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Germany chancellor Otto Von Bismarck created an alliance system with two min
objectives:
- To isolate France
- To maintain equilibrium in the Balkans
The German emperor Wilhem II favoured a more aggresisive policy ARMED PEACE
-Triple Alliance ( Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy)
- Triple Entente ( france, the UK and Russia)
The Ottoman Empire was collapsing and Austria and Russia hoped increase their influence
in the region ( what were the different positions in Balkans?)
2. THE OUTBREAK OF WAR
The trigger: the crisis of the summer of 1914
- The two blocs sought new allies, which led to the globalisation of the conflict
- Total War ( what’s the meaning)
3. THE COURSE OF THE WAR
War of movement (1914)
At he beginning of the war Schlieffen Plan to defeate France quickly, but the plan
falied Battle of Marne
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aguiEHJCyEA
The end of the war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYhLNQMRro
The creation of the League of Nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdhxLVlrhI
Demographic consequences
More tha 8 million soldiers died, a further 20 million were injured. Also many civilian
deaths, and the lack of food and poor health services facilitated the spread of a flu
pandemic in 1918 that caused 22 million deaths.
This led to a drop in the birth rate reduction in the working population fewer
consumers