History revision
Causes of WW1
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand (Short term)
Alliances created tension and mistrust between countries. (Long term)
The naval race created conflict between Britain and Germany (Long term)
Kaiser Wilhelm II's desire for a German Empire threatened Britain and France(Long term)
Empires
In 1900, the UK had the largest empire in the world ruling over 400 million people. The UK had huge amounts of wealth and Power. France also had a large empire making them a powerful European rival for the UK.
Germany was quite a new country. It was formed in 1871. They also had ambitions to grow an empire to compete with France and the UK. Kaiser Wilhelm II said he wanted Germany to "Have a place in the sun", because of this Germany sent a gun boat called the 'Panther to Agadir' on the Morocan coast. They were eventually forced to retreat but the Uk and France had noticed Germany's intent to challenge them.
Alliances
Entente Cordial: The UK and France signed a treaty to put aside their differences to show their concerns about Germany.
Triple entente: This alliance consisted of: The UK, France and Russia
Triple alliance: This alliance consisted of: Germany, Austria-hungary and Italy.
Alliance: A bond between two or more countries that will back each other up and for mutual benefits.
Conscientious Objectors
A person who did not go to fight in the war or an individual to who has clamed the right to refuse to fight in the war because of religion or freedom of thought
Political ideologies
Austria-hungary
Was an empire
Sometimes there were disagreements
Franz Joseph was the emperor and sovereign
Franz Joseph was autocratic
Russia
Had a huge population
Tsar had absolute power over the nation
Military power was feared
Government and political structure was outdated and old fashioned
Germany
Was not a full country until 1871
Run by a Kaiser
Militarist
Most advanced army
Autocracy
Britain
most industrialised
Not all men and women could vote until 1928
Government mainly in charge
Class system to divide rich and poor
One of the most powerful nations in the world
Imperialistic
How did military technology advance
Trenches were a big part of military technology advancing because they could find new weapons to use in the trench to fight off the enemy. Some new weapons where mostly full-auto or machineguns
From battlefields to stalemate: Why did the war turn into stalemate?
The war turned into stalemate ,mainly because of trench warfare.
Stalemate: When you cannot advance towards the enemy and the enemy can not retreat.
Reasons for the end of WW1
Russia leaving the war: The Romanov's had ruled Russia for 300 years until Resputin came and decieved the Tsar and Tsarina (Then were killed in 1916).In 1917 riots began against the government. Soldiers and people were of Russia where unhappy with the state the country was in until Lenin, plus the communists overthrew the Romanov's and signed a treaty with Germany to leave the war.
USA entered the war: USA was neutral at first but 128 Americans died on a British boat that was sunk by Germany, the boat was called Lustina. A treaty between germany and Mexico was threatened. On April 6, 1917 the USA joined the war. In WW1, the president of the USA was Woodrow Wilson
German naval strike: No sailors to drive boats so the German navy was immobilised meaning that they did not have a navy to fight with because the Chancellor (Max von Baden) was not informed by Reinherdt Scheer about the attack meaning no soldiers were ready.
The Lundendorff offensive: The idea was to launch a string of attacks on the western front. All the other soldiers were worn out and America had a counter offensive and because most of the soldiers were tired they could not fight back.