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Issues Throughout
Germany steals Alsace and Lorraine, coal capitals, from France, while Austria-Hungary takes an export path from Russia, that Germany builds a railway through.
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War-Long Problems
Germany takes Alcace and Lorraine, coal capitals, from France, while Austria-Hungary takes an export path from Russia, that Germany ends up building a railway through.
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Assassination
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary assassinated by Serbian, causing the entire war to start.
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Start of War
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after the assassination of their Archduke. In turn, Russia comes for support since they have ally agreement with Serbia.
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Pushing Buttons
Germany declares war on France and Germany marches through Belgium to force Britain to enter the war, Scheifflen plan.
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Assassination
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary is assassinated by a Serbian which kick starts the first world war
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Start of War
July, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, and Russia comes to war because they and Serbia are allies.
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Pushing Buttons
August, Germany declares war on France and invades Belgium to force Britain into joining the war, Schleiffen plan.
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Problems Within Countries
Japan had lost ownership of most of their high quality machines,
Germans encourage the Russian Jews to rise up against tsarists, the Turks begin planning the Armenian Genocide, Russia gets overpowered by Communist party, and there is a worldwide lack of food.
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Struggles Outside of the War
July-March, Japan lacked in their high quality machines, Germans encourage Russian Jews to rise up against tsarists, Turks start to construct a plan for the Armenian Genocide, Russia is overpowered by the Communist party, and the world is suffering from lack of nutrition.
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Who & Why
About 444,000 soldiers were shipped from Africa and 1,100,000 total soldiers from India fought in hopes of finally getting independence. An estimated 9 million people perished in this war with 7 million maimed.
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Propaganda
Propaganda was used by many different countries. Russians used it to convince people to buy war bonds, Germans used it for racial superiority, Britain used it to blame the entirety of the war on Germany, US used it to make people think war was glamorous and amazing, and India used it to inspire a hope for freedom.
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Land, Water, & Air
Germany starts air warfare using zeppelins, the Lusitania, a passenger boat, sinks because Germans thought there were materials for war on it and sunk it with a U-Boat. Most of the war took place in France.
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Armenian Genocide
The Ottoman Government developed The Committee of Union and Progress, which would wipe out "unintelligent races". They took people from their homes, killed the innocent, and sent people to deadly camps where they were worked to death, or left for dead.
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Battles Through the War
April, France held the high ground at the battle of Vimy Ridge, The Battle of the Somme River was a blood bath, The Battle of Jutland was the biggest naval battle ever, and there was a major introduction to U-Boats sinking.
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Russia's Whereabouts
March- September, After the Tsar gets abdicated, communism over takes Russia, by agreeing to leave the war, letting Germans only have to focus on one front, leading to the largest, yet costliest, German offensive.
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'Murica
April, The allies benefited because the Americans provided long awaited resources, had amazing optimism, fought hard, and didn't give up when thought they would.
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President Woodrow Wilson
January, One of Wilson's fourteen points was to give European countries the chance to decide if they want to be countries. This was a chance for smaller countries to get away if they wanted. He created The League of Nations to give smaller countries protection. But, the league wasn't trusted since the US, creator of the treaty, didn't join.
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What the People Want
January, Wilson presented his 14 point plan. France wanted land from Germany. Britain wanted revenge, along with many other countries. Italy wanted some land as well.
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Division
The Treaty of Versailles caused many empires to split and mang countries to gain freedom. For example, Austria-Hungary was split into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. Russia was split into Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The Ottoman Empire became Turkey. 18(3-5) -
The Fall of the League
November, the rejection of the league of nations made other nations look out at all times. That, made the league pretty much powerless. The US didn't want to be in it because our president was democratic while our senate was republican, which allowed Germany to gain power.
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End of Terror
People in France came and worked in their depleted factories. Native Germans left colonies to go back to Germany when the war ended. There was also a migration of many people to moving to cities and signing up for the draft. 16(3-5) -
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Post War Struggles
Each countries export rate dropped severely as many were killed in the war, or died of sickness post war. More socialist and communist parties arose as economies crashed.
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Art
After the war, many people turned to romantic like poetry to help them see a brighter side to life itself. The poetry made people have meaning and see more beauty in things surrounding them. This caused people to think of life almost blurry and made so many abstract artists during this time.
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