World War 1

Question 1

Causes of War Events

Answer 1

• MAIN: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
• 1871 - German Unification after Franco-Prussian
• BiG FaT BABA:
• 1899-1901 - Boer War
• 1900 - German Naval Law
• 1905 - First Morrocan Crisis
• 1908 - Telegraph Article
• 1908 - Bosnian Crisis
• 1911 - Agadir Crisis
• 1912-13 - Balkan Wars
• 1914 - Assassination in Sarajevo

Question 2

Causes of War Significance/Stats/Quotes

Answer 2

• “blood and iron”
• Germany had 8.5m men, Rus 4.4, Fr 3.5, A-H 3
• “a place in the sun”
• “mad, mad as march hares”
• Germany spent 4% of income on military prior to 1914, 25% after
• Balkan Wars - Serbia - “the first round is won, now for the second one against Austria.”
• “Germany must have a powerful fleet to protect her interests in even the most distant seas”
• Agadir - “Britain’s interests were vitally affected” - DL George, “These events have shown the German people where the enemy is.”

Question 3

Alliances leading up to WW1

Answer 3

• 1873 - Dreikaiserbund - A-H, Rus, Ge
• 1881 - Three Emperors - A-H, Rus, Ge
• 1882 - Triple Alliance - Ge, It, A-H
• 1887 - 2nd Mediterranean Agreement - GB, It, A-H
• 1892 - Franco-Russian
• 1902 - Anglo - Japanese Naval
• 1904 - Entente Cordiale - Fr, GB
• 1907 - Triple Entente - Rus, Fr, GB

Question 4

Practices of War Events (mostly 1914)

Answer 4

1914 - Jun 28 - Sarajevo
- July 5 - Blank cheque
- July 23 - Ultimatum
- July 25 - Serbian reply
- July 28 - A-H declares war on Serbia
- July 31 - Rus mobilizes
- Aug 1 - Germany declares war on Russia, France mobilizes
- Aug 3 - Germany declared war on France
- Aug 4 - Germany declares war on Belgium, GB on Ge

Question 5

Practices of War Significance/stats/quotes

Answer 5

Eastern Front:
- Aug 26 1914 - Tannenberg, 140k Rus losses
- Feb 7 1915 - Second Masurian Lakes 56k casualties, 100k POWs
Western Front:
- 1914: Schlieffen plan, trenches, race to sea, tear gas, mobile to static war
- 1915: Eastern Front forms, GB and Fr fail at Gallipoli, Italy joins Triple Entente, stalemate on all fronts
- 1916: Verdun, “they shall not pass”, “bleed them white”, GB at the Somme 1m men, tanks, Brusilov, large offensives and allied planning
- 1917: Rus Revolution, USA joins after Zimmerman and Lusitania, Allied Transitions
- 1918: Turkish defeats, Austria Defeated, Nov 11th armistice.

Question 6

Effects of War events

Answer 6

• 1917 - Russian Revolutions and CW
• 1918 - Armistice
• 1919 - ToV, SaiNTS, Aug - German Republic
• 1920 - LoN
• 1922 - Mussolini is PM
• 1923 - Occupation of the Rhur
• 1925 - Locarno Pact
• 1928 - Kellogg-Briand
• 1929 - Great Depression
• 1933 - Hitler becomes Chancellor

Question 7

Effects of War Significance/stats/quotes

Answer 7

• “had the war not intervened the confrontation … may have come sooner than 1917” - McCauley
• Germany loses 10% of land, 12% of population
• Costs: GB-35b, GE-37b, USA-22b
• 1.5m women enter the workforce
• (NAME)Nine nations set up, Alsace-lorraine, minorites(fair), 3 elections
• (GAMES) Ge in Sudetenland, Anschluss forbidden, minorities(not fair), empires, specific violations(ITALY)