Humanaties Unit 3 WW1
Humanaties Unit 3 WW1
Humanaties Unit 3 WW1
1. In the early 1900s, there were two superpower countries in the world, which had a lot of
money, multiple colonies across the world, and crazy military power: France and Britain.
2. Germany wasn’t very powerful back then, and it was bullied for so long and only in the
late 1800s did they even become a country but Otto-van Bismarck, known as the Father
of Germany, managed to get it out of its trouble into a decent position and unite all the
small German-speaking states into one country.
3. Russia, France, and Britain signed a triple entente, which is an MDA (mutual defence
alliance) that means that these three countries are legally bound to support each other.
4. It was also signed as a counter to the triple alliance, signed between Austria-Hungary (a
pretty powerful country at the time), Germany, and Italy (who betrayed Germany and
Austria-Hungary in the end)
5. Slavs are a group of religiously, culturally, and linguistically similar countries, consisting
of countries like Servia, Russia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
6. The reason I underlined Bosnia, is because Bosnia was under control by
Austria-Hungary (we’ll call Bosnia and Herzegovina B&H for now, and Austria-Hungary
AH for now) and the Bosnians didn’t like it.
7. Serbians wanted to unite all slavic countries under one country, and to do that, they
wanted Bosnia to break away from AH. So what they did was they created an
organization called “The Black Hand” which trained all the rebels from B&H to break free
from AH’s grasp
8. So news came out that Austrian archduke Ferdinand Franz was going to tour around
B&H to make peace, but that was when the B&H rebels planned to assassinate him. So
a Bosnian teenager named Gavrillo Princip assassinated him.
9. This made AH very pissed, and they knew Serbia was the cause of this, so AH declared
war on Serbia
26. Because of the war, Russia’s economy was bust. And Tsar Nicolas just said “chill, after
we win the war, our econonmy will be top” but people didn’t like that, so they formed a
union and over threw Tsar Nicholas II and someone called Lenin took over and pulled
russia out of the war.
27. Since they surrendered, Germany made Lenin sign the breast litovsk treaty which stated
that they lose a lot of land and are proud losers of the conflict between Germany and
Russia
28. Germany was happy because they now had to only focus on the western front, but it
looked like the USA might join the war.
29. So Germany sent a message (Zimmerman telegram) in 1917 to Mezxico asking them to
invade USA, but Britain intercepted it and showed it to USA, and they joined the war.
30. After the three battles mentioned above, Germany was getting worse and worse, and
then Germany collapsed.
31. With USA troops arriving, victory was sealed. The Ottomans collapsed, followed by AH,
and then in Novemnber 11th, 1918 Germany surrendered and were forced to sign the
treaty of Versailles. They were made to reduce their army, pay a lot of reparation
charges, and also lost land. That was the end of world war 1.
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