WW1 - Practices Review Flashcards
What happened on June 28, 1914?
Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
What happened on July 5, 1914?
Blank Cheque
What happened on July 23, 1914?
The Ultimatum
What happened on July 25, 1915?
Serbian Reply
What happened on July 28, 1914?
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
What happened on July 31, 1914?
Russia Mobilizes
What happened on August 1, 1914?
Germany declares war on Russia, the French Mobilize
What happened on August 3, 1914?
Germany declares war on France
What happened on August 4, 1914?
Germany declares war on Belgium. Great Britain declared war on Germany to protect Belgium’s independence.
What happened on August 5, 1914?
Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia and Great Britain.
How did war transform in 1914?
Transitions from a mobile to a stalemate war.
- Trench warfare, ‘race to the sea’ in the Marne after the Schlieffen plan fails
- French use tear gas
- Germany defeats Russia at the Mansurian Lakes and Tannenberg
How did war transform in 1915?
Characterized by a stalemate on all fronts.
- Germany attacks Russia, Eastern front forms
- GB and FR attacks fail on the Western Front and in Gallipoli
- Italy joined the Triple Entente through the Treaty of London
How did war transform in 1916?
Large offensives and more Allied planning.
- Germany at Verdun, ‘Bleed them white’ ‘they will not pass’
- Britain at the Somme, use of tanks, over 1m kills, Jutland, indecisive victory, GB defeated more ships, Ge defeated more men.
- Russia, failed Brusilov offensive
How did war transform in 1917?
Characterized by Allied Transitions.
- Russian Revolution
- Failures for GB, FR and Russia
- USA joins war after the sinking of the Lusitania
How did war transform in 1918?
War ends.
- Allied counterattacks in France
- Turkish defeats in the Middle East
- Austria is defeated by Italy
- Armistice
