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29.2 EUROPE PLUNGES INTO WAR WORLD HISTORY MR. HOOD´S NOTES NOVEMBER 2014
29.2EUROPE PLUNGES INTO WAR
WORLD HISTORYMR. HOOD´S NOTESNOVEMBER 2014
MAIN IDEA
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
ONE EUROPEAN NATION AFTER ANOTHER WAS DRAWN INTO A LARGE AND INDUSTRIALIZAED WAR THAT RESULTED IN MANY CASUALTIES.
WHY IT MATTERS NOW
MUCH OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF MODERN WARFARE, SUCH AS FIGHTER PLANES AND TANKS, WAS INTODUCED IN WORLD WAR I.
BY 1914 EUROPE WAS DIVIDED
2 RIVAL GROUPS
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
THE TRIPLE ENTENTE
GAVRILO PRINCIP MURDERED ARCHDUKE
FRANZ FERDINAND
AUSTRIA - HUNGARY
DECLARED WAR ON SERBIA
ALLIANCE SYSTEM SET OFF A CHAIN
REACTION
LARGEST + MOST DESTRUCTIVE WAR WORLD
HAD SEEN YET
OBJECTIVE 1DESCRIBE THE
REACTION TO AUSTRIA´S DECLARATION OF
WAR
AUSTRIA - HUNGARY DECLARED
WAR ON SERBIA
RUSSIA SUPPORTED SERBIA
GERMANY SUPPORTED AUSTRIA
- HUNGARY
GERMANS DECLARED WAR
ON RUSSIA
GERMANS DECLARED WAR
ON FRANCE
BRITAIN DECLARED WAR ON
GERMANY
ALLIANCE SYSTEM
DRAGGED EVERYONE INTO WAR
THE CENTRAL POWERS
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY + GERMANY
THE ALLIED POWERS
GREAT BRITAIN + FRANCE + RUSSIA
BATTLE LINES CLEARLY DRAWN
MILLIONS MARCHED HAPPILY
OFF TO BATTLE
MOST CONVINCED
WAR WOULD BE SHORT
THIS WOULD NOT
BE THE CASE
OBJECTIVE 2SUMMARIZE
MILITARY EVENTS ON THE
WESTERN FRONT
GERMANY FACED WAR ON TWO
FRONTS
GERMANY SANDWICHED BETWEEN
FRANCE + RUSSIA
SO GERMANS CAME UP WITH SCLIEFFEN
PLAN
FIRST DEFEAT FRANCE
THEN DEFEAT RUSSIA
BUT GERMAN PLAN FAILED
NO QUICK VICTORY
INSTEAD, WAR WAS LONG + BLOODY
STALEMATE
WESTERN FRONT
ALLIES V CENTRAL POWERS
DEADLY STALEMATE
LASTED 1914 - 1918
FOUGHT FROM TRENCHES
TRENCH WARFARE WAS PURE MISERY
BETWEEN RIVAL TRENCHES WAS “NO
MANS LAND”
WAR HAD NEW TECHNOLOGY +
WEAPONS
TECHNOLOGY KILLED MORE
PEOPLE FASTER
SLAUGHTER
REACHED ITS PEAK IN 1916
BATTLE OF VERDUN EACH SIDE
LOST 300,00 MEN
BATTLE OF SOMME 1
MILLION MEN LOST
MILLIONS OF LIVES LOST
FOR NOTHING
OBJECTIVE 3EXPLAIN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT
MILLIONS ALSO SENT TO EASTERN
FRONT
SIMILAR SLAUGHTER + STALEMATE
RUSSIA NEAR COLLAPSE
RUSSIA NOT YET
INDUSTRIALIZED
SHORT ON MATERIALS
RUSSIA DID HAVE SOLDIERS
CENTRAL POWERS OCCUPIED EAST
AND WEST
