today bruns was being mean! hahahahaha too funny! more notes..ugh!
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Causes of World War I
-Militarism: country has a strong army and navy. and sometimes relying on that to settle disputes
-Imperialism: countries have boundary disputes. competition for land, power, and money. wanted land controlled by colonies in africa and middle east.
-Nationalism: having great devotion or loyalty for your country.
-Economic competition
-System of Allies
*Powers
-Great Britain, Germany, France, United States
-Russia, Japan, Italy
-Portugal, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Turkey
-Economic Competition was competing for money, power and other things around the world..too much competition can cause issues and lead to war.
-System of Alliances is where countries are like a friend to another or other countries.
central alliances in 1914 were turkey, germany, bulgaria and austria hungary.
power alliance was russia france and great britain italy servia US. russia came out of the war in 1917 bcuz of bullshivik. hahahahhhahaha!! the US took russias part in the war...germany lost bcuz they were fighting a two sided war. the two sided war enede when russia dropped out but they were replaced by the US and were fresh and ready to fight against germany
bruns talked about the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was assassinated on the 20th of June in Sarajevo. He was killed by an organization known as The Black Hand. Gavrilo Princip threw a grenade in his car, but it missed them and went behind them injuring or potentially killing people in the car behind him. He would end up being assassinated as one just walked up to his car and shot Ferdinand and his wife. This would be known as the 'Spark that ignited the Powderkeg.'
...Some people talked about US Neutrality during the war. We were neutral, so we traded with all the countries that were in the war. Germany complained that we were trading more with England than with them, so they used the submarine tactics and sunk some of our ships. There were 3 international laws:
1. Neutral nations could trade with warring nations
2. Warring Nations could stop and cease goods on neutral ships
3. Warring Nations had to give warnings before sinking ships
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today we talked about trenches..you'd get shell shock which is kinda like you go a little crazy and you cant sleep and stuff. also you can get trench foot. your feet are always wet so they start like rotting NASTYYYY!!! so thats pretty gross. there is 3 types of trenches. front line, support and reserve. trenches are just like deep holes that they hid in to shoot ppl in no mans land..they just trailed for hundred of miles.. they slept ate and were helped when injured there. .. you were givencertain supplies if you were a trench guy..gas mask cuz they used mustard gas and chlorine to poison people. water, flare gun, trench club, bayonette(knife), rifle gernade, and time based hand gernade. flame throwers were used. machine guns(not mobile) pistols used(luger and colt) more on gas-with the wind not against or it'd come back and getcha. weapons of war. floating mines,zeppelins,tanks, u-boats, baron manifred richton was from russia called red baron shot down french and spanish planes. tested gas masks on puppies......LOTS of destruction.
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turkish armenians..i missed all that. something about it being declared as a genocide. 1.5 ppl were killed in it. it was big ha. the turkey people dont want it to be called a genocide. definitely a mass killing though. armenians were beign killed by turks. ya 1.5 aremenians were killed by turks.
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look up goals on bruns powerpoint.
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The biggest reason US got involved with the war was because Germany was sinking French and British ships and in the process killing Americans. The second biggest reason was the Zimmerman note. This was a note sent by the Foreign Secretary of the Germany Empire, Aurthur Zimmerman to the German embassador of US. The British intercepted it and decoded it wihcih was the part that really made us mad. It said that Germany was going to sink any ship without warning. Germany thought that this would knock Britian out of the war and strongly beleived that we wouldnt enter the war when everyone else surrendered. This plan did not work, no one surrendered. If the general public supports the war it is easier to go into it. Propaganda was another reason. american business and German declaration of "unlimited submarine warfare" were two more reasons
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