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WORLD WAR

Europe in 1914

1. name is fully justified "World War " since fought in all the oceans and involved contestants from all continents. Was the first Great War?
2. Why had catastrophic consequences? Certainly not only global but also its extension to a combination military technology and culture of peoples in conflict. A good example is the submarine warfare. The same is true of the air war

Karl von Clausewitz wrote in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, the war was composed of three aspects: policy government, military activities and passions of the people.

2 European powers in 1914

• Until the late eighteenth century many of the current powers had remained socially homogeneous. It was basically agrarian societies dominated by a landed gentry and governed by historical monarchies legitimized by the Church.
• BRITAIN: the richest power in the world but was more vulnerable than ever. The mastery of the seas was what kept the Empire together and fed their subjects. The loss of naval supremacy that was a nightmare.

To meet the German naval challenge, Britain threw away in 1907 a new type of battleship, the Dreadnought , which revolutionized the industry naval war. Because of its speed and its power fire any battleship of the time could be measured to him. However, since its launch powers began to build new ships along the lines of Dreadnought. The new battleships increased size, speed and power and the number of guns. It brought a real "naval race" that made the end of the Great War was an entirely obsolete.

• France: in 1801 its population was 27 million, the largest in Europe. In 1910 was only 35 million, when in the same time Britain had increased from 11 to 40 million people (the newly unified Germany was 65 million). While it continued to exert their dominance in terms of wealth and culture, domestic politics was very unstable (the country was divided between those who had taken advantage of the revolution and socialism on the rise). In foreign policy or forgot or forgave the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany in 1871, which, in turn, also resulted in excessive dependence on Russia to counter the growing German power.
• RUSSIA: big rival Britain (Russian expansion to the south and east was attacking the route to India via the Middle East), although its potential was huge, he was limited by the backwardness of their society and ineffective government. In the early twentieth century tsars ruled a population of around 164 million, composed overwhelmingly of peasants freed from slavery (it was abolished after the Crimean War). Its pillars were: an absolute monarchy supported by an Orthodox church and a huge bureaucracy and lethargic. The educated elites were divided Westernizers and Slavophiles . Until the late nineteenth century attention was directed in its expansion in Asia, but after their defeat against the Japanese in 1904-05 turned to southeast Europe where Orthodox Christian communities in Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria had asked for his support as fellow Christians and Slavs. And something similar happened with the Slavic population, Serbia and Croatia that were part of Austria-Hungary.
• AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: the Habsburg monarchy was composed entirely of nations submerged. In 1867 he had formed a dual monarchy to ensure the mighty Magyars of semi-independence in the kingdom of Hungary, who shared with only a German Austrian monarch (Francis Joseph ruled since 1848), an army, a Ministry of Finance and Foreign Affairs ministry. The Magyars considered something of a superior race, so oppressive rule over the Slavic minorities (Slovaks, Romanians and Croats). For their part, the Austrians ruled the northern Slavs (Czechs), Northeast (Poles and Ruthenians) and south (Slovenes and Serbs), in addition to land italianoparlantes the southern slopes of the Alps.
• GERMANY: due to the inefficiency of the Reichstag In these circumstances, the Kaiser's personality was of paramount importance, and the great misfortune to Germany was found in the person of William II (of the House of Hohenzollern) an individual who personified as one of the three qualities that characterized the German ruling elite : archaic militarism (the military was socially dominant), excessive ambition (they were starring in a new industrial revolution that will take them to claim the status of world power, Weltmacht ) and neurotic insecurity.
• RIVALS PARTNERSHIPS: Since 1871 Germany was seen surrounded by enemies everywhere. Considered, and rightly so, that France was irreconcilable. Therefore try to neutralize encouraging colonial ambitions that would lead to confrontation with Britain, and ensured that found no allies among the other European powers in assembling all of its own system of alliances. Easy thing was to unite the dual monarchy and the Italians (Triple Alliance which supported Italian claims against France). As regards Russia, and Bismarck had been concerned to cultivate their friendship linking it to their "system" through an alliance concluded in 1881 and renewed as reinsurance treaty in 1887. With respect to GRAN BRITAIN, have their two main natural enemies, France and Russia, central power was to their liking. The only thing I feared Bismarck, and rightly so, was a war in the Balkans between Austria and Russia that could destabilize a situation so poorly established. So the Congress of Berlin in 1878 negotiated an agreement that divided the Balkans into two spheres of influence between Russia and the dual monarchy, giving the latter a kind of protectorate on the northern Ottoman province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This arrangement lasted until the end of the century, then everything began to crumble from the same time that Bismarck's successors were unable to renew the treaty with Russia. So things in 1891 France (abundant source of investment for the sake of modernizing Russia) and Russia signed a treaty, DOUBLE ENTENTE to deal with the Triple Alliance. For its part the British, though relations with Germany had been more cordial than anything else, were uneasy about the transatlantic fleet that Germany was arming. Consequently, their response was the establishment of relations with France in 1904 known as the entente cordial . But there was the Russian Empire who in 1907 (after the painful defeat against Japan in 1905) signed an agreement with Britain on a land border with Persia and Afghanistan, creating the Triple Entente . SYSTEM OF ALLIANCES

However, to understand the path that led to the Great War must we fix on other fundamental changes that will alter decisive way the world was passing XIX century to century, and in a series of CRISIS that preceded the conflict.

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Quiet on the Western Front (1930). THE HORROR OF THE TRENCHES



SUMMARY OF WORLD WAR 1,





SUBMARINES IN WORLD WAR






TANKS DURING THE WAR



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