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Serbian Politics #3
Serbian politics were polarized between two factions, one headed by the Prime Minister, and the other by the radical nationalist chief of Military Intelligence, -
Nationalism arises #4
The forces of nationalism worked to dismantle old established empires(Ottoman Empire-Austrain-Hungarian Empire) as people living under these rulers clamored to break away and set up their own nations. -
Nationalism contributes to the World War #4
It was nationalism that inspired the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914, an event that led directly to the outbreak of World War I -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated #1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated along with his wife in Sarajevo. This event sparks the start of the war. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia #1
Austria-Hungary prepares for war after the assassination of the archduke as they feel threatened by Serbian ambition. -
Use of propaganda begins worldwide #4
Propaganda was used against the rival nations by governments to convince the citizens to view their enemies negatively. -
Gurkhas#11
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 beckoned the Gurkhas to new destinations. With the advent of the First World War, Gurkhas were called on in even greater numbers. More than 114,000 Gurkhas were called into active service in Givenchy, Ypres, Gallipoli, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Suez, Persia and Afghanistan -
Germany declares war on Russia #1
Germany decides to help out their ally, Austria-Hungary, and declares war on Russia. -
Germany declares war on France #2
Germany declares war on France and intrudes into neutral Belgium. The Schlieffen plan starts to take action to cause a two-front war against France and Russia. -
Great Britain declares war on Germany #1
As Germany moved into Neutral Belgium, German control of Belgium would prove deadly to the Britain's so they moved into action. -
British Propaganda #4
The British begin the use of propaganda and gathers troops by using emotional words to persuade. -
Germany invades #7
Germany invades Belgium and Belgium slows down the German army allowing France and Britain to mobilize thus stopping the Schlieffen plan. -
Germany invades neutral Belgium #1
Germany declared war on France, the German government wrote to the Belgian government demanding the right of free passage across Belgium for its troops, so that the latter could most efficiently invade France and reach Paris. -
Colonial troops#11
Every nation tries to get all the help they need from colonial troops that live in their nation. -
Suspicions of the Turks #12
Military leaders began to argue that the Armenians were traitors. Turkish suspicion of the Armenian people, led the Turkish government to push for the “removal” of the Armenians from the war zones along the Eastern Front. -
Use of Propaganda begins #2
Politicians began to use propaganda to influence public opinion for or against a cause to their advantage. -
The Turks enter World War #12
The Turks entered World War I on the side of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
Battle of Tannenberg #6
The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov. -
First Battle of Marne #6
An offensive by the French army and the British Expeditionary Force against the advancing Germans who had invaded Belgium and northeastern France and were within 30 miles of Paris. -
First Battle of Aisne #6
Allied follow-up offensive against the right wing of the German First Army and the Second Army as they retreated after the First Battle of the Marne -
The Trenches #8
They were constantly wet and water would often build up to several inches. Urine, body odor, poison gas, bad food, rats, little clothing, and misery all defined the trench lifestyle. Diseases such as Trench Foot emerged and close quarters caused infection to be passed from one person to another and from rats and bugs to humans as well. -
First Battle of Ypres #6
Was a battle of the First World War, fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium -
Geography of Ypres #8
Many men died by drowning in thick, liquid mud and fighting conditions were beyond awful. -
Dehra Dun Brigade #11
The 7th Dehra Dun Brigade Division was part of Indian Expeditionary Force A sent to reinforce the British Expeditionary Force fighting in France. -
The soldier #19
The poem The Soldier written by Robert Brooke was published in a magazine gaining recognition. -
Battle of Gallipoli #7
The troops were evacuated on December 1915 and if Gallipoli succeeded it could have ended turkey's participation in the war -
The Gallipoli Campaign #7
It involved the death of many Australian Allied soldiers because of the positioning of the peninsula. -
Deportation #16
The Ottoman government deported hundreds of armenians to other countries causing them to spread across the nation -
Armenian Genocide
Armenians witnessed emigration under pressure of the government, transfers and exchanges, and eventually the mass killings of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire. -
The Armenian Genocide #12
Leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. -
The first genocide of the 21st century #12
During the time the genocide took place, there was around 2 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire but by the end of the massacre around 1.5 million were killed. -
Inequality #12
The Ottoman Empire permitted religious minorities like the Armenians to maintain some autonomy, but they also subjected Armenians, who they viewed as “infidels,” to unequal and unjust treatment. -
Major industrial power #2
The United States remained neutral and became a major industrial power, from which the Europeans bought supplies from. -
The Italian Front #8
Fighting on the Italian Front involved the Swiss Alps and other mountains Rivers, such as the Isonzo were fought over, to gain access to supplies and resources. -
The Balkan Peninsula #4
The Balkan Peninsula, with pockets of ethnic groups such as Serbs, Croats, Czechs, Slovaks, Muslims and others, became known as the Balkan Powder Keg due to the explosive emotions of nationalism that ran high in these groups -
Zeppelins #7
The Germans air raids England which makes it the first air raid with zeppelins out of all the other nations. -
Battle of Verdun #7
Verdun became one of history's greatest slaughters. What had been planned as a major victory and turning point of the war had developed into a battle of attrition which Germany lost the initiative and ultimately the war. -
Prewar institutions #19
Many pre-war institutions begin to close down because they couldn’t handle their patients properly and they were getting worse and worse. -
Zimmerman telegram #2
German ambassador Arthur Zimmermann proposed a Mexican-German alliance against the United States -
Totalitarian government #19
Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini, Nazi Gemrnay under Adolf HItler and the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. -
Bolshevism #9
All European countries, the U.S. and Japan were haunted by the ideas of Bolshevism. In some countries it even became a complete obsession. -
Selective Draft Act #5
The selective draft act was passed by the american government to help increase the number of people in armies -
The Russian Revolution #9
They were fighting against France and England in the west and against Russia in the east meaning they had to divide their military strength between the two fronts. -
Bolshevik revolution#9
It forced Russia out of the war while also losing a considerable portion of its Western territories -
Entry of the United States #10
Joined to protect democratic nations from the threat of anti-democratic ones. The perceived attack from Germany helped to justify the need for entry into the war (The sinking of the Lusitania) -
Economy during the war #17
Over four million Americans served in the armed forces, and the U.S. economy turned out a vast supply of raw materials and munitions. -
A change in plans #17
Entry into the war in 1917 unleashed massive U.S. federal spending which shifted national production from civilian to war goods -
Battle of Passchendaele #6
The Battle of Passchendaele was a major campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire. -
The Lost Battalion #10
Charles White Whittlesey is put in charge of the 77th division, 308th battalion and miraculously survives despite being surrounded by the Germans. -
Lever Food and Fuel Act #5
The resources of the civilians like food and fuel became strictly limited a certain amount by the government. -
Geographical positioning of the Triple Entente #8
The Central Powers were faced on all sides by their enemies. Once Italy had joined in on the side of the Allies, the war became a three front war. The big Western front was in France, and Italian Front in the mountains of Italy, and the Eastern Front was on the border of Russia. -
The Reds and Whites #3
A civil war broke out in Russia between the red and white political parties causing an uproar -
Russian Revolution #3
The discontent from the World War helped bring about the Russian Revolution. The Russian Empire was toppled and replaced by a socialist government led by Vladimir Lenin -
Russia resigns from war #3
Russia was forced to leave the world war because the uprising of the people causing them to give up a part of their army to send back home -
Peace congress for Germany #17
Over four million Americans served in the armed forces, and the U.S. economy turned out a vast supply of raw materials and munitions. -
The Cheka #3
Secret police force, the Cheka, was created to spy on the Russian citizens on their political activities by the government. -
The Committee on Public Control Act
The united states government decided to take control over a majority of the nations railroads. -
Fourteen Points to the Bolsheviks #14
Hoped to keep Russia in the war by convincing the Bolsheviks that they would receive a better peace from the Allies, to bolster Allied morale, and to undermine German war support. -
Fourteen Points #14
It called for forming the League of Nations to solve disagreements between countries by talking about the problems instead of fighting wars. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk#9
The Eastern Front no longer existed for the Germans so They could take their troops from that front and throw them into the Spring Offensive that started a few weeks later on the Western Front. -
Russian mobilization #11
By the end of the World war, Russia had ended up mobilizing the most out of all the nation that participated. -
Kaiserschlacht #7
It was the last German offensive, pushing back the British 40 miles and suffered a casualties of more than 250,000. -
The National War Labor Board #5
prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States or the flag of the United States. -
French Casualties#11
The French has suffered many casualties because most the war was fought on its land. -
Stalemate #10
The United States eventually were the ones to break the stalemate in trench warfare making Germany surrender as a result. -
Meuse-Argonne Offensive #10
Known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
The Balkans #16
The Balkans gain a piece of new land but what they got was mixed with Serbians in the state of Yugoslavia. -
Immigration to the States #16
Political conflicts in Europe caused much involuntary migration: refugees left their country and fled to neighbouring countries as well as to the United States -
Starving citizens #16
Austria-Hungary was split into Austria and Hungary would become their state, splitting the resources. -
Italy gets South Troy #16
Italy took over a part of South Troy but the part they were given had around 250,000 people of various nationalities. -
Militarism #19
Militarism failed in Germany because they were losing the war very badly and the citizens no longer wanted to keep fighting the war. -
United States The Paris Peace Conference #13
The United States wanted to end secret treaties so makes the League of Nations to end them but doesn’t join them making everything pointless. -
Great Britain The Paris Peace Conference #13
The British wanted the German colonies in Africa and the Middle East, obtaining Palestine, Jordan and Iraq. -
France The Paris Peace Conference #13
Wanted to cripple German politics so Germany was split into many parties, none of them being strong enough to take power. -
China The Paris Peace Conference #13
China wanted Shanghai back but it ended up going to the hands of the Japanese. -
Russia gives and takes #18
Russian land yielded the new nations of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Russia and Austria-Hungary gave up additional territory to Poland and Romania. -
Peace conference #10
The meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918. -
The Treaty of Versailles #14
The most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Terms of the Treaty of Versailles #14
Germany had to accept responsibility for the war. This gave the Allies the right to confiscate German land, and to make huge cuts in the German army, navy and air force. -
Peace treaty #14
Was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Germany The Paris Peace Conference #13
Germany wanted to be present at the peace conference but was not allowed to attend so all negotiations were made without them. -
League of Nations #15
At the end of the war President Wilson and other alliances made the League of Nations which was designed to prevent secret treaties. -
Sovereignty #15
The US rejected the League of Nations largely because it did not want to give up any of its sovereignty. -
Possibility of another war #15
Were not comfortable with the idea that the League of Nations might be able to tell the US that it had to participate in a war. -
Rejection of the League of Nations #15
US rejected the League of Nations largely for domestic political reasons, but its rejection of the League had an important impact on world politics. -
Reconstituting Poland #18
Poland, which had long been divided among Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary, was finally reconstituted. -
Leader of the Lost Generation #20
Ernest Hemingway was the Lost Generations leader in the adaption of the naturalistic technique in the novel. -
Influence #20
Were said to be disillusioned by the senseless slaughter of the First World War, cynical. Disdainful of the Victorian notions of morality and propriety of their elders. -
Meaning of life #20
The generation was “lost” in the sense that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of its spiritual alienation -
Splitting of ethics #18
The boundaries that were drawn up by the British colonial office and its French counterpart deliberately ran through ethnic and tribal areas, splitting families and villages apart into different nations via artificial borders. -
The Lost Generation #20
A group of U.S. writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920s -
Beliefs of the Lost Generation #20
Having seen pointless death on such a huge scale, many lost faith in traditional values like courage, patriotism, and masculinity. Some in turn became aimless, reckless, and focused on material wealth, unable to believe in abstract ideals. -
Pulling back January #15
The United States reject to the League of Nations which lead to disputes causing allied nations to back off from the treaty. -
Spheres of influence #18
After the end of World War I, most of the Ottoman Empire was carved up into "spheres of influence", controlled mostly by the British and French. -
Financial freedom #17
Italy wanted financial freedom in which they did not receive causing them to lead to mass employment. -
Peace congress for Germany #17
The big three asked gemrany for war reparations which totaled up to over 30 billion dollars which caused the German economy to go down in shambles. -
Germany after the war #17
Britain started trading with Germany which allowed their economy to slowly get better while helping each other out, -
Totalitarianism #19
Began to appear in Russia as more and more citizens began to change their perspective on things. -
The loss of land #18
The Ottoman Turks had to give up much of their land in southwest Asia and the Middle East. In Europe, they retained only the country of Turkey
