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Nationalism
Nationalism is an ideology, a social and political movement that come up since the industrial and bourgeoisie revolution. -
Wilhelm I, German Emperor
Wilhelm I, also known as Wilhelm the Great (22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia (2 January 1861 – 9 March 1888) and the first German Emperor (18 January 1871 – 9 March 1888).
Under the leadership of Wilhelm and his Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Prussia achieved the unification of Germany and the establishment of the German Empire. -
Stalemate
Was one of the causes of the first world war, mean that everyone was armed but no one started the fight. -
triple alliance
The Triple Alliance was the military alliance among Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy that lasted from 1882 until the start of World War I in 1914. Each member promised mutual support in the event of an attack by any two other great powers. In a supplementary declaration, When Germany and Austria–Hungary found themselves at war in August August 1914 with the rival Triple Entente of Britain, France, and the latter's ally, Russia, Italy pledge its support to the Central Powers. -
The Triple Entente
The Triple Entente was the name given to alliance between the United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire. The alliance was then made stronger by agreements made with Japan, the United States and Spain. In this form, there was a balance of power with the "Triple Alliance" of of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. With the First World War, the Triple Entente became a military alliance. -
First Balkan war
The term Balkan Wars refers to the two wars that took place in South-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913. The First Balkan War broke out on 8 October 1912 when Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia, having large parts of their ethnic populations under Ottoman sovereignty, attacked the Ottoman Empire. -
Second Balkan war
The Second Balkan War broke out on 16 June 1913 when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its gains, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece. Their armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive and counter-attacked penetrating into Bulgaria, while Romania and the Ottomans used the favourable time to intervene against Bulgaria to win territorial gains. In the resulting Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria lost most of the territories gained in the First Balkan War. -
First War World begin
World War I was a military conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918 and involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. The 3 most powerful countries were G.Britai, Germany and Austria-Hungary. -
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg on 28 June 1914 in Bosnia-Herzegovina (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) brought the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to a head.This triggered a chain of international events that embroiled Russia and the major European powers. War broke out in Europe over the next thirty-seven days. -
United States join World War I
RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. She was torpedoed by the SM U-20, a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 and sank in eighteen minutes, eight miles (15 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, and was instrumental in bringing the United States into World War I. -
Telegrama Zimmermann
The Zimmermann Telegram was a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in Washington, Johann von Bernstorff, at the height of World War I. Zimmermann sent the Telegram in anticipation of the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by the German Empire on February 1, an act which German chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg feared would draw the neutral United States into war on the side of the Allies. -
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1917 is also called the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1917 there were actually two revolutions in Russia. One was the February Revolution in which the Zar abdicated his throne and the Provisional Government took power. The other was the October Revolution in which the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks.The Russian Revolution of 1917 played a very important role in world history and also a major role in the history of the Baltic states. -
The war was over
More than 15 million people were killed, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in history. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. Although the armistice signed on 11 November 1918 ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference.
