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what were the mania causes of ww1
- - Militarialism
- - Alliances
- - Nationalism
- - Imperialism
- -Assasination
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triple Entente ( allied powers )
- - Britain
- - france
- - Russia
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triple allaince ( central powers )
- - Germany
- - Austrai - Hungary
- - italy ( switches side in 1915)
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Assaination
- - The death of the Archduke of Austria - Hungary Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo princp ho is beloived to be part of the serbian terrorist group known as Black Hand. Leads assisinated to Austria starting a war with serbia.
- - He was assassinated because he was seen as a threat to the independence of Serbia.
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Schlieffen plan
- - okay before ww1, incase of an outbreak of war Germany would attack France first then Russia after. To try and avoid a " two front war".
- - So, it would invade belguim because it was neutral soace and invade France. With the goal of defeating it quickly. Then going to Russia after.
- - However, Germany invading belgium was against the neutrality act and brough Britain into the war because it guranteed Belgium as a neutral space.
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what was the Zimmerman telegram
- basically, in 1917 Britain intercepts a telegram that was from Germany to Mexico askign them to team up and evade the United states.
- - the british quickly turn the message to the Americans and print the telegram in th british newspapers. Thus, this telegram porvoked the decleartion of war on Germany in 1917
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political boundaries of Europe in the interwar period ?
- - facism
- - the rise of communism
- - october revolution
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Conscription
- - This is basically drafting of people for mandatory militray service. This policy was employed in ww1 by canadian prime minister because he saw how bad the war was in Britain and promised them 500, 000 candain soliders would fight.
- - but so many people were employed in war production and volunteers for people in the war had gone down. Thus, leading to conscirption taking place
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