World War 1 4/15

Friday, April 15, 2016

11:13 AM

Takes power away from France

Guarantee the legitimacy of smaller nation states

Britiain
Russia-dedicated to monarchy
Prussia-dedicated to monarchy
balance of powerFrance
Austria-dedicated to monarchy

- establish the

What are we going to the eastern question and ottoman empire

The ottoman had control over the Balkans

The main powers
Russia
Ottoman
Is a big jumble of gun powder
It will explode

Russia

Ottomans
Austria
War with ottoman and russia
They fight a limited war
Agree to the congress of berlin and
It ends

Bosnia because a protectorate to Austria and Hungary

Now its part of Austria

Russia does not go outside Europe to set up colonies

Love for our tribe

Practice eastern orthodox
People in the Russia are slavs
People in the Balkans speak
Russia should be dominating Balkans because hey share a similar culture and
language

What is Germany?

Regards to borders

Dont want to fight Russia and France

Bisamark wants to isolate France

Russia is aligned with Russia

Russia and Germany are not aligned any more

Doesnt want to Bismarck to control the show and takes away his position
Big mistake

Now France will have Russia fighting with them

France will fight Britain through out the 20th century

He is the heir the Habsburg thrown (Austria)

He goes to Sarajevo and a Serbian shoots him

He is shot because of Pan slavick
They dont like

Could've been a small war

The alliance
Switches sides- wants to take back land

Total war- using all the resources in a total war\

Totally crush the enemy

World War 1 was the first total war
19th century wars were limited

Germany has been preparing forever and decades

Goal of the Schieffen Plan

-was take over France
-then fight Russia
-invade Belgian and circle back to Paris
-belgain is a neutral and is taken over

train
fighting
The plan fails
are
were

They sign a peace treaty

And edns the war

Dig big trenches

No move to make
No one wins

Machine gun takes traditional tactics null

First industrialize war with industrialized power

Drop bombs
Submarine

Germany reaches out to mexico and says to take out america and they will help

A british passenger ship

Torpedoed
American civilians dies
Frames it as a war on democracy