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World War 1 History Time Line By Esperanza Espinoza (British (British in…
World War 1 History Time Line By Esperanza Espinoza
Dragged into War
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Events
East Asia
British traded with China for tea but China did not want their goods, they wanted silver cash
British wants rights because of their land they gained in/from China
The British owned Opium
Britain sank 20 ships of China and got attention from India as The Indian Revolution was going on
Scramble of Africa
British converted Africans into Christianity
Many Africans treated as slaves
British had set up trading posts
World War 1 - 1918
Why?/ How?
the British army started a real improvement in tactics
the French attacked at the Somme and achieved greater advances
The British had the help of Allies and the US
Weapons
Shields
Automatic Guns
Tanks
The British had endless supply of weapons from the US and their outside trading resources
Somme
Money, Weapons, and Resources were limited
Somme Campain was disliked by the British
Battle of Verdun
On February 21, 1916, more than 1,220 guns around an eight-mile perimeter opened fire
the French Western Front
Mexico
Germany offered Mexico an opportunity to take back their land from the US
United States of America (USA/US)
the US joined the ww1 in 1917
the US had major fire power which helped favor the Allies
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World War 1 - 1914
Why?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914
The assassination was planned by a Serbian terrorist group, called The Black Hand
Invasion in Serbia
Serbia’s own mighty supporter in the Balkans
Hungarian suppression of Serbian revolts during the 1848 Revolutions were not opposed by the Habsburg rulers
Serbia
Germany
Germany then declared war on Russia on August 1, and on France on August 3
Eastern Front
Germans out numbered Russians
The Russian royal family's inventions did not improve anything
Eastern Front
Russia
Russian General Alexi Brusilov
units were trained to employ shock troops followed up by mutually supporting open order formations
Austria-Hungary
British
Britain had agreed to maintain the neutrality of Belgium, they immediately declared war on Germany
British in India
11612 East Indian Company
British invade India and the company rule
British Raj
The Battle of Passey
1857 Indian Revolution
WAR TOOK PLACE IN BELGIUM