DBQ: World War I And The Russian Revolution Why does Miranda have that particular vision of Dr. Hildesheim? Miranda has that type of particular vision of Dr. Hildesheim because in her dream she dreams about Dr. Hildesheim being an evil doctor. She dreams that he was holding an infant and poison which he then threw into the well and killed the baby.
After Serbia appealed to Russia for help, the czar’s government began moving towards mobilization of its army, believing that Germany was using the crisis as an excuse to launch a preventive war in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28. On August 1, after hearing news of Russia’s general mobilization, Germany declared war on Russia. The German army then launched its attack on Russia’s ally, France, through Belgium, violating Belgian neutrality and bringing Great Britain into the war as well.
Document A ‘‘European Alliances, 1914’’ shows us the different types of alliances that nations had with each other. Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy were known as the Triple Alliance. There was also the Triple Entente, an alliance between France, Great Britain and Russia. Alliances helped cause the war because nations would be against each other and they would also want to be dominant. Although there were many reasons that caused World War I, Militarism, Imperialism, and Allies were the main factors.
France and Great Britain realizing its vulnerability to Germany as it was regaining power and the Triple Alliance formed the Anglo-Franco Alliance; ending Britain’s “splendid isolation”. The Anglo- Franco Alliance began in 1904 and then the Anglo-Russian Alliance following in 1907. This began the dividing of allies for the First World
From 1806 to 1811, the Napoleonic Empire was at its height. Most of Western and central Europe was under Napoleon’s control, either directly or indirectly through allies, defeated countries, or favorable treaties for France. The only remaining free sovereignties were the Ottoman, Austrian, and Russian Empires. At the same time, Russia, ruled by Tsar Alexander I, was economically poor, having little in the way of manufacturing and relying heavily on trade with Napoleon's continental system for both money and manufactured goods. Alexander’s withdrawal from the French favored system was an incentive for Napoleon to wage war on the Russian Empire.
European powers allied with the Ottomans whenever it was profitable for them. Nevertheless, when they started feeling a great threat that the Ottoman expansion would drastically affect them, for the Ottomans had control over many trade routes and many resources, they unified against the empire. In brief, they typically cared about their own
Alliances are formed for different reasons such as the need for financial or military support, trade agreements, investments or loans. Alliances became strong in the early 1800s when european nations either wanted to support French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte or they wanted to defeat him. Alliances weakened in the mid 1800s, but strengthened again in the late 1800s. The Triple Alliance of 1882 was an alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, fueled by anti- French and anti-Russian feelings. The Triple Entente of 1907 was a three way agreement between Britain, France, and Russia.
Large alliances formed, such as the triple entre (France, the UK, and Russia) and the central powers (Austria-Hungary, German Empire, and Italy) The alliances gave military support to each member, but would also drag all the countries in one alliance to war if war was only declared on one nation (http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/worldwar1/a/World-War-One-The-Major-Alliances.htm). During the July crisis, the Austria-Hungarian empire asked if Germany would help them in the war against Serbia. Germany replied back and said they’d give them full support. Austria started to mobilize their army against Serbia, and since Russia was allied with Serbia.
The Congress of Vienna is a testament to the powers in Europe’s ability to fight against a lack of balance in power. As France was on its way to becoming a dominant European superpower; this fruitful domination branched from the relentless and power-hungry nature of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte ripped Europe apart with the creation of the Napoleonic Wars. In the beggining Europe was able to fight back against Napoleon’s efforts to extend France’s power. Bonaparte’s early militarily conquests started with the conquering of Belgium, in which Austria and Britain attempted to fight to French army in the defense of Belgium.
Following seven weeks of malicious carnage, Prussia reigned victorious over Austria with the support of the Italian state. Prussia’s victory resulted in the annexation of Hanover, Frankfurt, Nassau, amongst several other territories. In addition, Austria’s defeat resulted in the dissolution of the German Confederation, the formation of North German Confederation, and Austria’s ultimate exclusion from Germany. “If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and every other opponent of ours…” Bismarck remarked following the end of The Austro-Prussian War. In the end, Bismarck’s prediction held true, but the value of Austria as an ally to the newly formed Confederation was too great to ignore (Doc 5).
The British and French were both very worried because they saw that the Ottoman empire was on the decline, and they saw that Russia was poised to take it over. So they pledged their support to the Turks and went to war. The Allies sent a fleet to attack Baltic Sea forts. Meanwhile, the Russians were halted in the Caucasus and were unable to drum up local support in the Balkans. Also Austrians were sent into the region to deter them from moving any further south.
The conflict between the Western block which was led by United states and the Communist Eastern bloc which was led by former Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (USSR) now Russia, began almost as soon as the warring parties surrendered to Allied forces at the end of the second world war. It was a conflict of ideologies, both blocks, western and eastern wanted to prove that their ideology is the best for human society and these state powers would try and spread their ideologies at the expense of the local population. So, when USSR starts overthrowing a democratically elected government and starts installing communist governments, the US and its western allies formed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to fight off communist invasion collectively rather than on their own which small European countries would have a hard time defending massive forces of USSR. It is essentially a military alliance of Europeans and Americans against communist Russia.
War causes many problems for countries. However its effects are felt mostly by ordinary people, not the people deciding to go to war. While war is deeply ingrained in European history, World War I was unlike any other. Bitterness in Russia and France ultimately led them to aggression. Russia had been humiliated by the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War.
Then, when Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia declared war on Austria as Russia had a contract with Serbia that they would
I think it was a wise policy to take Russia out of the war because Russia was not able to keep fighting and he needed time to impose his rule over the Russian people. Imperialism contributed to pre-World War I rivalries because countries were constantly fighting over territories that had resources. Germany went to war to try and gain resources and win colonies. Some countries were not satisfied with the Treaty of Versailles because they either received to little or nothing at all for their contribution to the
