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Causes of WWI - Coggle Diagram
Causes of WWI
long-term causes
Alliance System
Triple Alliance
Ottoman Empire
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Triple Entente
Russia
Britain
France
They build up tension and anxiety
Anglo-German Rival
1914
Naval Rival
Germany
Great Britain
need protect its empire
1906
Britain
Building a new battleship
Germany
Build its own fleet of dreadnoughts
Plans for war
All the European powers developed detailed plans
Germany: The Schlieffen Plan
Fight a war on two fronts
France
Attaking France quickly
Russia
Moving all forces to Russia
Several assumptions:
Russia would take six weeks to mobilize it's troops
Neutral Belgium
Britain was a guarantor of Belgium neutrality
France: Plan 17
High speed movilization
Cross over the Rhine into Germany
Capture Alsace and Lorraine
Austria-Hungary
Russia
The increase in military spending
European
Countries more thab doubled their spending on their armies
After 1871
introducction of conscription
Creat a huge standing armies
The assasination at Sarajevo
On 28 June 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinard and his wife went to Bosnia
With His wife Sophie
Black Hand
Planned to assasinate The Archduke
Cabrinovic
Threw a bomb to their car
Exploted under the car behind
Gavrilo Princip
Archduke's car took the wrong path
He killed them both