History Assignment: Analysis of World War I Events and Impact

This assignment is a comprehensive exploration of World War I, addressing a series of questions covering various aspects of the conflict. It begins by examining the political climate leading up to the war, including the impact of the Franco-Prussian War, the rise of Germany, and the formation of alliances like the Triple Entente and Triple Alliance. The assignment delves into key events such as the Schlieffen Plan, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the July Crisis, analyzing their roles in the outbreak of the war. It explores the involvement of major powers like Britain, Germany, and France, and discusses the impact of technological advancements such as trench warfare. The document covers critical battles, the concept of stalemate, and the war's ultimate outcomes, including the role of the United States and the beginning of the arms race. Overall, the assignment offers a detailed overview of the war's causes, events, and consequences.

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Due to the loss Alsace and Lorraine, there has been a deep sense of hatred and bitterness
has engrossed in the minds of the French people. They has a huge sense of revenge developed
against the Germany after their defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, therefore, the French has
developed their foreign policy that was based on their fear of Germany growing larger and
powerful. However, the issues of the Alsace-Lorraine has faded in importance after the year
1880 with the declination of the monarchist. However, when the war took place, recovering the
lost provinces became the sole motive of the French people.
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After Kaiser came into power the most important thing that he has done for the prewar
military expansion was his commitment to create the navy for the rival of the Britain. His
envious to the Britain power has led him to build a large fleet which. Kaiser during his rule has
appointed chancellors, who has been appointed as the upper-level civil servants rather than the
statesmen.
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By the year 1913, British Empire were holding people around 413 million which is
almost 24% of the total world population at that period of time. However it has to be noted that
by the year 1920, it had held around 25% of the earth’s total land area and therefore it was
possessing a legacy of wide and tall dynasty therefore it has variety of political ideas, linguistic
legal as well a cultural legacy.

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Germany has started to feel that they are getting surrounded by the enemies. In the east
there is Russia. On the western part there lies the France, who was very much bitter towards
Germany after their defeat in the Prussia and they were too eager to strike back and get hold of
their old provinces back, where the France has made an agreement with the Russia, where if one
will get attacked the other one is going to get into war. Therefore the France-Russian alliance has
added into the Germany’s or Kaiser nightmare. In the year 1904, Britain has signed a friendly
agreement with the France in order to strengthen their position against Germany. All these led to
the feeling of isolation among Germany, where if she tries to go on war or even attack France ,
she will be boycotted everywhere including the sea.
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The main threat to the German Security in the beginning of the twentieth century was the
encirclement by different countries, apart from this there was also a political disbursement
among the Germany.
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When the Germans got defeated in 1918, then the Germany military has blamed the
Schlieffen plan to be flawed which resulted in the cause of their defeat. Therefore, the victorious
allies has looked into the schlieffen plan to become the source of the German aggression which
resulted in the basis of war, guilt and also reparations.

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The schlieffen plan didn’t work out since it was based on the positive part and on the
point that everything will be going to be alright and therefore, it did not had any contingencies
for the war. In this plan, it has been observed that Russia who have recently lost the Russo-
Japanese war will take at least take the time of six weeks to attack Germany from the East and
during this period Germany will be able to plan the attack on France from the west by attacking
from the territory of Belgium and Netherlands which didn’t worked out.
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The British has planned to the mobilization of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF),
however it will not approve its deployment plan. The British army has been optimized for the
colonial war and not for the major European war.
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The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which was done by the American atomic
weapons in the year 1945 which has led to the beginning of the arms race among the united
states and the soviet union.
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The triple Entente is the basically the abbreviation of friendship, understanding and the
agreement and it is used in describing the informal understanding between the Russian Empire,
the French Third Republic and the Great Britain.

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In the year 1914, there has been three nations that forms the triple Alliance Germany,
Austria-Hungary and also Italy. The three nations of the triple entente includes France, Russia
and the Great Britain.
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The major players that was involved in World War 1 include the Great Britain, Italy and
France and also the United states. The central power of the world included Germany, Austria-
Hungary and also the Ottoman Empire.
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In the year 1912, number of Balkan nations which are largely influenced by Russia has
also signed a number of the military alliances. All these led to the formation of the Balkan
League. The main motive was to initiate war over the Ottomans and drive them out of the
Eastern Europe completely.
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General of the Austro-Hungarian started talking tough about the Serbia. Though it has
been noted that the Dual Monarchy’s military strength and the equipment are lagging behind that
of Germany, they believed that they can still vanish the Serbia.
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Black Hand members hold an important position in the army and the government. The
Black Hand therefore, took over the terrorist actions and worked to obscure the distinctions

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between the two groups as they were trading on the prestige and the other network of the older
network.
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On this day Arch duke Franz Ferdinand has been declared heir to the Austro-Hungarian
throne and Sophie was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo prince and it led to the outbreak of
the world war I.
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By organizing a world war
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The assassination of Archduke by the 18 year old Gavrilo princip of Bosnia led to the
involvement of Europe in the assassination crisis.
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The major power has their territory extended from North sea to the middle East and this
help them communicate easily and to make their quick movement. However, the central powers
lacks tactics and this has become the reason for their failure.
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The July crisis is nothing but a chain of events that has happened after the assassination
of the heir of the Austria on June 28th 1914.

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Due to expiry of the ultimatum given to the Germany, the Great Britain got into the world
war.
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The Belgian resistance is collectively termed as the movement of resistance that is
opposed to the occupation of the German to the Belgium during the World War II. However
resistance has been divided into several groups within Belgium due to different region and
political stances.
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Citizens and guerrilla tactics slowed down the advancement of the Germany to conquer
the Belgium, which make them commit atrocities in the towns of the Belgian. They were
creating nuisance and massacring the civilians in order to advance the process.
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By after tthe development of the trench warfare
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Battle of Mons has started in this month and year which was between the british
Expeditionary forces and the German army.

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The BEF was considered to be the best British Army that has been sent to the war.
However, they have learnt many tactics after their loss in the war of Boer and the british soldiers
has seemed to be effective in the usage of the cover and tactics and has been able to deliver the
best and quick rifle fire.
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The plan failed because it wasn’t realistic
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In order to stop Britain for reinforcement and also for creating a base for their submarines
they have attacked the channel port.
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The race to the sea refers to the confused struggle that was going on between the
Germans and the British and France armies in the month of October.
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The battle of Marne has seemed to be the turning point in the history of World War I
where the whole allied army has been forced to move back to paris. It has been thought that paris
would be taken.