WWI
Effects
Causes
The five main causes of WWI were: militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism, and assassination.
4 Long-Term Causes
A(Alliances) were agreements made between two or more countries to help and defend each other. This would show as countries making treating and vowing to come to each other's defense when ever needed during a war outbreak. European countries started joining alliances to help them in fighting other countries. This similar to militarism led to war by countries starting to go against each other and tensions rising higher and higher and nations had to fight to live up to their said treaties.
I(Imperialism) was when one country/nation takes over and controls a weaker or less powerful country/nation. Many European countries tried taking over smaller nations and colonies. Germany was attempting to take over lands previously controlled by France and Britain. These conflicts eventually led to countries joining sides.
M(Militarism) was is the belief of needing to have a better military than everyone. This would show present itself as countries spending lots of money on their army and weapons and training heir soldiers. European countries used this to take over other countries and nations and to protect themselves. Every nation began preparing armies to fight each other, such as G. Britain, France and Germany, which led to WWI.
N(Nationalism) is the love and pride in one's own country or nation. After 1871, when Germany became a unified nation, their nationalism was extreme and their pride embarrassed France. This led to a militarism competition and eventually led to war.
Short-Term Cause
To create peace after the war, 4 men - Lloyd George (Great Britain), Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (Italy), Georges Clemenceau (France), and Woodrow Wilson (US) - in 1919 at Versailles, came together and had a conference known as the Paris Peace Conference to form the Treaty of Versailles.
On June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, who was a part of a group in Serbia. A man named Franz Joseph did not want to war with Serbia, but the Vienna government did. So, Joseph had to give Serbia a harsh order to avoid the possibility of war. Since Serbia refused the demands, on July 28 Serbia and Austria-Hungary went to war.
On January 8, 1918, the Fourteen Points was introduced and created by President Windrow Wilson. This document was meant to sort out the issues and repair the damage that resulted after the World War. The most important point was point 14 that dealt with nations and their relations with each other.
The League of Nations, created by Woodrow Wilson, was an organization that gave a place to meet to solve international issues after WWI. Italy, Great Britain, Japan and France joined this organization. The remaining countries including the US however did not join.
The Treaty of Versailles was a document signed by the Allied and Central Powers after WWI. The people involved were Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, and David Lloyd George. and Vittorio Orlando. Germany suffered this treaty the most and had to: take responsibility for war damages, pay reparations, and restrict their army. The short-term effects
Warfare
The introduction of new technology such as tear gas and machine guns prolonged the length of the war. This also led to a sudden increase of deaths as a result.
Total war is when countries involves their governments, money and people to a great extent. Rationing was the limiting of food to a certain amount during wartime. Propaganda was any media that was used to influence the viewers perspective or opinion on something or a country/nation.
Trench warfare was a method of war that involved staying behind a line of trenches to stay protected from gunfire on the battlefield. No man's land was the strip of land separating two fighting sides. Some of the things soldiers had to face included: disease, bad land conditions and bad nutrition. The major fronts were located in Europe (mostly running through Belgium). This location put the countries surrounded by it at a disadvantage. A stalemate is when two fighting sides both go nowhere by cancelling each other out and just have a bunch of casualties.