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WWI - Gao - WWI
Course: World Civlizations Ii (CIV 202)
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University: Murray State University
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War and Revolution
The Road to World War I
- The Bismarckian system of alliances (Otto von Bismarck)
- How to preserve the peace?
- Bismarck’s two concerns
- France
- Austria-Hungry and Russia
- Triple Alliance
-1879, a military alliance between Germany and Austria ← → Russia
-1882, Italy joined Germany and Austria ← → France
- Triple Entente
-1864, the France-Russia alliance ← France made efforts
-Britain viewed Germany as a potential threat ← changes
-1904, the Anglo-french entente ← settles colonial disputes
- The Balkans: a war seemed inevitable
- Nationalism
- First and Secind Balkan War
- Two nationalist wars
- 1912 & 1913
- By 1914 ethnic boundaries had formed
- Blasting fuse of WWI
- Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austro Hungarian throne, and
his wife, Sophie, were assassinated by serbian revolutionaries
on June 28, 1914
- Austria declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914
- Germany unconditionally supported Austria
- All great powers of europe were at war
- Germany declared war on russia, Aug. 1
- Germnay declared war on france, Aug. 2
- Britain declared war on Russia, Aug. 3
- Late 1914, Ottoman Empire took Germnay’s side
- Russia, Gret Britain and France declared war on Ottoman
Empire
- A Global Conflict
- Italy entered war in May 1915, against Austria-Hungary
- War spread in Africa
- Chinese and IndoChinese were used to work in european
factories
- Japan joined allies to seize control of german territories in
Asia