Today we had blog discussion.
-Courtney talked about the allied countries.
~Bulgaria,Turkey,Germany, were some of the countries that we are allied powers with. France,Russia,Italy,United Kingdom, Serbia fought 1917 united states. Russia got out of the war by there was another war that civil in their country that made them communist. And made them a soviet union. Ferdanand was assassinated by Princip (who was 17) and that was the outbreak of the Powderkeg-Balkan war. was competiton between who had the best military. Imperialism was a big outbreak in the war!
Bellow are some big reasons for the outbreak of the war:
M- militarism
I- imperialism
N-nationalism
E-economic competition
S-system of alliances
-Mitch talked about France, UK, US, and Germany (Wanted Land From The Losers)
~Germany- wanted to solve lots of disputes with boarding countries and were becoming and wanted a monarchy and was developing a social country and they won land against France in 1970. France + Germany=ENEMIES. ___Wanted parts of France. LAND.
~UK- wanted land, won the land. and they wanted to have oil fuels there.___Wanted land
~France- they were fighting all the time and they were losing men and couldn't keep up and after fighting for a long time they lost land with a lot of resources, (France eventually got it back)____All about punishing germany and get land from germany and turkey!!
~US- potenially land, we didnt want to get involved, so we declared we that we will be neutral, wanted to be a bigger empire. we had a big army and wanted to use it against other countries. ___Wanted to win and end the war. Wilson's 14 points.
~~~~EVERYBODY WANTED TERRITORIES! All about imperialism.~~~~
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