World War 1 Test

• serbia
• russia
• france
• gb
• us
• italy
• japan

• a-h
• germany
• bulgaria
• ottoman empire

• when a country devotes all of its resources to the war effort
• -gov controls econ. and industry
• -rationing, limit products, and industries switch to producing war materials
• -everybody works
• -sedition outlawed (speaking out against gov.)
• -propoganda

• -war started in euro but spread around the globe as euro conlonies became involved
• -gallipoli campaign
• -japan fought germ. colonies in pacific
• -india/africa

• -when all euro countries built up their militaries and felt invincible
• -felt like they wanted to use militaries to prove they were invincible

• -nations of euro formed alliances by agreeing to fight for each other in case of war
• -took a local regional war and turned it into a global war

• -euro nations taking over colonies to create a big empire
• -euro nations were fighting over territories of the world to make their empires bigger

-the ppl of euro were extremely loyal to their countries and they were willing to fight and die to prove their country was the best

• -serbia and bosnia hergovina wanted to break away from a-h and make slavic country
• -emp. franz joseph said no
• -slavic/serbian nationalist terrorize b-h
• -franz joseph sent son (arch duke franz ferdinand) to b-h to gain support for a-h
• -black hand assasinate him and wife during parade (gavrico princip)
• -joseph blames serbia
• -serbia doesnt want to fight a-h but they refuse and eventually get in a war

were duke franz ferdinand shot at

• -germany and france constantly ready for war
• -one germ. plan was for the possibility of having to fight a 2 fronted war against France to the West and Russia to the East
• -Schleiffen Plan called for attacking weaker opponent (France), knocking them out, and turning all resources towards russia
• -attacked with 40% instead of 90%
• -held up for a month while passing through belgium
• -bcs. von kluck breaks his attack germans never reach paris and end in stalemate
• -plan fails, left to fight 2 fronted war
• -begining of trench warfare

• -1st place were poison gas sucessfully used (chlorine)
• -used by germans against brits
• -very successful, 5000 soldiers killed in 10 min
• -germ. follow up to quickly and run into gas

• -1st place tanks used
• -brits against germans, drove them off lines and through neighboring town of cambry
• - tanks overheated and germans dropped shells of them and regained land

• -historically sig./symbolic city-roman fortrice
• -germans new france would use every resource to protect
• -mad them use everything. bombard, attack, repeat
• -french hold on
• -last from feb. 1916-dec. 1916
• -fr. 550,000 casualties, germans 434000

• -brit. attacked germans at the somme inorder to draw germ. attention and soldiers away from verdun
• -brit bombard, attack, repeat
• -on first attack brit. suffer 60000 casualties
• -evantually gain 12 kilometers

-liner with 128 americans

-message from germany to mexico promising to give them back american sw if they attacked us and kept us out of the war

• -self determination (choose won gov.)
• -freedom of trade/seas
• -reduce armed forces
• -league of nations

• woodrow wilson-us
• georges clemenceau-fr.
• david lloyed george-gb
• vittorio orlando-italy

leader of germany

• -btwn allies and germany
• penalties
• -admit responsibility for war
• -fined 320000000000 in addition to war debts
• -french get alsace lorraine
• -lost all colonies
• -limit size of army
• -no submarines or air force