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02 The Course of the War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian separatist
        
        In response Austro-Hungary threatened to annex Serbia
        
        Russia stood up in defence of Serbia
        
        There for all alliances reacted
        
        Germany attacked France and Great Britain decided to come to its defend
        
        WWI begun
- - - - Through Belgium with the intention of dominating it quickly
        
        A combined action by Germans and Austro-Hungarys
        
        Over these months, powers were still confident of a quick victory guaranteed
        
        by the readiness of their armies
        
        However, these factors soon vanished as the war fronts stabilised
        
        and the modernity of new weapons
        
        repelled early Russian advances on the Eastern Front
- - - - Result in war becoming to a standstill
        
        Terrible losses of human life on both sides
  - - - Attempts to breach the lines resulted in bloody battles
        
        Like the first battle of Somme
        
        which was an unsuccessful attempt to break German front
  - - - German colonies
        
        war reached:
        
        Caucasus
        
        Aegean Region
        
        Middle East
        
        Africa
      - Ottoman Empire
      - Vast British Empire
  - - - attack the strategic Dardanelles
        
        to block the Ottoman Empire fighting in its territory
        
        helped the demoralised Russian Empire on the Eastern front
        
        Triple Entente also wanted to break the stalemate in the war
        
        they didn't achieved nothing
        
        they provoked another bloody battle
        
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  - - - never seened before
        
        Soldiers showed: fatigue, discontent and low moral
        
        That carnage led to riots and mass desertion
        
        among the troops
- - - - Russia out of the war
        
        signed a peace treaty
        
        Triple Entente had the support of United States
  - - - attacked by German and sank within minutes
        
        1200 died, many of them US citizens
        
        This made that more people wanted US in the WWI
  - - - Emperor abdicated
        
        Weimar Republic was proclaimed
  - - - known as Wilson's Fourteen Points
        
        Defeat of the central empires
        
        The armistice was signed
        
        Led to end of hostilities in November 1918