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Causes of WW1
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, shot in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, member of Black Hand. Militarization was also a factor.
Western Front
Stalemate and trench warfare
Battle of the Marne, Verdun
Use of new technologies such as machine guns, tanks and gas.
Turns into a stalemate after the Schlieffen Plan. It was to quickly take France through Belgium. But France takes taxis to meet the German troops, and a stalemate ensues.
Eastern Front
More mobile than Western Front.
Early Russian Defeats
Austria-Hungary vs Russia and Serbia.
Russian Revolution
1917: Economic hardship, military failures
Fall of Czar Nicholas II
Bolsheviks under Lenin take power
U.S. Entry
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Sinking of the Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
U.S. join Allies in 1917
End of War
Armistice on November 11th, 1918
Exhaustion of Central Powers
After & Treaty of Versailles
Germany accepts blame (War Guilt Clause)
Reparations, military reduction
League of Nations established
New national boundaries in Europe