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THE COURSE OF THE WAR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - new phase began
        
        both armies were unable to advance
        
        the war came to a standstill
        
        with terrible losses of human life on both sides
      - called trench warfare or war of position
  - - - From the North Sea to Switzerland
      - a front thousands of kilometres long
        
        became a death trap
        
        The attempts of the military high commands
        
        to breach the lines resulted in bloody battles
        
        like the First Battle of the Somme (1916)
  - - - by a war with levels of
        
        death
        
        destruction
        
        that had never been seen before
      - soldiers also showed signs of
        
        discontent
        
        low morale
        
        fatigue
  - - - attack the strategic Dardanelles Strait
        
        to block the Ottoman Empire fighting in its territory
        
        help the demoralised Russian Empire on the Eastern Front
      - also wanted to break the stalemate in the war
        
        nothing was achieved
        
        they provoked another bloody battle
        
        Triple Entente troops barely managed
        
        to seize a small fraction of the coastline
        
        had to abandon it after 10 months of fighting
        
        left 500,000 people
        
        Dead
        
        wounded
        
        missing
- - - - meant that the country was out of the game
        
        the powers of the Triple Entente overcame this setback
        
        thanks to the intervention of the United States
      - It ended up signing a peace treaty
        
        in terms that led to its surrender in 1918
  - - - by a German submarine
      - and sank within minutes
        
        Of the 1,200 passengers who died
        
        many were US citizens
        
        This caused many people to be in favour
        
        of the United States entering World War I
        
        This finally happened in April 1917
  - - - war could not be won
        
        Emperor William II abdicated
        
        the Weimar Republic was proclaimed
  - - - Woodrow Wilson
      - proposed a peace plan
        
        known as Wilson’s Fourteen Points
    - - armistice was signed
      - led to the end of hostilities
        
        in November 1918
- - - - against France through Belgium
      - with the intention of dominating it quickly
        
        Simultaneously, a combined action by
        
        Germans
        
        repelled early Russian advances
        
        on the Eastern Front
        
        Austro-Hungarians
  - - - by the readiness of their armies
      - the modernity of new weapons deployed
        
        these factors soon vanished
        
        as the war fronts stabilised
- - - - the assassination of the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
      - On 28 June 1914
        
        Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot
        
        by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian separatist
        
        In response
        
        Austria-Hungary threatened to annex Serbia
        
        Immediately, there was a reaction
        
        from all the alliances
        
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        But Russia stood up in defence of Serbia
        
        in Sarajevo