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THE GREAT WAR (ENDING THE WAR (TREATIES (VERSAILLES -signed in 1919 …

- - - - wilson set down the points for peace negotiations after ww1
  - - - CENTRAL POWERS
        -Austro-Hungarian Empire:1,860.000
        -bulgaria:388000
        -germany:2,737,000
        -turkey:2,325,000
- - - - nationalsim
        -Every state thought they were the best
        -monarchies in the different countries all wanted to see their countries and empires grow and flourish (especially austria hungary)
        
        most nations had ties with each other
        -led to tension between each other
        -Serbian Nationalism, which was because the Serbians did not like the Austrians
        Imperialism
        -Every state had the goal of becoming an ultimate empire
        
        Empires tried to spread their influence and culture through colonization
  - - - -germany promising an Alliance to Austria declared war on the Triple Entente
        -italy not following through germany and austrias alliance
        -ottoman empire thinking they were powerful
        -industrialism in the ottoman empire
        -bulgaria
        
        serbians and austrians did not like how each other ruled
- - - - -generals were facing what they least wanted, a two front war
        -reason was because most of the german army was in the western front and only some were sent to the eastern
        -russians also fought in the two fronts
        -austro-hungarian army lost at lemberg because they were fighting in two fronts also
        -austraians were already outmanned and outgunned
        -they attacked serbia but later retreated
        -the austrain army was shattered, they had suffered 957,000 casualties which lead to their german allies to think that they were basically useless
        
        because of these battles...
        -great deal of territory changed hands
        -making east a war in movement
        -troop from east advanced or retreated from one military engagement to the next
        -war relied on cavalry, as much as infantry
        -it neutralized some of germany's technology
        -kaisers troops had to confront three powerful nations
        -germans defeated the russians
        -pulled russia to western regions to make the habsburg army seem weak
        -serbia was defeated and this lead to russia gaining victories against german and austrian forces
  - - - -it had first begun as a franco german conflict
        -two sides had separated themselves in two trenches(12000) miles long
        -it had extended from coastal belgium to the swiss frontier which formed to inmobile lines
        -each side had around three trenches( a firing trench, a reserve trench, and a support trench)
        -in between both sides stood ''No Man's Land''
        
        FRANCO BRITISH SIDE
        -a typical front line between six to eight feet deep
        -most soldiers didn't have enough protection because of the artillery shells that usually landed there and killed most soldiers
        -usually, soldiers fought behind sandbags or would fight in muddy trenches they were assigned to
        -most soldiers were wet and cold, most of the time the fields they were in had smelly stenches which made soldiers feel sick once entering the trench
        
        a lot of soldiers had lice and rats roamed the fields the soldiers fought in
        -soldiers were also sleep-deprived
        
        GERMAN SIDE
        -germans were getting concerned with defending their sides, because of this they usually returned to the offensive
        -they built better trenches because of these concerns
        -the germans had built bunk beds, water tanks with taps and wooden planks on walls to protect soldiers from the mud
        -they were 30 ft underground