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The First World War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - called the Fourteen Points
- - - - The Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire
        
        competed for control of the Balkans
      - France wanted to recover the region of Alsace-Lorraine
      - Great Britain
        
        saw the supremacy of its merchant navy threatened when the German Empire
    - - Archduke Franz Ferdinand
        
        was assassinated in Sarajevo
    - - In 1905
        
        Germany wanted to keep Morocco out of France's control
        
        tried to establish Morocco as a German protectorate
        
        but failed
      - In 1908
        
        Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina
      - In 1911
        
        Germany recognised Morocco as a French protectorate
      - In 1912–13
        
        Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro
        
        declared war on the Ottoman Empire for the possession of its territories in the Balkans
- - - - Germany put the Schlieffen Plan into effect
        
        consisted of launching a rapid offensive on the Western Front
        
        invading belgium
        
        and the north of France with the aim of reaching Paris
        
        The German plan did not succeed
        
        because the French and British armies stopped their advance at the First Battle of the Marne
    - - Western Front between Germany and the Allies stabilised
      - new phase of the war began
      - they built trenches
        
        from where they could defend themselves using new weapons
      - they used battleships and submarines; in the Battle of Jutland, the British fleet defeated the German fleet
    - - In 1917
        
        United States decided to join the war on the side of the Allies
        
        a political and social revolution in the Russian Empire
        
        caused Russia to withdraw from the war after signing the Peace of Brest-Litovsk
      - On 1 January 1917
        
        Germany had initiated submarine attacks
    - - help of the American troops and weapons
        
        allowed the Allied forces to advance on the Western Front
      - 11 November 1918
        
        the Armistice was signed
- - - - Agricultural and consumer goods production decreased because there weren't enough labourers
      - Governments intervened to control the distribution of basic goods and food such as bread and potatoes
      - The industrial sector concentrated on the production of military equipment
    - - Most young men were conscripted or recruited into the armed forces
      - Women had to leave the home to fill the positions the men had left