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Causes (Causes long term:
The main causes were militarism, alliances,…
Causes
Causes long term:
The main causes were militarism, alliances, nationalism, and imperialism.
Imperialism was when a country tries to expand their power by conquering other lands. Europeans in the past competed with each other.
Nationalism is a group of people with common culture, in the 1800 it brought revolution in Europe.
Militarism was the belief that a country should have a strong military so they could use it when needed. In the past, many countries in Europe spent money on building up their military.
Alliances, they are agreements between country’s that states they will assist each other if they get attack, alliances caused a war in Europe because when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Serbia’s allies came to help.
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Warfare
Major battles
The battle of verdun started on February 21,1916 and ended December, the French won this battle.
Schilieffen Plan was a plan to attack France due to Russia starting to prepare for war. This led to Britain declaring war on Germany.
Battle of Somme started on July 1, 1916 and ended November 18, 1916. Allies got some land for this battle.
New technology in WWll was introduced, they were tanks, planes, nuclear power and much more, this increased the amount of causalities.
Trench warfare was when soldiers would dig trenches that they would fight in. Soldiers in the trenches would deal with desases, starvation, and many more.
The alliance In this war was the big three which were Great Britain, The United States, and the Soviet Union. The other alliance that joined Germany was Italy and Japan.
Effect
Big four
David Lloyd George was the prime minister of Great Britain. Wanted Germany to pay but didn’t want revenge.
Georges Clemenceau was the prime minister of France. Wanted to weaken Germany. For they won’t ever attack them again.
Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States he wanted an organization to formed the formed, which was the League of Nations.
Vittorio was the prime minister of Italy, he wanted the fulfillment of the treaty of of London of 1915.
Woodrow Wilson created the 14 Fourteen points it was a plan for peace. The first four points wanted an end for the secret treaties. Freedom of seas, free trade, and reduction in national armies, and navy’s. The idea was self determination. Self determination was allowing people to decide under what government they want to live in.
The League of Nations was a group nations that wanted peace between each other. Woodrow Wilson created it. The first members was Britain, France, Italy and Japan. The United States did not join.
The treaty of Versailles was made by the United States, France, Italy, Great Britain, it basically stated that the war was all Germany fault which Was the short term affect and they also had to Pay for everything. The long term affect was it caused another war later on.