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WORLD WAR I: CAUSES AND ALLIANCES, NICO URRUTIA - Coggle Diagram
WORLD WAR I: CAUSES AND ALLIANCES
CAUSES OF THE CONFLICT
Nationalist rivalries
France and Germany, remained hostile because the Prussians had defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War and seized the territories of Alsace-Lorraine
Great nationalist tensions in the Balkans. Different peoples fought to gain independence or expand their states.
Imperialist ambitions
In the partition of colonies, Germany had been left at a disadvantage.
At the start of the 20th century the Second German Empire was Europe’s main industrial and economic power, and it claimed its own colonial territories.
An aggressive diplomacy
. Each power tried to protect its interests by seeking alliances with other nations. No international organisation to discuss conflicts
This was the ‘Armed Peace’.
The arms race
The atmosphere of rivalry and imperialist ambitions, and diplomatic initiatives designed to prepare for war rather than to avoid it, led to the rearmament of states.
Countries started the industrial manufacturing of new, more deadly weapons, launching an aggressive arms race.
WEAPONRY
The Great War, as its name suggests, was the most devastating military conflict that history had ever seen.
It was the first war in which aviation played a fundamental role, following the manufacture of the first metal aeroplane
Machine guns, tanks and armoured vehicles
German Zeppelins and airships, as well as lethal mustard gas, which killed people and left the environment polluted and barren.
THE ALLIANCES
The Triple Alliance (1882). It was formed by Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary..
Italy later abandoned this bloc, while the Ottoman Empire (1914) and Bulgaria (1915) joined once the war started
The Triple Entente (1907). It was formed by Russia, France and Great Britain and its respective colonial empires
Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro were invaded by Germany and Austria-Hungary, and suffered greatly during the conflict.
The United States entered the war in 1917 and played a decisive role.
Romania (1916) and Greece (1917) joined due to developments on the Balkan front.
Japan declared war on Germany (1914)
NICO URRUTIA
