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First World War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Essential for economic expansion
  - - - Germans were creating a big fleet
        
        To control international trade
  - - - Austro-Hungarian Empire blame Serbia
        
        They sent an ultimatum
        
        It was rejected
        
        Austro-Hungarian Empire declared the war to Serbia
- - - - Ask for loans to US
        
        Us = leading economic power
- - - - Attack France first and then go back and attack Russian Empire
        
        Stopped by Great Britain and France
        
        First Battle of the Marne
  - - - No advance = defending positions
        
        Built trenches and use new machinery
        
        Machine guns, heavy artillery, tanks, poison and flamethrowers
        
        New military tactics
        
        Wear the enemy down by attacking continually the same place
        
        Use of planes and submarines
  - - - German submarines attacked US fleet
        
        With American help Allies moved through the front
        
        Secon Battle of the Marne
        
        Central Powers obliged to surrend
    - - Had to leave the war
        
        Signed the Peace of Brest-Litovsk
        
        Signed the Armistice (1918)
- - - - Agriculture decreased
        
        Product’s prices increased
        
        Governments distribute the basic goods
        
        Black market appeared
  - - - Women occupied them
        
        Women started fighting for their rights to vote and work
  - - - To decided peace conditions
        
        Woodrow Wilson proposed the 14 points
        
        Free trade, League of Nations, democratic states and nation’s right for self-determination
        
        Rejected by the Allies
        
        5 diferent treates ratified by the Allies
        
        Signed by each defeated country
        
        1 more item...
- - - - Demographically causes
        
        Overpopulation = hunger, unemployment and misery
        
        Colonies = Solution
      - Political causes
        
        Owning territories = support of de population
        
        Also give prestige to the nation
        
        Military and commercial interests
        
        Strategic locations for military bases and trade routes
      - Ideological causes
        
        European countries controlled underdevelopment countries
        
        Neo-Darwinist ideas
        
        White people are more adapt
        
        Nationalist idea
        
        European culture was superior
      - Economic causes
        
        European markets flooded
        
        Colonies = cheap and rich raw materials, cheap workforce and new markets
      - Scientific causes
        
        Interest of knowledge and curiosity
        
        Explorations to the Nile and the poles
    - - Economic consequences
        
        Exploitation on natural resources
        
        Landscapes destroyed
      - Geographic consequences
        
        Changes in maps
        
        New artificially borders
        
        Mixing and separating tribes
        
        Multiple conflicts
      - Cultural consequences
        
        Colonies suffered acculturation
        
        Lost religion, tradition, language...
        
        Adopted European one
        
        Lower rates of illiteracy
      - Social consequences
        
        Racial segregation
        
        Bourgeoisie from metropoli
        
        Elite of the metropoli
        
        Indigenous people
        
        Second class citizens
      - Demographic consequences
        
        Medical improvements
        
        Reduced mortality and increased natality
      - Political consequences
        
        Colonialism create a dependence of the colonies from the metropoli
        
        Colonies were not prepared for democratic systems
        
        Nationalism arrived in colonies
        
        Started fighting against occupation
- - - - France, Great Britain and Russian Empire
        
        Then: US, Japan, Italy, Portugal...
    - - Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Ottoman Empire
        
        Then Bulgaria
    - - He wanted Trieste and Istria
        
        Italian territories controlled by Austro-Hungarian Empire