Zusammenfassung der Ressource
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES, PRACTICES,
AND EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR 1?
- Practices of WWI
- The Great War
- Huge armies, lots of casualties
- industry: larger populations, more transport and communication
- more technology meant
greater weapons
- state controlled resources
- Massive Failure:
Schlieffen Plan
- didnt account for
Russian Railways
- Russia was able to mobilize quickly
- didnt anticipate resistance from
Belgium and GB
- French air force resistance
- underestimated weapons
- War in the West
- race to the sea for high
ground and to move behind
enemy lines
- Trench Warfare
- stalemate
- like siege warfare
- British couldnt
destroy Germany
- new weapons had
devastating effect
- defense was easier than offense
- Japan
- Japan was deceitful and took
over German colonies in Asia
- In the East
- German Success in the East
- advanced into
Russia
- British and
france were
failing
- Naval advantages (U-boats)
- Russia withdrew
from war b/c of Revolutiion
- United States
- Caused by
unrestricted Warfare
- Zimmerman telegram
- social change on home front
- women in the
workforce
- Propaganda
- sinking of the Lusitania
- Types of War
- Total War: all of a nations resources are
used by the state to achieve total victory
- no difference
between home front
and war front
- lots of propaganda
more state control
- brutal weapons
often used
- Civil War: fought between
people of the same country
- comes from
oppression, political
or religious conflict
- often more personal
than other kinds of war
- Guerrilla War: small
rebel groups do the
fighting
- hard to distinguish civillians
- attacks often
happen by surprise
behind enemy lines
- Limited War: only
between two
countries
- ex: Iran-Iraq war
- Conventional War: fought
with soldiers on foot
- Strategies: grand plan
- defensive
- offensive
- siege
- open order warfare
- Effects of WWI
- Political Challenge
- Russian Revolution
- Bolshevik Party
- totalitarianism
- Communism
- nazism
- fascism
- corporatism
- Fate of the great powers
- Germany
- Kaiser Wilhelm
abdicates throne
- forced to pay massive
reparations
- lost land in the east
and Alsace-Lorraine
- Britain and France
- survived, but saw
homefront unrest
- Austria Hungary divided
- severe economic
depresion
- serious loss of territory
- Minority Groups
- Yugoslavia formed
- Czechoslovakia formed
- Ottoman empire
dissolved
- social change
- advancements in agriculture
- advancements in industry
- women join the workforce
- development of art
- reflection of social ideals
- Reconstruction
- League of nations
- formed in 1920 in Geneva
- proposed by Woodrow Wilson
- disarmament conferences
- zionist movement
- Causes of WWI
- Long-Term
- Imperial Rivalry
- World powers
fought over
territory/colonies
- France and GB were rivals in north Africa
- Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine
- rivalry in trade and markets
- GB didn't like the growing size of German Navy or railroad plan
- all countries experiencing economic
growth more industry and access to
resources
- many countries passed
tariffs to protect goods
- ensured worldwide conflict
- Militarism
- New technology
- every powerful country had a war plan
- mobilization was seen as a declaration of war
- Nationalism: people had
pride in their country and
military
- defensive Alliances
- Austria, Germany, Italy
- France, GB, and Russia
- short term
- unrest in the
balkans
- internal conflict b/w
religious groups in
austria
- Bosnian Crisis
- Assassination of Franz Ferdinand