HIS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Passenger Ship, Sussex Pledge, Serbian Nationalism
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What"s up in europe : what caused wwi, militarism in europe. Over glorification of the military in anticipation of this war: alliance are growing between countries. Central powers: germany, austria, and the ottoman empire: imperialism, nationalism in europe. Balkan"s wanted independence from the austrian-hungary empire. Created instability: and the war alllll started with the assignation of the arch duke of austria. Serbia had an alliance with russia: naturally russia called war on austria. France and an alliance with russia so war on austria. Gb had alliance with france so war on austria. Germany had alliance with austria so germany and austria back fired against those: schlifflien plan others. Germany was going to take france very quickly and then turn to take out russia (save energy for russia) Plan was unsuccessful: battle of the marne. Allied powers settled into a stalemate: stalemate war marked by trench warfare. Most of the war was fought like this.