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01 WORLD WAR I: CAUSES AND ALLIANCES - Coggle Diagram
01 WORLD WAR I: CAUSES AND ALLIANCES
1 CAUSES OF THE CONFLICT
Nationalist rivalries
Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) for the territories of Alsace-Lorraine
tensions in the Balkans
Kingdom of Serbia
fought for indepence
suppoted by Russia
rival Austria-Hungary
Imperialist ambitions
Germany was left behind in the partition of colonies
at the start of the 20th century
Second German Empire
Europe’s main industrial and economic power
it claimed its own colonial territories
An aggressive diplomacy
alliances with other nations
No forum for debate or international organisation was created
‘Armed Peace’
The arms race
rearmament of states due to the atmosphere of rivalry and imperialist ambitions
new and more deadly weapons
WEAPONRY
first war in which aviation played a fundamental role
manufacture of the first metal aeroplane by the German company Junkers in 1915
machine guns
tanks
armoured vehicles
German Zeppelins
airships
lethal mustard gas
1 THE ALLIANCES
The Triple Alliance (1882)
formed by
Germany
Italy
later abandoned it
Austria-Hungary
once the war started
Ottoman Empire (1914)
Bulgaria (1915)
The Triple Entente (1907)
formed by
Russia
France
Great Britain
Italy (later on in the war)
other countries (colonies of the main empires)
Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro
invaded by Germany and Austria-Hungary
The United States entered the war in 1917
decisive role
Romania (1916) and Greece (1917)
developments on the Balkan front
Japan declared war on Germany (1914)
to seize German concessions in China and the Pacific islands of 1898
