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Developing alliances was important, so when they were in need, the other country or countries could help them out. Therefore making one another stronger and less likely to experience defeat. Most of the time alliances were formed secretly. Great Britain, France, and Russia were a part of the triple entity. The triple alliance was Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot to death and assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. This was important for many reasons. One reason is that it was a spark to the outbreak of WW1. Five years after the killing of Franz Ferdinand, Germany, and the Allied Powers signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially marking the end of the world war. -
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. With Franz Ferdinand's death, Austria had the pretext it wanted to put the smaller and weaker Serbians in their place. Kaiser Wilhelm II had also encouraged the Austrians to adopt an uncompromising line against Serbia, effectively writing them a ‘blank cheque; for German Support in the event of war. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War. -
The Schlieffen Plan was a strategic plan made by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, who worked for the German navy. The purpose of the Schlieffen Plan was to deliver a very quick knockout blow to France. This would then allow German forces to transfer their attention to the much larger Russian armies -
The German 8th Army, under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, strikes with lethal force against the advancing Russian 2nd army. The Battle of Tannenberg was one of the first major battles of WWI. It was a resounding victory for the German army and proved that they could defeat larger armies through superior tactics and training. -
The First Battle of Marne signaled the demise of Germany's two-front war strategy, known as the Schlieffen Plan. This occurred during World War I by the French army and the British Expeditionary Force against the advancing Germans who had invaded Belgium and northeastern France. This marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of trench warfare. -
A stalemate occurred on the western front when the power of defensive weapons was stronger than the offensive methods employed. In order to hold their positions and keep out of the line of machine-gun and artillery fire, soldiers had to dig down into defensive positions. This resulted in killing many soldiers of either side but no real progress at all. Trench warfare is a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. -
The first successful use of chemical weapons in WW1 occurred on April 22, 1955. Mustard gas was the most commonly used gas in WW1. It was used to harass and disable the enemy and pollute the battlefield. Machine guns were fully automatic weapons that fired bullets rapidly, up to 450 to 600 rounds a minute. It allowed defenders to dominate the battlefield. -
Tanks were a heavy vehicle designed to flatten enemy fortifications. It was developed to be able to cross trenches, resist small fires, travel over difficult terrains, carry supplies, and capture fortified enemy positions. Propaganda was also used to ensure that people learned only what their governments wanted them to know, whether it was the truth or not. -
The deaths of so many innocent civilians at the hands of the germans caused America to have stronger support for entering the war, which eventually turned in favor of the Allies. The Lusitania sank within 20 minutes because it was hit with a German torpedo. This, unfortunately, resulted in 1,200 deaths, 94 including children. This disaster set of a chain of events that eventually led to the U.S entering World War 1. -
The Allied troops would land on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Turkey. The Gallipoli campaign was a land base element of a strategy intended to allow Allied ships to pass through the Dardanelles, during world war l to capture Constantinople (now modern-day Istanbul) and to generally knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war. The Ottoman empire lost at least 86,000 lives and has 164,00 casualties -
A loss to the central powers caused Russia, Which was not very well equipped, to sign a separate peace treaty with Germany called the Treaty of Verdun. The Germans' victory turned against the Allies until The United States join the battle. It was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war, with about 400,00 french casualties and 350,00. 300,00 people were killed. -
The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of World War I. It was also among the bloodiest in all of human history. A combination of a compact battlefield, destructive modern weaponry, and several failures by British military leaders led to the unprecedented slaughter of wave after wave of young men -
The Russian Revolution was the peasants and working class of Russia revolting against the government of Tsar Nicholas II. The revolution was led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks. -
Some of the causes of the revolution are the widespread suffering under autocracy, poor working conditions, Russian defeat in the Ruso-Japanese war, and the devastation of World War 1. The results of this revolution are the farmland was distributed among farmers, factories are given to workers, czarist rule ends, the Russian economy is in shambles, banks are nationalized, and Lenin asserts his control by cruel methods. -
Before entering the war, America had stayed neutral even though it had been an important supplier to the Allied powers. Its major contributions were in terms of supplies, raw materials, and money. The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Note, both caused Woodrow Wilson to finally join the war. The additional firepower, resources, and soldiers of the United States helped tip the balance of the war in favor of the Allies and eventually help the Allies to win. -
The second battle of the Marne is considered to be the pivotal point of World War 1 because the Allied troops blunted the German advance and started the counteroffensive that would ultimately help to win the war. It was the last offensive push from the Germans in the war. This battle will soon cause Germany to finally back out of the war. -
The armistice was signed at Le Francport near Compiegne that ended fighting on land, air, and sea in World War 1 between the Allies and their last remaining opponent, Germany. The armistice didn’t end the war, but it was the agreement that stopped the fighting on the Western front while the terms of permanent peace were discussed in the Treaty of Versailles. The Allied powers (Great Britain, France, United States, China, Soviet Union) won against the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, etc