ASSASSINATION OF ARCH DUKE FRANZ-FERDINAND

The Austrian Arch Duke was visiting Bosnia with
his wife. There had been border tension between Austria and Serbia. A 'terrorist group' called the Black Hand (Serbians) murdered the Arch Duke. It was a
teenage boy named Gavrilo who shot the bullet from a near by shop.

THE ULTIMATUM: Austria was furious that their heir was shot, and immediately put all their anger and blame on Serbia, giving them an impossible ultimatum. Serbia declined, and AUSTRIA DECLARED WAR ON SERBIA

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: The Britain Empire was expanding and running out of countries to take. Germany wanted to expand as well, but they were a new country.

The Berlin Conference: between Britain and Germany to discuss regulating colonisation and trade agreements
1884-85

The Boer war-Britain expanded and went to war with The Boer people anyway

PHASE 2---Britain takes the Boer capital. Britain get's more reinforcements; but Germany and the Boer people strike up a deal, and Germany sends the Boer weapons to use against Britain

PHASE 3---British Empire starves and burns out the Boer- and create concentration camps not only for the Boer but for white people. The Boer Give up hope and BRITAIN WINS.

Russia sent an army to Serbia because they had a treaty

Germany declared war on Russia because Germany had a treaty with Austria

France was bound by it's treaty with Russia to fight Germany

TENSIONS WERE HIGH BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY

Germany came up with THE SCHlIEFFEN PLAN

Germany came up with this plan when the Domino alliance went into affect.
The plan: a two front war plan, to take out France's capital. This was under the assumption that Belgium would let Germany march it's troupes right through their land to get to France. From France, they would take the railroad to get to Russia, under another assumption that Russia would take at least six weeks to mobilise.

France heard about Germany's plan (sending men to advertise it wasn't exactly discreet)
Frances counter plan is called Plan 17!
This was the 17th draft...kinda sad
They wanted to attack forward (the wrong spot too) and they think that if they have the spirit of victory they would win. The plan was outdated, they sent Calvary (horses) at a line of machine guns. IT WAS STUPID. He thought he could attack with hand to hand combat (would never even get close enough).
Their uniform is way to colourful (red and blue) so the Germans can see them. LITERALLY EVERYONE CAN SEE THEM.

Germany moves forward with it's plan. When Germany comes through Belgium, Belgium takes down transportation with large steam powered guns. The Germans manage to take down four of their forts before they are slaughtered by the steam powered guns. The Germans start using the dead bodies of their men to protect themselves from the blows.

Liege is a city surrounded by twelve steam guns forts and trenches in Belgium.
On August 5th Germany tried to attack it. They failed miserably. It was a bad day.

Erich Ludendorff

The Germans re-grouped at night, but were uneasy because of the risk of fighting with no light. The Germans are unable to come up with a plan, or even attack because their commander is dead. So Erich Ludendroff steps up to take charge. He takes six thousand men and leads them straight to the fort.

It’s a gamble, but he manages to make it into the city. The entire city surrendered because he IS SO SCARY. He brings out Big Bertha-the largest artillery gun EVER. the large gun forts were made rubble by big Martha. THEY HAD 12 OF THESE GUNS. He becomes the military dictator of Germany.

The Rape of Belgium: The Germans executed over 6 thousand Belgium's.This goes viral. They call it ‘The Rape of Belgium’.
Because of Germany's poor actions, it turns the war righteous; Germany becomes the bad guy (even posters were made). But was Germany really the bad guy? Yes, they were going through Belgium to attack another country, but thousands of their men were slaughtered. In a way, it was their revenge.

The Germans are behind schedule due to the Belgium siege.

The miracle of the Marne: Germany is on it's way to France, and France moves to protect it's capital. General Joseph is given the job to stay in pairs and protect it-but he is only given one division to protect the large area. He has no idea what is going on up at the front, so he looks around and finds an air plane-one of the first, and sends a man to fly it and see what's going on. France is not doing well, so he sends the one division to the front with taxis and bicycles-the expensive and new technology. when the extra division show's up at the front, it's a miracle.

GERMANY: put a fleet of ships in Britain's waters because Wilhelm the second had no where else to put them.

BRITAIN freaked out because they thought Germany was trying to start a war, so they built the Dreadnought-a HUGE battle ship

Bismark realised that Germany was not colonised. So under Wilhelm the 1st supervision, he created fake wars and conflicts with other countries to bring Germany together to hate a common enemy.