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02 THE COURSE OF THE WAR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - the assassination of the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
        
        On 28 June 1914 rchduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian separatist
        
        In response, Austria-Hungary threatened to annex Serbia while Russia stood up in defence of Serbia
        
        this caused a reaction from all the alliances
        
        Germany attacked France and Great Britain decided to come to its defence
        
        the war had begun
- - - - at the same time a combined action by Germans and Austro-Hungarians repelled early Russian advances on the Eastern Front.
    - - these factors soon vanished as the war fronts stabilised.
- - - - both armies were unable to advance
        
        As a result, the war came to a standstill, with terrible losses of human life on both the Franco-British and German sides.
    - - 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 had methods from the 19th century, but with the deadly weapons of the 20th century
    - - territories of the vast British Empire
      - Africa
      - the German colonies
      - Aegean Region
      - all the confines of the Ottoman Empire
      - Caucasus
      - the Middle East
    - - the Triple Entente’s goal was to attack the strategic Dardanelles Strait to block the Ottoman Empire fighting in its territory
        
        and wanted to help the demoralised Russian Empire on the Eastern Front
      - The Triple Entente wanted to break the stalemate in the war, but nothing was achieved and they provoked another bloody battle
        
        during this battle the Triple Entente troops barely managed to seize a small fraction of the coastline
    - - First Battle of the Somme (1916), an unsuccessful attempt to break the German front
- - - - This caused many people to be in favour of the United States entering World War I
  - - - main points adapted
        
        Sufficient guarantees that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest limit consistent with the country’s domestic security.
        
        Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.
        
        Absolute freedom of the navigation
        
        The peoples of Austria-Hungary must be given the chance to develop autonomously
        
        Openly negotiated peace agreements. Diplomacy will proceed publicly
        
        A general association of nations should be formed to guarantee political and territorial independence to small and large states.
    - - This led to the end of hostilities in November 1918