The Diplomatic state of 19th century Europe was extremely complicated, the political landscape was made up of several empires spread out across the continent vying for power. Beginning with an arms race between Germany and Britain, which eventually spread to the rest of Europe. The individual nations built up massive armies and stockpiles of weapons in the hope that every other nation would be reluctant to fight them, this was unfortunately not the case.
The spark of war ignited when a group of Yugoslav nationalist who disliked being a part of Austria-Hungary assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife as his motorcade processed through the streets of Sarajevo. Soon thereafter the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia, and in turn Germany declared war on Russia.
Knowing that France would attack Germany, Germany decided to act quickly and invade France through neutral Belgium. Following this the British stepped in to prevent the Germans from advancing any closer to English soil. So began what came to be known as the Great War.
A new type of Warfare arose, as these fully industrialized nations put to use their new machines of war; engines, machine guns, airplanes and weaponized chlorine gas. With these the nations of Europe dispensed great misery upon one another, Mechanized …show more content…
In 1918, under increasing pressure from the steady stream of incoming US reinforcements Germany called for an Armistice, bringing an end to The Great War. After six months of negotiations the treaty of Versailles was signed, this saw to the dissolution of the German, Russian, Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian Empires respectively, and decided that the Central Powers were to pay for all of the damages caused during the war. As a result, in the years following the war Germany fell into a major depression. Germany only fully paid its war debts recently in
The spark of war ignited when a group of Yugoslav nationalist who disliked being a part of Austria-Hungary assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife as his motorcade processed through the streets of Sarajevo. Soon thereafter the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia, and in turn Germany declared war on Russia.
Knowing that France would attack Germany, Germany decided to act quickly and invade France through neutral Belgium. Following this the British stepped in to prevent the Germans from advancing any closer to English soil. So began what came to be known as the Great War.
A new type of Warfare arose, as these fully industrialized nations put to use their new machines of war; engines, machine guns, airplanes and weaponized chlorine gas. With these the nations of Europe dispensed great misery upon one another, Mechanized …show more content…
In 1918, under increasing pressure from the steady stream of incoming US reinforcements Germany called for an Armistice, bringing an end to The Great War. After six months of negotiations the treaty of Versailles was signed, this saw to the dissolution of the German, Russian, Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian Empires respectively, and decided that the Central Powers were to pay for all of the damages caused during the war. As a result, in the years following the war Germany fell into a major depression. Germany only fully paid its war debts recently in