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WORLD WAR I, image, image, image, image, image, image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - fist metal aeroplane
        
        1915
- - - - broke out in Europe
  - - - partition of colonies
        
        Germanay
        
        left at disadvantage
        
        Start of 20th century
        
        main industrial and economic power (Europe)
        
        Second German Empire
        
        own colonial territories
    - - Each power
        
        try to protect their interests
        
        by seeking alliances with other nations
        
        No forum for debate
        
        or international organisation
        
        was created to discuss conflicts
        
        armed peace
    - - France and Germany
        
        remained hostile
        
        during the process of German unification
        
        Prussians defeated France
        
        seized territories of
        
        Alsace- Lorraine
      - Different peoples fought
        
        gain independence or expand
        
        Kingdom of Serbia
        
        supported by Russia
        
        rival of Austria-Hungary
    - - prepare for war rather to avoid it
        
        atmosphere of rivalry and imperialist ambitions
        
        diplomatic initiatives designed
      - Industrial and technological progress
        
        more deadly weapons
- - - - Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary
      - Italy later abandoned
      - one the war started
        
        joined
        
        Ottoman Empire
        
        Bulgaria
    - - Russia, France and Great Britain
      - Italy
        
        abandoned the Triple Alliance
        
        its rivalry with Austro- Hungarian empire
        
        once the war started
        
        joined
        
        Triple Entente
      - Other countries
        
        United States (1917)
        
        Romania and Greece
        
        Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro
        
        Japan