Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History
- First World War
- Triple Entente: France, England, Russia, (Serbia)
- Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
- This led to a World War (all the countries were involved)
- The Naval Race
- A race in Europe to have the biggest navy.
- Tensions in Europe pre-1914:
- Serbia wanted back part of Austria-Hungray.
- Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand:
- Happy day: Sophie just announced she was pregnant. They went to Sarajevo for military inspections..
- The Black Hands' attack went horribly wrong.
- Grenade; (arrived late). Tried to kill himself, poison was too old; tried to drown;not enough water - summer.
- Second guy chickened out.
- Driver took a wrong turn into an alley where Gavrilo Princip was.
- Gavrilo shot Sophie; Franz Ferdinand in the shoulder. Bled to death.
- Shlieffen Plan
- Germany couldn't get into France by the border.
- They went through Belgium.
- Really easy and quick.
- Not.
- Belgium fought bravely, and they flooded the country to slow them down.
- France and british troops went into Marne, and the battle of Marne was fought.
- Went into trench warfare for a brutal battle.
- Russian troops were ready; German troops went from France back to Germany to defend.
- Split their army.
- Plan Failed
- Resulted in trench warfare and stalemate for 4 years.
- Invade France, then Russia!