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