HST 702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Arab Spring, Guerrilla Warfare, Caroline Islands
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Romania joins the war (the entente) in 1915 because they"re ethnics and don"t want to be taken over by austria-hungary. Bulgaria joins the central powers in 1915 because they want influence in the. Greece joins entente in 1917 as response to bulgaria joining the war. Small states that wait, stand back, observe, figure out where their national interests lie. They join the side they think will win so they could gain something out of the war. Why only fight the europeans when you can seize other territories and grow. Imperialism: the war in asia, samoa, new guinea and tsingtao. British looking at german possessions (samoa and new guinea) and they wanted them. Japanese and british see that germans are in a hard place because they have 2 warfronts. Japanese take marshall islands, mariana islands and carolina islands. Japanese wanted to exert control over china. Germans had acquired port in tsingtao on a lease, claiming their hold on china.