Thursday 19 December 2013

European History


European History
Discuss the First World War from the causes of the conflict to the armistice of November 1918.
Examples of thing to include in the paper:
MUST USE IN ESSAY:
Triple Alliance 1882-1915, Triple Entente 1907-1917, Britain, France, Russia entering the war, Reinsurance Treaty, Dreadnought, Schrieffer Plan,
Battle of Marne, Trench Warfare, Air Warfare, Poison Gas, Battle of Tannenberg 1914, July Crisis, killing of Emperor Franz Joseph, Gallipoli, Winston Churchill, Battle of Verdun, Battle of Jutland, Treaty of Brest-Litousk, Treaty of Versailles, Sinking if Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Submarine Warfare, Woodrow Wilson and Fourteen Points, league of nations, Armistice, Stab in the back, Peace conference, Demilitarization of Germany, and territory loss by Germany, USSR, Austria- Hungary separated.
Helpful Ideas to remember to write the paper:
The run up to the war, The Balance of Power, A new map of hell, The war in the trenches, The home front, Officers and gentlemen, Russia’s revolution, Bolshevism and the laws of history,
Exporting revolution, How not to end a war, Young Turks
Timeline facts to help write paper of events from 1914-1918 The world at war:
Boer War 1899-1902
Fifteen million Europeans emigrate overseas 1900-1914
Failed revolution in Russia 1905
Young Turks lead constitution reform in Turkey 1908
Beginning of WW I 1914
Germany sinks Lusitania, Beginning of Armenian genocide 1915
Start of Arab revolt 1916
Bolsheviks assume power in Russia 1917
End of WW I 1918
Paris Peace conference, Treaty of Versailles 1919
Treaty between Allied powers and Turkey abolished Ottoman Empire 1920
Additional events and information leading to events:
Article 231(war guilt clause),
Entangling Alliances,
Reinsurance Treaty 1887 It Lapsed in 1890,
French – Russian Alliance 1894,
British – German Rivalry,
Dreadnought 1906,
High Seas Fleet,
British – French Entente (agreement)
British – Russia Entente
Arms Race
Germany and welt-politic
Wilhelm II
July Crisis 1914
Serbia 1878
Germany and the Blank Check
Willy and Nick Correspondence
Marxism

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