WW1

causes:

nationalism

industrial revolutions

test new weapons and armies

show off military strength

allies:

central powers-

germany

austria hungary

ottoman empire

bulgaria

allied powers:

britain

france

russia

US

triple entette:

UK

France

russia

war:

total war ==> when the country or nation prioritizes war effort over everything else, everyone contributes

:attrition warfre

military strategy

belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy

continuous losses in personnel and materiel.

won by side with greater recources

:propoganda

gets everyone involved

men fight

women do ALL the jobs

mens jobs while they are away

their own jobs

some fight (only in russia)

nursing on the battlefield

weaponry:

trenches:

smell horrible

infested with rats and bugs

trench foot disease

dangerous

can collapse on soldiers inside it

on the front line

gas:

different types

most lethal was mustard gas

takes 4-5 weeks to kill

bisters

dries mucous on inside of lungs and throat

internal and external bleeding

machine guns

kill multiple people at one time

fires in an arc

set upon trenches so that the arcs overlap - no uncovered ground

kills anyone in the way

fire into no mans land

treaties:

brest litovsk

got russia out of war

they were struggling

didnt have enough war material to sustain themselves through the duration of the war

lost all of their weapons at beginning of war in the battle of tannenburg at the beginning of the war

unrestricted submarine warfare:

german tactic

they perfected the submarine

were using submarines to sink ships carrying battle material

sunk US ships with civilians on it with the belief that battle material was in the cargo hold

Armenian genocide:

turks were killing armenians and putting them in concentration camps

torturing them

the global community knew of this and did not help

inspired hitler to start the holocaust becuase he thought hat he could get away with mass killing os fone group becuase the turks were

turks wanted to unite all of the ottoman empire and the armenians were in the way