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The First World War (Ending the War (Casualties (More than 10 million…

- - - - Civilians were bombed in Britain by German Navy
- - - - Britain Navy increases
        
        Franco Prussian War (convinces Russia to modernize their Military)
        
        Germany's Naval Force
    - - Triple Alliance: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy
        
        Triple Entente: Britain, France, Russia
    - - Serbia won their independence
        
        Germany and Italy unified from many separated kingdom states into unified nation-states in the late 1800’s.
        
        Britain: Peace and Prosperity
    - - Expansion of Austria-Hungarian Empire
        
        Scramble for Africa
        
        The Empires tried to spread their influence and culture through colonization.
        
        France controlled territories in West, North, and East Africa
        
        Britain controlled territories in Egypt and South Africa
  - - - Serbia fought against Austria Hungary's rule over Bosnia
        
        Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914
- - - - France, Belgium, Luxemburg, & Germany
        
        Life in the Trenches:
        
        Bad weather, diseases, lice & rats
        
        Trench Fever: made the soldiers itch and caused fever, headache, sore muscles, bones, and joints.
        
        Trench Foot: Rain and bad weather would flood the trenches making them muddy, and would block weapons and make it hard to move in battle.
        
        most cases resulted in the foot being amputated. Cold weather was dangerous too, soldiers often lost fingers or toes to frostbite.
        
        Battles fought:
        
        Battle of Ypres
        
        Battle of the Somme
        
        Battle of Bullecourt
  - - - Russian forces invaded the German-held regions of East Prussia and Poland
        
        Germany lacked soldiers to fight Russia
        
        Russia had better resources compared to Germany's
        
        Russia: 400,000 casualties
        
        Austria: 350,000 casualties
      - Railroads played a huge role in the transportation of weapons and resources for soldiers
- - - - (1919) Treaty that ended WW1, which demanded reparations from Germany and blamed them for the war.
    - - (1919) Treaty where Austria was forbidden to unite with Hungary and Germany
        
        Recognized the independence of Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.