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THE COURSE OF THE WAR
WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS
4
suficient guarantees
reduce national armaments
lowest limit consistent
country's domestic security
5
Impartial adjustment
colonial claims
2
Absolute freedom
navigation
10
Austria- Hungary's people
develop autonomusly
1
peace agreements
diplomacy
proceed publicly
14
general association of nations
guarentee
political
independence
territorial
states
small
large
CASUS BELLI AND CHAIN REACTION
specific reason
conflict begins
assassination
crown prince
Austro- Hungarian Empire
28 June 1914
shot
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Gavrillo Princip
Serbian separatist
reaction
alliances
Germany
attacked France
Great Britain
defense
Word War I begun
Serbia
Austria- Hungary
annex Serbia
Russia
defend Serbia
SECOND PHASE (1915- 1916)
1915
Triple Entente trops
held back Germans
Westenr front
Marne River
near Paris
trench warfare
both armies
unable to adcvance
standstill
terrible looses
human life
both sides
THE BATTLE OF VERDUN
21 february 1916 (France)
lasted
10 months
the Great war's
bloodiest battles
waged
methods of the 19th century
deadly weapons
20th century
700 000 casualties
killed
wounded
First Battle of the Somme (1916)
soldiers
dig
complex systems of trenches
North Sea
to
Swicherland
thousands of km
death trap
human suffering
Cold
rats
Rain, snow, mud
lice
illneses
attemps
military high comands
breach lines
bloody battles
break German front
unsuccessful attemp
Riots mass desertion among trops
supply problems
punished civilian population
exhausted
war
death
destruction
soldiers
fatigue
discontent
low morale
War spread to
Ottoman Empire's colonies
it reached
Aegean Region
Caucasus
Africa
Middle East
German colonies
British Empire
Battle of Gallipoli (1915- 1916)
Triple Entente's goal
attack
Dardanelles Strait
block Ottoman Empire
fighting its territory
help Russian Empire
Eastern Front
break the stalemate
nothing was achieved
another bloody battle
troops seize
small fraction of coastline
abandon
10 months
500,000 dead people
THIRD PHASE (1917- 1918)
1917
triunph of the Revolution in Russia
Russia out of game
peace treaty
surrender in 1918
Powers of the triple Entente
overcame this setback
intervention
the United States
May 1915
British ship Lusitania
attacked
German submarine
sank within minutes
1,200 died
US citizens
People in favour with US
WWI Aplil 1917
German army conclude
Allied counterattacks
progressive loss of support
war coudn't be won
emperor William II
abdicated
Weimar republic
proclaimed
president US
Woodrow Wilson
peace plan
Wilson's fourteen points
defeat of the central empires
armistice was signed
end of the hostilities
November 1918
FIRST PHASE (1914)
war of movement
Germany
attack France
intention to dominate
through Belgium
Germans and Austro- Hungarians
repelled
Early Russian advanced
Eastern front
powers
quick victory
readiness of armies
modernity of new weapons
battlefield
soon vanished
war fronts stablised
