WW1

By Caroline171003

  • GE founded

  • Dual Alliance

    (GER, A-H)

  • Triple Alliance

    • IT

  • Kaiser Wilhelm Rule GE

  • Franco-Russian Alliance

  • The Schlieffen Plan made

  • Entente Cordiale

    (BR, FR)

  • BR Battleship

    The Dreadnought

  • Anglo Russian Convention

    (Now full Triple Entente)

  • GE Battleship

  • B-H annex SE

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    Women industrial workforce FR

    ~ 35% -> 40%
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    Women industrial workforce A-H

    ~2.5x
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    Women industrial workforce RU

    ~ 1/4 -> ~ 1/2

  • Triple Entente Army > Central Powers Army

    By 1.5 mil

  • BR troops occupy Basra (Middle east)

  • GE colonies in Asia annexed

    German Samoa -> New Zealand
    New Guinea -> Aus Forces
    Micronesia, The Marianas, Marshall Islands - > The Allies
    GE naval base, Tsingtao China -> Japan

  • Reconnaissance Aircraft

    Used to scout over troops, used in Battle of Tannenberg by GE

  • Naval Blockade

    BR blockade to stop overseas GE trade @ North Sea & Engliah Channel
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    Women industrial workforce BR

    ~ 1/4 -> 1/3
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    Food Shortages

    Everyone basically eventually did pretty horibally regarding food distribution, GE e.g. had a riot in 1918, and RU in Feb 1917, both because of food shortages.
    FR were the only who never struggled, as they managed to produce themselves, and also had loads of import from US.
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    Total Submarines

    BR: 146, 54 lost
    GE: 327, 204 lost
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    Naval Strategies

    Convoy System: Ships sailing in groups to avoid attacks
    Q-ships: Well-armed ships disguised as merchant ships
    Depth Charges: Explosives, detonating timed uner water

  • Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    By Blackhand

  • The Blank Cheque

    GE -> A-H
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    WW1

  • Attempts at diplomacy

    29 July, day after ww1 declared, Conference proposal and GE urge to limit invasion

  • GE Early mobilization

  • BR declare war -> GE

  • Battle of Tannenberg

    RU defeated by GE

  • BEF 150,000 men

    (British Expeditionary forces)

  • Heligoland Bight

    4 GE ships sank

  • Masurian Lakes

    RU defeated more

  • Marne River

    FR + BR counterattack -> GE
    Resulted in the "RACE TO THE SEA": Outflanking

  • OT E join Central Power

  • IT join Allies (instead)

  • BR capture Kut (Middle East)

  • GE South-west African colonies

    -> BR forces

  • "Shell Scandal"

    BR munition shortage

  • RU Lack of resources + munition shortage

  • GE U-boats sank 750,000 tons of shipping

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    OT E siege back Kut

  • GE declare BR sea warzone

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    Gallipoli Peninsula

    OT E front

  • 2nd battle of Ypres

    GE 1st use of Poisonous Gas
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    FR Shell production

    Went from 4000/day -> 150,000/day

  • RO enter war

  • 13,000 BR troops surrender + imprisoned

  • The Arab Revolt

    BR vs. OT E, triggered on suez canal

  • BR capture Medina

  • General Shell production

    RU: 4.5 mil/month
    GE: 7 mil
    A-H: 1 mil
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    Zeppelins & Strategic Bombing

    First introduced around 1916
    Used @ Battle of Cambrai + Ludendorff Offensive
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    Battle of Verdun

    Casualties:
    FR: ~ 0.5 mil.
    GE: ~ 0.4 mil

  • Battle of Jutland

    BR: 14 Ships lost
    GE: 11 Ships
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    The Brusilov Offensive

    RU 96 km captures
    ~Total 1 mil deaths
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    Battle of The Somme

    "Preliminary Artillery Bombardment" + 1st tanks
    Tanks: september BR

  • US join war

  • Boshevik Revolution, RU

  • Battle of Caporetto

    IT: 300,000

  • BR offensive, Baghdad

  • Fighter Aircrafts

    More speed + machine guns attached
    Quantity: AL > CP
    Quality: AL < CP

  • 500,000 tons BR merchant shipping lost

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    RU revolution

    RU = 1st Communist state
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    GE relaunch U-boats

    now 152 Submarines
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    French Nivelle Offensive

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    3rd offensive at Ypres: Battle of Paschendaele

    Allies: ~300,000
    CP: ~250,000

  • US men to EU ~ 250,000 / month

  • Damascus captured

  • Women industrial workforce GE

    55%

  • War Casualties

    10 mil. people
    AL > CP
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    Enfranchisement

    RU, AU, CZE, PO, CAN, BR = 1918
    GE = 1919
    US = 1920
    FR = 1944....

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    RU, 'Armistice'
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    Ludendorf Offensive

    "Hurrican barrage", "Stormtroopers", "Infiltration tactics"
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    2nd Battle of Marne

  • Amiens

    Tanks + Aircrafts

  • BU Armistice

  • OT E Armistice

  • A-H Armistice

  • Forced Armistice

    (Marks end of WW1)

  • GE East Africa surrender

  • US president Woodrow Wilson oppose to GE war guilt

  • Treaty of Versailles (GE)

  • Treaty of St Germain (AU)

  • Treaty of Nevilly

  • Treaty of Trianon (HU)

  • Treaty of Sévres (TU)

  • John Maynard Keynes critique Versailes = too harsh

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    ECONOMIC EFFECTS

    Loads of changes happen, though not specified years, but it's in notes.
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    IT Mussolini Dictator

  • Fritz Fischer Thesis

  • Gerhard Ritter against Fischer's thesis