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Germany had been fragmented into as many as 300 separate states ever since the Investiture Struggle in the Middle Ages had wrecked the power of the German emperors.
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Habsburg Austrian Empire was threatened by revolutionary movements.
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rea comprising the present French départements of Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin, and Moselle.
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two new major states of Europe had been formed—the German Empire and the kingdom of Italy.
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Triple Alliance, secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I.
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The Russo-Japanese War developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for dominance in Korea and Manchuria.
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Damaged Austria Hungarys relatonship
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Ottomans asked the Germans to assist in the development of a new military force, the Germans sent officer Liman von Sanders in reply.
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him adn his wife were shot to death by Boshian Serb
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first truly global war. It began in Europe but quickly spread throughout the world.
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The Schlieffen Plan was created by General Count Alfred von Schlieffen
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was to invade East Prussia along with General Rennenkampf’s First Army.
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featured the first use of radio intercepts and automotive transport of troops in wartime.
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Germany's inevitable rejection of the Japanese ultimatum - Japan declared war on Germany and seized control of Tsingtao in short order in early November 1914.
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There was no united front in Russia when war was declared on Germany and Austria. The Prime Minister, Goremykin, followed the patriotic line and had greater access to Nicholas than most other ministers.
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was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I
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was a British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband and briefly the world's biggest ship.
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longest single battle of World War One.
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the largest sea battle in naval warfare history
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famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops
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The Zimmermann Telegram was a coded message sent from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to Germany's ambassador in Mexico
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officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution
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The use of unrestricted submarine warfare was to have a major impact on World War One as it was one of the main reasons why America joined the war.
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n the days of the great struggle against the foreign enemies, who for nearly three years have tried to enslave our fatherland, the Lord God has been pleased to send down on Russia a new heavy trial.
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the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world.
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infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud.
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letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that made public the British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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Vladimir Lenin seizes power from the Tsarist regime in a coup d'etat. Widespread starvation and catastrophic military failure in the First World War left Russia ripe for revolt.
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The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus
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President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war.
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between the new Bolshevik government of Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey),
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The end World War 1
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Wilhelm's abdication was announced by Chancellor Prince Max von Baden
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The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia.
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The Treaty of St. Germain, strictly the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye, was signed with Austria after World War One had ended.
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introduced by Lenin at the Tenth Party Congress in March 1921, represented a major departure from the party's previous approach to running the country.
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Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror,
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Leon Trotsky was one of the foremost figures in the Russian Revolution. Trotsky, along with Vladimir Lenin, gave the move for revolution both drive and organisation. Trotsky's leadership during the Russian Civil War probably saved the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917.
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broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years
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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlined the case for declaring war upon Germany in a speech to the joint houses of Congress on 2 April 1917.
