TG: Project: Begin the World War I, Treaty of Versailles, and Great Depression Timeline - Part 1 Assignment 3: World War I
By jb4541
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Imperialism
Imperialism is the biggest country with the most control. They could be considered the "motherland" if you like aliens. Before the war the most imperial country was Great Britain, they had the most owned colonies. link text -
Nationalism
People being very supportive to their country and only their country. This was part of the war because people would be against having alies, but also people would threaten other countries. Problems occured when people were born in other countries could be introuble around people who support nationalism because they could threaten them. link here -
Germany's Blank Check to Austria-Hungary
Germany wanted to show that they would support them in what they needed. In effort to do so they sent a blank check. link text -
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie
Archduke was nephew of Emporer Franz who was assassinatied after WW1 began, he had traveled to Sarajevo in June 1917. On his trip he went to gather information on the armed forces, of countries who wanted to become part of the new independant nation. His wife Sophie was a lady in waiting denied royalty because she was born poor. She was traveling with little securtiy when their car got bombed. link text -
Militarism
The importance of militarism during world war 1 was because the military was fighting for us. Early June 1917, the commander had landed in Britian before moving to France. The commander during this time had began his command, and organize him. He was able to use militarism after this.
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Zimmerman Telegram
It was a telegram sent from Mexico, Zimmerman, to Germany to form a German-Mexico alliance. -
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
Priorly suspended, submarine was resumed after the US and other neutral countries had either joined the war or become attacked by the German Navy. link text -
US entry into the war and her impact on it
Began with starting a war against Germany, after that Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare. link text -
Effects of WWI
There were around 20 million deaths, and 21 million casualties. Some new countries to become in the war were Poland, Australia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. link text -
Treaty of Versailles
This is the treaty that officially ended the war. They made many different things for Germany. Germany also didnt have much imput on the treaty. Germany agreed to pay for reparations under different plans. link here -
Dawes Plan and Young Plan
The Dawes plan was that Germany would have to pay, but the payments would become less and grow as time went on. The Young plan was to make changes to the payments, they proposed a plan to stop the payments, at first to lower then but then to stop them in the end. The reasoning to way was to make ammends from the war, and Germany's mistakes in the war. link here -
Rise of hitler
He used woes as power and began to take power of Germany. He began to get vonerable people to turn against Jewish, he was able to have his followers over a lot of Europe. He had around 6 million people killed. link here -
The Great Depression
The great depression is a time after the war where America's stock market had crashed. America was trying to rebuild, but there was a stress through wallstreet for brokers, as well as inverstorslink text
