C&F Stats Flashcards
Franco Russian Alliance
1894
The Entente Cordiale
1904
Between Britain and France
Anglo Russian Entente
1907
The first Moroccan Crisis
1905-06
The second Moroccan Crisis
Or Agadir crisis
1911
The Bosnian Crisis
1908-09
The Dreadnaught
Britain introduced it in 1906
By 1914, Britain had 29 and Germany had 17
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination
20th June 1914
Austria Hungary’s declaration of war on Serbia
28th July 1914
Russia mobilises and Germany threatens them not to
30th July 1914
The Tsar fully supported Serbia’s attempts to create a greater Serbia - panslavism
Germany declares war on Russia
1st August 1914
Italy declares itself neutral and germany threatens France to remain neutral.
France mobilises
2nd August 1914
Germany declares war on France and invaded Belgium as part of the schlieffen plan
3rd August 1914
Britain declares war on Germany
4th August 1914
Stalemate
November 1914-1918
The BEF has been decimated.
The French had around 1 million dead.
Death rates on the front line
17% - officers
12% - soldiers
78 officers above the rank of brigadier general from Britain and the British empire died on active service and 146 were wounded.
Background info the A-H and Serbia conflict
1912-13 there had been many local wars in the Balkans.
Serbia emerged as the most powerful country in the Balkans and A-H wanted to crush them.
The battle of mons
The BEF were led by sir John French.
Landed in France on 23rd August.
The allied troops were led by lieutenant Douglas haig and used Lee Enfield.303 rifles - Germans thought they were against machine gun fire.
The French attack at Alsace Lorraine
The French lost over 200,000 men in 12 days
Verdun - new tech
Aircraft: French gained air superiority, caught german land.
Artillery: after weeks of it the French failed to recapture lost territory from Germans.
Flamethrowers: made by Germans, new and unexpected.
Gas shells: disabled French soldiers.
The Somme - new tech
Artillery: didn’t kill German
Creeping barage: successful, unseen to enemy (Germans).
Aircraft: made useless by the weather.
The tank: effective, hard to shoot at.
Machine guns: halted French fire.
Offensive mining: shells at Lochnagar detonated 7.28 on 1 July 1916.
Passchendaele
Artillery: killed 10,000 german soldiers, destroyed British mining.
Offensive mining: attack on messines ridge where 19 mines were exploded at one - took 3hrs for brits to take german positions.
Approx 325,000 allied lost.
Other wee battles
Vimy Ridge: a victory for Canadians, took 4000 german soldiers.
Dug tunnels, element of surprise.
Cambrai: by evening brits had gained 9km of territory + taken 8000 prisoners. Lots of tanks deployed, 476 with infantry, poison gas too.
Tanks
Invented by brits.
1917: Little Willie, fumes made crew sick.
Used first in battle of Somme.
Mark V: only needed 1 driver not 4.
Mark IV: lors of armour, middle of war.
‘Whippet’: 1918 battle of Amiens. 3 crew.
