Summary of 1-3

Question 1

1. Causes of the War

Answer 1

🔹 Long-term causes: Nationalism, Militarism, Imperialism, Alliances

🔹 Short-term cause: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

🔹 Key dates and timeline of how war broke out

🔹 Impact of alliances (Triple Alliance, Triple Entente)

🔹 Memorials and human cost

Question 2

2. Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Answer 2

🔹 Who, when, where, why, and by whom

🔹 Black Hand group and Gavrilo Princip

🔹 Sequence of events on the day of the assassination

🔹 How the assassination led to a chain reaction of war declarations

Question 3

3. Why the War Lasted So Long

Answer 3

🔹 Schlieffen Plan (aim, failure, and consequences)

🔹 Stalemate on the Western Front

🔹 Geography: Western Front, Eastern Front, Salonika Front

🔹 Use of trenches, how technology and resistance slowed the war

🔹 Paris taxis, logistics, and why “Over by Christmas” didn’t happen