Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes Practices of War WW1
- Types of War
- Total War: Where all resources from a country is being used to achieve victory
- Civil War: Fought between people from the same country
- Limited War: Where only some of a nations resources are being used. Not all resources are necessary.
- Guerrilla: Small groups are used to attack strong points strategically
- Origins and Causes of War
- Strong Imperial powers drew conflict for land and power
- Included: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Britain and its Empire, France and its Empire, Germany and its empire, and
the Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Italy, Japan, and USA
- Great Britain(GB) felt threatened by Germany
- Germany was building their Navy
- both wanted land in North Africa
- Germany's increased contact with the Ottoman Empire
- Trade market caused a lot of conflict between European Powers
- Military powers grew and grew
- Nationalism made each country feel in titled for everything
- Countries started to mobilized
- Russia mobilized
- Caused Germany to make plans to attack Russia and France
- So then France mobilized
- Chain of reactions made Germany to declare war on Russia. France to declare war on Germany
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand June 28, 1914
- Austria responded with series of demands.
- Alliances grew stronger with Austria depended on Germany and Serbia depending on Russia who was with France
- Nature of 20h Century Wars
- Large Armies, meaning large casualties; Total war
- More Destructive Weapons were used
- Machine guns, huge artillery, gas, flame throwers, and aircraft
- Only real strategy was to use heavy artillery.
- Trench Warfare was used and it involved soldiers barricaded in trenches shooting the attacking forces which were in open land.
- Homefront was very important involving women who worked in all sorts of jobs
- This gave more of a status for the women giving them the sense of entitlement and this eventually gave women the right to vote.
- Worked in factories making war supplies and filled in for men at war in white collar jobs
- Efffects of WW1
- Russian Revolution of 1917 took place
- The Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart at the end of the war
- Germany and Japans defeat caused them to turn and cause some of the major poblems that caused WW2
- USA became a huge world power being one of the only standing booming economies
- Increased industry
- Women gained power and respect