for nearly a decade before the war actually started.
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Between 1914 and 1917, the Western Front was a brutal killing field as each side, with little success, tried to push the other back. The Western Front was located between France, Belgium, and Alsace.
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On August 23, 1914, Japan declared war on Germany. Japan's intentions for doing this mainly revolved around wanting to gain ownerships over Germany's colonies that were located in Asia. -
In 1915 Bulgaria, Serbia's Balkan enemy, joined the war on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary to form what became known as the central powers. -
In 1915 Italy joined the Allied Powers in war. This was a very big event due to the fact that Italy at the beginning of the war had remained neutral but had now chosen sides. -
In 1915 the Austrians had conquered Serbia and Romania. At the same time, German forces advanced deep into Russia. -
Nearing the end of the war, many countries started running out of materials. By 1916, Germany had run low on some textiles including shoes and shirts.
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In 1916 the Turks beat a force of British colonial troops from India. Later that summer an Arab uprising of British colonial troops drove the Ottomans out of the Arabian peninsula. -
One battle in 1917 was especially bloody for the French. The army had lost 130,000 men in a span of 10 days. This battle had ended when troops refused to make yet another attack. -
In December of 1917 the British defeated and captured Jerusalem and claimed it as new land for them. This was after the Arabian Peninsula was cleared.
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During the 1918's, France battleground was often found littered with the bodies of soldiers that lost their lives. -
Wilfred Owen was a British poet and lieutenant who was in the British Army. Owens had written several poems about the war before he was killed in November 1918 at the age of 25. One of his most well-known poems is “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” which discusses all of the traumatic sights he experienced while on the battlefield. -
In German-ruled East Africa at the time, some 12,000 African soldiers defended against 130,000 Allied troops for three years until finally being forced to surrender in November 1918. -
The Armenian Genocide reduced their population in the Ottoman Empire from 2.13 million to 387,000 people, and the survivors fled to surrounding countries. These actions to devastating to many Armenians, killing off over nine-tenths of their populations.