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Triple Alliance
The Triple Alliance was formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Each county was prepared to fight, and when one entered a war all of thier allies were obligated to enter the war too. -
Arms race (Militarism)
(1870-1914) The arms race occurred between all the countries because of Militarism. Germany built up her armies and by 1914 they had the largest standing army and hugest collection of guns. Only Britain's navy rivaled theirs. Militarism brought new technologies as nations strived to have a bigger artillery. Machine guns, mobile artillery, tanks, submarines, and airplanes would change the nature of warfare and the upcoming war. -
(Imperialism) Scramble for Africa
Imperialism also contributed to World War I. The amount of land that Britain and France owned led to a heightened rivalry with Germany, who was new to the empire business and sought to acquire colonies later on and only controlled small portions of Africa. thei was known as the Scramble for Africa and took place between 1881 and 1914. -
Triple Entente
The Triple entente was an alliance between Great Britan, France, and Russia. It was formed in response to the Triple entente, to ensure that they will not be destroyed by them if war is declared. -
(Nationalism) Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. A teenage Serbian nationalist shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as their motorcade maneuvered through the streets of Sarajevo. This ignited the flame and exploded into WWI. -
Germany's Blank Check
In response to the assassination, Germany's Blank Check was a promise of unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary might take to punish Serbia. -
Austria-Hungary declared war causing a Domino effect
Austria-Hungary declares war after Germany's blank check supports them in any decision. Since Serbia did not agree to Austria's ultimatum, war was announced. Russia declared war to help its ally Serbia against Austria. This caused Germany to declare war against Russia. France, Russia’s ally, promptly declared war against Germany. Then Germany declared war against neutral Belgium. Finally Great Britain, which had treaties with France and Belgium, immediately declared war against Germany. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania was a British passenger ship, and when it sunk Americans died. This outraged the public of America because they were not at war with anybody and Germany disregarded that when they torpedoed the ship. -
Sussex Pledge
The Sussex Pledge was a promise made by Germany to not sink any unarmed ships, to appease the American outrage that occurred after Germany torpedoed another ship called the Sussex. This pledge guaranteed that passenger ships would not be sunk, merchant ships would not be sunk without confirmation of weaponry onboard, and that provision would be made for the rescue of the crew of any torpedoed ship. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was written by German Foreign Minister Zimmermann proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States during World War I. This telegram ultimately pushed the United states to declare war and join the Allied side. -
Unrestricted Submarine warfare resumes
The Sussex pledge was broken after Germany resumed their unrestricted Submarine warfare. -
U.S.A offically enters WWI
After the Zimmerman telegram, the United states had had enough. They decided that Germany had pulled the last straw and Congress finally allowed the USA to enter WWI on the Allied side. The tide turned almost immediately. -
Fromation of new Countries after WWI
Six new countries that formed as a direct result of WWI were Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Estonia. -
Americans turn the Tide in favor of Allied powers
The American troops helped stop the German advance in the 2nd Battle of the Marne and the Battle of Cantigny, then at St Mihiel, at Château-Thierry, and throughout the Argonne Forest. American troops coupled with France and Britain's gave a military advantage to the Allied powers so that by fall 1918, the German front was collapsing. -
Germany surrenders
On November 11, 1918, Germany surrendered to the Allies in a railway car in Compiegne, France. By the end of the war, 1.3 million American soldiers had served on the front, more than 50,000 had lost their lives, and about 230,000 had been wounded. In total 5 million Allied, and 8 million Central Power troops were dead. The war was over. Nearly 6.5 million civilians were also dead, victims of the terrible conflict. -
Guilt's on Germany
Also known as the Guilt clauses, Article 231 stated that Germany had to admit that everything was their fault for starting the war. Germany thought this was completely unfair because they had no negotiation in the treaty and were forced to sign it. Germans were shocked at the severity of the Treaty because they thought they were going to accept Wilson's 14 points, when in reality they were not included at all. Finally, Germans hated the loss of land, in total they lost 13% percent of their land. -
Treaty of Versallies
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. It stated that Germany had to reduce its army size and give up some of its lands. They also had to pay war reparations to other countries, and they could not station their troops in Rhineland. They also could not join the Leauge of Nations. All of this was done to ensure Germany never started another war again. -
Dawes Plan
By 1924, the Germany's Webinar Republic was in dire financial straits. When it became clear that Germany was incapable of paying out the installments required by the Treaty of Versailles, a new plan needed to be formed. The reparation payment schedule was revised to require annual payments that would increase from one billion gold marks due in 1924 to two and a half billion marks due four years later;Also, Ruhr was returned to Germany and troops would pull out to secure economic stability again. -
Young plan
The Young Plan, proposed by Owen Young, reduced reparations to about $8 billion. The money was set to be paid over 59 years with the equivalent of $473 million paid each year. This occurred because The war reparations set upon Germany were too high and it could not keep up. -
Stock Market Crash
Stock prices fell sharply, in what is known as the Great Crash.Billions of dollars were lost. Whole fortunes were wiped out in hours. Many speculators who had bought stock on margin lost everything they had. -
Great Depression
The Great depression began soon after the stock market crash. IT was a worldwide economic downturn. Easy credit had hidden the economic problems and caused more debt. Farmers goods were not valued properly and then the banks collapsed as frightened depositors withdrew their money because of the stock market crash. Later the depression spread to countries overseas, causing worldwide economic depression. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The depression goes worldwide after the Hawley-Smoot Tariff is placed. It raised priced of foreign goods so that American goods would seem more affordable. it caused European nations to retaliate and thus destroyed international trade. -
Rise of Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as dictator from 1934 to 1945. He was the man who ultimatly began WWII
