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The course of the war - Coggle Diagram
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First phase
Called war of movement, Germany launched a rapid attack against France through Belgium with the intention of dominating it quickly
Simultaneously, a combined action by Germans and Austro-Hungarians repelled early Russian advances on the Eastern Front.
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Third phase
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The powers of the Triple Entente overcame this setback thanks to the intervention of the United States(the decisive factor that shifted in its favour)
In May 1915, the British ship Lusitania was attacked 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.
Near the end of the conflict, the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, proposed a peace plan, known as Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Allied counterattacks and the progressive loss of support from Germany led the German army to conclude that the war could not be won
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Wilson's fourteen points
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Sufficient guarantees that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest limit consistent with the country’s domestic security
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A general association of nations should be formed to guarantee political and territorial independence to small and large states
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Second phase
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Both armies were unable to advance, the war came to a standstill, with terrible losses of human life on both
Battle of Verdun
On 21 February 1916, one of the bloodiest battles of the Great War began, the Battle of Verdun (France)
It lasted nearly 10 months, and was waged following methods from the 19th century, but with the deadly weapons of the 20th century
The cost was 700,000 casualties, either killed or wounded.
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To protect themselves from the enemy, soldiers had to dig complex systems of trenches
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The war reached Africa, the Aegean Region, the Caucasus and the Middle East.
Battle of Gallipoli
The Triple Entente’s goal was to attack the strategic Dardanelles Strait to block the Ottoman Empire fighting in its territory and help the demoralised Russian Empire on the Eastern Front.
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