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25.3 A Global Conflict - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Allies wanted to establish a supply line to Russia because they wanted to be able to support their eastern Ally.
      - In parts of Africa and Asia, Germanys colonial possensions became under assult.
        
        The Japanese quickly overran German outposts in China. They also captured Germany's pacific island colonies. English and French troops attacked Germanys four African possenions. They seized control of 3.
        
        Fighting troops as well as laborers came from India, South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Algeria, and Indochina.
        
        Many fought and died on the battlefield. Others were working to keep the front lines supplied. Some people volunteered in the hope that service would lead to their indepence.
        
        America Joins The War
        
        In 1917, the focus of the war shifted to high seas.
        
        Germans intensified submarine warfare that had raged in the Atlantic ocean.
        
        In 1917, the Germans annocued that their submarines would sink without warning any ship in the waters around Britain.
        
        This policy was called Unrestricted Submarine Warfare.
        
        On May 7, 1915, a german submarine sunk the British passanger ship Lusitania.
        
        Lusitania
        
        American soliders were sent and finally Germany agreeded to stop attacking neutral and passanger ships.
        
        Officals intercepted a telegram written by Germany's foreign minister Arthur Zimmerman.
        
        The note stated that Germany would help requonquer the land that mexico had lost to the US if they allied with Germany
        
        The Zimmerman Note drew the United States into the war by threatening to take U.S. territory from Mexico.
        
        Zimmermann Note
        
        Foreign Policy
        
        Invasion
    - - Turkish troops, some commanded by German officers, defended the region.
      - By May, Gallipoli turned into a bloody stalemate. Both sides were digging trenches that they battled in for the rest of the year.
      - In December, the Allies gave up the campaign and began to evacuate. The Allies had suffered about 250,000 casualties.
- - - - why did the wartime governments tae control of their countries economies.
        
        they took controll so they where able to make people have supply's but then the goverment didn't like the war going on so they spred the news so the people in the country would see how war was.
      - they had a lot of goods that they where in short supply for. the government made it so they had rationing act and you where only able to buy a certain amount of product.
        
        the Governments did antiwar activity's and they had news about the war and a lot of the leaders thought that it would turn people against it.
        
        how did Total War lead to rationing
        
        there was a lot of short supply so the government made a rule that they had to only buy small amounts of items that where short stocked.
        
        Conflict
- - - - Another significant legacy of the war lay in its peace agreement. The treaties to end World War I were forged after great debate and compromise. And while they sought to bring a new sense of security and peace to the world, they prompted mainly anger and resentment.
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- - - - After Russia's withdrawal, Germany was allowed to send all forces to the Western Front. After one massive attack on the Allies in France, victory seemed close for Germany. But their military had weakened and men were exhausted.
        
        The Allies could sense this weakness. With 14,000 fresh US troops, they launched a counterattack. The Allies and Germans clashed at the Second Battle of the Marne. With 2 million more American troops, the Allies were advancing towards Germany.
        
        Following, the Central Powers began to fall apart. First the Bulgarians and the Ottoman Turks surrendered and revolution occurred in Austria-Hungary. In Germany, people turned against the kaiser.
        
        Kaiser Wilhelm II stepped down and Germany declared itself a republic. A representative of Germany met with a representative of France near Paris, both signed an armistice and agreed to stop fighting.
        
        On November 11, 1918, World War I came to an end.
        
        Cooperation: The process of working together to achieve a common outcome.
        
        How did the surrender of the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria and the revolution in Austria-Hungary lead to the end of World War I? When they surrendered, this left Germany all alone against the allies. They chose to stop fighting/surrender rather than fighting a war they couldn't win.
        
        The End of WWI
      - What effect did the Russian Revolution have on Russia’s role in World War I?
        The Russian Revolution eventually took out Russia from the war. Without Russian troops to occupy German troops on the Eastern Front, Germany was free to send most of those troops to the Western Front in a last effort to win the war.