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THE COURSE OF THE WAR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - rapid attack to France
        
        Germany attacked France
        
        entered through Belgium
      - the fight in the Eastern front againts Russia
      - did not work
        
        couldn't defeat France rapidly
        
        ended fighting in two fronts at the same time
  - - - THE BATTLE OF VERDUN (1916)
        
        21 February 1916
        
        one of the bloodiest battles
        
        700,000 casualities
        
        lasted 10 months
      - to protect from the enemies dag trenches
        
        from the North Sea to Switzerland
        
        they were places of mud, rats, lice, illenesses, deaths... suffering
      - 1916 First Battle of the Somme
        
        French army tried to break the German front
        
        did not succed
      - Civilian population suffered
        
        supply problems
        
        difficlt living conditions
        
        a destruction they had never seen before
      - Soldiers
        
        showed signs of fatigue, discontent and low morale
        
        the deaths and destruction of the war led to
        
        riots and mass desertion attempts
        
        more frequent in the Eastern front
        
        desmoralistion of Russians
      - The spread of the war
        
        to territories of the British Empire
        
        German Colonies
        
        Ottoman Empire
        
        Africa
        
        the Aegean Region
        
        the Caucasus
        
        Middle East
      - The Battle of Gallipoli (1915-1916)
        
        Triple Entente wanted to attack the Dardanelles Strait
        
        to block the Ottomans and help Russia
        
        this resulted in a bloody battle
        
        only managed to cover a small part of the coast
        
        lasted 10 months
        
        500,000 people died
    - - lots of people died in both fronts
        
        trench foof
        
        mutilation
        
        snow, mud
        
        infections
  - - - due to and internal revolution
      - signed a peace treaty 1918
    - - as a substitude for Russia in the Triple Entente
      - Because of the German attack to a British ship in Lusitania (May 1915)
        
        where many US citizens died
        
        causing people to want the US to enter the war
    - - German army conclude that the war could not be won
      - Emperor William II abdicated
        
        Weimar Republic was stablished
    - - the President of US proposed a peace plan
        
        Wilson’s Fourteen Points
- - - - he was the crown prince of Austro-Hungarian Empire
      - on 28 June 1914
      - shot by Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip
        
        Serbian separatist
        
        more people tried to kill him but didn't succed
    - - Russia stood up
        
        the alliances reacted and the Great War begun