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THE COURSE OF THE WAR - Coggle Diagram
THE COURSE OF THE WAR
SECOND PHASE (1915–1916) 
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Rain, cold, snow, mud, rats, lice and illnesses pushed human suffering to the extreme
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new phase began
Trench Warfare , War of Position or Attrition Warfare
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1915
Triple Entente troops held back the Germans on the Western Front along the Marne River, near Paris
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war reached Africa, the Aegean Region, the Caucasus and the Middle East
THIRD PHASE (1917–1918)
1,200 passengers who died
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the powers of the Triple Entente overcame this setback thanks to the intervention of the United States
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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
- 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
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FIRST PHASE (1914)
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combined action by Germans and Austro-Hungarians repelled early Russian advances on the Eastern Front
called war of movement
Germany launched a rapid attack against France through Belgium with the intention of dominating it quickly