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02 THE COURSE OF THE WAR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - assassination of the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire On 28 June 1914.
        
        Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian separatist.
        
        Austria-Hungary threatened to annex Serbia
        
        Russia stood up in defence of Serbia
        
        reaction from all the alliances
        
        Germany attacked France
        
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- - - - in order to invade France through Belgium
      - great mistake
        
        Belgium was a neutral country
        
        and under the protection of Great Britain
    - - a combined action by Germans and Austro-Hungarians
    - - this confidence soon vanished when the front stabilised
- - - - the war came to a standstill
      - terrible losses of human life on both side
  - - - rain
      - cold
      - snow
      - mud
      - lice, rats
      - ilnesses
        
        trench foot
  - - - frequent on the Eastern Front due to the demoralisation of the Russian soldiers
  - - - to block the Ottoman Empire
      - to help the demoralised Russian Empire on the Eastern Front
      - to break the stalemate in the war
        
        a situation in which neither side can win
- - - - peace treaty in terms that led to its surrender in 1918
      - Triple Entente overcame this setback
        
        intervention of the United States in April 1917
        
        due to the Zimmerman Note
        
        German letter sent to Mexico swearing to return their territories lost against USA
        
        due to the attack on the British ship Lusitania by a German submarine
        
        Of the 1,200 passengers who died, many were US citizens
  - - - Weimar Republic
  - - - Openly negotiated peace agreements.
        
        Diplomacy will proceed publicly.
      - 2.Absolute freedom of the navigation
      - 4.Sufficient guarantees that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest limit
        
        consistent with the country’s domestic security
      - Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims
      - The peoples of Austria-Hungary must be given the chance to develop autonomously
      - A general association of nations should be formed to
        
        guarantee political and territorial independence to small and large states
  - - - end of hostilities in 11 November 1918
- - - - unfair them
      - humiliating
      - affect their political and economic status