M O N D A Y- nothing
T U E S D A Y -
Weapons of WWI: (presentations)
- Trenches- Holes dug, that helped sheild sides from another side for saftey.
- Mortars
- Chemical Wepons- Tear gas, mustard gas, chlorine gas etc. These could blind you, give you internal bleeding etc.
- Zeppelin- Carried machine guns and bombs, travel 80mph, used mostly in german bombs and raids
- Torpedoes- Shot under water by submarines, explode on contact, target shipping boats (stops shipment of weapons)
- Lee-Enfield Rifle (SMLE)
W E D N E S D A Y-
- Militarism and Imperialism together = pry a war
- Economic Competition- Want colonies/countries for money, resources etc. Great Britain, France, Germany, etc. were the countries who did this
- System of Alliances
- How did MINES help lead to WWI?
- Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism, Economic competition, System of Alliances
- Nationalists killed Arch Duke Ferdinand because they didn't like the fact that Austria-Hungary had recently taken control of Bosnia (most people there were Serbian, and they wanted to be apart of Serbia), Serbians wanted to send a message- group of 5-6 went and try to kill him; couple got scared, somevhad failed attempts but Gavril Princip was the one who finally did it!
- Chain of Events leading to outbreak of war**************************SUPER IMPORTANT STUFF***************************
- Assaination
- Austria-Hungary sends ultimatum to serbia
- Serbia refuses ultimatum
- Austra-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Germany gives them Carte Blanche (blank check= back them up with whatver they choose)
- Russia mobilizes to support Serbia (MOBILATIONTION)
T H U R S D A Y -
The Von Schlieffen- Germany's War Plan:
- Main thruts will attack through Belgium
- Someeee troops will go through France (bc thats what they expect)
- Surround Paris; and they will surrender in less than a month
- Didn't work becuse Belgium put up a bigger and longer fight than they thought. And France caught onto their plan
Turkish Massacre of the Armenians:
- Armenia is nowww an independent country
- Armenians are Christains
- First Christain nation of the world
- Turks are Muslim
- Turkey was concerned Armenias might fight w Russians against Turkey(Turkey's enemy)
- So they started to massacre them
- Turkification of Turkey
- Started moving Armenians away from border of Russia (so they weren't instigators)
- Moved them 100's of miles, walking naked
- Raped women, killed people, burned cities
- Allowe criminals to go at them ( push the off cliffs, drowning them in rivers)
- Turkification of Turkey
- Some didn't call it a genocide because
- In Turkey you legally can't say it's a genocide
WWI GOALS:
Weren't reallygoals at first, war just happend so quick- winning territories was a must
France-
- Get land from Germany
- Regain Alsace and Lorraine from Germany
- Create an independent Rhineland to create buffer area between France and Germany
- Cripple Germany's military
- Get German colonies in Africa
- Get Turkish colonies in the Mid-East
Great Britain-
- Get German colonies in Africa
- Get Trukish colonies in the Middle-East
Italy-
- Wanted land from Austria-Hungary
Italy switched from our allies to enemies after WWI so quickly because they felt slighted, like they weren't respected. They then came out of WWI in a major depression.
Russia-
- Wanted control of the Dardanelle and Bosporus Straites in Turkey
Austria-Hungary-
- Self preservation
Germany-
- Part of France
- Luxembourg and Belgium
- Most of western Russia
- Make Austria-Hungary and the Balkans a "sphere of influence"
- Take over French and British colonies in Africa
- WANTED LAND AND COLONIES
USA-
- Win and "make the world safe for democracy"
WWI OBJECTIVES P2
- Neutrality: Wilson declared that US was to be nuetral when WWI broke out
- Impartial in thought as well as in action
- US stayed nuetral for three years
CAUSES FOR US INVOLVEMENT IN WWI
- US was very upset with both sides in wat
- GB and Gerany were both stopping US ships
- Eventually US drew closer to war and the Allies
- German sinking of British/French ships and killing US citizens on those ships
- Lusitania (passanger ship)
- Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917
- SUSSEX PLEDGE:
- Germany promised to:
- End sinking of passenger ships
- Search merchan ships for contraband and make proviions for passengers and crews before sinking merchant ships
- Germans abides by it for 10 months
- Eventually realize they're gonna lose the war if they continue to listen to it
- They then declared unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917
- Germany promised to:
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