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Alliances
The Triple Alliance formed on the 20th of May in 1182, it was a secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
The Triple Entente was formed on August 31 1907 and it included the Russian Empire, the UK, Ireland and France. -
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie
On June 28th, they were in Sarajevo touring on there wedding aniversary in an open car when serbia nationalist Nedjelko Cabrinovic through a bomb at the car, it rolled of the back of the car and wounded and officer and civillianse. The couple went to visit the wounded office in the hospital when they made an unfortuanate turn onto a street where one of the Serbian Nationalist men was on the same street. He then proceeded to shoot both Franz Ferdinand and his wife. -
Imperialism
Germany was trying to establish imperialism by trying to take over France. -
Nationalism
Germany was beating britain in terms of its size of it's naval forces. Britain wanted to have the strongest and largest naval forces so it continued to expand. This in a way provoked Germany and war began. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. -
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
Bethmann Hollweg went before the German Reichstag government and made the announcement that unrestricted submarine warfare would resume the next day. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The American press published news of the telegram and with that they formally declared war on Germany. -
Militarism
America collected materials from the public and sent it over seas and used it for military use. -
Effects of WWI
World War killed more than 9 million soldiers, sailors, and flyers and another 5 million civilians, involved more than 28 countries and cost $186 billion in direct costs and another $151 billion in indirect costs -
Treaty of Versailles
Signed five years after the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It was a peace treaty that ended the war between the Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression began is 1929 and ended in 1939. It began soon after the stock market crashed, it was the deepest and longest economic downturn in History.