Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
WWI - Coggle Diagram
WWI
SHORT TERM
PROBLEMS IN THE BALKANS
THE BOSNIAN CRISIS, 1908
THE AGARID CONFERENCE, 1911
THE BALKAN WARS OF 1912 AND 1913
THE MOROCCAN CRISES,1905 AND 1911
LONG TERM
ANGLO-GERMAN RIVALRY
1914
Germany
Great Britain
Naval rivalry
1900
doubluing of the german battleship
1916
included 41 battleships and 60 cruisers
1906
Britain built a new battleship called HMS Dreadnought
1914
race had calmed
THE INCREASE IN MILITARY SPENDING
1900-1914
destructive weapons developed
attemps to stop this
1899
nations
uneable to agree
1907
THE ALLIANCE SYSTEMS
European powers
Formed two rival alliance blocks
Triple alliance: Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary
Triple entente: France, Russia and Britain
They were one key causal factor in the build-up of tension
THE NEED TO PLAN FOR WAR
Plans
Austria-Hungary
had plan R and plan B
both involving attacks on Russia and Serbia
Russia
attack Austria-Hungary and Germany
France: Plan 17
high speed mobilization
attack to capture Alsace and Lorraine before crossing to Germany
Germany: The Schlieffen Plan
They would attack France quickly
Moving all forces to the east of Russia
several assumptions
Russia would take six weeks to mobilize
Germany would fight with more countries not only with France and Russia
invading France will not provoke British forces
INMEDIATE
28 June 1914
Archiducke and his wife visit sarajevo
Attempts of assassination
drank poison
not work
shot
by: Princip
he stepped forward the carriage
fire his revolver
assessinated Franz and Sophie
A bomb under his carriage
failed
by: Cabrinovic