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History Y9 Flashcards

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Reasons for WWI

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Beliefs - Religion, politics
Fear
Militarisation 
Alliance System
Imperial and Economic Rivalry 
Nationalism
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Militarisation

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The main countries in the war were making more and more weapons to use if war did break out. This got other countries scared

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Alliance System

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As the countries were making alliances, other countries got scared again because there were strong countries coming together. This meant that people thought that they should make themselves look better by throwing the first punch.

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Imperial and Economic Rivalry

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Imperialism - where countries that have empires exploit countries in their empire other countries want an empire so this annoys them.
Economic - along with space from an empire empires make the economic value of your country go up and the higher your economic value the stronger your country is.

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Beliefs

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2 kinds
Religious
Political

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What are the beliefs about

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As the first world war was at a time where empires were everything, that is mainly what the beliefs are about. People thinking that the empire is good, therefore wanting to either expand or get one. Or people thinking that empires are bad and wanting to get rid of them.

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Fear

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This ties into everything. Countries are growing in power and other countries are scared of this. Therefore they are going to try to land the first punch.

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Nationalism

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Where people are extremely proud of their countries. This could be big countries or minorities.

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Alliances

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Two
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente

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Triple Alliance

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Germany
Italy
Austria Hungary

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Triple Entente

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Britain
France
Russia

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Schlieffen Plan

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4 things
Russia would take 6 weeks to mobilize
France would take 6 weeks to defeat
Belgium and Britain would stay neutral

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Russia would take 6 weeks to mobilize

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Schlieffen make the assumption that Russia would take 6 weeks to mobilize their army as their army was so big. IT ONLY TOOK 17 DAYS. Ten days after the plan was started and 7 before the plan had begun

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France would take 6 weeks to defeat

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The whole idea of the Schlieffen plan was that France would help Russia if they went to war with Germany. So for Germany not to be fighting a war on two fronts it would take out France in the time that it was taking Russia to mobilise, therefore it would be an easier war to win.

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Belgium and Britain would stay neutral

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Germany assumed that Britain and Belgium would stay neutral. They were right until Germany walked straight through Belgium to get to France. The Belgians started fighting back and then the Brits got involved as they had promised the Belgians neutrality.

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What fully started the war

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The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

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Archduke Ferdinand

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He was the heir to the Austro - Hungarian throne.

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Archduke Ferdinand

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Assassinated when he was doing a military inspection in Serbia by terrorist organisation ‘The Black Hand’

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Why the Schlieffen plan failed

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Russians were mobilised quicker than originally though
Britain joined the war
France wasn’t defeated in 6 weeks

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Why the Schlieffen plan failed

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MAIN REASON

Russia mobilised in 17 days - 10 days after the Schlieffen plan was activated

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Life in the trenches

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Hell
Nothing To do
Very dangerous
Dirty
Unhygienic 
Rat infested
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Life in the trenches

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You would never really spend more than 3 days in the front line of the trench, and never more than a week in the trench itself.

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Daytime in the Trenches

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Nothing to do
Get some sleep
Do personal things, make sure feet are dry (to stop trench foot), check uniform etc.

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Nighttime in the trenches

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More active
Go on patrols
Put more wire outside your trench
Go to the German trenches and try and cut the wire there

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Chronology of the July crisis

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When28 th July 1914 - 4th August 1914

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28th July Key date

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Assassination day! - Austria Hungary very upset about this

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5th July

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Austria - Hungary writes to Germany for support in war against Serbia in war

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23rd July

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Ultimatum (from Austria - Hungary) to Serbia

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25th July

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Serbia rejects ultimatum

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28th July

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Austria - Hungary shells Belgrade

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30th July

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Russian’s begin to mobilise - they are allies with Serbia

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31st July

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Germany issue Ultimatum to Russia - to stop them mobilising

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1st August

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Russia still mobilising after ultimatum

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1st August

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Germany declares war on Russia as they haven’t stopped mobilising

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2nd August

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Germany has no choice so the Schlieffen plan is activated

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