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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.

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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.

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Eastern Front

  • More mobile than Western Front.

  • Early Russian Defeats

  • Austria-Hungary vs Russia and Serbia.

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Russian Revolution

  • 1917: Economic hardship, military failures

  • Fall of Czar Nicholas II

  • Bolsheviks under Lenin take power

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U.S. Entry

  • Unrestricted submarine warfare

  • Sinking of the Lusitania 

  • Zimmerman Telegram

  • U.S. join Allies in 1917

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End of War

  • Armistice on November 11th, 1918

  • Exhaustion of Central Powers

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After & Treaty of Versailles

  • Germany accepts blame (War Guilt Clause)

  • Reparations, military reduction

  • League of Nations established

  • New national boundaries in Europe